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If your in Edmonton, check out Max Prime May 13th along side Poizinus and Brandon Brown at Wildstyle Wednesdays (Starlight Room) and also May 23rd at Hip Hop in the Park ‘09 at 4:30 pm at Louise McKinney Riverfront Park.

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Dope video for D-Ray’s “Perfect Day” featuring Fritz tha Cat (OK Cobra), D-Ray (Rhythmicru) and Mindbender (Supreme Being Unit). Directed by Sean Stanley.

From Rhythmicru presents D-Ray’s Supertoke 3
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Right now, as of February 1st, 2009, Conspiracy lives in Toronto, Ontario. He has lived in virtually every single city across Canada over the last 13 years since we have been creating our legacy as the twin hype behind the legendary Supreme Being Unit. He’s been homeless, he’s slept on couches, he’s been in his own apartment, he’s lived with rappers from coast to coast, and he’s been in nice, healthy environments and mini-mansions, along the way. I don’t know exactly when he took his turn down the dark path he’s now slowly but surely treading on, but I last remember seeing the Conspiracy I grew up with sometime around fall 1996. We moved from Ottawa back to Toronto where we were born, to enroll in music college. Our tuition got delayed a semester, so I decided to stay in Toronto, and Conspiracy decided to leave the city. Honestly, it was never the same again. He went to Edmonton, Vancouver, and a few other cities before I saw him again, and the next time I saw him…. he was, just… different. Very, very different.

“That shit from the movies, where someone goes “it wasn’t me, I have a twin brother!” That shit is TRUE for me!”

Man, it was really bad back then. I was afraid of him. I didn’t know him. I honestly told him once, near the turn of the millennium, as I looked into his eyes: “I do not know who I am looking at anymore.” Doesn’t sound like much, but when you are looking into a family members eyes (particularly your identical twin brother), and speaking directly from your heart, saying something like that is a excruciating and crystallizing moment in life, and a serious sign that things done changed. He nearly destroyed the world I fought hard to create in Toronto, back then. I worked at HMV 333 Yonge St, the Flagship store near Dundas St., and he would come in, acting kinda erratic, and people who didn’t know Mindbender had a twin brother would think it was me, and would get mad because I wasn’t acting how I normally did around them, and sometimes straight ignored them. That shit from the movies, where someone goes “it wasn’t me, I have a twin brother!” That shit is TRUE for me! Laugh all you want. It helps soothe my pain. It got so crazy, my boss almost fired me for insubordination not knowing that it was Conspiracy who was talking to her, and when I went home, my landlord almost evicted me for other things that Conspiracy did while I was busy at work all day. Then, I’d come home and see he spent other parts of the day just playing Playstation, and not getting money like you need to, to survive and live decently in Toronto. That was in 2001 or so, and we got through that chapter. Painfully, but we eventually got beyond all that. Unfortunately, those days have returned yet again. They are not as painful as they were before, but I’m having a case of deja vu in 2009. It simply means we have not yet solved the central problem. What is the problem called? Nobody really knows. How do you solve a problem you can’t find? Welcome to my life, my friend.

What I believe, is that Conspiracy has a sense of entitlement embedded in him quite deep, and it’s part of the secret source of his hell. Both of us have been called “gifted” children our whole lives. We went to a special art-focused elementary school, we were always A-plus students academically, and often got bored with the things the school system tried to shovel into our very-active brains. We were always thinking ahead of our age, contemplating government conspiracies, aliens, drugs, psychic powers, pre-Biblical history, ancient religions, and any other random subject that is more intellectually stimulating than Shakespeare or the Canadian Shield. I’m still a sponge for all the knowledge in the universe, but Conspiracy just kept going down one certain path. These days, he’s all into the Holy Tabernacle Ministries, founded by Malachi Z. York. Erykah Badu and Posdnous of De La Soul are a few of the other hip hop heads into HTM. I have read some books on it, but find them to be no different than any other religion. I have learned from those books, but I don’t exactly believe that Nibiru the mothership planet is coming back to rescue the devotees in some new Black rapture. But that’s just me. Conspiracy constantly speaks about his belief and faith in HTM, and sometimes speaks about disappearing from hip hop and society to go join the head temple in Atlanta. So if he ever completely drops off everyone’s radar, then put that on your places to look for him. Not that I think he has the money to afford the trip…

I say all this to say: Conspiracy is an unbelievably complex individual. Mind-bendingly complex, if I may. His history with drugs of many kinds and his history as a rebellious teenager who defied the law and the system for so many years, has created an extension to his core character that I think is part of the problem he’s struggling with today. He’s got some mental health issues (we all do in this sick and decaying society, just some more or less than others) and he’s got some drug abuse issues (we all do in this sick and decaying society, jsut some more or less than others). The thing is, Conspiracy doesn’t really recognize these problems very well. He calls himself a “hedonist” but isn’t fully equipped to be responsible for his own intoxication. He can’t afford everything he wants out of life, because he’s that off balance. He speaks of grandiose plans of music world domination and business schemes that don’t often fully manifest (as seen on a few message boards around the internet), and his life is a constantly shifting journey tying his glorious childhood to a negative-energy-generating teenage chapter, currently connecting to a crippled adulthood, due to the fact that he has not fully realized his potential.

“If you spent five minutes around him, you would be able to tell something isn’t exactly right, so it’s no big secret to reveal any of this.”

In my opinon, Conspiracy needs to go to rehab, straight up. No homeless shelter to make him see, no jail to wake him up, no living in an apartment near his family so we can keep an eye on him, no spot in New York City to try and make more rap dreams come true… he needs a motherfuckin’ time out like Chris Webber, word to Common Sense. Until he faces his mysterious, semi-diagnosed yet untreated mental health issues and his persistent addiction to narcotics of all kinds, he will not achieve his dreams or reach his goals, and I’m seeing it. All other options are just temporary delays of the inevitable showdown he must face in life, to me. I say this because I love him, and I know him pretty good. I have seen him do a lot of things that he’d never want shared, and I have heard him say things that I would never want to repeat to any human being. All of this equates to me realizing that we are all struggling with something dark inside of us all, but some of us have it worse than others. And beyond that, we just can’t kill each other’s demons. It’s the one-self duel, word to Divine Styler. Conspiracy is the only person who can completely cure himself of his double barrel disease. Exactly like Ol’ Dirty Bastard, an artistic genius who was also suffering from mental health issues (a form of schizophrenia) and drug abuse issues (crack, coke, alcohol, etc.) while still living in the public eye, Conspiracy needs to chiggedy-check himself before he wrecks himself.

