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Cassie working with will.i.am and Toby Gad for new album
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What has the journey to RockaByeBaby been like?
Cassie: The mixtape wasn't always planned, and [it] came about in a really organic way. I was working and still am working on my second album. It's been, what, seven years since my first? Obviously, for any young woman, over a seven-year period, you do a lot of growing, and changing your mind, and learning new things about yourself. I think there was a lot of that.
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When was this all happening?
Cassie: Ten months to a year [ago]. I would be working at the studio with a big producer to do a pop record that would be a real single for me. Then I would leave the studio and go to our other studio and just create things with my friends that we wanted to hear. And then, quickly, over a few-months period, we realized we were creating a sound.
Interscope will bring in all these great writers and we'll have a brainstorm meeting, and they'll listen to my music, and then create [something], but I don't think it's the best way, personally, for me as an artist to work. Because at what point did they really get to know me and get to speak to me about my life and the things that I want to say in a candid way, and not so much a setup way? Because I can talk to people about my life and what I want to say in any type of setting.
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Is pop music something you're interested in doing as well?
Cassie: Oh, yeah. Recently I've been working with will.i.am and we've been trying to play around with some new sounds and fun stuff that is pop, but still urban. [And I'm working with] Toby Gad, who did [Fergie's] "Big Girls Don't Cry," and "The Boys" record that I did with Nicki Minaj. All of those records are more pop-leaning. I have a lot of those under my belt that people haven't heard yet.
Do you think the album will be veering more in that direction?
Cassie: I'm still getting reviews back and reception back from this project, so we'll see.
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You can read the full interview at http://www.buzzfeed.com/azafar/cassies-back
She better keep releasing videos or something while she finishes the album so there won't be another long period without any news about her until the actual official single is out and all this hype dies again 
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But will.i.am 
