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