May 2006

GOSPEL OF GHOST

Wu-Tang legend Ghostface Killah dropped knowledge in our Questionnaire. Those who should shut up included “Magazine motherfuckers asking me the same questions all the fucking time. I don’t want to hear that same shit, like ‘Yo, what’s up with Wu?’ and ‘How’d you get your name?’ I don’t like that shit.” We’re glad he achieved success, because if not, “I might have a gun to your kidneys right now. I might’ve been in your house. I might be dead. I might be paralyzed or in jail. I got no high school education. That leaves me with fewer options where I gotta be getting my hands dirty, G.”

THE FEIST FLING

In an interview about Open Season, a full-length collection of remixes of her 2004 album Let It Die, Leslie Feist revealed the unusual origins of a particular track, “Lonely Lonely (Frisbee’d Mix)”: someone threw it onto the stage at a show in London, UK. “It was in a plastic slipcover and literally almost got crushed under my heel as I walked offstage. I stuck it in my pocket, put it on in my hotel room and was floored. I know that melody inside and out and I know the time signature, yet [the remixer] found a new way to deliver them.”