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Elephant Man: No where else but JAMAICA! Right where Im at now, uptown. The breeze is cool, its peaceful, lots of pretty girls. Montana: If you could have your career follow the path of any artist past or present, who would you choose?Elephant Man: I want my career to follow the almighty Lord. I dont wanna follow nobody. I just want to be like Elephant. Montana: What religion are you? Elephant Man: I just believe in the Lord. He give me my life. Hes the one whos given me my talent.Montana: Do you think that G-d could be a woman? Elephant Man: If the Lords a woman a man a frog a bee a bird, you know you know you know . Montana: So you dont consider yourself a part of any religion? Ele: I just believe in the lord. The man who created heaven and earth and build me anew, thats my religion. M: What are some of your favorite songs right now? E: (sings) rkelleys come in to ignition..something..fresh out the kitchen and I like (sings) what Im gonna do with you from fabulous. M: What about old tunes? E: I like, you know, some Biggie (sings) uh, sicka than your average. M: Whats your favorite country to perform in? E: I like New York and Miami. Those are my two places. I own those places. M: Whats going on with Harry Toddler? They say hes over in London doing some things E: Doing some things? Like what? M: I dont know. I heard some bad things I dont want to repeat, some bad things. E: Everybody got their own opinion, but I cant say because I dont know him as that person. It might be someone whos trying to hate on him trying to say that. M: Whats up with Scare Dem crew? There have been rumours youre getting back together. Any reunion in the future? E: No. no reunion, its just me alone. Theyre my friends, but no reunion. NO reunion at all. M: After what happened to you in London when you were robbed, are you going back there? E: To London? I aint going back to no London. They disrespected me in London. They robbed me and my friend Kiprich and killed my friend Village and tried to put things the wrong way. I dont like to remember that day, man. I dont like to remember that day. I begged father G-d the day him make me leave London I thanked him, you, them wicked in London. Im never going back there. Them wicked. Between some of the promoters and some of the guys over there, them wicked. But yo, I leave them to G-d. M: Some people try to say your tunes arent original and that it degrades the music. E: Everybody got their own opinion. Im just doing my own thing. You cant live for people. Im just doing my thing, you gotta do what you do best. Im not going to downgrade them or curse them. Theyre just doing what they do best, HATING! If they heard that Elephant man was killing people now, youd hear something else. But Im trying to live and feed my family and take care of myself. Some of them are going to hate. Let them hate. What happened to the ones that love you? You gonna make the ones who hate you make you be like THEM and forget who loves you? M: Do you have any pets? E: Yeah man, I love dogs and I love birds and I love rabbits and all them stuff. I LOVE pets and I love fish. M: But do YOU have a pet? E: Yeah, I got a shark. I keep him in my big tank at my home. I love sharks. I got a BIG shark. M: Anything else you want to say to the people? E: I love my fans and without them I couldnt be where I am and just remember the almighty comes first- G-d over Devil. And bring your queen and leave your machine. Stay far from drugs because drugs are the Devil. Burn your weed but stay far from drugs and dont season your spliff because drugs are the devil. You done know. Weed is the lord and drugs is the devil. Higher Level. This interview took place in Chicago, Illinois USA on
April 2, 2003. Big thanks to acultureshock
and momoney promotions and Elephant Man himself. |