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.: --DJ Webstar  "Chicken Noodle Soup, More than You Think?! "

JayRich: We all know the song is blowing up. What's the next step for you?

DJ Webstar: "I get my schedule tomorrow, but I'm getting ready to go on the road in another two weeks. We doing the promo tour, we doing some homecomings, we doing a lot of things."

JayRich: Who you going on tour with?

DJ Webstar: "They didn't even tell me. They just said, 'Get ready to go on the road.' All I know we getting ready to go out in about two weeks."

JayRich: Has this been a planned tour or has it been the spur of the moment thing because 'Chicken Noodle Soup' is getting so hot?

DJ Webstar: "It was all spur of the moment I just signed a few weeks ago. So, everything is happening quickly with Universal."

JayRich: How did they approach you for the deal; was it based on the merit of your DJing skills?

DJ Webstar: "All the major labels came to us. But, Universal gave me an artist deal; they gave Young B an artist deal; they gave me a label deal for my label too. They understood the movement we had; the other labels didn't understand what we had going on, but they were trying to sign us because the song is hot."

JayRich: Did the other labels lay down offers for the people in your crew because of the song or were they really pursuing your artists?

DJ Webstar: "The song.... You never know with a song; it could be hot for a year, a month, or ten minutes."

JayRich: How long has the song been out?

DJ Webstar: "We recorded the song around Easter and somehow the song got leaked to Limewire. People got the song; they started playing it at basketball games and the crowd went crazy. DJ Enough went to Rucker and killed it. It got to radio and it spread from there. It to www.youtube.com and people had themselves doing the dance is school, at home everywhere. That's how we got the deal right there."

JayRich: Where did the come from if you weren't the guys that made it?

DJ Webstar: "It came form Harlem. I throw a lot of parties in Harlem and that's what all the kids were doing, the Chicken Noodle Soup. One of my artists, Young B, was doing it and she made a song about it. I help put it together; the next day we recorded it."

JayRich: Where did the name come from?

DJ Webstar: "It really didn't have a name. They was just doing the dance to every song. Any song they could do it to they did it."

JayRich: When you are doing a show how do you follow that song up?

DJ Webstar: "My album is coming out; it's all about teenage life. Everything from money, fashion, to boy-girl relationships. 'Chicken Noodle Soup' is the only song like that on the album; we may have one other song like that on the album. But, you'll be surprised to see the other stuff we got on there. A lot of people are doubting us us right now and we do have something to prove."

JayRich: The album is going to be a compilation?

DJ Webstar: "Yeah, I'm using this album to set-up my artists and sell records in the process. No name artists are on the album. It's a new movement, new faces, new voices, new sound, new producers, new everything."

JayRich: What about features?

DJ Webstar: "No features; we didn't' want any features on the album."

JayRich: How did you find the artists that are now a part of your movement?

DJ Webstar: “It's all about being in touch with your community. I do all the parties in Harlem and the kids come to me when they wanna do music or they wanna be a dancer. I don't know why they come to me, but they all come to me. I do talent shows, I do everything. I already had in mind a few people I wanted to work with and it's been working for me so far.”

JayRich: How long have you been a part of the DJing scene?

DJ Webstar: “5 years, ever since I was 14. But, I've been producing music and rapping for about…..6 months ago. I'm 19; I still got time to grow and learn.”

JayRich: Where do you see your career going after the fad of the dance passes and the time comes for you to work on something else?

DJ Webstar: “My inspirations are Russell Simmons, Sean Combs, Sean Carter, and Jermaine Dupri so I wanna be a big entrepreneur. I wanna set-up my label, the clothing line, and jump into acting. Hopefully, it'll go good.”

JayRich: You said you just started writing rhymes a few months ago; are getting into freestyling?

DJ Webstar: “Oh no; I'm pretty much the creative force behind the music. I help with the song concepts and other artists with the music. They got me rapping on a few songs; I'm just trying to get in where I fit in.”

JayRich: Tell me about Young B.

DJ Webstar: “She didn't really get a chance to show how nice she was on the record. She writes, she sings, all that. 'Chicken Noodle Soup' didn't really her to showcase her lyrical ability. All my artists young; they under 21; and they just rhyming about Harlem life.”

Some people have started the talk that the dance was a direct answer to the Southern movement. Is there any truth to that?

DJ Webstar: “No, we just wanna have fun. It's a lot of negatively going on like the South…..People forget that New York was doing the Humpy dance, the 'Butt,' and all of that stuff. All of those dances came from New York; I not taking anything from the South though. We just making music about our life. There's no violence or anything like that on the record that's coming out. 'Chicken Noodle Soup' is the only record that's like that on the album.”

JayRich: How do you think the people will respond to your crew when you bring out a song that shows off their lyrical abilities?

DJ Webstar: “I think they'll appreciate it. It's about what teens like to do. They like to go out and have fun, party, dress nice. The teens will be able to relate to this able more than anybody. I'm surprised that they're playing the record in the older clubs too. Timing is everything; there's so many negative things going on out there. The kids need something positive they can jump into and that's what we're about. Anything to take minds off the soldiers at war or anything like that is great.”

JayRich: Isn't it harder to push a compilation since the people don't know what they're going to get?

DJ Webstar: “Yes, the radio really don't wanna play the record because they wanna see if we can make another record. The people feel the same way.”

--By Joseph "JayRich" Robinson

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