[The Big Sleep]

DJ Cosmo Baker: Right on man, good to hear from you. I definitely have the issue with the baby picture of L; there's definitely an article and interview on him in there...L was one of my favorite MCs of all time, ever since the first time I heard that dude on the Yes You May Remix..."chicks stick to my dick like magnets on refrigerators", [laughs], so ill! And yeah man, it's real important to document this shit, you know? Peace.

DJ Max Glazer: Thanks for getting in touch. I interviewed L a couple of times, but I wouldn't say that I really knew him. Really I am mostly a fan. I did interview the entire D.I.T.C. for an issue of On the Go [Magazine] that never came out. It was supposed to be published in an issue of Wax Poetics [Magazine], but I'm not sure what the status of that is. I'll have to check in with those guys and see what their plans are for publishing the interview…

DJ Max Glazer '99 Big L Tribute Hosted by Tim Westwood:

http://sharebee.com/88b158de

We're still waiting on the On the Go / Wax Poetics article as far as I know but here's something that I've been trying to get a hold of for years now (courtesy of Philaflava member IRISH_CRAIG):






(On pages fourteen and fifteen of a '95 issue of On the Go Magazine.)

Put It On!

On the Go: "What's your sex technique with a dead woman?"

Big L: "What's my sex technique with a dead woman?"

On the Go: "Do you put on Marvin Gaye or something like that?"

Big L: "I'm saying, I ain't never do that. You fuckin' me up with them questions, yo. I said I'll even fuck a dead bitch. I ain't say I fucked one. I be gettin' thirsty enough to fuck one. I be gettin' horny enough definitely to fuck a dead bitch, but I ain't fucked one yet."

On the Go: "You say 'There's no food in the fridge, just body parts'. So what's the best part to store internal organs, the meat drawer or the vegetable crisper?"

Big L: "The freezer."



On the Go: "Do you put a piece of tape on what you freeze with the date and other vital info written on it?"

Big L: "Nah, no."

On the Go: "So what's the L stand for?"

Big L: "Lamont. I was called Little Lamont all my life and I hated it. Say there's two Daves on the block and we all called one Big Dave and one Little Dave. Well they called me Little Lamont. There wasn't no other Lamonts on that block, so why was I called Little Lamont?"



Devil's Son from day one.

On the Go: "Were you the type of kid that tortured small animals?"

Big L: "Nah…"

DJ Max Glazer: "There was a kid on my block that lit a cat on fire."

DJ Steve Money: "There was a kid on my block that threw 'em down the sewer."

Big L: "I'm sayin', we used to kick cats or just throw bottles and shit at the dogs. We ain't never set none on fire or any of that crazy shit."

"My mouth was foul. I didn't give a fuck what I said to somebody. I used to talk to adults the way I wanted to even as a little kid and since I had older brothers, they didn't fuck with it."

"I write when I'm heated. If I'm in a good mood, I can't write. I'm a Gemini, I got a cool side and a foul side. When I'm heated everything comes out. That's when I start saying shit like 'Fuck Jesus'. I'll be so heated that I don't care what I say."

On the Go: "Here's a philosophical question for you. You've just got done bonin' this female and you want her to leave your apartment. You want to be nice enough so she's not completely turned off and will return. What do you say to get her to leave in a timely fashion?"

Big L: "Get the fuck out!"

"I battled a lot B and all my battles turned into fights 'cause they wanted to fight after the way I embarrassed them in they hometown. Nobody ever wants to battle in someone else's territory, but I was stepping to them on they own block, in front of all they people, with no people on my side and I still got in they ass. You could just see it all in his face and when the battle was over, niggas start saying 'faggot!', 'punk!', shit like that. I'd be like 'what?' and shit would jump off from there. The fights turned out in my favor, as usual. One time we had to put on our track shoes and get up outta there. Word up, but that was only once."

"At one time I just forgot I was a rapper. It was like I retired for a minute. I was always a part time hustler. I was the type that, if I don't have any money, I gonna do something to get it. A hustle, pull a fast one, whatever. But I did it just for that time and I'd chill for a minute."

