One night, backstage at Irving Plaza at a Madball show
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Lars: Hey yo Ill Bill ? will you sign this for me?
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I found it at Amoeba it¡¯s the Green CD
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Bill: No doubt kid, what¡¯s your name?
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Lars: It¡¯s MC Lars
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Bill: Word, Howie Abrams is a mutual friend of ours
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He played me your joint Lars: What¡¯d you think of it?
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Bill: I think it¡¯s bugged out, it¡¯s hot
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Lars: Thanks, I like your last record a lot. Your lyrics are
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Graphic, much like your brother Necro, is he psycho?
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Bill: I don¡¯t know, it really depends though
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He¡¯s Psychological, half psycho, half logical,
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Half businessman, half put-them-in-the-hospital
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Lars: Business and art, there¡¯s a very fine line
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There¡¯s the person that you are
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And the person when you rhyme
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But the best MC¡¯s bring both intertwined
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Bill: I agree, that¡¯s when the best of both worlds collide
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When the realness pops off one time for your mind,
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And your words cause the people in the crowd to riot
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CHORUS
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As many places I¡¯ve been. As many people I¡¯ve met
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As many haters I¡¯ve dissed. There¡¯s people that I respect
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As many times as I¡¯ve failed. As many times as I¡¯ve won
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As many lives as I touch. The dialogue has begun
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Bill: I grew up on heavy metal and hip-hop
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The energy was the same to me, it was insane to me
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It made me want to rage against the machine
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Pick up a guitar and scream into the mic like Run-DMC
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Lars: Nine Inch Nails, Primus, ¡°Weird Al,¡± and King Missile
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Influenced me like a postmodern epistle
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Geeked out on my Performa looping digital drums
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Playing rock guitar in punk bands just for fun
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Who¡¯s your favorite rapper? Bill: Rakim, G Rap and Kane
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KRS, EPMD, NWA, Public Enemy, Shante and LL Cool J
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I could keep naming MC¡¯s all day,
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What type of metal stuff you listen to?
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Lars: Old school Slayer CD¡¯s, Biohazard and
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Bile were the bands for me
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The first time that I ever heard Chuck D
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Was the Anthrax CD, ¡°Attack of the Killer B¡¯s¡±¡¦ chorus!
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REPEAT CHORUS
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Lars: So Bill, what¡¯s your take on censorship?
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Politicians on a church/state fusion tip?
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Bill: I speaks my mind while kids I went to high school with
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Bleed on the sands of Kabul hit, it¡¯s bullshit,
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Lars what you think of it?
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Lars: Out in Iraq, a lack of dialogue
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Between the people is whack!
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Bill: In fact I speak militant like Black Panthers
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These gas prices got my people
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With seeds having to gank pampers
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Lars: The answer is not plutocracy.
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The answers is not hypocrisy,
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The answers is true democracy
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Bill: The answer is the dialogue constantly
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REPEAT CHORUS
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Lars: Hey yo Bill, we should do a track together
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Bill: Word, word, let¡¯s do that
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Lars: Wait, we just did
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The Dialogue (featuring Ill Bill)
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MC Lars Horris |