Thanks goes out to Mosi Reeves who originally conducted thie interview for the January 3-9 2001 copy of The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper.

The following is an interview supplement that was not included in the online version of the interview we had posted previously. Enjoy.

I Wish My Brother George Was Here (Elektra, 1991)

"At first I looked down on it because people around me were like, 'Man, that ain't the hard shit.' Now, when I look back on it, I really see that was a fun time for me.

The whole album was constructed hella tight. There are some things I would have changed: I didn't like the clarity of it, and I would have liked it to be a little nastier. But all in all, that's the best one I've done.

DJ Pooh was the one who actually put the album together. I learned a lot from watching Poo, too. That's what got me to the stage I'm at now."

No Need For Alarm (Elektra, 1993)

"That, I think, is my worst album. Emotionally, I was crippled at that time, going through a lot of ridiculous shit, getting hella fucked up, not really focusing at all.

A lot of people think that's my best album because I really showed people I could bust, that I wasn't just the fluff they may have interpreted me to be from my first album. But I lost two-thirds of my audience from that, you know what I'm saying?"

Future Development (Hieroglyphics Dot Com, 1996)

"That was a good album, me coming back into what I'm really about and making that circle. It never really got mixed or nothing because I was dropped before it was finished. It could have been better than it was, but the idea was there. I started thinking more about the listeners and what they wanted to listen to, even though some of it was directed by what I think I should do."

Hieroglyphics "Third Eye Vision" (Hiero Imperium, 98)

"My honest opinion is that we didn't work that hard on it. We're about to do a new Hiero album, and I'm already telling motherfuckers from jump street, 'Man, motherfuckers gonna have to put in some work on this.'

I can see why, when it was reviewed, a lot of people was like, 'They're dope and everything, they can rap and all that, but this album ain't hella the bump. It's cool 'cause niggas is talented, so it's going to be good.' But at this point, niggas is judging us on a higher [standard]. Like, 'At this point, y'all should be a little farther than this.' And people are right."

Both Sides of the Brain (Hiero Imperium, 2000)

"That's when I really started peeping, since it was my solo thing without the label or nobody hindering me. I was like, 'OK, now I get to do what I want.' And I knew where my head was.

Deltron 3030 (75 Ark, 2000)

"Half of it was [similiar to 'Both Sides of the Brain'], then halfway in it, I started peeping a lot more about what I could do with my music. So it balanced itself out."