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