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BIOGRAPHY | BEEFS | INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
THE HORSEMEN | CLOAK 'N DAGGA
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He's "the little shorty with the big mouth" who dissed L.L. Cool J in "Second Round K.O." (co-starring Mike Tyson), sparking the biggest battle in recent hip-hop history. L.L. shot back lyrically with the blistering "Ripper Strikes Back"; Wyclef returned fire, blasting L.L. with "What's Clef Got to Do With It?" (featuring Naomi Campbell). All this high-profile sparring has the hip-hop world fiending for Canibus' debut album, Can-I-Bus. The twenty-three-year-old New Jersey native, a.k.a. Germaine Williams, once punched the clock as a data analyst at the Department of Justice. These days, he never strays far from his Thinkpad.
Is the L.L. situation over?
I'm finished.
People are waiting for your next salvo!
Yo, that shit was serious to me. I feel sorta liberated that it's not turned into drama. 'Cause at one point I was uncertain about what direction the shit could go.
You thought it could get violent?
Yeah. I was prepared to do whatever. I'm not the type to just talk shit all day. Eventually niggas is gon' have to get together and let the testosterone flow.
Why did Mike Tyson rap on "Second Round K.O."?
Tyson is a man with integrity and principle. He told me he was feelin' me from blend tapes, and he knew The Firm record. By heart. He did it because he felt what I was doin', dog. He saw I had integrity.
I thought he and L.L. were cool.
Tyson is my man. He was [L.L.'s] man. There must be a reason why you and your man ain't cool.
You've said that your MC training regimen is similar to Tyson's. What do you do?
I recite my stuff over and over - different tones, rhythms, styles, rhyme patterns. I look at myself in the mirror and see how I look when I say shit. I listen to the rhyme till it starts to really become its own entity.
You've lived in London, Jamaica, New Jersey. Does that help you?
I think it makes a tremendous difference. I rhyme the way I do because I'm well rounded. To even think that what's goin' on on your block matters in Germany or Sweden, that's absurd. But if your only aim is to touch your block, be my guest, yo. I know better than that.
What do you think about DMX being charged with rape?
It was a setup, man. He's been around. He's smarter than that.
Are you worried about someone knotting you up?
I feel like peoples' plottin'. But it's not tactical to be worried; it's tactical to be cautious. I'm not very trustful. I'm a man for conspiracy theories, B.
Really?
I sit home and look around and be like, "You think that happened because of that? You're crazy. What did the media tell you? You believe that?" I think there's a secret society of people that plot us against ourselves all day.
"Us" meaning black people?
Not black people, all people. For me it's not about race, it's about intellect. I believe that through your intellect you can defy all the laws of race. I do in on the Internet all the time. If I go on and don't write with any Ebonics, people won't think I'm black. I can be someone totally different on the Internet. That tells you it's truly all about intellect.
If you weren't a rapper, what would be your dream job?
I wish I was Bill Gates' right-hand man. Can you imagine the amount of information that goes past his line of vision every day? Can you imagine what he's privy to that we're not? My biggest high, beyond any type of controlled substance, is knowin' that I know somethin' you don't. I love that. I love to talk about it if someone really wants to know. And I love it even more if they know what I'm talkin' about and we start buildin' and I start to learn shit from them. That's deep to me, B. I get charged off a bein' able to just know somethin'. That's ill to me. I'm an information junkie.
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