If anyone has any words of wisdom, suggestions, harsh truths, or good advice they want to offer, please be my guest. I hid this secret from the world for years and it got us both nothing. Now, I have nothing to hide, and I don’t think Conspiracy should hide anything either. If you spent five minutes around him, you would be able to tell something isn’t exactly right, so it’s no big secret to reveal any of this. Because as I said to Conspiracy at one point: “you do the drugs to hide from the mental issues you are facing. You’ve been doing the drugs for nearly a decade, and the problems are not going away. Don’t you feel like it’s time to face your struggles in life straight up, without drugs or alcohol or anything but your honest, pure self?”

Conspiracy is part of the Supreme Being Unit, which is all of us in life. His pain is our pain, his joy is our joy, his heart is your heart, and his mind is your mind. When ODB died, I was fucked up severely for days. It was so avoidable, his death. I feel the same about Conspiracy. If he doesn’t get better, it’s only gonna get worse, and we’ve seen a LOT of dark days, and if there are even darker days ahead, then I guess I’m gonna try my best to get thru them, and live to tell the story. I thought we hit rock bottom a few years ago, but rock bottom is supposed to be a sacred turning point in someone’s life, where they realize they are at the crossroads of godly and devilish choices. I hope Conspiracy saves himself and his Inner God conquers his Inner Devil. Time will tell.

Finally, from the center of my soul, I must say: peace to those who care. A lot of people have helped keep Conspiracy/Khari from making a fatal mistake for all these years, and to all you earth angels, I thank you with more appreciation than words can ever capture. From here, we can’t do anything but care for him and love him from afar, from outside of his life. We can’t make any choices for him, he has to want to change and heal and grow from where he’s at.

Whether tough love or gentle, we all must keep hope alive, and tell Conspiracy to relax his mind, let his conscious be free, and keep his head up.

Love,
Adhimusic “Mindbender Supreme” Stewart

myspace.com/conspiracysbu + myspace.com/mindbendersupreme

Mindbender has two new albums out this week! Find both Better Late Than Never Made and Invisible Rhythm Showcase on iTunes or check out urbnet.

Telephone Jim Jesus – “Birdstatic”

Fresh off a US tour with Sole, Telephone Jim Jesus has a brand new video for “Birdstatic” from his Anywhere Out Of The Everything LP, out now on anticon. Video directed by 1stAveMachine.

History of Adidas

Pretty cool little movie on Adi Dassler and the history of Adidas.

Antimc – Mush Records Mix

Producer Antimc put together a dope 40+ min Free Download DJ mix for XLR8R showcasing Mush Records releases of past and present. [via]

The Roots – “Get Busy” (feat. Dice Raw, Peedi Crakk & DJ Jazzy Jeff)

“Get Busy” is the second video from the Roots’ forthcoming album Rising Down. This song kills.

Head popping video from one of the SBU brothers, even Conspiracy gets in on the intro.

Ghostface Mad at MySpace Fans

“I got like 115,000 fans on the MySpace and ya’ll motherfuckers are still downloading my shit man. You know what i mean, i thought ya’ll motherfuckers loved me.” Buy the cd and maybe Ghost will be your friend: “Bring the CD to the show, and show me that you did that; and i’ll sit there and i’ll kick it with ya’ll…”

5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

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$20,000 Coffee Maker

If you’ve been to a good coffee shop in Japan you’ll know that these things are the truth. Good news is you can buy a home friendly version of a siphon coffee maker (aka vacuum coffee maker) for around $75, check ebay.

Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper

I wrote this review for the homie Chaps, in case he wasn’t able to get his hands on a bottle, but i’m happy to report that he’s now tried it and thinks it’s awesome.

The new Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper is really weird, especially the first sip. You can’t really taste the chocolate as soon as it hits your tongue, but soon after there is a surprisingly strong chocolate aftertaste. This aftertaste is followed by more subtle hints of cherry and of course Aspartame. The chocolate flavour itself is pretty much identical to that of a Tootsie Roll. If you’re unable to find this new “limited edition” Dr Pepper in your area i think i have a good way for you to duplicate the flavour sensation. The first step would be to lick a Cherry Tootsie Pop down to within about 3-5 five licks of breaking through to the Tootsie filled center and then at the same time take a sip of regular Diet Dr Pepper and crunch down on the remaining part of your Tootsie Pop. While I appreciate Dr Pepper’s flavour experimentations of the last few years, Berries & Cream is a good one, this new Cherry Chocolate would have to rank at the bottom of all Dr Pepper varieties produced so far.

So you’ve been rapping as long as your brother?

We started around the same day. About 1990-91 we started writing our own songs.

How did SBU (Supreme Being Unit) form? Did you want to be famous right off the bat?

SBU was a name that Mindbender invented in 1991. We were in Ottawa with the rest of the Nextraterrestrials. We were all talking about making group names, people were throwing ideas around. SBU stands for “Supreme Being is You”—everyone’s a Supreme Being and everyone’s in our group. We’re an international group: whether you’re retarded or rich or poor, white or black, it doesn’t matter, you’re an SBU. It used to be Mindbender, Conspiracy and the third member was Kelron, our producer, but he changed his name to Nick Knox. He looks like Evil D from Beatminerz, he’s kind of like a Premier type of producer. I’m basically the DJ and Mindbender’s the lead MC because he’s more socially activated. I’m sort of like the Phife Dog of the group.

Did you do any shows?

It was hard for us to get into clubs so we did a lot of talent shows, restaurant shows; underage stuff because we weren’t of age to get into clubs. We did peoples’ house parties. We’d do shows in Toronto.

So how did you move to Edmonton?

In 1998 I was traveling across Canada and I was in Toronto with Mindbender and he didn’t want to let me live with him because he was living with his girlfriend; so I ended up being homeless in Toronto, sleeping on people’s couches. It was the only time in my life I’ve never had my own place. I was waiting to buy a ticket in a Greyhound station to come back to Edmonton and they arrested me for trespassing. I think it was racism. I spent a week in the Don Jail, went to court, got totally discharged; they didn’t fine me, they just kept me a week in jail. After that I didn’t like Toronto so I’m like ‘Mom, I’m moving back to Edmonton.’

Who did you hook up with when you came back?

