So we’ve just basically been behind the scenes trying to keep our name growing. And you know our first single, they just released it. It’s called Losing It, we shot the video, Eric White directed it, it was produced by Madd Scientist. And we’re just exciting about the reaction we’ve been getting about everything. You know, thinking, us, coming from The Virgin Islands, from St. Thomas, you always say "I wanna make it, I wanna make it", but when you actually start to make it, you’re like, yo, I can’t believe I’m doing it. You know what I’m saying? We’re just excited, we just pray people accept what we’re doing. We know it’s different, but you know, we really hope people accept it.

Did the songwriting distract you at all from promoting, or did you keep up your own shows after the songwriting thing started kicking off?

(Timothy) See, we’re artists first before anything else, and it just so happened the songwriting thing took off first. That was paying the bills so we ran with it. We thank god every day for being so talented to be able to write songs for other people. After the songwriting thing took off, it sort of opened the door for us to do the artist thing.

But while we were doing the songwriting thing, we were still grinding, doing show on our own, booking our own shows. I mean like free shows, we were doing talent shows. You know most artists who have deals, they, a lot of artists tend to think well, they got a deal now, they’re too good enough and too big to be doing small shows like that. But for my brother and I, we were known as writers, but we wanted to be known as artists, cos we came into the game as artists. So, we were still doing shows. Like I said, the songwriting thing opened the door for us to be artists, because people started paying attention to us and what we do.

(Teron) We’ll be in the studio with usher and we’ll be like, hey man, you know, we do music too. And he’s like, oh, y’all are artists? And we’ll be like yeah, man, we’re a group, you know. And then we’ll play him our music, and he’s like, "yo, y’all are dope." And it happened like that with everyone we worked with, you know. If you get us in a room with them, we just use the opportunity to say, "you know we sing, too." "Oh, for real?" And then we play our music, and the buzz started getting around.

That’s how Akon came to want to sign us . Our buzz was so big in Atlanta, we were doing so many shows and everyone was talking about us. It’s so funny that people react the way they do to our music. We’re working with like famous people. You know from Akon to Usher. We’ve worked with Macy Grey, Pussycat Dolls, Mario, Sean Kington – Jesse McCartney – we did two songs for Jesse – and these people are like, we love y’all. And we’re like, you do? Wow, thank you, because we love you, we can’t even believe we’re in the studio with you.

That’s another reason why – you know, we had a lot of deals on the table from different labels, - a lot of people say, why did you sign to Akon?

(Timothy) – Akon was the one person giving us exactly what we were looking for. A lot of labels were trying to change us – you know, putting a girl in the group, or you should just rap or just sing or rap less, sing more. Akon was the only person that was like man, I like what y’all are doing already. Just keep doing what you’re doing, and I’ll let you know what’s good and what’s whack, and we’ll put it out. It was never about the money, because we had labels offering us a lot of money. But you know, some people, they think if they give you a lot of money and you’ll run with it. But me and my brother, we never had money it never really excited us about the money. We did what we were doing our entire life we because we loved it. We just wanted to know we were able to have creative control and no one was trying to change us.

When you’re writing songs for yourself, is that different than writing for someone else?

(Teron) Sometimes, but sometimes it isn’t. Our first single, we wrote for Trey Songz originally and Atlantic turned it down and it ended up becoming our first single. But sometimes we’re in a different frame of mind so we write our own songs for ourselves. Sometimes we write songs for other people and end up keeping them. Like, we wrote a song for Akon for his new album, Jimmy Iovine (head of Interscope) heard it and said y’all gotta keep it – so Akon recorded the song and we took it back. It’s like we go through that. It’s funny because we can do everything that everybody does. We can write a song for the Pussycat Dolls and someone will be like, nah, y’all should keep that. We just change it around from a male point of view, so we do stuff like that all the time.

We feel like we make music for the people and we represent the every day regular guy, so when we write music for ourselves, we try to look at it from that perspective and try to attack it from that angle. That’s how it goes.

You can learn more about R. City and hear their new songs on their MySpace page.