Thick: Let's start with how you got into DJing.
Cipha Sounds: When I was like fourteen or fifteen I moved to the suburbs and there's not really anything to do for a kid from the Bronx. I got into music and my step-father had DJ equipment, and I used to just fool around with it and listen to music, and it evolved from there.

T: When did you get into reggae?
CS: I didn't get into reggae until like about three or four years ago. 'Cause being from New York, you always hear reggae but I wasn't heavily into it like I am now. I had like just the joints I needed to play in parties. What got me into it was that the New York party scene got really dead. It went from like everybody dancing and going crazy and having fun to like all these lounges and people just hangin' out and chillin'. There was no energy in Hip-Hop clubs, and I used to go to reggae parties and see all the sounds playing and all the crowd going crazy and doing all these dances. From there I just got more and more into the music, and I tried to adapt the sound boy style to Hip-Hop.

T: Tell the people about Nina Sky.
CS: Yeah, they're just these two girls, twin sisters. This guy I know had them signed to a production company. He was trying to get me to sign them to Star Trak, the Neptune's label because I used to A&R there. But at the time Star Trak was inbetween deals because they used to be through Arista and Arista closed down. So, they were waiting for their new deal and in the meantime I started just doing some records with them, like some mixtape records and some freestyles, and that's how we got Move Your Body. It was just like a freestyle and it took off. So, after it took off, it was like we had to take a deal and from there we did the whole album in like three or four weeks. We just had to knock it out because the single was doing so good.