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Interview with new Motown/Universal Group
Midwest City.
Midwest City, Oklahoma is where you all are from. I have
been to Oklahoma but I have no idea where that is.
Midwest
City-It's a little suburb of Oklahoma
City.
What was life like growing up there for you guys?
Soloman-Fun because Oklahoma
is small so everybody knows each other so you get a chance
to grow up with all your friends. It's a real family oriented
thing and you have a lot of fun you don't need to have
all the big attractions and everything. Being with your
friends every week is the big attraction.
Did you all have to leave Oklahoma to get a record deal?
Midwest
City-We definitely had to leave Oklahoma
to get a record deal. There is no way of getting a record
deal in Oklahoma right now. You have to leave go to Atlanta,
New York, LA, Texas, to get a record deal.
Where did you all go?
Midwest
City-We came to L.A.
Once you got to LA what was the process were you singing
at talent shows…
Midwest
City-Our older brother/cousin lived
out there and we met up with producers out there and we
opened up for KC& Jo Jo, Jaheim, Tyrese and we just
met up with producers and we hooked up with a production
company finally we met Super Management and we just started
taking meetings with label after label after label after
awhile our name started getting spit around and people
were liking us and we finally fell into Motowns lap and
we just love Motown because all the greats came from Motown
and we just wanted to represent like all the greats did
and that's why we ended up with Motown/Universal.
Your song "One Love" everyone says is a wedding
song but it was produced by Cool and Dre who are known
for party tracks. What was it like working with Cool and
Dre on a ballad?
Midwest
City-It was one of the most amazing
things that we have ever got to do. For us meeting Cool
and Dre, we had only heard rap tracks that they had did.
So we were like "Dude are you serious? This is a
Cool and Dre track?" Cause it's very soulful and
R&B ish and just to meet them dudes they real cool
and real inspiring and they've got talent. They in there
on the keyboards and stuff making chords up. We learned
a lot and it was fun working with them.
Tone-Actually, when
we first started working on the song they didn't have
the intro on the song that was a moment that happened
when we met them. We recorded the song without Cool and
Dre and we met up with them later.
For some people music is just a dream but your dream
has really come true. Did any of you all ever have any
other career aspirations?
Soloman-Actually,
yeah I did. I wanted to play basketball. I wanted to play
football but I can't even lie even when I was doing that
I still had my mind on music and music was always #1 in
my life. It was my woman I held it close.
Shemell-I
thought to myself if the music thing doesn't work I want
to be a chef. California has some of the top chef schools
ever. So if I'm going to be here in California doing the
music thing but if it doesn't work out go to chef school
and get my chef's license.
The name of the album is Authentic R&B. Does that mean
there aren't going to be a lot of guest rappers on every
track?
Midwest City-No.
That's not a bad thing but a lot of songs don't require
rappers to be on them because they are very R&B'ish.
I don't think they would sound right with rappers on them.
They are real soulful. You aint going to go through our
whole album and find a rapper on every song. Maybe 2. So
far it's just one.
Do you have a chance to check out the comments from your
fans on your Myspace page?
Midwest City-We
love to get on their and look at their comments and try
to write everybody back but it's hard because it's so many.
Yeah we go on there from time to time and we try to give
love back to the people who show us love and just for the
record we don't have somebody on there like "Can you
go on my Myspace page and write comments," no that's
really us. It's a personal thing and we like to have a personal
relationship with our fans.
As a group what are you all's long term goals. Do you plan
to stay a group or does everyone plan to record solo albums?
Midwest City-Pretty
much how that's all going to work out, we're family, even
if we weren't a group we're still going to be together.
I'm pretty sure people are going to want to break off a
some point in time and do there solo career things or whatever
it is but we're always going to be together. You'll always
have Midwest City banging in your ear and you can expect
many albums. But for right now Midwest City is in effect
and we're rolling.
Related Links
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