They tried to get J-Lo and Alicia Keyes like that. Peep it I’m watching an interview with Alicia Keyes the other week and the lady tried to get Alicia Keyes to say she was white. Her mother is Italian and she asked her what she referred to herself as and she said black and the lady said you don’t think you’re white? I’m like why you sitting there stressing the girl trying to get her to say she white.

We definitely ahead of the game.

You mentioned priests earlier and it just reminded me about Lauryn Hill flipping out in the Vatican.

Lauryn Hill flipped out in the Vatican?! Was this recently?

Yea this was Saturday

Nahhh you gotta tell me this story.

They had Lauryn Hill come to the Vatican to tape a Christmas special in Italy. It’s supposed to come on Wednesday. They had her come down and she was supposed to perform a song for them. So she is in the Vatican packed house Cardinal is there and all that being taped for next Weds and she steps up to the podium and is like I’m not gonna sing the song ya’ll think I’m gonna sing. Then she pulled out a speech and started ripping into the Catholic Church about how they aren’t handling the situation correctly by not prosecuting their priests and starts going into all of these issues she has with the Catholic church. Then instead of doing the song she was supposed to do she did a protest song yo! They edited it out but now its all over that it happened.

They are gonna shut her down. She didn’t do anything but expose herself. If you creep in you supposed to creep. The only people who own more land than the Catholic Church is McDonald’s and that’s an actual fact.

Honestly that’s like coming to my birthday party and just slamming me like yo I hate you…

Yea yea like you bitch ass nigga!

Yea haha

Yea you do something like that you might get killed.

That’s not even bold anymore that’s just dumb.

You gotta learn when to fight certain battles. Sun Tzu said there is certain land you don’t contend for. There are certain times you just don’t fight, but pride gets involved.

You know what this is one of our best interviews and we didn’t even ask one music question.

It’s only so much you can say about music. Why I do my music? I could sum that all up. I love to create music, but I have something to say and music gives me the platform to say it. But my next album I come out with I ain’t gonna say shit!

Hahaha

I ain’t gonna say shit. I tried to warn niggas but ya’ll go ahead with yourselves I’m gonna say ignorant shit. Give me your money now. They’ll learn one day. Tell everybody to buy my new shit and support the independent artist. They here independent and they get shook. I don’t want to be affiliated with someone taking all my money. I’m doing all the work they are taking the majority of the money does that make sense? I’d rather sell less and get more because mathematically it comes out to be the same thing. People don’t know I do my thing independently and I get just as much if not more than niggas who are platinum.

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