If you're not too familiar with Rock City, then I am sure you are familiar with the many hits they have penned recently. Brothers Theron (aka Da Spokesman) and Timothy (aka Dont Talk Much) have made their way from the St. Thomas, Virgin Islands to hit us with some of the hottest records from some of our favorite artists and plan to continue down that road as they hit us with their debut album, Wake The Neighbors. MiddleChild spoke with the duo about their project, their style and what they plan to bring to the music scene.

MiddleChild: Well first of all, your album is called "Wake The Neighbors". What is that about?

Theron: We're trying to wake the neighbors. Everybody! We feel like the music industry is the neighborhood and me and my brother, we're the new neighbors. We're trying to wake everybody up.

MiddleChild: Well being the new kids on the block, what do you hope to bring to the music industry?

Theron: What we're trying to bring to the music industry is fun. We're just trying to take it back to when people was having a good time. Like musically, right now, there are a lot of artists that are serious and we want to take it back to like Kid-N-Play and the days when it was okay to bust out a dance move or do something silly. Like the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff records when music was about having a good time and enjoying yourself and you didn't take yourself so serious. It wasn't like "Yo. I'm really from the street. I'm really really really from the block." I'm on the block right now as we speak. We don't want it to be about that. We want it to be about the music and people enjoying the music.

MiddleChild: And speaking of the music, I like your single "Losin It". It's a really hot record.

Theron: Thank you very much.

MiddleChild: Of course before I heard the track, I saw your promo pictures so I really didn't know what to expect. So then I listened to it and it really wasn't what I thought it was going to be. So how would you describe your style to the average new listener of R. City?

Theron: People usually ask us what kind of music we make and we say, real talk, "We make music for the people". Because for the past two years the music industry has been trying to categorize us and we don't like to categorize ourselves because we do so much. As far as "Losin It", we originally wrote the song for Trey Songz and sent it off to Atlantic and they didn't feel it. So we were like "Ok,cool. They didn't feel the record." But our A&R, Erica Grayson, was like "Yall need this record". We kind of flipped it and gave it that Caribbean feel with the R&B appeal and putting it together and that's how "Losin It" came about. We're just excited that people are excited about it and people are accepting it the way that they are.

MiddleChild: Now that you say that I can hear Trey on that record also. That's my homeskillet, so to know you working with people like him and the likes of Akon and Usher...how did you get your foot in the door as far as the whole writing thing?

Theron: The first person we ever wrote a song for was Akon. From there the door kind of opened. We wrote four songs for Sean Kingston including "Take You There". **sings** We did the new Pussycat Dolls record called "When I Grow Up" that they performed at the MTV Movie Awards. We did "Music For Love" and "Skippin" for Mario. We did "Misses Glass" for Leona Lewis. Just a lot of records. We're working with a lot of people. Like we've worked with Enrique Inglesias, Robin Thicke, Usher. We're working with Ciara tomorrow and Jennifer Hudson on Monday. Just to name a few people that we're working with and have worked with. So it's just been a blessing for us because like I said we come from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands...born and raised. We left there right after we graduated high school, so for us to be in the position we're in. We never thought in a million years we would be here to be 100% honest with you.

MiddleChild: That's big. I love those Mario records by the way. So it's obvious to say that you work with like the biggest names in the industry to the people coming up to make a name for themselves as well. I know you just completed a track with my homeboy, Countryboi Tweet called "Red Light".

Theron: Yes sir. **sings** Stop em at the red light...red light. Yea! We just did a record with him back in Atlanta. We worked with Flo-Rida. We're featured on Beanie Sigel's album too. Just to name a few people. We're in every genre man. If it's music, we want to be a part of it. It don't matter what kind of music. We're just melodic dudes and we're going to be a part of music.

MiddleChild: I hear that. I can't wait to hear some of these new tracks. Now seeing that you work with all of these artists and working on your project at the same time. Is it easier for you to be more creative with your own work or can you let loose with the artists as well?

Theron: To be honest, it's easier for us to be creative with ourselves because as artists, me and my brother, we know exactly what we want. How we want to say it. When we're going to say it. Working on somebody else you have to please somebody else without knowing anything about them and try and give them a song that they're going to like and is going to fit their personality. So it's kind of difficult to do that. But as far as our project, we worked with everybody in house. So all of our producers are in our camp like The Juggarnauts, Javon Duvall Hill. We worked with The Hypnotiks and D. Dot Angeletti and we worked with Bangledesh and MaddScientist who produced "Losin It" for us. But other than that we kept everything in our camp, within ourselves and kind of kept it like that.

MiddleChild: I feel you. So I found out that when you two were coming up and doing your thing you would enter these contests and talent shows and it was so second nature for yall to win that it got to the point where they were like "Okay. Look. Yall can't enter anymore."(laughs) Like it was that serious with yall.

Theron: Yea. When we came from Miami to Atlanta, we didn't have any jobs. So we would pick up these talent shows and win them to buy groceries...keep the lights on and then we started to win so much that they were like "Yo. Yall gotta give other people a chance. Yall can't compete no more." So we were like "Can't compete? Brother! This is how we eat. We need this money!" So they stopped us from competing and after that we got our 9 to 5's.

MiddleChild: Well tell me a little about your live show since you obviously hold it down. I know you are about to do this KonLive tour with Ray Lavender and Akon and all of the Konvict Family. What can we expect from a live show with you fellas?

Theron: A live show from R. City...we don't really like to call it a live show. We call it a live party because we get the crowd involved. It's all about if somebody spends their money...I don't care if you got in free...if somebody comes out to see a show we try our best to entertain them; whatever it takes. Whether it be jumping on the speakers or jumping in the crowd. Screaming at the top of our lungs, running around in circles, doing coordinated dances...we don't care what it is. At the end of the day we want people to be like "You know something? I just had a great time." We want people to come out of their shell, get out of their comfort zone and introduce them to something different, something positive and have a great time.

MiddleChild: I also know that you were looking at several different offers before you signed. What made you go with Konvict as your label home?

Theron: Well for one reason, we've known Akon for like five or six years so that definitely played a factor because we can have a conversation with him. Sit in the same room and have a conversation with him. And then two, he gave us full complete creative control. He gave us the opportunity to be ourselves when other labels were trying to make us put a girl in the group, make us sing, make us rap, make us like be this and be that and Akon was the only person that was like "I love yall the way you are. I want you to continue to be you. Just be yourselves." And we wanted to be at Interscope. We wanted to work with Jimmy Ivene. We respected him and his genius and we wanted to be in that building. So Akon was like "You know what? Yall come with me and I'll get yall in that building." He gave us exactly what we wanted in our deal.

MiddleChild: So when can we expect the albums in stores?

Theron: We don't have an exact date right now. We're just doing all that we can right now to make sure the record comes out in 2008. The way that the music business is we can't guarantee that the album is ever going to come out, but if we get enough followers and enough fans to believe in what we're trying to accomplish then Interscope will push that button and we'll get a date. Right now it's looking like late August, early September. So tell all the Rock City fans, all the future Rock City fans...even if you don't like Rock City still give us as much support as you can so that we can get that album out to you this year.

MiddleChild: That's what's up. I'll see what I can do. MiddleChild Promotions got your back and we'll definitely be on the lookout for you.

Theron: Thank you very much man and real talk thank yall for your time and we apologize for the noise because we're walking around in the streets of New York right now, but we thank you very much though.

MiddleChild: It's all good man. Have a good day.

Theron: You too. Peace.