Easy Mo Bee, nee' Osten Harvey, Jr., is a Grammy Award winning Hip-Hop/R&B producer that hails from the same Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, in Brooklyn, New York as Christopher "B.I.G." Wallace.

It was actually during his high school years that Harvey took on the moniker Easy Mo Bee, after starting a short lived rap crew called Rappin' Is Fundamental. One of those group-mates incidentally played one of Mo's beat-tapes for, a then unknown, Big Daddy Kane, who later used two of Easy's works on his second release, It's A Big Daddy Thing.

That situation led to additional work for Kane, and later the debut album from Wu-Tang Clan's GZA, Miles Davis' final studio effort, Doo-Bop, which earned him the Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance, as well as Biggie's multi-platinum classic debut, Ready To Die, in which Mo Bee handled the lion's share of its production. And, the rest, as it is said, is history...still being made...

Hey, Mo, what's up? It's a pleasure to finally get to speak to you — So, what's been new?
Well, the studio that I used to record at, Unique Recording Studios, in Manhattan, they shut down, but their building management asked if there were people who wanted to keep the rooms going 'cause they had like four different rooms. But, the old Studio B is now mine. So, I've been running that for the last number of years. I use it for myself, and also I rent it out from time to time.

I know it's been awhile since the masses have heard anything from you, so what else have you been working on?
Honeycomb Enterprise — The first artist coming from there will be Honey, a female rapper from Brooklyn, and she sings a little bit, too.

So, is this situation all together different from Easy Mo Records?
Yeah, yeah, that's different. Well, as a matter of fact, all these movements happen to be digital. At Easy Mo Records you have Noelle. Noelle is an R&B/Hip-Hop/Pop artist. She's somewhat of a different type of artist apart from Honey, whereas her stuff is...It has a more of a Pop tinge to it.

With Noelle, do you consider this tackling a new genre of music, so to speak?
Well, not really because, you know, a lot of people they're familiar with the stuff I did for Alicia Keys on her (The) Diary of Alicia Keys album. And then, like nowadays, like you have to really, really ask, "What is R&B?" Because, you know, a lot of the so called R&B right now, it's just like a lot of the Hip-Hop music. People singing off of what sounds like, to me, is what could be Hip-Hop tracks. But, we all know what real R&B is though.

With that being said, will it be the same formulaic sound, or are you going for something completely different?
I'm not really trying to ride the trend of what's going on right now. I think that's part of the problem. I think somebody needs to stand out and stand up, be different. And on that note, there's a third movement I'm involved with. My affiliation in Platinum Ice Records, and speaking of real R&B you have Miss Quik, who's over there at Platinum Ice Records. She is a very, very soulful artist, and a lot of the flavor of her music throws back to old Soul and Blues. She's still, you know, really cool. So, we kinda like work it together. Also over there is J Dot. J Dot is a male rapper. He's from Charlotte, South Carolina, but on the mic he's like a New York emcee. Yeah, I really like that dude, man. He goes at it.

Let's switch gears here a little. Weren't you supposed to be involved in some capacity in the new hit Notorious biopic?
Well, I got a contract, I got paid, and I had somebody who was consulting on that project for me and they were very close in touch and continuing to ask, "Are you ready for Moe Bee? You ready for him to come in?" And for some reason, we got stalled off and all of a sudden at the last minute the news was that the movie was wrapped up and they moved on without me. But, it's very mysterious to me. I just want to say this right here for a lot of the people who have no idea about Easy Mo Bee's connection to Notorious BIG, I was the first real producer that Biggie went into a real studio with, okay! His first record, "Party and Bullshit," from Who's The Man? soundtrack, that was the first record that we did together. And then after that, we commenced to recording for his first album. Those records were "Gimme the Loot," the title track "Ready to Die," "Warning," "The What," featuring Method Man, "Machine Gun Funk," and "Friend of Mine." That's half of like somebody's album. And, I haven't seen the film and I don't know as a character (if) I'm being portrayed or anything like that, but if you talk about the beginning of Biggie there's no way in the world that you can talk about it without speaking about me.

What's next for you, sir?
I don't like to talk about things that don't happen, but I have been talking closely with Tony Yayo over at G Unit. Yeah, and he's telling me that there may even still be some room on 50 Cent's next album. So yeah, that'd be kinda different. And, you know, I never ever did anything with anybody over there at that label. So, that might be kind of interesting. And, you know, this might sound real weird coming from me, but I always wanted to work with Lloyd Banks. {Also on deck are studio sessions with Faith Evans, Bahamadiah, and Mr. Cheeks}

So far, what has been your greatest career achievement?
Throughout my entire career here of producing, I think one of the most major things that I've ever been involved in, or had the chance to do, is producing Miles Davis' last album. I really, really cherish that project. I really cherish that opportunity that I had to work with that man.