The Dialogue

(feat. Ill Bill)

One night, backstage at Irving Plaza at a Madball show

[Lars:] Hey yo Ill Bill - will you sign this for me?

I found it at Amoeba it's the Green CD

[Bill:] No doubt kid, what's your name?

[Lars:] It's MC Lars

[Bill:] Word, Howie Abrams is a mutual friend of ours

He played me your joint Lars... What'd you think of it?

[Bill:] I think it's bugged out, it's hot

[Lars:] Thanks, I like your last record a lot. Your lyrics are

Graphic, much like your brother Necro, is he psycho?

[Bill:] I don't know, it really depends though

He's Psychological, half psycho, half logical,

Half businessman, half put-them-in-the-hospital

[Lars:] Business and art, there's a very fine line

There's the person that you are

And the person when you rhyme

But the best MC's bring both intertwined

[Bill:] I agree, that's when the best of both worlds collide

When the realness pops off one time for your mind,

And your words cause the people in the crowd to riot

[CHORUS]

As many places I've been. As many people I've met

As many haters I've dissed. There's people that I respect

As many times as I've failed. As many times as I've won

As many lives as I touch. The dialogue has begun

[Bill:] I grew up on heavy metal and hip-hop

The energy was the same to me, it was insane to me

It made me want to rage against the machine

Pick up a guitar and scream into the mic like Run-DMC

[Lars:] Nine Inch Nails, Primus, "Weird Al," and King Missile

Influenced me like a postmodern epistle

Geeked out on my Performa looping digital drums

Playing rock guitar in punk bands just for fun

Who's your favorite rapper? Bill... Rakim, G Rap and Kane

KRS, EPMD, NWA, Public Enemy, Shante and LL Cool J

I could keep naming MC's all day,

What type of metal stuff you listen to?

[Lars:] Old school Slayer CD's, Biohazard and

Bile were the bands for me

The first time that I ever heard Chuck D

Was the Anthrax CD, "Attack of the Killer B's"... chorus!

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[Lars:] So Bill, what's your take on censorship?

Politicians on a church/state fusion tip?

[Bill:] I speaks my mind while kids I went to high school with

Bleed on the sands of Kabul hit, it's bullshit,

Lars what you think of it?

[Lars:] Out in Iraq, a lack of dialogue

Between the people is whack!

[Bill:] In fact I speak militant like Black Panthers

These gas prices got my people

With seeds having to gank pampers

[Lars:] The answer is not plutocracy.

The answers is not hypocrisy,

The answers is true democracy

[Bill:] The answer is the dialogue constantly

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[Lars:] Hey yo Bill, we should do a track together

[Bill:] Word, word, let's do that

[Lars:] Wait, we just did