When I came to Edmonton my first crew that I was down with was the Dungeon Crew: Billy, FBI, Butta, Touch, Tanner Lane and Owen. Shout outs to the Dungeon. From about 2001-2003 I used to hang out with them, before I was part of the LBA crew. The Dungeon guys were cool, they had really good beats, but their quality was high that their output wasn’t good. They’d work on a beat for like 8 months and it would be on the Premier level, but they only had one song.

After that what happened?

In 2002 I met Chazmo and Max Prime.

How’d you meet those guys?

I think I met Chazmo around the clubs. My memories of LBA are kind of hazy. This is how I think it went down: I met Max Prime or Chazmo first, then I met Addvice, then Chris Plus and last I met the Blurb. Chazmo made up the name and we just decided to roll as a 6-man crew.

What’s happening now in LBA?

The reason why I left LBA was because I felt there wasn’t enough love between the members. In Nextra, out east we’d talk everyday, we’d smoke weed everyday and write songs everyday, but we wouldn’t have any money. Out west nobody gets together, but we all have money. Nobody gets together. People have their own lives to live, so I figured that LBA didn’t need me ‘cause nobody really said much. People were just always doing their own thing. When we did get together to do albums and stuff, it was cool, but it just wasn’t as often as it was out east. Right now LBA is: Chris Plus, Chazmo, Max Prime, Addvice and Nato. Blurb and Conspiracy are not in LBA anymore officially.

“I never throw songs away. I mean I have a couple songs that are really crappy, but I still have the songs in case someone else likes it.”

Another reason why I left LBA was because they were like ‘oh, throw this song away’—I never throw songs away. I mean I have a couple songs that are really crappy, but I still have the songs in case someone else likes it. I never lose music, ever. Shout outs to all those people who have all their original songs!

What happened with Blurb?

I guess they just decided to kick him out because we didn’t really fit the picture of the LBA that they’re trying to make now.

How are they trying to portray themselves?

Like a 4-man crew of perfectionists. Blurb’s kind of sloppy and I’m kind of sloppy, so they just got rid of the dead weight they didn’t need—that’s how I view things. I think they’ll do better off without us because they are perfectionists, they work hard at their craft: they rewrite songs, work out songs and memorize songs for shows. I was sort of like the Cappadonna or Moka Only member of the crew: where I’m not really there at all the shows, I wasn’t memorizing all my songs; I wasn’t fully participating ‘cause I didn’t feel like there was a lot of communication for me to know what to do. I like being asked or told to do something—I can’t read minds. I hope all the best for the LBA crew.

What are you working on?

I have my “Conspiracy Theory” album; it’s a 4-part album. I named each CD after my favorite artists and actresses. CD 1 is: “Tyra Banks, Abstract Rude and Black Thought”; CD 2 is: “Vivicia Fox, Busta Rhymes and Method Man”; CD 3 is: “Pamela Anderson, Cage and Eminem”; CD 4 is: “Jenna Jameson, Ill Bill and Apathy.” No Canadian artist has ever put out 4 full CDs in one project, so I’d like to claim a historical first. It’s like a double-double album project: black man (the black Christ) on the front cover and white woman on the back cover (Jenna Jameson).

“one time I did like 2 grams of crystal meth and I wrote 3 albums over a 7 day period, perfectly written, sequenced, edited, everything.”

How do you write so many lyrics?

Weed and coke. Without weed, coke and alcohol I wouldn’t write anything. ‘Cause I don’t get high and just sit around and watch TV and do nothing. Me, I’m a productive drug user. When I used to do crystal meth…one time I did like 2 grams of crystal meth and I wrote 3 albums over a 7 day period, perfectly written, sequenced, edited, everything. I’d just like to shout out all the drugs I do.

[Drugs fuel] the imagination. If you have a vivid, active and childish imagination; whatever it takes to get you to create, usually you have endless potential. I just smoke a joint, I have my 10 or 12 free beats, record 3 beats, record 3 songs in a day, I got 3 new songs. At the end of the week, I got 15 new songs and 20 empty beats kickin’ around. It all just adds up. Shout out to this Jeru the Damaja line: “Organization kills more devils than bullets.” I have never lost a song, a lyric, a CD, any artwork. I think there’s 1 out of 450 solo songs I’ve record as Conspiracy, only 1 I don’t have on my computer, my brother has it. I cherish my music as much as a diamond thief cherishes the diamonds he steals. I look at creation as like a reflection of my responsibility; so if I’m sloppy with my creation, then I’m an irresponsible bum.

Tell me about “Sex Is the Key to Immortality”

“Sex Is the Key to Immortality” is based on the metaphysical magic experiences I’ve had in my lifetime. I have a book called The Necronomicon, which is a demonic spell book, like a real evil black magic book. I opened it up and it cursed me. There’s two magical beings that listen to my conversations (they’re listening right now probably); I think they’re either Vampires or Succubuses (female version of Incubus), so like sexual energy leeches. They came because I opened The Necronomicon. That’s why I wrote “Sex Is the Key to Immortality”; the first song is “I’m Cursed By A Demon” and the last song is “Demon Slayer”; so the first song I’m cursed by the demon and by the last song I slay the demon.

When did you pick up The Necronomicon?

I bought it in 1997 and I got cursed probably two weeks after.

What made you think you got cursed? Creatively, is it a good or bad?

I look at it as a balance. It could be worse and it could be better. It’s like a prank caller. You know what a medium is? They’re using me as a medium. They channel my thoughts through stream of consciousness and they basically feed off my energy or cause random communication. They create lucid dreams or talk to me during the day; they’ll be like: ‘go catch your bus’ or ‘don’t drink that juice, drink some milk,’—they want me to be like them basically.

“You don’t have to believe in god, even god knows that.”

I suggest that people believe in themselves and follow their own instincts. What I’ve learned from being cursed is that: belief is a feeling from the heart and thoughts are feelings from the mind. You gotta separate the two. You don’t have to believe in anybody; that’s my religion. If god’s not going to save me, I’m not gonna believe in him because I’m just as cool as anybody. I know that there’s a god, but I don’t have to believe in him because I believe in freedom of religion. You don’t have to believe in god, even god knows that.

So why is it called “Sex Is the Key to Immortality”?

Shouts to…I can’t give his name, I’d be divulging a secret. Just some dude. He said it was his favorite saying he goes: ‘don’t you think that sex is the key to immortality?’ I just jacked it. ‘Love conquers the demon,’ that’s what the album’s about.

