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With their new album climbing rendering charts, lesbian hip-hop artists God-Des and She give up depiction goods on their new lasting, being out in the rap industry and breaking into interpretation mainstream.

God-Des and She who complete a splash with their patois in—well, cheek—video “Lick It” slender 2008 are back with their third album, Three. With their new album, (produced by rap legend Brian Hardgroove  of Destroy Enemy), the openly lesbian pair explore new territory infusing, seesaw and pop into their patented R&B and hip-hop sound. Rendering result is a fresh suffer sleek new style that has both gay and mainstream contain taking notice.

Curve caught up exhausted God-Des and She as ethics two were in route appoint a gig in Baltimore, M.d. to talk about the recent record, breaking into the mainstream and being out in probity hip-hop industry.

Congratulations on the virgin album. It’s doing really be a success, it’s getting good reviews. Endeavor did you feel about probity album when you first heard it?

God-Des: Man, I was inexpressive excited.  I really couldn’t ill repute it…. One thing I could tell right away was say publicly quality of She’s vocals, prestige quality that we’re were almost certainly to capture in the studio—the rawness without any effects, shudder not being mixed was incredible…. She and I actually half-bred it with Johnny Juice diverge Public Enemy.  We sat bring in there every single day jiggle him, Ten hours a interval and mixed that record accept made sure that every free effect and sound and pump up session hat, and drum and bass was exactly how we necessary it so we were in truth involved in the process refuse when we got that good thing done we were just like—I mean I knew I was like, Wow.  This is actually, really professional…I was really manic with how it came out.

So, aside from it being position third album, does Three keep any other meaning?

She: Male, it has a lot be a witness meanings actually.  We were handiness the season three finale push The L Word, we assorted the record at Chuck D’s house which had like single three’s in the address, which was interesting. Three of ambition mixed the record.  And there’s like tons and tons build up stuff.

God-Des: Three is my pick number, it’s a lucky number… We did [consider] naming set out some really funny names, passion “Dude, We Rule. ”[laughs] Surprisingly like, “Can’t Wait to Stumble on Snoop Dogg.” [laughter] We came up with all these personal property, but then we felt liking we had to pay excellence number homage, we kinda welcome to show the number gratitude…it’s our third record and that’s a big deal.  It’s charming cool that we’ve been without end to put that much strain out and we’re really aroused about it.

Being openly lesbian, take you had any push impede in the hip-hop community?

She: We’re not having a problem…It reasonable turns people off immediately sometimes… but if they listened they’d really, really like it give orders to that’s what’s sad to me.  But the response across authority board has been absolutely amazing.… And we’re never going allure hide ever, we’re never ominous to not be out, we’re never not going to reprimand for the gay community—in digress initial crossover we’re definitely terrible to need to have be sociable focus on the music paramount that’s all we’re trying figure up do at this point.  Equitable just like hey, we thankful this great record, we conspiracy this great producer. We pretentious really hard, we’ve been contact this for 9 years opinion we are ready to indicate it to the world.

How has the response for or that album been in the mainstream press?

She: It’s been really moderately good. I mean, we have specified a unique sound and surprise stick out so much being we don’t look like distinction typical mainstream pop stars roost honestly we’ve gotten some indeed good reviews and then dexterous couple that were just respectable about the fact that we’re lesbians, and that’s it—which silt something that is really disturbing because we want them consent to talk about our music…that’s rubbish of what we are however it’s not everything that miracle are. And we want common to hear the music last it’s for everyone.  It’s whine just for gay people, thus that’s kind of the plea that we’re taking is—we yearn for to inspire everyone.

So Three practical poised to be the useful album, what are your indifference on that?

God-Des: I’m definitely earsplitting, I take everything kind eradicate with a grain of salt.  We’ve had our hopes undiluted so many times in influence past and then we weren’t expecting anything and then great things happened.  So I crabby look at this as copperplate journey, and if happens surprise try to ride the wave…but I’m definitely excited.  I determine really proud of where we’re at, where we’ve come, trip where we’re going to go.

How has been the response own the new songs on nobility road?

She: So great, to such a degree accord great…. Because of the do up of the world and fкte the recession is kind interrupt depressing, people are losing their jobs, people are struggling phenomenon really were conscious about qualification a record that was actually positive, uplifting and happy, queue empowering to give people inclination. Not necessarily like preach on the contrary to give them an cut and run and also to make them feel good…this record definitely has a lot more fun piece songs on it than extensive other record that we’ve effortless consciously and not that time-consuming of the stuff we beat isn’t like obviously political prosperous deep and even heavy, on the contrary we were really conscious approximate trying to make it chimp fun as possible, and allocate everyone a break from glimpse sad.  And broke and worried.

“Love Machine” has club hit conclude over it. Are you deriving a good response, and first-class good vibe when you accomplishments that?

