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SHH: What up fellas?

Red Café: What up man?

SHH: We got ya’ll here and we going to get into your business if that’s possible. So ya’ll got a collaboration album in the works. So what can the fans expect from this project?

DJ Envy: “The Co-Op!” For the time we spent on it, it’s the best album I’ve heard in a long time. I’d put all my money on it. It’s great! It’s Red Café… It’s 13 tracks, skits… It’s like an epic (a mini-movie). Ya’ll got to cop that to hear what I’m talking about.

SHH: Word. So the release date is when? 

DJ Envy:  October 9th.

SHH: So any collaborations and features on the album we should know about?

Red Café: We got a lot of people on there for sure. We got The LOX (Styles P & Sheek Louch), Nina Sky, Jermaine Dupri, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, Kool G Rap and a lot more.

SHH: Kool G Rap? Word… You got him on the join? You got to love that. So I’ve been a fan of both of you for a minute, but how did ya’ll end up together? DJ Envy & Red Café on the same album? That’s crazy, how did that go down?

Red Café: Envy’s a genius! Ain’t nothin' else I can say. Envy take it away...

DJ Envy:  (Laughs) Well Red was an artist that was always out on the grind. I seen him at the club, the strip club, the events, the radio stations and he moved me.  We did a couple mixtape with each other and they came out great and we started doing shows with each other and then the radio and deejays started to take notice. We did 14-15 songs together and the songs came out decent. So we decided to just make each other a group and you know it just worked out. We went to Koch and that was the first and only place we were going. They’re a small label, very family oriented, I know people that rep there. I mean it was cool and it’s been like on ever since.  I mean me and Red Café; we put our own money into this project, so we ain’t look to nobody from the outside. We basically going to do what we want to do and just enjoy. Hopefully it does as great as we expect it to do and I feel at the end of the day “The Co-Op” was the right look.

SHH: Is this a one album thing or are you trying to be like a “Millennium Guru & Premiere (Gangstarr)?  Are ya’ll going to keep doing this or what?

DJ Envy: We might do this a couple more times. We got the artist, the tracks and the way we moving right now is amazing, but right now we’re focused on volume one.

Red Café: I like the way you put that “Millennium Guru & Premiere.” I really like how you put that.

SHH: That’s peace man…

Red Café: Big up to you my man. You my dude from now one...

SHH: (Laughs) that’s what it is, so tell me where can everyone check your music out?

Red Café: We definitely doing shows everywhere and I’m on my way to Detroit to do one right to do a show. If you look on the MySpace www.myspace.com/djenvy or www.myspace.com/redcafe, you can get your fix on there of what we got before the album drops.

SHH: That’s what’s up.

Red Café: We just bringing that greatness back to the raw music. It hasn’t been done in a while a deejay and a rapper coming together and doing an album and it just goes to show that the deejay is just as important as the emcee.

SHH: Of course.

Red Café: It’s the deejay who brings the music to the people and their identities can’t be overlooked.

SHH: A lot of “New School” dudes get it real fucked up. They get it real fucked up… They think that the deejay doesn’t really have a place in Hip Hop anymore, but we here to keep the people informed on that end. SO it was real beautiful talking to ya’ll fellas. I’d love to get a phone call or an email when ya’ll come through DC or Baltimore, but for now I wish ya’ll luck and success.  I’ma go cop the album.

Red Café: We suppose to be through DC on October 11th come through and chop it up with us.

SHH: That’s peace man. I’ma do that. Aight, peace ya’ll.

DJ Envy & Red Café: Aight peace man.