MC Lars, ILL BILL - The Dialogue lyrics

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 Psycho+Logical, 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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives 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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives 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 favourite 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 CDs)
(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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives 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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives 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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives 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 time that I've failed
(As many times that I've won)
As many lives I touch, the dialogue has begun

Hey yo Bill, we should do a track together
(Word, word, let's do that)
Oh wait, we just did