Incredible DMX interview

You must read the whole thing but here are some pretty great excerpts. The most amazing party:

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really paying much attention.

I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”

Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’ bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.

The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.

But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak!
Can’t be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.

Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.
Good for him, good for him.


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Do you think it’s a good thing that Southern music is pretty much dominating the game? There’s no cats from New York, you know. It seems like there hasn’t been in awhile. What do you think about that?
What do I think about Southern music?

Yeah.
I really don’t think about it.

You don’t think about it?
I really don’t care for it. To focus on other shit is a fuckin’ headache.

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What were you doing in between—from the last album to this one, that whole time? What have you been up to?
Life. I been up to that. It’s been crazy. Fuckin’ police keep on fuckin’ raiding my house and shit for nothing. They took all my fuckin’ guns. All they did is take is take my guns. All they fuckin’ do is fuck my house up and take my guns. That’s all they did. Straight robbed me—that’s what they did.

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There was a video on the Internet recently, I don’t know if you saw it, like with you in the studio.
Nah, didn’t see it.

It was like you in the studio and I guess some other producer and you were recording some songs and you were talking about some random stuff. Do you remember that?
Yeah, I think so.

People were really concerned about you or whatever.
That was a while ago. I didn’t see it.

Do you remember when you were in the studio?
Vaguely. I’d just flown in or something. I know I was tired as a muthafucka.

Tired from recording?
I just flew in. I just flew in.

Do you worry about people getting the wrong perception of you?
No, I really don’t. People could say what they want. I don’t really care. I don’t give a fuck.

Clearly, yeah.
Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction I don’t have the time or the energy. If somebody step to my face, I’ma take care of ’em, that’s something different. What people think, I don’t give a fuck about none of that shit ’cause they ain’t putting money in my pocket. They ain’t taking no money out of my pocket. They all suck dick when they see me so it really doesn’t matter.

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How’s your family and your kids?
They’re good. My son is rapping now.

Did he see you? I’m sure he was inspired by you.
Yeah, yeah. all that. Took him to shows and everything.

What does your wife Tashera think about him rapping?
She likes it. She’s the one who told me. She told me.

Did you talk to him? What do you tell him about the industry? Do you give him advice about the industry?
He knows it, he knows all that shit. Ah, man. I give him some advice.

What kind of advice do you give him? Like, watch out for, you know…
Advice about life, advice about girls, whatever a father would tell his son. Everything. Advice about everything. Everything. Advice about everything.

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All right, well is there anything else that I missed? Anything that you’re working on?
Working on life.

Working on life.
Yeah, working on life.

Are you happy right now?
I don’t wanna be happy.

Why not?
’Cause when you happy you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

Right, ’cause when you’re happy you think you’re safe and you don’t…
Yeah, you get sleepy happy.


It really is amazing:

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20332

I haven't even watched this. I pulled up yahoo this morning to check on my fantasy hockey duel with Dircks and the front page headline at yahoo was "Is corn making you fat?" I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Michael Pollen's work. As some of you know, I've read and enjoyed both The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense Of Food . For me it started vaguely, hearing something about McDonald's burgers explaing why kids were getting bigger and taller. Something to do with the growth hormones in the meat. Not really something that would effect my decision to eat there. Then I think the backlash against fast food started to pick up steam with Supersize Me breaking through. I never saw it, but I get the idea from some clips here and there and what I have seen that it may be slightly off for me in that Michael Moore vein- kind of losing his impact by being showy or funny and letting their bias for the topic show clearly. I think when you are trying to be subversive and go against "the powers that be" it can be counter-productive to be cocky. Anyways, I'm sure it codemns the hell out of McDonald's food as that isn't difficult these days. A better bet for that, and fast food as a whole was Fast Food Nation.
The book kills the movie of the same name like an immigrant kills a diseased cow at the meat packers (or Javier Bardem in No Country! Was that some kind of comment on industrialized meat packing? I just thought it was a cool way to kill people...the Coen brothers kick ass.). Anyways the movie is isn't that bad, it's just the book is so comprehensive and damning. This is what actually got me to start making choices about food. Have I been to a fast food joint since? Yes. Have I been to McDonald's? Yes, sadly, probably more so than other places. I think Pollen's books, while not perfect, really brought it all together for me. He looks at modern eating and food comprehensively. The questions he poses in Omnivore he trys to answer in Defense. While it is fascinating to see him skewer what we claim to know about nutrition (basically debunking the concept as we know it), it just as frustrating following his guidelines, which in some ways could be considered fallible as well, not to mention less accessible and more expensive. Anyways, my point was supposed to be: knowing what I know now, or knowing what I believe to be true, why am I not acting on it? I've made some changes and I am trying to do some things differently. I sit back when I see videos like this and say "Oh, I've read about that, I've known about this". I see commercials like Wendy's one about knowing what their food is, their whole campaign about being "wayyy better than fast food", it makes me want to talk about how bullshit that is and comment on how even the fast food places are picking up on this trend. But who cares? If I'm not changing my diet it basically just adds guilt to certain eating choices. As if anyone needs more of that. This is going longer and less focused by the minute. Let's just watch the clip for now.

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