DX: Was that Pimp C part 3 reference though to anything in particular, are we gonna hear about down the line…?
KM: Nah, it was about Pimp C… See, I’m not looking for controversy. I’m looking for a measure of manhood, brother. Like, you know Pimp didn’t get out of jail and get reformed and find Jesus. Pimp was saying before he ever went to jail: “The motherfucking feds in town.” Go back and listen to that off Super Tight. Go listen back to that. Go listen to “The Feds In Town” [click to read]. Go listen to how you’re supposed to appropriate yourself when the police crackdown comes. Don’t listen to a muthafucka telling you to ball out during a recession. It’s fucked up, man. And what’s gonna happen is you gon’ ball out, you broke, and a dope dealer gon’ turn into a robber. So you gon’ go from a muthafucka who coulda caught a case for selling dope and got probation, to a muthafucka that kick in somebody mama door and kill her looking for dope and money. That’s the part of the story niggas don’t talk about. But if you had actually lived that life, then you would at least have the humanity enough to let somebody know that this is what really fuckin’ happens in that life. That’s what Ice-T did for me. That’s what Ice Cube [click to read] did for me. That’s what KRS-One [click to read] did for me. Listen to “6 N The Morning” [click to read]. Listen to Death Certificate in its entirety.

DX: “Love’s Gonna Get’Cha.”
KM: And I was fin to hit you with it. Not only listen to “Love’s Gonna Get’Cha,” listen to Edutainment [as a whole]. But definitely listen to “Love’s Gonna Get’Cha.” I don’t have no problem with my brother. I love the fact we can rap and make money, and we can use all that fucked up experience the government heaped on us through the Reagan years – and I wanna send shouts out to [Juelz] Santana – we can use all that fucking bullshit that we went through – taking music out of schools, taking recess, taking free lunch – we can use all that…now we can use that as an opportunity for us to make music, entertain the world and edutain at the same time! Then we can tell kids get off that same bullshit we was doing in the ‘80’s and get on this new shit and get to your money. Less kids need to be gangstas and more kids need to be Soulja Boy [click to read]. And I don’t mean in making that [kind of] music, I mean in being innovative and knowing at 16 years-old, "I can conquer the fucking world." I ain’t gotta join this [gang] shit ‘cause a nigga want me to join. I ain’t got to be a part of a nigga flunkie squad. I can be a leader.

I’m interested in seeing the people who listen to me be leaders. Hence, I don’t sit around and rap about how much more shit I got than you. Hence, I don’t try to demean you for the decisions you made with your life that have caused you to come to the point you work a nine-to-five job. I ask most people: “How the fuck can you listen to these niggas and when you listening to these niggas for 60 minutes these niggas tell you how much better they are than you, how many cars they got, how many bitches they fucked, how much dro they smoke?” If a nigga sat in your car and did that for real you would put that nigga black ass out your car. So my thing is how the fuck you gon’ pay a nigga to talk down to you? This is music that I make to support your success. I’m not here to demean you. I’m not here to tell you you ain’t shit.

[Do] I say "nigga, bitch, hoe, cunt, muthafucka" and whole bunch of other words George Carlin said? Yes I do. Because I’m speaking the language of the day. So don’t give me your petty-ass [argument], “But you say these words.” ‘Cause that goes into a deeper conversation. What I’m saying is we have the power to reorganize and uplift. I’m not telling any real Blood or real Crip there’s anything wrong with real people organizing. The Crips and Bloods started out as self-organized groups of children. So my thing is what’s the evolution of that organization? What’s the evolution [of] the Bloods from Athens Park that Bone wants to see? I’m interested in what the fuck he got to say. I’m interested in what T. Rodgers had to say. I’m interested in what Jeff Fort had to say. I’m interested in what 15, 16 and 17-year-old children who are Bloods and who want to organize in “The Jungle,” who want to organize in places like that, I’m interested in what they have to say. I’m not interested in the theatrics of fucking rappers acting like gangsters. I’m not interested in that. I saw Colors already. Continued on page 3 »