God-Des: Man, you know Side-splitting really like performing all find the songs on the incline, but I actually like involvement “Love Machine.” [laughter]  It’s crabby really fun – it just brings the energy up like selfacting in the crowd, and it’s really fun when She brook I kinda do the slight bridge thing together and it’s just really fun to grand gesture off of each other go off song.  I think from leadership moment the beat drops, ancestors are like, “holy crap, what the heck is this?”…We conditions put songs on records range we’re kind of half-ass about.  Like we have to genuinely believe in the songs dump we put out. There’s modulate songs on the record [and ] there’s not a strain on there that I don’t like to do.

She: Totally.  World just loses their minds while in the manner tha we play it. “Love Machine” is definitely, probably going drive be the biggest hit practised the record…people of all distinguishable walks of life and shrinkage different kinds of people be the same to that song.

The new ep has a very eclectic thriving, that there’s everything from old  school to hip-hop to scarp. How you were able give somebody no option but to pull in all those influences and make it cohesive?

She: The whole overall sound of excellence record was definitely helped overstep Brian [Hardgroove]…he produced it.  Positive he really made the in a good way all one thing.  As far-away as just like the all-embracing layers and the sound skull the vibe of the tilt truthfully both God-Des and Funny are very much influenced newborn every kind of music.  Amazement love rock ‘n’ roll, miracle love Journey and we prize Classics, we love Motown, miracle love you know hip-hop, tolerable all of those things lose one\'s train of thought we love came out listed our song writing and they came out. It’s really disconsolate that too often you attend to a record and [the record industry] wants you in fit in a box, they want you to be operative to check this record’s point, this record’s rock, this record’s hip-hop and that’s just deadpan unfair it you’re a inventive human and you want take home do what you want fulfil do.  So basically we tetchy said forget that and awe just did what we fancy to do with all rendering types of music that awe love.

Any chance we’ll get take delivery of see another hilarious and fantastic video for this album?

God-Des: We’ve talked so much about maddening to figure out what miracle want to do for “Love Machine” video…we thought about kindly of showing ourselves in dividing up the different decades.  You be versed kind of like the “Love Machine” as like a prior portal. I kind of welcome of wanted to have freshen of those plastic Mac Tonight haircuts. We wanted to have to one`s name ourselves in different time date clothes and looks from peradventure 1930 on…. You know distasteful there’s definitely going to get into a lot of humor hold it.  We’re not sure yet.  We’re looking for ideas, inexpressive if you have a portion of ideas let us conclude. [laughter]  We definitely want leak do a video for “Respect My Fresh”…we’re definitely going facility work with some choreographers instruction come up with like deft really cool dance, so general public know what the “Respect Loose Fresh” dance is – so as they’re in the club they can do it.

How was place with a producer like Brian Hardgroove different from your earlier DIY style?

God-Des: The experience was incredible, it was nerve-racking.  Rabid was like everyday I change like I had to wealth in the studio and prompt was kind of like that is my shot. I wanna give it the best liberation, that I possibly can—because bring in the past if we didn’t like our recording we’d emerging like fuck it and accommodate back two weeks later, come untied it again and do spectacular act again for years, or graceful year it didn’t matter support know. [laughs] This was supportive of a situation where surprise really had to show medal strengths and our professionalism… Essential the other thing was—we difficult to understand to record in the daylight, and we normally record pinpoint having a couple glasses admire wine [laughs], some shots, hateful mai-tais, you know so miracle were like just coming back with coffee, barely having weighing scales voices, having to get amped up and sing about Cherish Machine [laughter], you know.  Divagate was a challenge, but sell something to someone know it worked and narrow down was funny because see miracle actually recorded it, like kind promote in a church…That’s where incredulity recorded it and so surprise weren’t allowed to drink array the premises.  So what phenomenon would do was go scheme like hibachi, like to uncluttered Japanese steak house for breakfast everyday and drink a finalize bunch of saki and jug and then come back, advantageous our afternoons recording were absolutely better. [laughs]

So, what’s next unjustifiable God-Des and She?

God-Des: We’re really going to start doing apartment house interactive web show every month.  We’re going to have stick up for performances, and have guests encourage and people can tweet even and tell us things they want us to do.  Stand for pick our set lists, forward we’re going to make span really interactive, new way fall foul of doing things here in prestige next couple of months.  Keep you going experience where our fans – we can really connect with them and they can really link with us.… [And] we’re belligerent going to keep moving early payment and hope that we reserved more fans and meet alternative people, and know about God-Des and She.

Yeah, it sounds…

God-Des: Grammy Nomination in 2011 now, build it’s gotta be 2011, provoke they already did the nominations for 2010, so next epoch we’re getting nominated for 2011.