Halftime (Jbutters): I heard you had a DVD that chronicled a day in your life.

Deck: We filmed the making of the album and one of the road tours and put it together. I’m trying to do all of that the DVD, the book and two albums together.

Halftime (Jbutters): Is the DVD Done?

Deck: It’s basically done but it needs a better editing job. I like shit to stay moving. We are gonna edit that shit up right. I also got a label called Urban Icon Records so I’m dropping the album on that label. I got some distribution deals set up but I am trying to put a package on the table for them.

Halftime (Jbutters): When do you think that will be hitting?

Deck: I’m trying to have it done at the end of the year the book and the DVD. I got a writer on the book already so that’s nothing. Everything I recited to you is in the book in different chapters.

Halftime (Marcus): What’s your favorite Wu song?

Deck: I’d say it’s between Gza’s “Life of a drug Dealer” and Ghost’s “Mighty Healthy”

Halftime (Marcus): My favorite shit all time I would have to say “Heaven and Hell”

Deck: I can’t forget “Motherless Child”

Halftime (Jbutters): I like “C.R.E.A.M” but I would have to say Verbal Intercourse because that’s like the illest shit I ever heard. We really can’t pick one.

Deck: Off the head I have to say “Mighty Healthy.” I got the “Mighty Healthy” instrumental. I get dressed faster and all that.

Halftime (Jbutters): I read where you said GZA helped you with your rhyme writing and I am assuming RZA helped you on the business end and with the beats. What are some of the examples of how they helped you develop your style?

Deck: Each nigga gave me something way back. Dirty is the showman He don’t have the lyrics that will bury a nigga line for line but Dirty will capture the crowd off of entertainment value and he’ll say shit according to that. He’ll be like yea I’m drunk nigga I drink beer and rhyme about that shit and steal the crowd from you. Meth is a flow nigga. Meth will hear a beat and the way you jump on the beat Meth will come the total opposite way. He taught me how to pick parts of the beat like how girls do double dutch. You find the part of the beat then jump in on it. GZA taught me even if you’re freestyling just put your shit in sentences and it will make sense. RZA taught me how to project my shit. He was like if you’re gonna be Inspectah Deck the Rebel you have to get on the mic and convince niggas and say your shit with power. That’s what made me start always going first. Going first is like warming up the track. Rae and Ghost give me two different things. Rae is street corner rap to the fullest. I’m the nigga that take you from the block go eat, go upstairs then I break out and go to Queens. Rae has you on the block twenty-four hours so his shit is vivid. He be like ‘kick in the door, hit him with the nine yo you should have seen that nigga running.’ He would say his shit like that and I get the visuals because I lived that shit. So I started learning how to incorporate everything you live in your rhymes without overdoing it. Ghost gave me the slang. Ghost is like ‘the bionic microphone is stacked mechanic move like a bunch of Mexicans with bandanas.’ ‘We eat fish, toss salads and make rap ballads.’ He is saying shit the average nigga ain’t even thinking about. It’s that type of shit. So when I’m writing rhymes and I say a line that’s hype I’ll be like nah the nigga Ghost would say some exotic shit right there and I’ll try to make my shit more exotic than Ghost.

And then Cappadonna he is a fully automatic rap machine. That nigga can roll off a hundred bars at you crazy at least three times in a row. Niggas don’t know Cap. That nigga taught me how to freestyle. He used to get in the full-length mirror like he is battling himself. I was like why are you in the mirror doing it. He was like who is the illest nigga who can fuck with you? That’s you. That’s the only nigga that can fuck with me so I have to go toe to toe with him. He is looking in the mirror saying that shit I’m like this nigga is ill. He got me in the mirror. I went and got the full length mirror and that shit got me sharp. It helps you fix your face and all that when you are freestyling. You know how to look, how to stand, you know if your colors are matching because all that shit plays a part. Niggas come up to you trying to battle and you look at his kicks and be like I ain’t even rhyming against your low budget ass. Niggas like you will get smacked first before the rap. You checking a nigga style like did you just stop me? Don’t stop me asking no stupid shit. You gotta be like that with some niggas. When we was on top they would come up to me all the time because I’m the humble nigga. They were scared of Ghost, Rae and Meth but Deck he the quiet nigga we might be able to test him. I’m the nigga that will rattle off fifty at you real quick and have your niggas saying you should have said that other rhyme you hit me with the other day. U-God is the voice nigga. If I had that voice I’d be the Barry White of rap. Wu Tang taught me everything. Wu Tang is me. We didn’t come together to make a record. We been together. We been watching Wu Tang karate flicks chopping and kicking the shit out of each other. All of this shit was meant to happen.

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