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Ghostface Killah

Chris: Hey man, how are you doing?

GF: I'm all right, yeah.

Chris: You've been hopping all around since the Fishscale dropped.

GF: Yeah, exactly.

Chris: So what's up? I mean, the album just came out, how's it doing, how do you feel about it?

GF: Yeah, it's so gorgeous, it's whatever, I'm keepin' it movin'. That's what I do, I drop albums and I just keep it moving.

Chris: How does this album differ from the last few that you've done?

GF: I don't' know, probably just with time zones man, different whatchamacallits. I [don't really] try to change that man, it's whatever come to my mind, whatever beats I choose I just do 'em. Probably a mixture of all of 'em. A little shot from all of 'em, a little piece, whatever you can take a record and probably just say, yeah, that reminds me of that one, or whatever. That s*** man, you know what I mean? I'm just keep it movin' man.

Chris: You've got some really great stuff on here, and I know you worked with J. Dilla on this record, how do you feel about his passing?

GF: I mean, I feel it's sad. You know, I just wish he woulda got to hear the finished product, and life goes on, man. It's sad...not even just in hip-hop, I feel like how anybody else feel when somebody pass away in they family.

Chris: Yeah, especially with somebody as influential as him, it seems like everybody's kind of trying to do what he's doing now. So it's a really beautiful thing that you got to work with him.

GF: Mm hmm.

Chris: So I just read today actually that you've got a film company now, Starks Films. Is that true?

GF: Yeah.

Chris: And you're going to be working on a film project, I hear, called Racoon.

GF: Yeah, exactly.

Chris: What's up with that? How did this all get started?

GF: Just, just you know, just a script that one of my mens had wrote, and you know, we had the movie, we had it in Hollywood for a minute, you know what I mean, a few writers, we writin' it up and all that. And it's all good now, you know what I mean? [indiscernible] whatever's in your mind, just put it to your mind and you can do it.

Chris: Are you going to be acting?

GF: I might have a little couple of parts in there, I'm not going to really just try to go off right now, you know what I mean, I'm going to leave it up to the professionals and let 'em do what they do. You might see my face in there a little bit you know, and I say, it's you know, a little on down the line, you know what I mean?

Chris: Right.

Chris: I wanted to ask, after "Holla" and Bulletproof Wallets you had a lot of, like an R&B influence in there. Would you ever consider doing a straight up R&B album?

GF: Yeah, I'm gonna do that one day.

Chris: Nice. You're pretty young, like 33, if I'm right, and I think I'm right, but kind of the way things are going now you're an elder statesman, really, in hip-hop, because it just seems to eat its young, or only like to promote the young, and I'm just wondering how you feel about that, you know, it's like, not a lot of older folks sort of coming out with albums are really being supported by marketing or the industry, you know?

GF: Yeah. I don't know, I just do what I do man, and it's a blessing for people to respect what I do. If they do--[I know if] you really like me, and if you were to hate me, so you know, it's all good. You know what I mean? As long as I'm still here and the people accept it, you know what I mean, enough people accept it and I'm...it give me the strength to carry and to keep puttin' more music out.

Chris: When the Wu-Tang first came out, it was such a powerful thing, and nothing had really happened like that. Do you think that could really happen anymore?

GF: I don't know because all bases is already covered. You know, we came with a new sound, that was real, and we came with the truth. So it's like there might be more people out there like but maybe can't capture the whole essence of how we captured it, people would look at them and be like, "Oh, they trying to be like them n******," or you know what I mean. It would be hard for them to come in like that. They would have to be really, really, really on top of they A game, with everything. Beat, drums, everything, you know what I mean. And that's it.

Chris: Yeah. So you've got a collaboration with Doom coming out, is that right?

GF: Yeah. I don't know when it's coming out--I've still got more work to do.

Chris: How did you two first link up?

GF: I just ran across some beats and my manager just hooked it up and, that was it. I didn't know who made the beat, it was called Metal Fingers...we got to him and then he came and just laid the rest of the track down at the studio, and we kicked it, and that was it. Seen each other a few times, and that was it.

Chris: Yeah...

Chris: The doll, you have a doll coming out right now, how did that all get started?

GF: Yeah, some guys in California wanted to do the doll, and they just flew me out to California and looked over their paperwork, you know what I mean, and made the right terms. We agreed on it, and you know, and the doll should be here in a minute.

Chris: So you've been around for like, 15, 16 years now. And I'm just wondering in your opinion what's going on? You know. I've read that you said, like, 70 percent of sales is down--how do you think that sort of impacts the world of hip-hop? You know, just wondering how you see the change in the landscape over the past 15 years.

GF: Since 9/11 everything went down. You know what I mean. They changed a lot of s*** around, all that Enron s***, and you know what I mean. Everything just was a domino effect, and then it was a domino effect that hit the industry too. And a lotta s*** went down, a lotta people got fired, a lotta changes been made, and that's just what it is right now. I don't know when things will be back to normal, I don't know, it might stay like this forever. I know everything happens for a reason, and it's like yo, I'm just here riding, s*** is kinda like f***ed up, but it is what it is, you gotta be with the times right now. And that's what I'm doin', just tryin' to be with the times and make good music for the people.

Chris: What do you think about the political landscape?

GF: You know, to each his own, some things work for certain people, certain things don't, you know me, I'm just a level dude, I don't really give a f*** about all them politics man. I'm a eye for a eye n*****, I stand for righteousness. What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. You know, I'm not here for the riches, the poor is the poor, and we have our mistakes too, and stuff like that you know. It just, like I said man, I stand for righteousness man. If it's right, if s*** is right, and it's equal then we go with that. If it's not that, and you try to make a dollar off of 15 cents, and all this other s*** man, that's on you. At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

Chris: Yeah, and that day may be coming soon.

GF: It'll be here pretty soon. Sooner than you think.

Chris: Yeah, all right man. Well thank you.

GF: All right buddy.

Chris: And good luck with the album, take care.

GF: All right, peace, thank you.

Chris: All right, peace.

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