“I’m the most important, hardest little brother you realize,” raps Bushwick Invoice on “Who’s the Largest” from his newest album, Phantom of the Rapra. At 4′ 2″ tall, Invoice has survived the ghettoes of Jamaica’s Trench City, Brooklyn and Houston’s infamous Fifth Ward, in addition to the barbs of everybody from David Geffen—who refused to launch the album by his band, the Geto Boys, that featured the notorious slasher epic “Thoughts of a Lunatic”—to Bob Dole and William Bennett, who’ve used the identical track to gasoline their current assault on gangsta rap.
Just like the equally brief hero of Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum, Bushwick Invoice’s an offended prophet preaching purpose however predicting doom. And, if his Republican rivals solely knew his stance in opposition to each welfare and abortion, they’d see him as their poster boy for the American dream.
“Rap has created entrepreneurship for the black neighborhood,” explains the 28-year-old rapper, whereas demonstrating his strategy of rolling a Phillies Blunt right into a cone-shaped spliff. “It’s type of just like the dope recreation, in that it’s a solution to economically help your loved ones. However with medication, you’re destroying the ’hood to construct it up.”
A Scriptures-quoting Bible scholar, Bushwick Invoice graduated from a Minneapolis seminary earlier than transferring to Houston, the place he was found by the top of Rap-A-Lot Information in a restaurant “pop-lockin’ and doin’ the Pee-Wee Herman” in between busing tables. Invoice taught himself to rap after becoming a member of the Geto Boys in 1986. When his proper eye was shot out by a girlfriend in a dispute he recounts on “Ever So Clear,” a monitor from his almost gold ’92 solo debut. Little Large Man Invoice underwent a born-again expertise. “It’s fucked up I needed to lose an eye fixed to see issues clearly,” he laments.
Insisting “I like democracy, however I would like my Republican greenback,” Invoice’s politics are eclectic. “I can’t be blended, diluted or shook, however I could be packaged.” As for the ’96 election, Invoice says about one other Invoice: “Clinton is all proper with me. So what if he smoked weed and didn’t inhale? He’s nonetheless considered one of us. We acquired considered one of us within the White Home. He’s smokin’ weed on the cool, tappin’ his spouse from the again, drinkin’ a 40 and watchin’ the information. He’s as nigga because the White Home can get.”
How ’bout Bushwick Invoice for our Commander in Chief?
“Hey, if Ronald Reagan, an actor, can grow to be President,” asks Invoice, “why not a rapper who can act like a President?”
Demonized by the media and politicians, Bushwick Invoice has the final phrase: “I don’t have a look at myself as handicapped. I have a look at the system of presidency as the true handicap. It makes you imagine you’ll be able to solely get to a sure stage in life. I don’t imagine there’s something I can’t obtain if I put my thoughts to it.”
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