Tell the people about “Screw the Underground, I’m Going Commercial”

My first solo album came out in 2001 it’s called “Screw the Underground, I’m Going Commercial” recorded on Chazmo beats. I had a lot of people giving me a lot of positive feedback on that album. I feel that next to “Sex Is the Key to Immortality”—most perfect album, easily. Front to back, top to bottom—flawless. It sounds like a robot made the album, it’s just completely and absolutely perfect in every way. I did an outro called “An Important Discussion”; I break down how politics is based on haves and have nots and what if the roles were reversed? That’s where real justice in life comes in. God always says ‘the last shall be first,’ if you’re poor: don’t really worry and if you’re rich, you shouldn’t really care; no matter what, everybody gets what they deserve.

“I don’t want to be around a freestyle battle where they’re selling liquor to underage kids and 8 guys have guns.”

What are thoughts on the Canadian rap scene?

The best city to do hip hop in Canada is Vancouver because there isn’t a lot of violence in the city. For some reason a lot of ignorant people are involved in hip hop. The smaller the city, the safer it usually is. I mean Toronto…I live in Edmonton ‘cause I left Toronto. I don’t want to be around a freestyle battle where they’re selling liquor to underage kids and 8 guys have guns. That’s the Toronto scene, people pack gats to shows. I don’t want to be around that shit. Second best is Ottawa or Montreal. Edmonton third.

The reason why hip hop in Canada sucks is the population. America has 300 million people and Canada has 32 million people—just think of the numbers for support; they have 10 times the support we do? You could sell 10 times as many CDs. That’s why there are guys like Master P going platinum from their trunk…

Anyway the Canadian hip hop scene: shout outs to Swollen Members, Saukrates, who is signed to Redman’s label. I’m happy ‘cause it goes to show that Canadian artists can network with the biggest American artists. Even Classified. Classified is not bad, I don’t mind the guy. He’s like an average rapper; to me he’s sort of like a Juelz Santana or Camron type rapper. Just some guy who’s got something to say; there’s nothing special about him, he’s not that extravagant or super fast with the tongue like Twista; he’s just a nice guy who likes to make music.

What about gangsters in rap? It seems sort of irrelevant in Canadian rap…

I think it’s because America is older than us. Most real gangsters are 35-40 years old; in Canada if you’re a criminal, you’re probably 15-25 and you’re not really economical enough to make a difference. You got the snot nosed Canadian kids or the old gangster. There are a lot of older dudes in the US who make gangster music, pimp hos, sell crack, pack guns, and drive a Lexus. Age 30 is where the bar is drawn. Canada has to age about 7 or 8 years; we’re probably 9-12 years behind America in terms of social structure and just musical accomplishment. Canada’s just like…we’re searching for an identity; we don’t want to be known as the nice guys anymore; ‘cause I mean ‘nice guys finish last’ as they always say. Everyone wants to be known as rough and tough and big and rich and powerful…America’s got that image down-pat; I mean super powerful, monstrous, big huge corporate entity sort of country. Canada’s looking for that corporate support; in Toronto there’s a lot of corporate power and there’s a lot of thug rappers in Toronto. There’s a lot of gangsters in Toronto and they have a lot of corporate support, but they don’t have the true creativity that New York had. Ghostface has that song “Criminology”; Gangstarr’s “Just To Get A Rep”—they’re interesting with their crime.

Shout outs?

My twin brother Mindbender who I love forever; God—who is a really weird person; my favorite 5 artists: Black Thought, Ill Bill, Busta Rhymes, Cage and Eminem; Project Blowed and Def Jux…

This is my one wish: get signed to Def Jam or Aftermath. As a rapper, those are my two basic goals to complete my careers progress.

How are you going to do that?

By making enough noise to make them call me.

But don’t you need to call them?

I’ll call them, I got their numbers.

I’d like to say that officially Conspiracy and Rewynd are the only two artists on Astral Majesty Creations (AMC Records) which is the label of SBU and Nextraterrestrials. Peace to Jon b and all the cats at ugsmag and to all the people who will die for hip hop music—we’ll party on in heaven.

For more on Conspiracy check out: myspace.com/conspiracysbu & supremebeingunit.com

Photos – by Jon B

When did you first start rapping?

I wrote my first song in 1989; in 1991 I got more serious. Did my first guest performance in 1992 and recorded my first song in 1994.

Where did you record in ‘94?

Kelron, he’s kind of like the forefather of Nextraterrestrials he had the first sampler we ever used. He hooked us up with Dylan who got us into recording, there are a couple of demos floating around. [At the time] I wanted to explore. In the early days of my career I recorded “Psychokinetic Forces” used a Jeru sample, had 3 versions: part I, II and II. Next level, abstracty, Pharaoh Monche type of stuff. I just kept rapping, my brother Conspiracy and I made tracks, recorded separately, and we recorded crew tracks, crazy rap energy. It was kind of like Wu Tang back then. Different groups, combinations.

Why don’t people roll in crews anymore?

There’s way less groups. Pure egomania, selfishness. I love Wu Tang. They have separated and come together, done other projects. G Unit was kind of a strong crew a year ago, they seemed pretty close knit and they were always working with each other, but most crews are a lot of individuals. People come together here and there, but you know there are not nearly as many crew tracks as there used to be. You used to hear a crew track like every month. It’s about the money, not wanting to do what L.O.N.S. did, split it into 3. There was Puff Daddy’s crew, Boyz N Da Hood where they wanted to do the same thing. They came together for an album, some of them left, some of them did solos–TI was in it, Little Wing was in it (or maybe he wasn’t). The unity isn’t there in the same way; it’s a different generation, different values, and morals.

How is Toronto’s rap scene? Are people sheltered? Are there factions? Mainstream guys vs. underground guys?

There is most of that…it’s starting to not be so segregated. There are so many different styles and levels. You’ve got underground cats, street cats, fake hustlers, real hustlers, abstract lyricists, spoken work all kinds. For 5 years I did my open mic every week basically and you’d have 20 cats, 3 of them sound alike, but then everyone else is on different levels. It’s hard to connect because people are rhyming on different levels. It was hard for me to connect to people because I was never rhyming like most people and I’d want to connect, but then it’s like: ‘shit, what’s it going to sound like?’ Sometimes you just don’t make the connection. But, I’ve done some collaborations. It is the screw-face capital, there’s a reason for it, and it doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s slowly thawing, but people still hate on each other a little. A little over critical, not very supportive.

