Thick: Give us a little background on how yall came together.
Geechi Suede: We started out in the Bronx eight moons ago. I was pretty much solo doing my thing, and my friend I used to dance for, he introduced me to Ski. On some, check my lil' man out, he can rhyme too. I spit a freestyle for Ski and he was feeling it but I could tell he was still like, this guy is kinda young, he's got some growing to do. I don't know how long after that, somehow, somewhere on a mysterious night me and Ski bumped into each other on the block and he was like, yo, shorty what's up? Bust a rhyme for me. So I started bangin' on the car and rhymin' for him, and then next thing we were at Clark Kent's house working on my demo. Working on my demo I was thirsty for ideas and direction. Even though Ski was there for me in that way, when Chee came along, we had met through mutual friends as well, that's what he started helping me with. He started helping with different ideas and different approaches, and it kinda got the point where I was like, we should just do this together. You always giving me ideas and stuff like that, let's just do this together. He had never rhymed a day in his life and in no time he had mastered it already. I'd say six months after we officially said we were going to do it together, we got a demo done and we had a deal shortly after that. Then the world heard Coolie High. That was the first time they heard from us and it was on the Great White Hype soundtrack.

T: Since the first single dropped it was obvious Camp Lo were onto something different. I get that your styles meshed well but how did you decide on the throwback kinda flavour?
GS: Our parents were pretty involved in music and fashion, and they were pretty much strung out on the Marvins, and the Stevie Wonders, and all of that. It trickled down to us and it definitely hit Chee really hard. When we sat down at the round table right before we really kicked everything into full gear and we said, how are we gonna come into this? 'Cause we knew we wanted a different approach from what was already out there. So, we started mapping out how we would approach it and we decided to throw in influences, and one of the influences was the seventies. So, we started doing heavy research on that, started hitting all of the video stores and we would write down notes. We did our homework, on top of what we were already influenced by. We mapped it all out from then. We knew we was gonna come with the slang, we knew we was gonna come the fashion, we knew we were going to intertwine the seventies in it. Obviously, being from the Bronx, all that stuff we grew up on, Bambaataa, Cold Krush, KRS-One, we knew we was gonna intertwine all that stuff into it. When we did our first couple of tunes on the demo and the response was good, we just kept flowing in that direction. By the time we got to Coolie High, we pretty much had mastered it and were completely comfortable with where we was going. So, that's pretty much how that came about.