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On a steamy night in May 2006 on South Padre Island, Texas, Zhanine was giving a post show interview to a local news crew about the set she'd just played to a packed house of Spring Breakers at the Bahia Mar Resort. The questions soon turned to her chemistry with Warbux, who was joining CONJOB as a special guest on this tour.

"Don't tell him I said this," she blurted out, but we're gonna try and recruit him into the band." And it only took a few hours for the cat to be let out of the bag - the whole band was hanging out watching tv in Bux's suite later that night when her segment aired in front of him. Ooops.

So it came to pass that evening that one of the most respected MCs on the West Coast joined forces with one of the hardest working acts in Southern California, all on a tiny island in the Gulf of Mexico. The next day the band celebrated by penning their first song together in sound check Coast of Desperado - and quickly retreated to the white sand beach where they drank every Long Island Iced Tea they could get their hands on.

Almost immediately upon their return, the new lineup went into preproduction for their new record with acclaimed producers Bob Birch (Great Glass Elevator, East West, Pax 217) and Lumbajac (Lauren Hill, Hoodlum West, Universal Translators). Pulling both new and previous material from both artists body of work, the revamped and fully loaded CONJOB spent nearly 3 months in pre production honing what would become the tracks on their new full length album, Everybody Be Cool.

And whats the recipe behind the wax? Start with some unforgettable hooks, throw in some dirty soul fresh from the ghetto, add a big thick dollop of the phattest dance grooves youll find pumping at any club, and smooth out with stories of heartbreak, success, redemption, love and, above all, strength. Some have called CJ a mix of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Fugees, Pink and Sublime. Others shun description entirely and just bump the tracks louder.

So while the memory of what went down in South Padre is as poignant for the band today as it was then, they are now driven as much by their music as they are by going out and promoting it (other bands may work as hard as us, but NO ONE will outwork us is the bands motto). It was Long Island Iced Teas and endless beaches in Texas now its blasting through club after club up and down the West Coast until everybody is cool ...