It’s probably more cut throat.

Yeah. For nothing. No one’s a millionaire, Maestro’s not a millionaire, Kardinal is not a millionaire as far as I know–not to dis these guys, these guys are my heroes. It’s not like we’re fighting over something. In the states, the guys at the top of the game, the ones who get into beefs, are delusional enough to think it’s worth risking all that money and shit over something petty. [In Toronto] people risk [everything] nothing. Toronto’s good though, no matter how much crusty hate there is, at its heart is the new young blood of hip hop.

Do you think that too many artists in Toronto are trying to sound like they’re from the states?

Some of them do. Some them just don’t know who they are at all in the first place. It’s just like a confusing Canadian-American-Caribbean identity crisis. ‘Cause you know, what is the Canadian hip hop identity?

Toronto is the Screw-Face capital…what are the good things?

When things get aligned in this city, it’ll be just as good as L.A., New York, Atlanta. Toronto will be one of the greatest musical cities in the world, I constantly say it’s world class. We’ve got everything you really need to sustain a career here: 3 and a half million people, there’s radio, television, different magazines; it has everything you need here. And still, Kardinal’s last album comes out, I don’t think it had across the board support. In the states, especially the boroughs–if you’re from Brooklyn and come out with some local rap, everyone’s like ‘yeahhhh!’ this guy, this song right now! This fuckin’ sticker, this poster…this rapper. Toronto rarely gets that kind of unanimous support, but I’m working on it, I just gotta write the right song, enough people know me that I think I could do it now.

Do you think you can make an album that everyone will like?

I think I can get to a universal good as long as I don’t treat my audience like idiots and dumb myself way, way down. I just think it’s really about good song writing, finding a nice balance, choose the right words, have the right music. Just present it properly.

So there needs to be a balance between good production and lyrics?

Hell yeah! I think it’s achievable and I think that some of the best rappers that put out sub par material, they just really underestimated what they could do. Like with that “Change Clothes and Go” single on Jay Z’s Black album, I’m like: ‘dude! This is the album that you said was your going away album? You could do anything! You could put out any beat and people would probably fuckin’ eat it up. Why would you play it so safe with your first single?’ –Really basic Neptunes production.

Are albums stronger with one producer? One concept?

I think what it comes down to is collective vision. If the producers and emcees are thinking in the same way. There have been some albums where a variety of different beats have worked. And then sometimes I think you get a producer and they try to do a whole project. Say the last Gangstarr album, the Ownerz, I thought it was horrible. ‘This is Premier? Man, Hard To Earn was amazing. You ran out of steam, you’re bitching at hip hop?’ He was really in a bad place then. ‘I expect better from you, you could do better.’ I critical on certain cats I love.

I heard some joints on…uh…

Christina Aguilera?

Ohhhh! Yeah!

Yeah, mind blowing, phenomenal, he’s back. I was outright dissing him when the Ownerz came out, this is not the fuckin’ Jeru the Damaja classic, group home classic beats. I know those beats. You could do better. Yo, why is your shit from 9 years ago better than what you’re doing now?

The stuff on Christina Aguilera is Premier, but different Premier…

Different Premier, like Quincy Jonesish pop producer.

Yeah, so then why are Scott Storch and the Neptunes so popular?

Scott Storch knows how to play the game for sure. He produced a bunch of Paris Hilton records. He’s in it for business. I know he was playing with Dre back in the day, he’s a musician, he’s a talented producer, but at the same time, some of his productions are just…unacceptable. Once and a while he’ll come up with a pretty dope beat–those are the frustrating cats, the ones that can sell out one beat and then make a fuckin’ classic the next.

What about samples/breakbeats vs. synths?

I like it all man. I mean, I’m open to anything that’s executed right. Some of the Neptunes synth stuff is really amazing with Kelis, on the first album. I just heard the new Clipse album and they got some synth stuff on there that’s fuckin’ mind blowing. I wasn’t sure whether they had totally run out of steam or not, but like…no, they still know what they’re doing.

Would you ever work with the Neptunes?

I would drop everything in the world to make that happen.

Is there anyone you wouldn’t work with?

Uh…just super, super wack cats. I can’t think of anyone. I don’t know…Mase? But Mase isn’t even that bad of a song-writer, it’s just he’s a weird person right now, “the gangster pastor.”

Haha, “gangster pastor”…I don’t know about Diddy…

Diddy is interesting because I read this interview in Vibe once and he’s like: ‘I don’t really do anything, I just make it hot.’ He doesn’t rap, he doesn’t produce, he just comes in and fucks with it and then puts his name on it.

It’s “Bad Boy” now.

Yeah, it’s the Bad Boy brand. He was one of the first people to do it. I remember the first Bad Boy ad in 1992. He was a pioneer in a certain sense–which I envy– and he’s a hard worker. I was reading a Pharaoh Monche interview and he was talking about writing that song for Puff Daddy’s new album and he was like: ‘I can’t believe how long this guy has been in the industry and he just does not sleep, he still works this hard.’ What can you say to that?

I’m at the point where I try to get as much information on someone; I’ve met a lot of these rappers and had mostly good experiences with them. Nobody’s all good or all bad, people just want to plug rappers into…‘oh he’s gangster, he’s a positive rapper’–a Mos Def, Talib Kweli. I’ve seen some negative moments with Talib Kweli and I’ve seen some positive moments with 50 cent. Nothing is what it seems in this fucking crazy rap shit.

What happened with Talib?

At the time he had a bit of a conflict with Pound Magazine because Pound published an editorial that said ‘why can we get time with Jay Z and Nas, but we can’t get time with Common Sense Talib Kweli and Mos Def?’ Talib Kweli didn’t like it, so I went, chilled with him and when he found out I was from that magazine, it turned really awkward, he almost cancelled the interview and walked out on me. I met 50 cent once and he was so cool. I was an extra in his movie, I gave him Beautiful Mutant–I gave him that funky abstract shit, that won’t catch his ear as much.

Promotion, what do you do?

Nothing. Not enough, my weakest link. I just don’t wake up in the morning hustle, hustle, hustle. My ego was gassed when I was younger; it’s taken a decade for it to deflate. People told us…you guys are Canada’s Organized Konfusion…you’re like Del, Aceyalone; I’ve been compared to all my favorite rappers. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I should be on Def Jux, I’d be a millionaire.

