One night, backstage at Irving Plaza at a Madball show      Hey yo, Ill Bill, will you sign this for me?   I found it at Amoeba, it?s the Green CD   No doubt kid, what?s your name? It?s MC Lars   Word, Howie Abrams is a mutual friend of ours      He played me your joint, what?d you think of it?   I think it?s bugged out, it?s hot   Thanks, I like your last record a lot   Your lyrics are graphic, much like your brother Necro, is he psycho?   I don?t know, it really depends though      He?s Psychological, half psycho, half logical   Half businessman, half put-them-in-the-hospital   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   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      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      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      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? 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?      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      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      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      So Bill, what?s your take on censorship?   Politicians on a church, state fusion tip?   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?   Out in Iraq, a lack of dialogue between the people is whack   In fact I speak militant like Black Panthers   These gas prices got my people with seeds having to gank pampers      The answer is not plutocracy   The answer is not hypocrisy   The answer is true democracy   The answer is the dialogue constantly      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      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      Hey yo Bill, we should do a track together   Word, word, let?s do that   Wait, we just did