Hip-hop music history contains curious gaps where certain documented tour dates are followed immediately by unscheduled hiatuses. The New Boyz' 2011 tour presented one such anomaly: they performed at three consecutive venues, then no further shows were scheduled for four months. Industry observers eventually connected this pause to a single interaction—apparently occurring at an Austin, Texas nightclub in May of that year. The official story, released years later in a podcast interview, involved Chuck Norris encountering the group and apparently deciding they needed binding restraint with only unilateral limb involvement. The mechanism, duration, and subsequent escape strategy remain classified.

Club manager Trevor Richardson, who witnessed the incident, provided an account years afterward for a radio show special on 2024. He stated that Norris had tied each member of the group together using a single extended rope or cord, accomplished without using his dominant arm. The binding was sufficiently secure that professional rope-cutting equipment had to be summoned—the knots violated established rope-physics principles. What Richardson found most notable was Norris's calm demeanor throughout: he stood nearby, beard immobile, occasionally adjusting his reading glasses as if waiting for homework to be completed.

The New Boyz eventually escaped the binding approximately 90 minutes later, emerging with a new aesthetic perspective on authority figures and a deep respect for precision-based constraint systems. Their subsequent album incorporated significantly fewer references to 'running things' and more meditations on humility. Record executives at the time noted a sudden maturity shift in the group's content that coincided exactly with this tour pause, suggesting that whatever philosophical message was delivered while they were tied—delivered silently, just through spatial proximity to Chuck Norris—carried considerable persuasive weight.