Interviews are easy for members of Brooklyn’s 2 Skinnee Js.

The group’s “owner” and spiritual advisor, A.J. Stumpy Johnson, has supposedly prepared stock answers which fit each member’s personality to handle any journalistic interrogation.

So a friendly game of “inform the general public about the amazing new rap/funk collective 2 Skinnee Js” rapidly turns into a vicious battle of “stump Stumpy.”

Attempt to stump: Beastie Boys toured with Madonna after “Licensed To Ill” came out. Who could 2 Skinnee Js tour with to top them?

“Tom Jones in Las Vegas,” spits Skinnee rapper J. Guevara without hesitation. “That is the ultimate Js tour. Cheese to the max. All those gamblers would lose their shit to see us. I think it’d go over really well, but I suppose we would settle for Spice Girls or Yanni.”

So there you have it — Stumpy can not be stumped.

He is all-knowing, all-powering and total pimp.

This explains why the lost-Wahlberg brother appears in each of the 2 Skinnee Js hilarious press photos. Or why the Js won’t take the stage without him. Or why his damn name pops up at least 60 times in a half-hour interview.

“We have an allegiance to him,” Guevara explained. “He’s our owner. Well, he doesn’t own us personally, but we trust his business. He manages us like a sports team manager. He’ll hire and fire whoever it takes to win the Superbowl. And I think this year we’re ready to win it.”

It was Stumpy’s hiring and firing that landed Guevara a starting position as one of the 2 Skinnee Js. As the story goes, which Guevara admits is entirely heresy, the group formed when various Columbia University students decided to join musical forces.

“Special J [the other Skinnee J] was awaken by a divine light one morning,” Guevara unraveled. “He was told to throw away his comfortable career as a student to spread peace and love throughout the world using the sheer power of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Meanwhile, Guevara was fronting the neighboring band Le Montreal Deux, developing his James Earl Jones-like voice and his Puffy-esque raps.

Coincidentally, the original second Skinnee J left the group the same time Deux decided to call it quits. “I think Stumpy had something to do with it,” Guevara added.

The unemployed mic-master auditioned for the slot and the 2 Skinnee Js, as they are known today,were formed.

“I was a vagrant whose only talent was getting on stage and making a fool of myself, and even that’s questionable,” Guevara said.

Guevara and Special J may be an auditioned duo, but they come off as junior high buddies who used to compete for class clown titles.

The on-stage and on-record chemistry between the Js, built strongly on the clashing of Guevara’s deep growl with Special J’s speedy rhyming, is a rare gem — a Hall and Oates. A Sonny and Cher. A Yauch and Mike D.

While Beastie Boys meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers seems a fair portraiture of the 2 Skinnee Js, which also includes bassist Eddie Eyeball, drummer Andy Action and guitarists A. Mays and The Spice, Guevara prefers Public Enemy meets the B-52s.

“We get Beastie comparisons up the wazu,” Guevara said. “But, hey, they sold 400,000 records in one week. ‘Sure, we are exactly like them, but slightly better.’ Actually, I think we just have a lot of similar influences — old-school rap, punk, funk, ’70s rock.”

Beastie or not, it’s safe to say 2 Skinnee Js do their own thing. Which is why the group is perfect for Capricorn records, home of not one rap act, but loads of indefinable groups like 311, Sonia Dada, Cake and Galactic.

“I don’t think a label like Bad Boy would know what to do with us,” Guevara said. “We fall right between the cracks of all kinds of bands and so do most the bands on Capricorn.”

The Polygram subsidiary is also known for signing bands true to the grass roots method of building fans. Which translates simply into three words: touring, touring and touring.

“They like hard-working bands,” Guevara said. “We knew they would understand the trials and tribulations we go through. We’re not a radio band and Capricorn can handle that.”

One tribulation that has Guevara bitching is life on the road. Although you would expect a trip with the goofballs who make up the Js to be like an episode of “Road Rules,” but funny, Guevara paints a different picture.

“Sometimes it’s a blast, but sometimes it’s not,” he said. “Like when you’re on the side of the road at 4 in the morning fixing a flat tire. But, I have faith in Stumpy. It’s probably just part of his plan. Character building or something like that.”

But things are looking up for the Skinnee clan. Rather than making the 28-hour drive from Brooklyn to Springfield, Miss. (Guevara said he knows the exact time from experience) in a van, the group can now live the rock star lifestyle in an R.V.

“We’re preparing for retirement,” Guevara said. “We’re all practicing to be old men. Special J’s got his cringe humor — the kind of jokes only your grandfather tells. I’m working on being lame.

“It’s a good plan, really,” he continued. “Who’s gonna fuck with you if you’re an old man. Maybe a credit card scam, but we don’t have any money, so we’re not even good credit card bait.”

Will the 2 Skinnee Js follow in their scheme to become old men?

Will the ultracool singles “Riot Nrrrd,” which is already an M2 hit, and “(718)” turn the group’s debut “Supermercado!” into the next “Hello Nasty”?

Will the band ever fulfill their fantasy gig with Tom Jones?

All of these questions and more, Guevara promises, will be answered in a “VH1: Behind The Scenes” episode several thousand shows from now.

“Except it will just be Stumpy,” Guevara said. “And he might mention me, and I’ll have to be happy with that.”

2 Skinnee Js play Friday night at The Safari in Des Moines. Tickets are still available.