On the Go: "On the album, on Street Struck, you talk about how you were getting paid before you got a record deal…"

Big L: "Hustlin' in the street, your days are limited, you definitely on borrowed time. You're either gonna get murdered or start fuckin' with your own product. But I would never tell a kid not to sell drugs, 'cause if they starvin', if that's what they gotta do…in the record I'm talking about a lot of brothers are selling drugs just out of greed. They ain't fucked up, they ain't starvin'. Some brothers are in college, some brothers got careers they can pursue, but they rather sell drugs. That's what I don't understand. Now, if you a brother and you ain't got nothing going for you and you starvin' and shit, I couldn't tell you not to rob, I couldn't tell you not to do any of that shit…I was never really with hustlin' constantly everyday. I just did certain shit to get certain things. I still feel that way sometimes. If winter's comin' and I ain't got no coat, then I got do something to get it. O<img src="http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1584/onthego2.jpg" />nce I got that coat, I might just chill. A lot of brothers is gettin' so much money it's ridiculous. But they ain't doing nothing with that money. They just sittin' on it and gonna keep hustlin' it. Then when you be in jail for twenty five years, that shit don't mean nothing. Now that I'm comin' out with an album, ain't no need to hustle. But if the album flops and I'm fucked up, I'm gonna do what I gotta do."

Click to enlarge:





http://www.multiupload.com/FSEUWCT3C4

(Better, higher quality scans should be on the way in the next little while, props once again goes out to IRISH_CRAIG.)

This post has been edited by The Big Sleep: 07 July 2010 - 10:54 AM

[Kyzer Soze]

Awesome! Big L confirms shit that I've been wondering for years: he really did sell drugs, he did say "fuck Jesus Christ" in a song, and used to get into fights during his battles.

Thanks Sleep! That was a great surprise! And that's an awesome new picture, too. Halloween costume?

[BxSouljah]

Wow the first half of the article was really funny but then L got more serious when it came to hustlin. I'm from the Bronx and I've been to Harlem alot so I know exactly where he was coming from when he said that stuff. Most of it still holds true for many people in the city today.

[The Big Sleep]

Kyzer Soze, on 22 June 2010 - 12:46 PM, said:

Awesome! Big L confirms shit that I've been wondering for years: he really did sell drugs, he did say "fuck Jesus Christ" in a song, and used to get into fights during his battles. Thanks Sleep! That was a great surprise! And that's an awesome new picture, too. Halloween costume?

Sure man, this just fell into my lap today and I couldn't hold back from posting it up. Yeah, I'm glad I finally got to read through this again because I hadn't seen it in a long while and it truly was and is a great article.

The part time selling drugs and stealing had been confirmed, as well as the "I'm rollin' with Satan, fuck Jesus Christ" line from the original version of Devil's Son (and I could've guessed about the fighting) but yeah, it's real nice to hear about those things, more battling stories and info on his writing process all straight from the man himself.

And I love how On the Go conducted their interviews in a laid back, goofy way, similar to Stretch and Bob's style in a sense, I think L preferred, had a better time with and was more comfortable with that particular method of interviewing.

It was a surprise to me too in a way, I've been searching to buy / find a copy of this for multiple years now, before it was even mentioned on the internet. I don't know what that is, could be, but either way it's great to see a new 'mont 'mont photo (in color on the cover, in black and white in the article itself), those are always few and far between. I guess he must've given that picture to On the Go. And I'm assuming the other photograph was taken by the magazine but who knows?

[The Big Sleep]

BxSouljah, on 22 June 2010 - 12:57 PM, said:

Wow the first half of the article was really funny but then L got more serious when it came to hustlin'. I'm from the Bronx and I've been to Harlem alot so I know exactly where he was coming from when he said that stuff. Most of it still holds true for many people in the city today.

Yeah, L was good with that sorta thing, switching up tones and subject matter and all that (On the Go tended to do that too so it worked out especially well in this case). I love L's analogies and stories about poor people needing food to eat, not waiting for steak to fall out of the sky, not waiting for a winter coat to be found or given to them, having to go out and take what's yours to survive and get by, that's a huge part of his overall, timeless message. And nothing reminds me more of my times living across New York, especially Uptown in Harlem and Manhattan, than words from Big L.

[LorDie]

Amazing read, thanks a lot Sleep.

Strange way to bring the interview indeed... ''You fuckin' me up with them questions, yo.'' lol

[The Big Sleep]

Of course man.

Yeah, I remember laughin' at that when I first read this.

[Stef]

Shit, nice find Sleep.
It was nice to read to this interview, L tryin' to explain what he meant with his lyrics, an example of how they missunderstood Street Struck and shit.

This post has been edited by Stef: 22 June 2010 - 04:11 PM

[DaFonetikKFluuZe]

yes! i've been waiting to hear all of that, and i always wondered where this interview was, Thnx alot Sleep!

