![]() ![]() PM: I'm already happy with this interview because I love Migos and lots of other music that people might not think I like. RD: It's a generalisation, but most Pharoahe Monch fans will be part of the older hip-hop generation and will expect your tastes to match theirs. "I've tried to not be complicated just for the sake of being complicated" So long after I'm not on this planet anymore, and it doesn't matter what we did in the proverbial digital crate of what was released and when it was released, people will still be able to say in 2020, this is what Pharoahe had to offer. ![]() My new project is immersive from beginning to end. I'm not trying to jump into somebody else's lane-you've never heard anything like this before. I haven't ever done this for a quick buck, or whatever has been trendy, so there's no need to do that now. I'm not now going to decide to make 30-second songs on a five-minute album because of that, you know? I'm going to do what I do because, at the end of the day, I'm an artist. PM: Yeah, the attention span is completely gone. Nowadays, new rap music is so instant and internet-based, meaning projects get forgotten very quickly… Your fans back then would have bought physical copies and listened to them religiously for months. RD: Music culture today is so different from when Internal Affairs was released. I don’t need to check whether they’re popular or not. You could just play me five artists that I’ve never heard of and I’ll be able to decide on my own. I’m an individual consummate artist in the sense that I don't need to ask or see what society’s saying about something. You know, I don’t know any trap music that I like, but if it was arranged and produced a certain way, I’m not going to fight the fact that then I may be like, “This is incredible.” I allow myself to be open to anything. ![]() I'm inspired by the whole gamut of music from dudes who are excellent with bars like Your Old Droog, to all the way across the other end of the spectrum. "When you're authentically you, and you have an authentic voice, no one can take that away from you" A lot of artists our right now that are popular, I love. A lot of the stuff that's popular now, I do love. If you think about 1999, you mentioned some seminal records from really gold artists, but you can't forget the context of when that was happening. Speaking for New York-because I don't know what is going on in the rest of the world-that stuff was dominating 1998, 1999, 2000… Internal Affairs wasn't a f**k you to that, it was just an I don't give a f**k about whatever the new trend is. And I'm still like that now. ![]()
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