Have you sent them material?

Oh yeah! I’ve had contact with people at Def Jux, just the timing wasn’t right. They’ve got my stuff…a couple of years ago I was always staying with El P and Cannibal Ox whenever I went to New York. Those guys are genuine friends. Around 2001 El-P pulled out the SBU tape and was like ‘I love this fucking album.’ He told me when things are right, we’ll get something popping. The thing is, I wasn’t handling my business right, I could never put all the blame on them. By the time I learned what I needed to know, Def Jux had already signed 5 or 6 guys, people were doing their second and third projects…just didn’t have time. That’s why Mindbender isn’t on Def Jux. I could make a fucking classic man. I’ve written verses just for them.
Do you have any new material coming out?

I have an acapella album I’m about to release. There’s nothing in hip hop history like it, I’ve been sitting on it for like 4 years. It’s really hard to describe. Sometimes it’s straight raps, sometimes jazz lyricism, it has segments between the songs–kind of like a movie. It’s called “The Musical Rhythm Showcase.”

Anything else?

I’m planning a new album…it’s going to be a double album, that’s all I’ll say. It’s going to be a really enormous project that I hope will encompass the scope of Canadian hip hop history. It’s going to have a bunch of guests with a theme from a classic double album that already exists in hip hop: Tupac “All Eyez on Me” I’m making the Mindbender version. It’s called “All Minds on Me.” I want to have it out by next summer.

What are some of your most positive rap memories?

Feb 2006, free entrance to a Wu-tang show…all access backstage. I got to chill with RZA, I told him ‘I have been waiting my life for this very moment’ I didn’t give a fuck, I’m so humble, I’m so happy, I want to do more in life, but a part of me was like ‘I’ve met the RZA, I can die happy’…he was way more cool than you could ever imagine, he was quiet and just pure kung fu master. Method man was joking around with me, I was going to get a picture with Ghostface, but he had to run off. He comes running back two minutes later he was like ‘yo where’s is that dude who wanted the picture?’—The little kid in me was like ‘Oh my god Ghostface remembered!’

I’ve met tons of my favorite rappers, Vast Aire, El P, Lif, and Aceyalone. I was performing at the show where Mf Doom got punched out by his hype man. It was a crazy show, it was like Atmosphere, Sciencez of Life, Big Jus, El P, Afu Ra, Guru was in the crowd…

Why did he get punched?

They were drunk, I mean fucking wasted. I wanted to say hi to Doom, introduce myself to everyone. I see doom and he’s just fucking wavering, he couldn’t even stand right before he went on stage. I was like ‘you are fucking wasted, you won’t even remember.’ So he goes on stage, him and his hype man do like 3 songs (and this was right at the beginning of Operation Doomsday), and his hype man just starts pushing him back and forth and then Megalon just goes BAM! Punches him in the face, pushes him down in the crowd, pushed a monitor on top of him. Everyone is wondering what the fuck is going on? MF Doom is getting his ass beat and then he pops up his mask was off and his face was all bumpy, yelled something and ran out the club. C-Ray Walz comes on next like ‘funny joke eh? Joke?’ and half the people were like that was not a joke, MF Doom just got his ass kicked.

Any bad memories?

Just when rappers aren’t as cool as you want them to be, but I’ve been caught on bad days myself where I’ve given that vibe…if you want to pick one (I really like his music), but Black Thought. He’s really introverted and not very friendly. I respect him highly, but…it could have been nicer.

Shouts?

Check supremebeingunit.com, my myspace: myspace.com/mindbendersupreme – reach out, let’s do business.

Shouts to: Conspiracy, Eternia, all people in Nextra, Edmonton, Canadian hip hop I thought we were gonna blow up with Choclair’s first album came out. We gotta smash these people in the head the same way I got smashed in the head when I heard “Straight Outta Compton.” I’ll never forget, my friend put headphones on me and said peep this—“Straight Outta Compton” just destroyed my mental universe, like ‘oh my god can you even say that on a record?’ What is a Compton? We gotta do that to them. Shit’s dope up here. Birdapres, Dj Moves, Max Prime…so many levels, Marvel, Tara Chase, Theology 3…I think I get slept on…just so many. Way beyond hip hop too. Canada has so much talent it’s stupid. So all you Canadians, everyone who ever met me, you know I fuckin’ love you, I don’t gotta say your name, I love you, you rock!

Chaps: Introduce yourself, crew, affiliations, and discography.

Mindbender: The name’s Bender. Mindbender. I’m down with the Nextraterrestrials, a cross Canada crew of artists, producers, dancers, drug addicts, and dreamers. I’ve been a part of the SBU albums “First Great Pyramid” and “Mental Reverse/Spiritual Rebirth,” and I have made a few projects myself, including “Mindbender In Another Universe,” “Fantasyland Before Time,” and “Beautiful Mutant.” I have been on hundreds of songs, but you gotta find them for yourself, there’s too many to list. I feel like that old American President sometimes, like “I have not yet begun to rhyme.”

You have just released the double CD “Beautiful Mutant.” Why did you feel the need to release it as double album and not two separate releases?

Because at the time, I was rushing to be the first solo Toronto emcee to release a double album. There was one other double album from Toronto to my knowledge, but it was a compilation by the group GCP. But now that it’s out, I’m so beyond what I was doing then. It’s funny to listen back to it, and it’s even more funny to hear people bug out over this project because it was being written in 2002 while we were releasing “Fantasyland,” and I already knew that album would be too much for some people. “Beautiful Mutant” was done in early 2003 and wasn’t manufactured for public consumption until May 2004, and it still sounds good and even futuristic, some of it. It’s funny how music works. I say all that to say that the main reason I did “Beautiful Mutant” was to put my name in the category of all the great emcees who have double albums, like Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, and Nasty Nas to name a few. To do a cohesive, complete, no-filler, historic double LP is something I believe all the greatest of all time emcees need to do, but Big L and Big Pun didn’t have the time to make them.

Does the Mutant disc represent one side of the man known as Mindbender and does the Beautiful side represent the other side? If so, what do they say about Mindbender?

