When you first think about hip hop culture what comes to mind to you because I heard you started out breakin’?

To me hip hop culture is all the elements and although they are not glorified it’s expanding. Go to Japan, breaking is still a real big thing out there. Graffiti is an art form. It may not be respected in America because we moved on. We harnessed and passed it on. We’ve given that away and onto something new, that’s just the nature of how we are. If that wasn’t the case you would never hear Buckshot. It would have been Kurtis Blow or Bizzy Bee to this day. We knew about that hip hop but we weren’t in tune with that hip hop. There were cats who were in tune with that and were like I’m gonna represent that to this very day and we were like you know what Kane is hot. Then we came up fast with that era. Now its ten years later and some more since 1992 and Buckshot is still in the game and our fans are not in tuned with all of the stuff that’s happening now like that. My little nephew is and my little brother is and the kids nowadays do. What about my son? He loves hip hop and is apart of hip hop and for Christmas he asked me to get him the G-Unit album, Missy album, and a few other albums. He asked for them. He’s ten years old and was like you know what I want, I want G-Unit, Missy, and Da Band but that’s my son. The bottom line is let your son make his decisions. Let him take on the responsibility to listen to G-Unit and Da Band CD and going this is good and this is terrible or maybe I like both of them. He’s not a rapper and he don’t want to be an emcee and he is not in tuned with the discrepancies of what’s good and what’s bad so I’m not gonna bring that on him. I respect it and love the fact that he made his own decisions on what he wanted to listen too.

Werd, we can respect that.

And before you ask me for the record I love Jay-Z. You got good, dope, great, phenomenal and then you got spiritual which is the top to me. To me Pac is spiritual he hits your spirit every time but Jay is phenomenal. He used more than one track on the Total Eclipse album. Prodigy used a track. I feel good when I hear myself other places because I feel like that lets me know people hear me. Just Blaze did a couple interviews and was like I didn’t bite Buck and that I love them dudes and I feel like people know Buckshot.

My friend and me were listening to Total Eclipse and I loved it, but my man heard it and said it sounded like some shit from 1993. To me that was the dope part but he was saying you guys needed to update your sound. What do you think of the sound you have now and do you think it needs to be updated?

What’s crazy is if he said it sounds like 1993 I did my job. You can’t go back to ’93, but at the same time when I made ‘Total Eclipse’ the first thing I thought about was everybody is gonna say where is that sound? Ya’ll need to have that original Black Moon sound, so if you’re gonna tell me it sounds like something from ’93 then that means it has that original Black Moon sound. As far as updated music when you hear certain people they are not updated they are just real hard good tracks. I got producers on there that produce today, they just gave me something that they knew Black Moon needed to have. So for that dude don’t worry because I know all I gotta do to string you is rock with the niggas that’s out now which is coming. That’s all I gotta do for them type of dudes. When they hear me on somebody else’s new shit it becomes easier for me to marinate into my own new shit from them. If they don’t ever hear me with any collabos, then they are gonna be used to hearing me with this type of style and this type of music. It’s whatever dog I lived with Pac. I was one of the only east coast niggas that he got with and I was the only nigga that lived in Pac’s house. That was big. He don’t mess with you and you damn sure not coming in his crib. So for me real recognize real.

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