C-Rayz Walz - conducted by Alex Goldberg  


C-Rayz Walz

August 2005

MVRemix: Ive heard rumors that you were banned from Blaze Battle

C-Rayz Walz: I lost in the competition. But the politics that were behind it and other competitions that were going on in the city, I was banned for that reason. I dont know, its like a conspiracy. Me and my man Breeze got banned, and Breeze won his Blaze Battles.

MVRemix: A lot of people consider you the best battle MC, what do you think of people that say this?

C-Rayz Walz: I think theyre smart.

MVRemix: So youre the best?

C-Rayz Walz: Im the best at what I do.

MVRemix: Whats your secret?

C-Rayz Walz: Im Wolverine.

MVRemix: Alright, lets play a rhyming game. Ill say a word or words and you rhyme those words.

C-Rayz Walz: Alright, Im down.

MVRemix: Mary Poppins.

C-Rayz Walz: Having the umbrella ass.

MVRemix: Penguin Pussy [by the way, it may seem insane that I wrote penguin pussy, but its something he wrote in an email to me. So it makes sense, trust me.]

C-Rayz Walz: Batmans victory flag

MVRemix: The Big Bopper

C-Rayz Walz: Hes probably next to the Wopper.

MVRemix: Marky Mark

C-Rayz Walz: Hes probably a true hip hopper

MVRemix: The Funky Bunch

C-Rayz Walz: Thats what I represent in stronghold.

MVRemix: Carl Winslow

C-Rayz Walz: Would have Erkle selling hos

MVRemix: Bean curd

C-Rayz Walz: Its what tofu goes through

MVRemix: Mario Brothers

C-Rayz Walz: Its a game in the video local

MVRemix: Foxy Cleopatra

C-Rayz Walz: Underground like pyramid caves

MVRemix: The Game

C-Rayz Walz: C-Rayz, Im Made

MVRemix: On the track Essence off of Ravipops, you say, Coming straight off the bean curd rap. [This is my mistake, he actually doesnt say that line, as I soon find out.] What does this it mean to come straight off the bean curd rap?

C-Rayz Walz: Its the opposite, I said rack.

MVRemix: Oh, it makes a lot more sense now. [Honestly, I dont know what it means].

C-Rayz Walz: So you know what it means now?

MVRemix: Yeah. [I didnt know what it meant, but I hoped there wasnt a follow up. Instead, he calls my bluff.]

C-Rayz Walz: What does it mean?

MVRemix: [Silence for at least 20 seconds.] Hmm, you were saying something earlier about how soy is the opposite of something, actually I dont know what it means, what does it mean?

C-Rayz Walz: Well what Im saying is, its straight off the bean curd rack. Like in the hood or slang, itll be like, Yo, your man is off the meat rack, b. This is the opposite of off the meat rack, Im off the bean curd rack. Im vegetarian. But Im bringing just as hard as someone thats street, Im positive, but Ill slap the shit out of a motherfucker, so this is straight off the bean curd rack.

MVRemix: How long have you been a vegetarian?

C-Rayz Walz: All my life, before it was fad.

MVRemix: What were the reasons for you to be raised as a vegetarian?

C-Rayz Walz: My mother basically imparted her ways upon me. As I got older, I tried the Whopper here and there, chicken and things, but the meat didnt make me feel good to my stomach. After a while it made sense to me that you shouldnt eat things that are alive with eyes and nose, but after I further studied, plants are alive and they give you life. Theyre a lot more alive more so than me. So youre eating directly from life. I just think its a better concept of being at one with life and sharing with it. Herbs and vegetables grow in more abundance and the amount of herbs and vegetables you have to fuel meat production for a mass of people is not necessary.

MVRemix: What is the meaning behind the title, Year of the Beast? What is the beast that you are referring to?

C-Rayz Walz: I mean this year I wanted to be negative again, and start robbing rich white people, because black people dont got money in the hood. Its not about race or nothing, its just that white people are richer in midtown than black people in all five boroughs or Asians in the upper West Side. So Im slowly taming that beast inside me, cause its been a long time since Ive done that. Were in the age of not even Aquarius, were in the age of demons. But its always been what it is, aint nothin ever new, its the year of the beast all the time, cause were always fighting that battle within ourselves, so I think that if everyone fights the beast within themselves, we can emerge victorious with some more love and straight up caring in the world, on some corny shit, but basically thats the only thing that really makes sense to me. And then lyrically Im a beast. I am the culmination of Chinese astrology, Im the year of the beast, Im the whole calendar, Im the whole zodiac sign. Read my expression, can you see a look on my face? [Im not if he wants me to read his expression, but I cant see a look on his face.] If you could, you could read hieroglyphics. Cause when someone tells you what that says, Ill say, ok, but until then this is just gonna be a whole bunch of people asking what that is. So everybodys gotta go in themselves and get that beast out. This is 2005, this is the year of the 7s. God coming, righteousness coming, wind coming, balance coming, light coming, the dark stayin, the dark cant go no where, its staying.

MVRemix: How did you get involved with MTV Made?

C-Rayz Walz: Well I got connections with the most high. So, I visualize things happening and they happen. I visualize myself being on MTV or BET or something big this year.

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"After a while it made sense to me that you shouldnt eat things that are alive with eyes and nose, but after I further studied, plants are alive and they give you life. Theyre a lot more alive more so than me. So youre eating directly from life."