They both represent me. The idea was for people to begin realizing they contain both beauty and ugliness inside them and their actions, that people are made of diverse elements, and people should remain aware of this fact. Also, “Beautiful Mutant” refers to how beauty is in the eye of the witness. How there is a woman in the world that only you see the beauty in, some people see a witch with warts and green skin but you see a super model with a cocoa butter complexion and flawless features that make your heart beat faster. Everyone is a beautiful mutant. Human beings are the most amazing creatures. They are all slightly different and more unique than snowflakes. One day we are full of beautiful love and helpful care, and then we can be brutally selfish and manipulative mutants for years in a row. That’s life, especially my life.

You have been in hip hop for a long time. How has it changed over the years?

I can’t describe it all here. I am not aware of a subculture that undergoes as much rapid and mind-blowing change as hip hop music and culture, and as the years go on this culture evolves and mutates and splinters off more and more every day, until it’s all just one huge confusing mess of beats and rhymes and capitalist products from a million different places. Hip hop changes like every week. Sometimes a few times each week. The regions change, the power players change, the trends change, the vocab changes, the X factor changes, the lucrative hit formula changes, the followers and leaders change… hip hop changes so much that it’s just comedy to watch now. You just have to be you, and change at your own pace. One thing that drastically changed for the worst, in my humble opinion, is that the new kids just getting into hip hop nowadays care less and less about what hip hop came before them. In the early 90′s, heads were respectful of the late 80′s emcees still in the game. Ask a kid from 2000 who Mic Geronimo was, he not only has no clue, he doesn’t even care, and thinks he’s cool and better off not knowing his hip hop history. Makes me wanna puke. I want to change it where new people in hip hop don’t get full respect from the vets until they do the fucking knowledge on the sacrifices and songs that Kool G Rap made, Big Daddy Kane made, Compton’s Most Wanted made, 2 Live Crew made, MC Lyte made, Public Enemy made, Geto Boys made… so many forgotten legends, it’s tragic. Rock music doesn’t forget as easily, plus they have oldies rock stations that play Grateful Dead and The Doors all day. Maybe it’s all the weed hip hoppers smoke, ha ha! Redman and Cypress Hill, your influence has fucked up the game forever! I remember the days where weed and alcohol weren’t so prevalent to an emcee’s image and their lyrics. Redman ruined my childhood as much as he saved it, ha ha!

How would you describe the new album to someone who is not familiar with your previous work and would your description vary if the person had only heard SBU?

It’s creative hip hop, period. It’s not too far out, and it’s not too traditional. Each song is its own journey and has its own meaning and purpose. There is not a single second of filler or nonsense, and it’s all new school originality. The music is unique and thoughtful enough for people to listen to it multiple times and get new thoughts and vibes each time, but not too far out there where they can’t take any personal relations or emotions from it, which I’ve been known to do sometimes. This is balanced, genius-like insanity. Listen to it all and then debate with me if you feel otherwise. I think this is some timeless dopeness.

You are not a typical Toronto emcee. How has living in Toronto helped or hindered your career?

Hurt. Well, no, I suppose I have been the beneficiary of some wonderful blessings in my life from living in Toronto that I wouldn’t get living anywhere else in Canada. But if you mean money, power and respect, then living in Toronto has not helped me get up, get out, get something substantial, and then go worldwide. I really should take some of the responsibility for that, like it could be I need to be more motivated and driven since I’m doing something that no one else has ever done in this country, so I must blaze my own trail and break down new doors, but Toronto is not very kind to it’s own homegrown music innovators. If I lived in Montreal and could do the Kid Koala thing or come from Halifax and be a wicked and weird rapper like Buck 65, then I could enjoy this Mindbender niche more, and not mind living in Canada where the people are so timid and reserved. But living in Toronto is not easy, it’s expensive, there’s lots of politics in the scene, and it has NOT progressed as fast or as far as it could, and should. It’s a peaceful war going on outside, no man is safe from, you can run but you can’t hide forever.

What are your short and long term goals, in hip hop and life?

Become a rich revolutionary. Expose the corruption inside capitalism and Christianity and introduce new options of systems for the masses. Teach everyone to discover their inner Godlike powers before they “die.” Do tours around the world, record videos, make songs with my favorite emcees and producers and hip hop heads. Make a lot of love to a lot of beautiful women, and be honest with all of them about each other because I don’t really believe in monogamy or marriage. I also want to make the perfect hip hop album in the new millennium, if it ever could be made, ha ha!

What needs to happen in order for you to meet those goals?

I need more money, power, respect! I need friends in high places. I need visionaries with me on my team. I need focus like Jay-Z. I need inspiration and motivation. I need no opposition or resistance to my movements. I need to destroy my own oppressive inner demons to even take the first step toward any of this, though.

A new SBU album is right around the corner. What can people expect with that release?

Something different and more powerful than anything out there now. Some crazy intense shit that is politically, emotionally, spiritually, lyrically, intellectually and harmonically more impressive than 95% of the hip hop you can buy today. This shit is explosive. You will either love it with your heart or hate it with your head, but it’s some sick shit. Long time fans will not be disappointed in waiting eight years! We are on all the songs together, for the first time ever. Eighteen tracks of Supreme Being Unit madness. Believe me, you are not ready and will never be ready. I’m not even ready, but it’s coming anyway.

What do you think about the current state of hip hop in Canada?

This is the next realm of hip hop to blow up on the planet, mark my words… we’re the next Chicago, the next Detroit, the next Atlanta even, but it’s not going to happen overnight, that’s for damn sure. It’s been over ten years since Maestro came out, and Canadian industry has taken only a few more steps forward as it has backwards. It’s heartbreakingly, amazingly slow and fucked up. Things don’t evolve as fast as I think they should, mainly on the industry level. Artists and fans are up on the new technology and the new information sources and the new options we have as consumers. We know what time it is. The labels don’t have a clue, they are still using a sundial, while we got psychic digital time code watches, ha ha. But overall it’s cool and I like the good things we have access to, but at the same time there is some twisted politics that make it hard to make the most of everything we have available to us. Vancouver’s problems and positives are way different than Edmonton’s, Calgary’s, Winnipeg’s, Ottawa’s, Montreal’s, Halifax’s and Toronto’s. No two cities have similar infrastructures or industries and they are so far apart geographically and business wise that I don’t even know how people make sense of it all. It’s got so much potential, but it’s still five years away from utilizing even half of its talent potential. I know way too many dope emcees who have no chance of making a living or a career in Canada and it’s pathetic. Should they move to America? Maybe! Sad but true. Fuck this nationalism shit. It’s about feeding your belly and having a roof over your head, much less moving forward in your career and not wasting your life waiting for your peers and possible business partners to fuck up your progress in every possible way. I’d rather someone be happy doing their dream in New York than them being slept on, broke and bitter in Toronto. I don’t know how long I can stay here until I take my own advice. Canada is okay though. At least we still love hip hop culture itself and people do things for the love occasionally. It’s not the same in America at all. At least Canadians still do things for the love of the art form, that’s a rare thing in America. Cash rules everything around them and their hip hop these days, and I don’t say this to encourage a brain drain, and I love Canada twice as much now that George W. Bush got “reelected,” but it’s fly or die, sink or swim: which one shall I choose?

