Black Moon Albums:

Total Eclipse (2003)

War Zone (1999)

Enta Da Stage (1993)

Solo Albums:

BDI Thug (1999)

I heard you just got back from Europe, how as that tour?

It was good everything was cool. I hit up Sweden and Norway. It was a real good thing.

How was the fan reaction out there in Norway?

Hip hop is good out there. It was sold out. It was a lot of people about 2,000 people a spot. That’s a very good number to rock in front of, it doesn’t sound like a lot but when you actually in front of 2,000 people it’s different. We did MTV while we were out there and a couple other spots so our presence is known out there.

I’ve been reading a lot of your interviews and I love em because you are just bringing it to cats, throwing out names whatever. I’ve seen that girl Lumidee’s name out there a few times during your interviews I was like damn did she piss you off or what? Haha!

Nah it’s nothing personally it’s just that she’s just trash. I be like yo that is terrible when I hear certain things. It’s like how the hell? Certain things be just bad.

What you think about the Ying Yang Twins and shit like Shake it like a Saltshaker?

That’s bananas! That’s garbage but people like that. Somebody asked me today what do I think of the state of hip hop and the direction it’s going in and I’m like it’s just how Rakim said, constant elevation causes expansion. The game is constantly elevating so its causing expansion so when we expand, we grow and more things come to the table. The key is not to deflect stuff that’s growing, it’s to maintain the realness that set the foundation of the table itself. You could have some garbage on top but if you’re legs is weak your whole foundation is sitting on weak floors.

I think it’s the fact that you say it though that just stands out because people like to pretend certain stuff ain’t wack.

That’s because a lot of them feel like they don’t want to upset nobody. They’ll tell you but not if it’s an interview or something where the dudes might find out. There might not be chump dudes but they’re not willing to stand behind their opinion. I’m willing to stand behind my opinion. I don’t start drama. I’m not that type of emcee. There’s a lot of dudes in the game like that. It’s not as many as we would like but I know a lot of people in the game just like me living the real like Ghostface, Black Rob, and so many emcees. Hopefully we’ll go back to the times where people will come back to supporting the real. You and I might get out supported but just because a person gets voted in as the president doesn’t mean he was built for the job. That’s the best way to explain it. I personally wished Al Gore would have been the president. Al Gore was the real and then all of a sudden the devil George Bush comes out of nowhere and he wins because of the Electoral College. That’s how the politics of the music industry relate. I could be compared to the Al Gores saying that if it wasn’t for the people I wouldn’t be here so if I’m here it shows that the people are with me but I don’t have the support of the votes like the commercial labels, commercial package, rented house, and rented cars.

Well since you brought up politics have you been following the Democratic race going on right now?

A little something. All of them up there are clowns. They just put a bad name on Democrats. Come on man, let’s be for real Al Sharpton? That’s my man. He’s a cool black dude but listen to me and hear me good first of all cut that thing off your head. Get a low I’m going bald kinda fade. Don’t try to save that crap on the top of your head. He looks like he don’t belong. He’s making some good points up there but the bottom line is something as simple as your criteria shows your not in it for war. You’re already making personal decisions that we’re not with. This is what white America is saying. You’re not prepared to cut your hair to go to war, so that means if you went to the army you’d be one of them niggas like I ain’t cutting my hair I’m out of here. You know how many other decisions you gonna make on account of that too like later for that crap I’m the president now! Are you out of your mind. There is a difference between America and Black America.

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Posted by Halftime on Sunday, March 7th, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.