Halftime (Jbutters): Buckshot said he couldn’t vote for him because he got a perm. Haha

Deck: I don’t give a fuck he would look out for the blacks man. I guarantee you that. He would have looked out for us somehow. Son be fighting. When they had those hostages in Guantanamo Bay and that nigga went over there on a protest and starved himself! I know he had to be thinking I did this shit for nothing man. These motherfucking people didn’t even rally to my side. We got niggas who think they are gangsta because they shot two niggas they grew up with and got away with it. You ain’t gangsta nigga. Gangsta was Harriet Tubman who got away from slavery and went back to go help niggas and kept going back. Risked her life to get away and went back to face certain death and did that shit like forty times. That’s gangsta. Other niggas went and got free and got some new shoes like yo my corns are hurting.

Halftime (Jbutters): That’s the same mentality we have today.

Deck: That’s what I’m saying. I want you to print this because when people read Deck interviews I want them to know he ain’t even thinking about rap. I’m hip hop and music for life but fuck rap there is bigger shit out there and when you hear me rap you’re gonna hear me slide it in there. You gotta talk about the guns and the drugs also but I’m trying to be like damn man I can’t even rhyme about that shit no more. Its like what’s after Rolexes, Bentleys and condos on the moon? Ya’ll gotta ask these plastic ass rappers. We can get this money but your dollars gotta make sense. Invest in something else and not in yourself. I’m on some bigger shit. I got lil groups and all that shit but I don’t want to be on the mic forever. I’m gonna drop one or two more albums at the most three. Other than that I’m trying to be in tune with this presidential race, this war in Iraq, and the war at home in streets over five dollars. I’m peeping out C-Span and how they are making new laws everyday on niggas. I’m peeping out how they taking programs from jails and not allowing you to use your incarceration time to benefit you. They just want you to sit in your cell all day. That’s just gonna cause more riots. They don’t want that then again they do. It allows them to come beat the shit out of you in their riot gear. Then they can be like order was restored to the unruly inmates but they only fighting because they don’t have no TV, no drug program etc. This shit is science. The nigga who thought up civilization is ill. The nigga who said we gonna put stores here and create commerce and income and generate revenue for the town. We are gonna make you earn wages and take taxes out of your check and that’s gonna fund the city for schools. That’s ill. That’s next level.

That’s why when they be like ‘ I call my nigga son cuz he shine like one.’ We call each other god because we are created in the image of the most high. If god is the father and you are the children then one day you will become god when you become fully aware of who god is. Everybody has to understand that everything has a science to it like the cause and effect rule. Everything adds up but niggas don’t want to hear about that shit. Niggas reading the magazine want to hear about titties, what kind of whip I got and all that shit. I’m still driving the same old ass Denali. My nigga is straight he ain’t giving me no problems. I’m low key. I like it that way.

Halftime (Jbutters): I wanted to ask you about issues in society and power. Where do you think the power is to change things in our neighborhoods? We did an interview with Brand Nubian and like you said they felt voting wasn’t for us and won’t solve our problems. What solutions do you feel are out here?

Deck: Its time to go back to the sixties. Them niggas fought for their community. I remember back in the days growing up my neighbor used to look out for me. If my moms wasn’t around I could go to my neighbor’s house and chill until she got home from work. There ain’t no unity and that’s what real. Every community has some type of unison. My best friend is Dominican and when I go with him around his community they are one even if they don’t even know you. Mexicans, I know so many Mexicans that I met in cali they be like “Fuck it holmes he don’t got no speakers and you have two pair why don’t you let him get one.” They look out for their own. Everybody does that shit Jews, Italians, Whites, except us. It’s time to go back when Martin was like fuck that we are gonna start marching on shit and demanding to be heard. If you don’t like the shit on the radio you gotta pick the phone up and call. I call myself the Rebel because I love that nigga Chuck D. All of that shit he was saying I love that because the power is in the people. I’m not saying go out and kill whitey don’t get me wrong but just educate yourself. We have to elect our own nigga and vote amongst us for one of us. There used to be community leaders and borough presidents but they took away all that shit.

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Posted by Halftime on Monday, November 22nd, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.