Word Is Bond Page #4

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and that comes from battle rap.

I used to go

to different schools...

Eastern District,

Westinghouse,

Erasmus, Brooklyn Tech...

to battle their best MCs.

MCs would come

to my high school.

I mean, I could be in class

and I see my man La Son

come to the window

at my door... he'd tap

on the door, go like that...

letting me know,

and I'd get a bathroom pass

and bring it back

maybe three periods later.

You know, I'm a big

Muhammad Ali fan,

so first thing

I would normally do

is destroy you before

we even start rhyming.

I will do to Buster

what the Indians did to Custer.

I'm gonna wipe him out.

"It's just you,

or it's all three of y'all?

You sure?

I mean, they can go too."

Embarrass you so bad

that your friends

are laughing at you.

'Cause, you know,

they your boys,

they gonna cosign you anyway,

but what you gonna say

after you just been laughing

at your man, you know?

- He know he lost.

- [male announcer] It's live

from the world-famous

Apollo Theater...

the future all-stars

in concert.

The one and only Biz Markie.

Biz come to me, and he already

knew what he wanted.

He came, was like,

"I wanna do a song

called 'Pickin' Boogers.'"

And I'm like, "About what?"

He's like, "I don't know,

but just do me one favor.

Somewhere in the song,

just say,

'Hey, Ma, what's for dinner?

Go up your nose

and pick a winner.'"

He had the idea, so it's really

just trying to figure out,

you know, "Okay, what

stupid stuff can I write?"

So I decide to just

go story format.

You know, just tell stories

about a situation

where you got caught

picking boogers.

Yo, don't try to front

like it's so gloomy and gray

'Cause we all

pick our boogers

Sometime every day,

whether out in the open

Or on the sneak tip

With a finger, tissue,

or even a Q-tip

You aren't who you are

without your influences.

You hear, and you say,

"I like that.

I wanna do that."

Pac was the first rapper

that I remember hearing

that it was like,

"Oh, I feel that.

I feel what he's saying,"

and was way too young

to be feeling it...

the pain coming from it.

I could feel whatever it was

he was trying to express.

In "Brenda's Got A Baby,"

he's telling a story.

I'm like, "Damn,

I feel that story."

...went out and had

a church of kids

As long as

when the check came

They got first dibs

[Killer Mike] You know,

when you talk about lyrics,

you think about

storytellers, man,

like KRS, Slick Rick,

you know, Ghostface.

You know what I mean?

Scarface.

The amount of different styles

and, I guess,

different influences

I've had

has been amazing

thanks to rap.

You know, the same way

that people argue...

you know, great writers,

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