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Phatmag: No I'm fine. One thing I realise is that you guys are not necessarily from....o.k. You know you've got your hip hop artist who claims to be from the streets....they're from the ghetto and life has been hard...you guys come across as being fairly educated - been to school, done the whole thing. I mean, that's probably one of the things that sets you apart from the rest of the guys
Spooks: Wait a minute. When you thought about it, I did come from the streets. I didn't always....yo - I was the type of the character that would stay out all night and chill on the corner but 7am, came in the house and get ready for school. It wasn't because I wanted to go to school and hang out, I just knew that I didn't want to always stay in the streets you know. I know Jo Davis would say we are. Hypno
Spooks: Yeah I moved around
Spooks: ....moved around a lot like a mobile but I know Jo Davis, Water and myself, we came from the streets but I had the type of parents that would woop your ass. My parents let me stay out, I went to parties, hung out on the corner....I did all that, but I better go home with A's. So my thing is, I'm proud of living poor in this ghetto but end up still working hard going to school, going to college. It came from that. There's nothing wrong with the ghetto but a lot of people try to associate the ghetto with ignorance. Which is not true. The ghetto is a place you know. It's an environment. It doesn't have to be a mind set you what I mean. I'm proud of that.
Phatmag: I don't think it's a bad thing at all because I know there's a lot of hip hop artists who are very intelligent. I mean, I listened to Keith Murray's alb um the other day. It's an old album but I was listening to some of the lyrics and I thought, he is quite bright. You know what I'm saying? Obviously, he's ignorant, he's done stupid things and he's in jail but lyrically, he put a lot of words together intelligently but again people see Keith as not being somebody who's exactly intelligent and exactly bright. But if you do sometimes sit down and listen to Keith, then you realise that people have thought about the lyrics.
Spooks: But you know what it is man? I think it's a problem with hip hop and just in general. I'm goon a keep it real with a couple of the black people, that like, they always want to put you in these categories that don't really hold up. Like for instance, with us, because of our kind of hip hop, people would say 'I don't like hip hop but I like your music'. You guys are hip hop, but you know you're from the ghetto. You're from the streets but it's always got to be like one is or the other. When you keep having to add those qualifiers on and you keep having to put that button on, they shouldn't be telling you 'maybe you need to reconsider the first statement'. Or people go, 'your hip hop is not aggressive or...' I don't know.
Spooks: Yeah this is cool. That's why where'd talking to my man. You know that's not really cool how people do that and I think with Spooks you know, we don't.... if you ever see those kind of things or you'll definitely will see them where people talk about us - that's not coming us you know. We came from all different backgrounds you what I'm saying. It's a matter that we've chosen to do it. We're not holding up the fallacy again because we're told that we have to be so and so or because our music is or so and so is less hip hop and at the same time, people would go like this 'we find it so amazing and interesting where your influences come from you know.' I like RadioHead, I like cold Play, but I like MOP though. So I'm more intelligent because I like ColdPlay? I don't think so you what I'm saying. I like MOP, I like Freddie Fox you what I'm saying. I like certain songs like Jay-Z. It's like 'come on man, so now I'm less intelligent?' Because I like Cold Play, I'm more intelligent? Get the fuck outta here. Come on man, you know what I'm saying.
