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You know the whole mask thing really alright it's a
Time in hip-hop where things from my point of view started going more to what things look like opposed to what things sound like yeah I mean
Before we ain't know what MCs look like until we
Went to the party and seen them rockin you know what I'm saying you know most times you see them rockin' out at a show
Before I even knew you know what I'm saying
Yea before video the video you know so you know you really was going off the sound of the record, straight skills
See, once it started getting more publicized and you know it started being a hip-hop started being more of a money-making thing then you get these corporate ideas where you want to put what it looks like to sell what it sounds like with regional music
So, what I did was I said alright look I'm gonna come with the angle of it don't matter what I look like you know don't matter what the artists look like there's more than order sound like
So, the mask really represents the the whole, like to rebell against to trying to sell the product as a human being I mean it's more of a sound so you know and at the same time you know it's something different, you know what I'm saying?
And it fits with the theme of the rebel or villain where you
Know to him he don't care about the fame and I'm sure that is shit is of no consequence, you know what I mean
It's more about the message of what's being said
So I think it helps people focus more on what's being said and it's still entertaining it's still like the theater and it has the appeal of you know something that could be considered entertaining but that message is still there, that, yo you know, villain
Represents anybody, anybody in here could
Wear the mask and be the villain
Male, female, any race, so-called race you know what I mean, it's about were you're coming from your heart you know what I'm saying?
What's the message you got to say you know what I mean?
So that's just mainly why I chose to bring the mask into the fold