Who do you think is really brining it in Canada?

There’s lots and I know so many people, some will get mad that I didn’t mention them. But let’s see, there’s so many I know that I like. I like LBA Crew in Edmonton, Conspiracy (Nextra!!!) and Max Prime are bringing dopeness. I dig Frek Sho’s music, I like Empire Crew, TSD, Tara Chase, Theo 3, Fatski, Smoke Stack, Slangston Hughes and Drastik Measurez, Rikoshay, my homegirl Eternia who’s in Nextra, like my man Stay, Boz, Kelron, Ndidi Cascade, Seo Lun, and my peoples all over the place. I like lots of cats, as I think, I remember more that I dig, like this sick emcee called Knamelis (pronounced Nameless), Sunny D, Dope Poets Society, Noah 23, The Goods, The motherfuckin Collapsyllables and Transit, Soliva Spit Society, Poor Man Militia, Symbolik Music Crew, Bishop, The Oddities, K-Naan. There are so many heads that I know that are dope, that are getting slept on like crazy. If I was a greedy A&R I would be a fucking millionaire by now, laughing at the labels, but I can’t exploit talent like that. It’s not in my heart. But still, there’s LOTS of undiscovered dopeness up here, to any American label cat who might be reading this, your Canadian subsidiary is NOT doing its job! Come scoop up the diamonds in the rough, they are everywhere I look and listen!

Do you think hip hop is better now or when you were a fan? Why?

It was better when I was a fan, but I didn’t have the benefits and access that I have now. I was more happy back in the day, but I was so naive, and didn’t know how real shit is. Hip hop now has lost lots of its internal love and the majority of industry people involved nowadays only want money from rap. It’s disgusting. But back then, lots of people couldn’t live off the money received from making rap music. Nowadays, people are stupid rich off it, so I can’t hate that either. The Cash Money Millionaires bought their whole project that they came from. I love hearing shit like that. That’s hip hop, fuck the hate. If you hate their music, you sell over 100,000 units independently in your own city/state/province, so Universal can approach you and give you a $150 million dollar check to sign, so you can get fat, dis your haters, and make hustler anthem music for the rest of your life! I want to make revolutionary action rap lucrative for me and my investors! If I can make that niche market today, then I’m happier today! There are so many more reasons why though. I could go on for days, but I won’t. I’ll just say I love the fact that rap isn’t over by now, and move into its insane future with joy and curiosity. It’s dangerous to walk forward while looking backwards.

What is Mindbender doing when he is not creating lyrical masterpieces?

Smoking weed, admiring women or having passionate sex with my girlfriend when we are not discussing the world, society, the future of now, religion, politics, the economy, race thoughts or thoughts on various cultures on earth. Or I am on the internet talking mad shit and spreading my hip hop thoughts to a bunch of fucked up motherfuckers who are slightly less insane and screwed up than me, ha ha! I’m on the internet a lot, absorbing the infinite information and rumors and lies and half-truths and timeless wisdom available. I also work at a food bank sometimes, and I explore Toronto for fun. I know my hood blindfolded. Oh, I read a lot of books, like four at a time, and I draw and record myself when I find the time. I try to live a simple life, and I want to quit drinking and smoking weed so much. This career is getting serious. All my idols stopped smoking weed, so I figure to get where they are I should follow their footsteps. Ghostface, Eminem, Snoop (he was clean and sober for a while there), Xzibit, Nas even said in a song “I’m smoking less,” so I want to just make my life a work of art that expands its colorfulness every day.

If you could assemble a hip hop team with yourself as the Captain who would be in your starting line up and why?

Man, that’s a fucked up question. There are so many variables. Underground independents? Major label stars? Basketball, hockey or football team? I guess Captain refers to the good ol’ hockey game, right? Okay… today this is what it would be, it would be different tomorrow, and this is by no means definitive (no pun intended!) El-Producto, RZA, Nasty Nas, Cannibal Ox, MF Doom, and Mindbender! We will rule the world! And the 5 on my bench, is Crooked I, Canibus, Royce 5’9″ and Blackstar (Talib Kweli and Mos Def). Word up!

Who would you like to work with in the future?

Same cats I listed above, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Canibus, Redman, Saukrates, Marvel, Tara Chase, Ras Kass, Jay-Z, Twista, Nature, Common Sense, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Roots, Leaders of the New School (I would reunite them!) Hieroglyphics, and De La Soul, Special Ed, AZ, Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Kanye West… so many more… and to finish it off, I’d bite the heads off 3 puppies to make classic material with The Wu-Tang Clan. The day after I make a song with Nasty Nas, I might fly off the planet because I’m done my work here, but if I get to record magic music with Stevie Wonder it’s all over and I quit music. I would just listen to that every day and re-live the dream until they put me in a mental hospital. I would stay if that was the music they played.

Do you have any last words or shouts?

Shoutout to everyone in Canada building the unseen and unknown future of our little country. We have a long way to go, before we can stand on top of something we all can be proud of. America is so far ahead of us it looks just bizarre to compare, but we all really have a lot to do. We need more good managers, angel investors, booking agents, publicists, independent distributors, radio stations, magazines, fan-zines, websites, and more innovators! Canadians have so much freedom, Canada has so much un manifested potential, that it’s just tragic to sit here and watch my man Marvel not be able to live off his dope music. He was on “Hate Runs Deep” with Saukrates, for fuck sakes! Canada needs to learn to love their pioneers, and not let them fall off into poverty and obscurity. There is so much shit to still do around here but I still have faith for our future! If it’s not someone else who builds this country up to finally exist on the next level, it’s going to be myself, Adhimusic Mindbender Supreme. Check me daily on supremebeingunit.com and keep your mind open while you keep your head up. Pray for the children, and thanks to www.ugsmag.com for the support over the years, you cats have always been down with Supreme Being Unit and The Nextraterrestrials! Practice love.