[The Big Sleep]

Stef, on 22 June 2010 - 05:08 PM, said:

Shit, nice find Sleep.

It was nice to read to this interview, L tryin' to explain what he meant with his lyrics, an example of how they misunderstood Street Struck and shit.

Thanks man but shit, I wish it was just a find somewhere. More like nice decade long hunt Sleep. I would've bought this on eBay when I saw it on there a couple times a few years back but missed out in both instances when all there was was the cover and haven't seen it or heard about it from anybody since then, even after talking to / asking one of the interviewers, DJ Max Glazer multiple times. (And DJ Cosmo Baker who also worked at On the Go.) The part about Street Struck was great, I'm glad somebody asked him about that song.

DaFonetikKFluuZe, on 22 June 2010 - 05:43 PM, said:

Yes! I've been waiting to hear all of that and I always wondered where this interview was, thanks a lot Sleep!

I've been wondering the same thing but it's a hard to come by magazine, even at the time it wasn't a big magazine like The Source. Sure man, I'm always glad when the searches end and some questions have been answered. Plus it's always better to have L's music (and life) explained by L himself whenever possible, so I'm glad this interview and these pictures can finally be seen publicly for the first time on BigLOnline, thanks to (me and especially) IRISH_CRAIG.

[patKa]

This is a dope interview, so thanks to Sleep and IRISH_CRAIG. I love how this showed L's comical side:

Quote

On the Go: "Here's a philosophical question for you. You've just got done bonin' this female and you want her to leave your apartment. You want to be nice enough so she's not completely turned off and will return. What do you say to get her to leave in a timely fashion?"

Big L: "Get the fuck out!"

And I also like the info about him fighting and all that, and the photo is nice as well.

[The Big Sleep]

Of course man, anytime.

Oh yeah, great quote, typical L.

For sure, it's always nice to hear more about the aftermath of battling.

[BxSouljah]

Sleep I didn't know you lived in NY, what part(s) did you grow up in?

[Scrapz]

Thanks a lot Big Sleep, I love how you're always bringing us something new right out of the blue.
That's a pretty funny article, it's nice hearing new stuff about L from the man himself.
Thanks again man.

[The Big Sleep]

BxSouljah, on 23 June 2010 - 06:47 PM, said:

Sleep I didn't know you lived in N.Y., what part(s) did you grow up in?

Oh yeah, all over man, maybe at least once in all five boroughs even, I truly don't know all the spots I lived at over the years, a lotta small rentals but of course I was up in Harlem for a time, I definitely was just outside of the N.Y.C. area for a bit and I was outside of the capital, Albany, in Schenectady county...from the city to upstate and everywhere in between really. I'm one of those guys who is comfortable from borough to borough, I consider all of N.Y. my other home, my home away from home. I still have a lot of people out there. When I was little it depended on where my dad's job was at but that's why under location it says CA / NY, I've lived across both states in different towns and cities all my life.

That's part of where my early origins in hip hop and the connections I have today all started, just bein' in the right places at the right times I guess.

This post has been edited by The Big Sleep: 23 June 2010 - 06:41 PM

[The Big Sleep]

Scrapz, on 23 June 2010 - 07:34 PM, said:

Thanks a lot Big Sleep, I love how you're always bringing us something new right out of the blue.

That's a pretty funny article, it's nice hearing new stuff about L from the man himself. Thanks again man.

No problem brother, yeah, I think that's how I gotta do it every once in a while, you can't always plan it out, you have to post something unexpectedly sometimes, it keeps it interesting that way. Glad you agree.

For sure, that's a huge part of why I was asking around trying to track this down somehow, I remembered it having some of the funnier interviewers.

Yeah exactly, it's not just the same ol' Q&A sesh, there were actually "new" questions and "new" answers.

And thank you for randomly showing up for my randomly timed thread.

[BeatBoxing]

I read this article twice in a row because its so good. Thanks for the add Sleep

[The Big Sleep]

No problem brother, glad you liked it.

[The Big Sleep]

The original scans given to me by IRISH_CRAIG have now been added to the original post, he still plans to re-scan his copy in even higher quality but here's a look at the full article for now:

http://www.mediafire...key=gny4dydgkuy

http://www.mediafire...key=itgcnydw5zy

This post has been edited by The Big Sleep: 07 July 2010 - 10:55 AM

[patKa]

Thanks for the scans Sleep, they're great!