, the dance floors of DJ OHSO's Bounce Dat party were alive with scores of wriggling, twerking, popping bodies of women, femmes, and queer people of color.
And since their multiplatinum 2004 debut with Crime Mob, that energy has not wavered in the slightest. Onstage, they are still women who come in the club shaking their dreads in front of screaming masses. Vagina PowerIt was so cool seeing you perform — you both totally owned that stage. Have you always known you were iconic, even from the beginning of making your earliest and most famous songs?
You do have such electric energy together. Have you always had such chemistry or has it been something that's developed over the 15 years more organically? Diamond: Yes. And that's just a taste of what's to come. We are trying to get back in the studio with the group and the goal is to have an album out with Crime Mob by early next year.
Diamond: Also, what has changed is that now you can be a mother with a baby and still have a life and a career after. As a mom, your priorities change. Your music isn't your baby; it's your baby that comes first. I think now with us being mothers and us being in the middle of that young generation and that old generation and seeing that therelife after. Have a label, have a fashion line, have a cosmetic line, it doesn't end. Life isn't over, you can do it all.
"We have our battle scars, but we're here still telling our story, so that makes us legendary." — Princess of Crime Mob