The roses

Tell everyone who you are and what you do?.

Black Rose: I am Black Rose, a member of The Roses. And I am from Youngstown OH, I am a producer, singer-songwriter whose produced with some of the likes of Kingston and Jodeci. I’m still also a member of the group LeVert, I became a member after Gerald’s passing. Cowboys’ fans to the heart, so yeah, that’s me!

Young Rose: And I am Young Rose. I’m more of a sports guy. So, I played sports all my life. I played at the University of Toledo and Youngstown State, but I’m from Youngstown, OH, as well. I have been around music all my life, but uh, I started recording about 14 or 15 years old.

Well, how did you come up with the name. Where did the name “The Roses” come from?

Black Rose: Well, it came from our first name. Our first name is Roosevelt, and everybody always calls me Rose and calls him Rose. My dad’s name is Roosevelt. I am a junior and he is the third. That is where the name came from. Now we have the 4th also.

Tell me what’s some of your goals you want to accomplish this year for 2023?

Black Rose: Well, one of the goals is just to get more music out here this year. Get a full album out.

We do have a single out right now, but we just want to further our career as a father and son tag team Duo. I mean, Gerald and Eddie were a duo, they did a few songs together, but we really trying to be a father son group. The goal is to just bless the world with new and old R&B sound mixed together. We got that baby making music coming back!

Young Rose: One goal is being more on social media, getting more people to hear our music just getting out there and become one of the best Father, son duos. Just more marketing.

Let’s talk about your new single, and the motivation behind it.

Young Rose: Our new single “Pick up the phone” is a single everybody can relate to. We were not supposed to use this one but we kept replaying it and was like this could be the one. So, we just got together and said let’s do it.

Black Rose: Like you said, everybody can relate to it, especially guys. Sometimes they get the wrong idea about what they may have seen or heard. Not saying that females are always wrong, but this particular time she was wrong, and now she won’t pick up the phone so I can explain. That sums it up.

What are some of the challenges y’all go through working together as a father/son duo?

Young Rose: Honestly, I don’t really think there are any challenges cause we are a father and son that actually grew up together. We do have a great bond, clown around all day, but when it’s time to get the job done we both work hard. I would say it’s pretty easy. I know what he likes. He knows what I like? We pretty much sound the same. Even though, he’s a lot more polished than I am.

Black Rose: It’s a great thing working together with my son because I’m experienced, so it’s easy. He’s really been watching since he was a young kid. He was in California with me when I produced for KC and JoJo. So, he watched when I recorded with LeVert, with Mark Gordon, He was right there for all of that, and that’s actually the first time he got on the microphone. He did Sean Levert’s part. He has helped me on so many projects and it’s so easy with us. I see so much of myself in him.

What do you think is missing in today’s music?

Black Rose: To me, what’s missing is substance. It’s feelings, it’s emotion that’s what’s missing in the music. Some of this R&B music today is missing the substance. I’m not knocking them at all. I’m just saying I think people don’t put in enough thought into what they do anymore. They just do the first thing that come to their mind. They don’t really cook it up any more like they used to. It’s like microwaved. They just put it in the microwave and it’s cool.

Young Rose: I would say the same thing. It’s a lot of repetition out here, I would say everything pretty much stays the same. It got the same flow; it got the same feel. It’s not a lot of difference. You got Chris Brown and Usher. They’ve been the guys for a while. Everybody else pretty much sounds the same to me. It’s just a lot of repetition but It’s definitely missing that old school feel though.

Black Rose: There’s been some real singers too, like Jasmine Sullivan, H.E.R, SZA, and Jhene to me the female side is better than the male side of R&B right now. They are doing more singing nowadays than the fellas.

Where can the readers follow you?

Black Rose: @BlaqRoseIAm on IG and you can get our music online on any digital platform.

Young Rose: On IG, @Onli Rose 3. On Facebook you can just find me as Roosevelt Griffin.