VillageVoice.com: Q&A: Pharoahe Monch On Growing Up in Queens, Twitter, Pizza, and Porn
Did the the music you were making sound anything like the early Organized Konfusion stuff?
Nah, we were pretty wack at that point in my mind; we weren’t Organized Konfusion, we weren’t anything. We just realized we wanted to make a tape. Hearing myself back for the first time, beatboxing and what we did, the great thing was I was able to go home and be like, “This shit is horrible, it’s the worst shit I ever heard!” So I told Prince in order to make it better these are the things we need to implement. Prince was like, “You got to write some rhymes yourself to fill up the fuckin’ tape!” That was the start of my writing process.
So did attending the High School Of Art And Design help your writing process?
It was amazing, that shaped everything. My ability to imagine was expanded beyond comprehension — there was no limit to it and it was spawned by that school and being around like-minded individuals and so much competition.
