Imperial: Dirty Money…. For those who don’t know, what is Dirty Money and how did it come about?

Dawn: It’s a movement! I’m excited about it. I’ll keep it short and brief because, you know, I think, the best thing I can tell you guys is to get on the train. It’s amazing, I can say, remember the experience when you went to your first concert, and you left feeling like you spiritually were fulfilled? You felt like, I can actually go on with a better life, like I want to be better because of the music that you just heard? I felt like that when I went to hear Prince. That’s how I feel about this music. I feel like it can change the way music is moving. It can change the way people dance! It can change their everything, their movement. That’s what I feel like Dirty Money is…. And I’m excited about that! ...

Imperial: How has it been working with Diddy on the project-it’s a little different from him looking in from the outside, you’re actually all in a group now.

Dawn: He’s amazing! Like honestly! I’ve never seen someone so in tuned with their brilliance, if that makes sense. He knows exactly his strategy, he knows what he wants, and he’s a visionary. And I appreciate that about him. And it’s so fun to work with him because, there are days when you’re like “Yo, I don’t think I can go on” but he makes you push that extra mile. And because of that, you see greatness in yourself that you never thought you can see.

BB: For all the aspiring artists out there, I’m not going to ask you the typical question of what advice you would give them. Instead, what do you think your biggest mistake was so far and how would you have handled it differently?

Dawn: No mistakes. I don’t think there was a big mistake. I think everything was planned that way. And I’m serious. Even if it was a bad mistake, it was planned for me to learn about that awful mistake. I never said “I want to take that back” or “I shouldn’t have done that”. I was probably just dumb in that moment and it was meant to be done for me to learn my lesson. *LOL* I don’t even know if there’s a big mistake that I shouldn’t have made. I know I shouldn’t have put those leggings on that I did yesterday! That was a mistake! But – my weave on Making the Band in the beginning when Katrina happened was a mistake! That blonde was a mistake. That’s a mistake right there *LOL* I wish I could take that back. I wish knew Pro Activ before the first season!

Honey: So let's talk about the new situation. The new music, the new group, break that down for us.
Yeah, I started out writing with Puff with Last Train To Paris, with Cassie, and with Day26. I got songs on all three albums. Puff was like "I like your writing. I think you should keep writing." Then he was like "I think you should work on Last Train To Paris." So we got in the lab and came up with this amazing new sound. I will not give you guys anything, ya'll know how it works. This new movement has been giving room for the music to just be what it is. People tend to want to class things and stereotype them. You can't with this project. All I can say is you have a train to catch and you best be on it when it takes off because it's gonna go and it's an amazing movement. And I am really proud of Last Train To Paris, and the group I am in now Dirty Money, which consist of Puff, me, and Kalina.