One night, backstage at Irving Plaza at a Madball show

Lars: Hey yo Ill Bill – will you sign this for me?

I found it at Amoeba it's the Green CD

Bill: No doubt kid, what's your name?

Lars: It's MC Lars

Bill: Word, Howie Abrams is a mutual friend of ours

He played me your joint Lars: What'd you think of it?

Bill: I think it's bugged out, it's hot

Lars: Thanks, I like your last record a lot. Your lyrics are

Graphic, much like your brother Necro, is he psycho?

Bill: I don't know, it really depends though

He's Psychological, half psycho, half logical,

Half businessman, half put-them-in-the-hospital

Lars: Business and art, there's a very fine line

There's the person that you are

And the person when you rhyme

But the best MC's bring both intertwined

Bill: I agree, that's when the best of both worlds collide

When the realness pops off one time for your mind,

And your words cause the people in the crowd to riot

As many places I've been. As many people I've met

As many haters I've dissed. There's people that I respect

As many times as I've failed. As many times as I've won

As many lives as I touch. The dialogue has begun

Bill: I grew up on heavy metal and hip-hop

The energy was the same to me, it was insane to me

It made me want to rage against the machine

Pick up a guitar and scream into the mic like Run-DMC

Lars: Nine Inch Nails, Primus, “Weird Al,” and King Missile

Influenced me like a postmodern epistle

Geeked out on my Performa looping digital drums

Playing rock guitar in punk bands just for fun

Who's your favorite rapper? Bill: Rakim, G Rap and Kane

KRS, EPMD, NWA, Public Enemy, Shante and LL Cool J

I could keep naming MC's all day,

What type of metal stuff you listen to?

Lars: Old school Slayer CD's, Biohazard and

Bile were the bands for me

The first time that I ever heard Chuck D

Was the Anthrax CD, “Attack of the Killer B's”… chorus!

Lars: So Bill, what's your take on censorship?

Politicians on a church/state fusion tip?

Bill: I speaks my mind while kids I went to high school with

Bleed on the sands of Kabul hit, it's bullshit,

Lars what you think of it?

Lars: Out in Iraq, a lack of dialogue

Between the people is whack!

Bill: In fact I speak militant like Black Panthers

These gas prices got my people

With seeds having to gank pampers

Lars: The answer is not plutocracy.

The answers is not hypocrisy,

The answers is true democracy

Bill: The answer is the dialogue constantly

Lars: Hey yo Bill, we should do a track together

Bill: Word, word, let's do that

Lars: Wait, we just did