GHOSTFACE SPEAKS NEW YORK
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Ghostface: F*** New York
Monday - May 8, 2006
Darryl Gudmundson

pfxmg: I've heard you first started to wear your mask because you were wanted by the police and needed to hide your identity. Once all that blew over, you decided to reveal your face. Is that true?

Ghostface Killah: Nah, @#%$ that. I started to wear the mask because my name is Ghostface Killah, man. I got that name from Mystery of the Chessboxing, a karate flick. Yeah, I was getting my hands dirty back then. Nigga do what he do. But, you know, Ghostface Killah sounds like a man who should have a mask on.

prfxmg:Lately you and many other East Coast artists have been criticizing Southern hip-hop, in particular songs such as "Laffy Taffy."

Ghostface Killah: Man, that's all y'all be talking about lately.

Playing devil's advocate, do you think it's because New York is jealous it lost the hip-hop crown?

Ghostface Killah: New York lost the crown because the New York deejays gave the crown away for some @#%$ money. New York be bullshitting.
Right know, I say @#%$ New York. Yeah, I'm from New York, but @#%$ New York. Because niggas is @#%$. They is so quick to jump on the next man's dick and can't even deal with what they got in front of they
face.

That's why I respect other states, man. New York, I don't know -- for some reason we started to get really soft. And now we act like we want that real hip-hop back, when our @#%$ deejays is only programmed to
play what they playing. They playing more other people's @#%$ than our own @#%$. Niggas is screaming that real hip-hop -- we trying to bring it back but we can't even play that real hip-hop on the radio.

I knew New York was wack when they shot my man Amadou Diallo forty-one @#%$ times and ain't nobody stand up. But if that @#%$ happen in L.A. somewhere, they would have went to bat for Amadou Diallo. It
would have been hell. Stores getting burnt the @#%$ up. New York don't stand for nothing. They say if you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. But we mad at ourselves and can't even get our @#%$
right. When you look at them other niggas' videos, they popping off and having fun in there. We can't even have fun amongst each other in New York. That's why I say @#%$ New York. That's real talk coming from Ghostface Killah.

pfrxmg: that's that New York state of mind.

Ghostface Killah: Nah, that's my state of mind.