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"Describe your current state or mind in five words or less? My current state of mind. Blessed to be alive. What a time to be alive. So you're living in LA, can you see the Hollywood sign from your balcony? Hell naw, man, I live 30 east of downtown Los Angeles, so I gotta drive at least 20 minutes before I can even think about seeing the sign, it's not too far, it's down yonder over the horizon. But I have no doubt you're living well though, right? Well, man, right now it is 85 degrees and it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon time, so I'm just chilling. You came out watching early greats like LL Cool J and BDP, and you wanted to follow in the footsteps of being great, and now you are great. How does that make you feel? I was always great. My mother told me how great I was and my grandmother used to tell me how great I was. I've been great since birth. I'm not even being arrogant or nothing. We all have an innate ability to create and it's just about being recognised for your talent but each and every human on this planet is great, and it's just about focusing in on your talent and then presenting it to the Earth. What was the first thing you were great at? I was always great at making people laugh, and making people feel comfortable and expressing myself. I was always great as a child at expressing myself, that's what people would tell me, and I could always interpret a rhythm. What I did better than everybody, was do me, and that's not even the same because a lot of people look at other people and they want be other people, and they don't realise how great they are themselves and they try their whole lives trying to chase to be someone else, not realising that the person that the best person they can be is in the mirror. With that attitude, do you think you've made some people see how great they are during your life? I think so, I think that people can see that we're comfortable in our own skin and we're comfortable doing the things that we know best. As an example people will best. As an example people will say, "you know what, if they can be themselves, I can be myself" and anything that somebody can get out of our music is amazing, you're just making music because you want to make music, ya know? Some people do it to be political and some people are doing it because they want to make money, ya know? We were doing it to have fun, and we wanted to make money and we wanted to be remembered in hip-hop, ya know what I mean? And all that shit happened. It must feel good, right? Naw, man, it feels great, it feels great! No one knows how to do it, and then when it's done, you're just dumbfounded, cause you're just like, "I wish I had the secret ingredient"". I think the secret ingredient is having a good team, everybody knowing what their position is on the team, everybody 38 ISSUE 86 / 2016 HIP HOP & RNB Having built a reputation as one of the most respected hip-hop groups today, we touched base with Imani, from the crew behind hits like 'Runnin' and 'Passing Me By' ahead of their performance at The Electric Ballroom. Oshi | Guestlist INTERVIEW: THE PHARCYDE