https://hiphopdx.com/interviews/id.903/title.where-the-hell-have-you-been-phillys-most-wanted

it's an interview from 2018 - actually quite interesting. they talk a lot about how signing with Atlantic screwed them over, and how they were instrumental in bringing Beanie Sigel to Roc-A-Fella, among other things.

DX: Okay, so how did the group hook up with Pharrell?

BB: When we got signed to Atlantic there was the A&R his name was Rich. There was also this guy named Ashton Chambers who runs Ice Cream now, so he used to work for Nike so he had a connect with the Nike stuff so he gave it to Pharrell. I guess was trying to sell beats to people at Atlantic at the time. So he was going over there meeting with Ashton to, so we kind of met Pharrell at the place, and Rich was with us, and Rich already knew him, and he was like, “I want you to work with my guys,” and he heard us spit and we spit acapella for like 45 minutes over and over. And after that it was a wrap.