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Explain your first album 'Psycho- logical Enslavement'? Basically I tried to do an album where instead of where people were dissing each other and being the hardest rapper, I just thought rather than going at man who came up on my kind of level, why not go at the government? I was just throwing the same kind of en- ergy that someone would throw at a battle rapper, I would throw it at the government instead. But in the sense where I'm not trying to chat shit about stuff in society at that time, I was trying to be as real as a young man growing up within that framework of psycho- logical enslavement. Why don't you rap like that anymore? To be honest with you, it was almost as though to point a finger at a system you know like the government or people in power who one would feel are not do- ing the right things but then find those same injustices within our own community throughout his- tory. Stuff that our own communi- ties have struggled to deal with. I got to that point where it was like it's not worth me playing that role when there's so many other injustices that we're doing to each other that we need to suggest at the same time.it's easy to point the finger at someone far away but not point the finger at your own household and that's part of the reason that I stopped spitting like that. Why are you a good rapper? What is it technically that you do? I think technically however you look at it, poetry is rap, rap is poetry, to a certain extent. You have to study a bit innit. The more you study, the more your dic- tion grows and I've always kind of been into that, I did science. I stopped rapping for a bit and I went and did a science course, got my GMVQ and a little after that I patented my first invention which was a sprinkler fire door, with your help! And that's what I think you should be able to do, have nothing and build it into something you can use for some- thing else, you know that form of rapping, it's a science, reality, consciousness, conscious music is a science. So, if you apply actual science into it, you get some good results. What do rappers today need to do to step up their game? I don't think they need to do anything I mean in term of the rap scene right now, I've always had a lot of respect for the level of artist that have come out of this coun- try, I've always said that. When grime came out, a lot of people weren't into it, they just didn't really understand it. I was one of those people who could respect those artists as world class. It's so easy to look at an artist and say they need to be doing this, that and everything when they really need to be doing themselves because that's what artistry is about. That's poetry in itself, the madness of poetry, of art. Art is kind of mad. More @guestlist.net INTERVIEW MC D AKA: SILENT ECLIPSE ISSUE 89 / 20016 35 HIP HOP & RNB " I think technically however you look at it, poetry is rap, rap is poetry. " We catch up with the legendary UK hip hop rapper that is MC D. If you know hip hop, then you know this guy. If you don't, we've got all you need to know... Oshi | Guestlist