The interview with POOK DIESEL is done. It was a great experience. Shout out to dude because he made it easy… we had a long talk. I freakin ran out of tape! Luckily it was at the end, but I was only able to get like a minute of dude actually doing some recording. hopefully its still worth something when dude blows... hahaha. We went talked about more than the music, and that’s what I was going for. The next day I was wondering if that’s how its supposed to go. Then I was like fuck it- it felt right. A couple of days later I was reading XXL or the Source (I seriously can’t remember) and there was an interview with Pharrell, and at one point he’s like “do you think XXL really wants to know about my beats?” The light bulb got that much brighter. Everybodys got a story.

Hopefully I’ll finish the article over the weekend. At first I was thinking of just posting the Q&A because we talked about so much… but that would be boring, and I have a good idea I want to build on. At one point during the interview POOK says, “I am HIP-HOP… like KRS-One said.” Coincidently, this was two days after KRS lost his temper and went off on a panel at Stanford- he was basically defending his philosophy of “I am HIP-HOP.” So it had me thinking just what is HIP-HIP? And when POOK said that, I couldn’t agree more. If I had to label the video tape, that’s what I’d label it. I don’t want to get too much into it, because that would kill the story. But again be on the look out for it next week… its going to be dope. I’m seriously looking to hurt you with this one… no joke!

In the meantime check out dudes website: http://www.pookd.com/

“we official like a referee wit a whistle!”