The Great Hip Hop Hoax Page #5

going to gigs, VIP at shows,

we were almost living as

these superstar celebrities,

but without having

that success behind us.

We started just enjoying stuff

far too much, you know,

a couple of 21, 22-year-olds just

having the time of our lives, you know?

Silibil n' Brains like to drink

and like to party,

so I think most of the money

I gave them went down their throats.

Young single guys living in London,

a bit of money in their pockets,

they had a lot of fun.

I was thinking to myself, f***, this

Brains character is really working.

Fell in love with being Brains.

Got me a sh*t-load of money,

that clearly

I wasn't able to get. He got me

the attraction from all sorts of women.

Now it was just women

all over us

and some of my girlfriends have

been some of the hottest people

I have ever seen in my life.

Gav could never have done

any of that.

But they weren't even

there for Brains.

They were there for the hope of

being around someone who was famous

and maybe they'd get famous.

Difficult being apart.

Difficult wondering

what he was up to.

Difficult knowing that he wanted

this fame and I didn't.

It wasn't till I went down

to London and he said to me,

"You do know I'm going to have to

speak American to everybody?"

I was like, "Oh, OK."

That's when I think it dawned,

when I was actually there,

cos till then it was kind of

a bit of a... fantasy world

that I was going to be part of.

He would obviously not speak

American to me

when we were on our own.

What was that like,

going out with him?

Mortifying.

Embarrassing.

I am, like, the most honest,

straight,

up and down the line person.

At that point, we had been together

quite a long time anyway,

so he knew that, and I often asked

myself, "Where is this going?"

I never thought

Billy didn't love me.

I just always wondered if...

The music was more important.

They lived round the corner.

After my band split up

I didn't really go out much actually,

I was sort of just locked up

in my, you know, house.

And people would come round.

And they came round.

They played me a DVD of their band.

Tired of waking up in the morning,

next to some old lady thinking

"where did these handcuffs come from?

Why am I in leather hot pants, huh?"

- Watch your ankle.

- Yeah, it's a sore one. It's weaker.

When Busted was quite influential,

we had millions of fans.

People were losing their minds.

Like a chemical reaction, that once

it happens, you can't reverse it.

Seeing my own band go from,

you know, nothing,

to the success that we achieved,

I really believed that they had

a chance to be really big.

It was just very obvious to me.

I sort of became a fan, actually.

Here I am.

Part of the appeal and the fun.

They had a video camera.

They were always making

little movies of themselves.

This was in the early days of

kind of all the modern technology.

Their ideas were so, like, foreign.

And these guys were out...

shooting their own stuff, like,

running around London.

making skits, editing them,

putting on their website.

No-one else was doing

stuff like that.

- First day of the tour.

- We got here. We arrived.

Now all bands have a YouTube

channel, they have content,

an on-the-road diary.

Everyone has to do it, it's part

of your marketing campaign.

You know, what became

bread and butter for the industry,

they were, kind of, out there

doing themselves.

I didn't get the high score.

That sucks!

A lot of what is de rigueur

and a lot of what I do every day

I did for the first time

with Silibil n' Brains.

We just had this huge team of people

that were dealing with

everything that we wanted to do.

Talking ourselves up and spreading

rumours about ourselves,

and just trying to build the brand

of Silibil n' Brains.

Put your hands up! Put your hands up!

Put your hands up! Put your hands up!

Put your hands up! Put your hands up!

You could see that Gavin was

the brains behind everything,

not to take anything away

from Billy

but Gavin ate, slept, drank,

breathed everything about the band.

He didn't stop for one minute.

I would lose myself

in finding out about production

and all that beautiful stuff

whereas Bill just worked on it,

like, his rhymes

and the entertainment side of it.

He was probably more interested in it

for the fact that it would get us fame.

It's a road for us to just have

just great times all the time.

You know, have the fun

of famous people.

I was on a table

at the front of the Brits.

I was there with Jonathan Shalit,

Jamelia, and a few other people,

and I'd joked about Billy in the day

because he's asked me if I could

get him in and I said,

"Look, I'm really sorry,

I don't have a ticket.

"They're 1,000 each. "

"See if you can get in yourself. "

And that was it.

We blagged our way

into a lot of things

but Gavin didn't feel confident that

we could blag our way into the Brit

Awards so he refused to go with me.

And I see that

almost as a challenge.

I said I was the Jamelia stylist.

At some point during the night

I got a text from Billy.

I went out to the bar

and there he was backstage,

just hanging out with all the bands.

For Billy to have bluffed his way

past all the security guards,

right to the centre, was genius.

I mean, I was drinking shots after

shots at the bar with Green Day

talking about punk music,

talking about skating,

talking about California

- as a Scottish guy -

and no-one questioned it.

Daniel Bedingfield was someone

I spent a lot of time with backstage

because, like, we were just drinking

and we just got on really well,

and had a laugh.

Someone had said, "Have you met Silibil,

he's from California, he's a rapper?"

He was sitting there and he went,

"Are you from California?",

and I was like, "Yeah. "

And he said, "I thought

you were Scottish. "

And when he said that, like,

there was a split second

when my heart stopped and everything

just disappeared, and I just thought,

"Have I just been speaking Scottish?

Have I not...? Did I tell him...?"

Cos I'd been drinking quite a lot

and I was thinking,

"Maybe for the last half an hour

I've just been speaking Scottish. "

And there was just this panic where,

"How do I get out of this?"

In an instant I just

congratulated him and I said,

"Oh, thanks so much. " I said,

"I've been living in California for

years and been travelling around,

"and that's why I've got

a strange accent.

"A lot of people think I'm Canadian. "

I never seen Gav again

until the next morning.

I think Gav was quite angry

at the fact that I'd done it

and I don't know if he was angry

because I'd gone to the BRIT Awards

and he hadn't done

or because I'd, in front of

our friends almost,

I'd, sort of, shown him,

"Yeah, we can do it. "

I had an incredible night.

Absolutely one of the most memorable

nights I think I had in London.

To see him standing there

chatting away with Kelly Osbourne.

You know, in his suit

with his, kind of, blonde hair

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