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

Kirby: Yo this Kirby Dominant and I'm affiliated with Kemetic Suns, Living Legends, City Planners, My Nigga Pismo and my NYC homies The G*A*M*E Rebellion. My Releases include 'Rapitalism: The Philosophies of Dominant Pimpin'' (1998), Konceptual Dominance 'Savage Intelligence' (2000), The Dominant Mammals' 'Super Future Stars' (2002), and Paranoid Castle 'One Way Ticket' (2004).
You have been holdin' it down for a long time in the bay. Who did you draw inspiration from as a youngster?

When I was young I was inspired by groups like EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Digital Underground, Too Short, Ultramagnetic MC's and Kool Keith, E-40, Hieroglyphics, and all Project Blowed shit.

How did you get your start in the rap game?

Well I actually did my first rap performance back in 1985. I was about ten years old and I performed at my elementary school to promote this new anti drug campaign that was sponsored by the Reagan administration called DARE. You have heard of it or seen cats wearing the T-shirts nowadays as kind of a joke. Well this is when the first shit stared. So anyway this girl's mom came to class with a keyboard and made a beat and me and some of my classmates wrote an anti drug rap. That shit was dope, so after that I was pretty interested in hip hop, I wrote a few rhymes here and there over the years. Between that time up until I was about fifteen I would just freestyle and shit, mostly when I was drunk, but at fifteen or sixteen I start keeping a rhyme book. But I would have to say I really got into the rap game when I met my crew Kemetic Suns and the Mystik