Excuse the barebones appearance of this interview, it was accidently deleted and recently restored.

WEBSTAR

Tell me about all of your involvement in the "Chicken Noodle."
The way it came about with me is I used to do all the teenage parties in the Bronx in New York. The kids was always coming to my parties making up these dances and stuff. I decided to make songs about some of these dances. Two of the ones I made dances too were "Tone Wop," and "Chicken Noodle Soup." Everybody started loving the dances and doing the dances and it took off from there.

I know you are young and this is primarily something from the 80's making up dances for songs. It's kind of new to the current music scene and you are bringing this back. Do you have more songs that will be tied up with dances?
My album is called "Caught In The Web," it comes out September 26th. It's a real versatile album. We have another dance record called "Tone Wop." Its crazy just like this one. I just want to give this record a time to breath and "Tone Wop," will probably be my third single. My whole album is up-tempo. Good clean fun for the kids, no cursing. No sexually explicit lyrics, just plain fun. I want to bring back that old feeling that we had in the 80's with the Pee Wee dance and the Wop, Da Butt and all the dances were out.

Tell me about the album you have coming out besides just the dances you have coming out?
I got a deal at Universal. I got an artist deal, I got one of my artists a deal, then they gave me a label deal for my label Scrill Hill Records. It's just an album to showcase the talent of everyone signed to my label. Young B, she's the artist from Chicken Noodle Soup, she is on about 7 songs. She's like the next up to come. It's showing how we like to be fresh, we like to have fun, and we like to party. It's a lot of fun.

You are so young. Does it seem like everything is happening so fast for you?
I got signed six weeks ago and I got an album coming out next week. Everything is just moving.

Is this like a dream come true for you?
I've been dreaming about this and everything I have been dreaming about my whole life came true in two weeks.

How did you get into DJ'ing?
Like I said I used to throw parties in Harlem. I used to DJ my parties. It got to a whole 'nother level because I haven't even DJ'd a party in over a year. I've been so focused on starting my label and working on beats. DJ'ing just opened the doors for everything. I started DJ'ing in 2001 when I was 14.

Is it difficult running your own label?
I mean I got another person by the name of Kurt Burroughs. He started Bad Boy with Puff back in the 90s. He's teaching me everything. He's showing me how to run my label. I make all the decisions but he gives me the pro's and con's of every decision that I have to make. So it's been easier than it would have been if I never met him. I have a partner named Arthur Smith, we run it together. It's hard. They said no one has had their own label of this magnitude at this age since Jermaine Dupri. He was 19 when he started his label.

Speaking of Jermaine Dupri, do you ever do any rapping?
Yes, on my album I rap on a few songs. There are 14 songs on the album. On every song I'm either rapping on there, I wrote it, or I did the beat. I was involved with every track on the album.

Chicken Noodle Soup is such a huge sensation. Have you had a chance to check out any of the Youtube videos?
Yes, the YouTube videos were bigger to me than anything. When I first started doing the song, when I first recorded the song the next day there were kids from the basketball game the day before doing the song on Youtube. When we started getting it big during the summer….DJ Enuff he seen it at the Rucker and he started playing it on the radio. Then all the big radio DJ's started playing it, then they started playing it all around the world.

Now you already have your label, and your album, what are your long term goals in the industry?
I have a lot of goals. My first goal is I want to have a platinum album. I want to be one of the most well respected entrepreneurs. Because I'm young it's hard for me to get respect as an entrepreneur. I want to have success with all my artists. Everything I want to do with class and style and I want to do it now.

Webstar -interview copyright Dorrie Williams-Wheeler, and Thabiz.com 2006