Aaron: First of all, thank you so much for the ‘Scissor’ remix you guys did. It was amazing!
CeCe: I love the song. We took it more of like a soul song, like it's more intense. I was just really feeling the beat, feeling the lyrics. We all just took in the creativity and just made it part of our own.
Aaron: One of the things that I got so excited when I heard you guys is the fact that you guys were a group, like community. How do you guys get that closeness?
CeCe: We all went to school together. We were friends before the group, the group came way later on.
Nilla: And they're sisters (Cammy B and CeCe).
CeCe: Yeah, we're twins.
Aaron: What I was trying to say before was not only was I a fan of your music, but I was a fan of your connection, your friendship.
Cammy B: You're actually the first I've heard say anything like that!
CeCe: Regardless if we fight, we have to deal with this together. We've got a really good bond. And that's very strong. We have a deep understanding of what we're here for.
Julian: Did you grow up playing music, or singing?
CeCe: I played the flute for like a couple of years.
Resse: Actually, I took music class in sixth grade and ninth grade. And I always had a passion for music. I always hear myself repeating the words and dancing in the mirror. So I was like, I could do this, at a young age.
Julian: You all went to Hamilton, right?
Pink Dollaz: Yes.
Julian: We're both LA natives also. I used to go to summer school at Hamilton. Do you find Hamilton at all helped with music at all?
Resse: Hamilton was like the right school to start. A whole bunch of friends just happy to see you or something, and they pass you off to anybody else. If we were at another school, it probably wouldn't have happened like that.
CeCe: It's like it was meant to happen. Hamilton was like a pretty old school, TV-wise, like Freedom Riders was shot there. A lot of movies were shot there. But I had no idea, because we weren't in the talent group. We were just regular students. We're over at the studio with Jayhawk, who went to our school, was actually in our PE class. After we made the song, showed they were all like, yo, this is dope.
Julian: Because of which song?
Pink Dollaz: I'm Tasty'.
Julian: That was your first song? Which honestly made me blush. And I've got a mind like a sailor, I was like, wow (laughs).
Mary: How did you explain [the song] to your family?
Julian: That's the first thing I thought of was try not to have a daughter, and hope they never make this song!
Pink Dollaz: (Laugh)
CeCe: It took a while for us to get over it, but at the same time we started to realise that it's music, it's like acting. I can act like a superhero or supercharacter.
Gerald (father of CeCe and Cammy B): My girls apologised. They came to me and they said, we didn't want you to hear this, but now that you heard we're glad that you know. My wife got very angry, but it was my money so I said I'm going to get down in the gutter with you, and we're going to walk out of it.
Mary: Are there people you guys would all listen to and be like, we can do that, we can do that better or are you just like, we're doing our thing?
Cammy B: Sometimes we would listen. You gotta see what your competition is.
CeCe: You just gotta listen to all types of music. Each type of music has a message.
Mary: I think that sometimes, too. You hear music, and you're inspired by the fact that they're doing something. It makes you want to do your own music.
CeCe: It's really fun to stand with your music, and doing it is fun.
Aaron: I heard that you're starting to pull away from the Jerkin’ movement. Does that have anything to do with maybe being pigeonholed in a category where people talk to you?
Pink Dollaz: Yes.
Mary: You just want to stay relevant?
Mocha: They think that we can only do Jerkin’. We're versatile. We can do whatever kind of music we want to.
CeCe: Not even just music-wise. Like, before, we all modeled. We're trying to do something new at the same time. I will try just about everything. We just want to be entrepreneurs.
Mary: So you sense the whole thing (Jerkin’) just kind of ending anyway?
Cammy B: Probably here it will, but in other places it's probably just now beginning.
Julian: I heard you worked with Diplo. Was that exciting?
Cammy B: We actually did two songs with MIA while we were there, and two weeks later, we did a song with Diplo which was pretty cool. He tested us, made us do the song all by ourselves. Beat, everything.
Julian: I'm a big fan of beats and lyrics and energy and all of it. I was really excited about a new form of hip-hop and new sound to it, and women empowering. What's cool about it is how you switch the roles of what's normal in hip-hop.
CeCe: People ask us stuff like, oh, what is up with this? We mess with the beginning of the lyrics, but that's exactly the image we were trying to show.
Julian: Well, that's what comes across. I felt empowerment more than anything else.
CeCe: Guys think they can just overpower girls.
Mary: You know they're liars, you sense that. You guys are talking [on 'Scissor'] about being the one committing suicide. It's like really, tough, it's not like you should feel sorry for me, I'm going to kill myself!
CeCe: Yeah, that's a real movement, though. We would be the voices of the many young girls and the situations they go through.
Julian: Totally. That was another reason why we were excited to have you guys be part of it is that we needed more of a female voice as part of our record. It's just so male-dominated.