Why did you name your group Super Chron Flight Brothers? Why not just Billy Woods & Priviledge?
Edge: I think Super Chron Flight brothers is just funnier and more interesting than billy woods and Priviledge. You tend to get a much bigger reaction out of that. Plus the obvious weed reference.
The name, Super Chron Flight Brothers, oviously refers to weed. What´s your favourite hip hop track about weed?
Edge: How to Roll a Blunt-Redman
Billy Woods: That is a tough one. I would probably say either I got 5 on it by the Luniz or Don’t Gimme No Bammer Weed by RBL Posse. Redman could get up in there too but I would take Pick It Up or Green Island.
Dave Chappelle said in What´s Worth that if the Afro-American people get high they talk about their problems and if the white people get high they talk about their last experience with smoking weed. Is it true?
Edge: I think that it is a very funny joke, and I think Dave Chappelle is hilarious, but as far as real life is concerned I think everybody talks about their problems when their stoned, and also they talk about other times when they were really high. I’ve got plenty of white friends who won’t shut up about their problems ever, and certainly not when their stoned. And then I also know black people who only want to tell you about how high they got when they were smoking someone else’s weed, as they smoke yours.
Which rapper has the best weed?
Billy Woods: I havent smoked with them all so I can’t really say but I would be willing to theorize that Snoop is up there in terms of quality. Then again how the fuck would I know, to be honest, its not like I know those dudes. I did once know a kid who was working for the Diplomats back in the day and we were both copping from the same source except those guys were getting piles of the best Haze in the city just for one recording session. If it wasn’t the flight he wouldn’t even cop because he was like if it aint the best shit they don’t want it.
You have a track called European Safari on Emergency Powers. What´s this song about?
Edge: It’s basically just me and woods, jus messin around, jus havin a laugh. That is one of my absolute favorite songs on the album; it can be interpreted many ways. For me it’s kinda of like an exercise in verbal dexterity, held together with a topically referential rhyme scheme i.e. "Its star fox, and sly cooper", and "Its Eddie Haskell, and Brau Man from the 5 th floor"
Billy Woods: That’s a good description, just kind of an introduction to how Super Chron gets down. Its interesting because me and Bond made that beat together and then after I left he flipped another version of it that ended up being on the bonus disc Tour Support and laced the accapella for this Reavers song over it, really dope. I was like damn, the beat he made by himself is kinda better. If you have Tour Support, the song is called European Piracy, Bond really outdid himself on that flip.
What are the most interesting facts about the album?
Billy Woods: That is a tough one to answer being that I am looking at it from the inside, I have no idea what other people might answer that with. I guess having Cannibal Ox, Trife da God and Marq Spekt on the same album is interesting. I think it’s also interesting because me and Edge have been rhyming together for a while but that this is our first full project is interesting too but yeah, you have to ask someone else that one.
Edge: It’s a pretty dense album with lots of facts, also lots of exaggerations, and absurdities. My favorite fact is that it’s out in stores RIGHT NOW!!! Go Cop It!!!!
Do you think that Terror Firma by The Reavers was a slept-on record?
Billy Woods: No question. Fact is, there are a lot of incredible atists on that record and I guarantee that when it is all said and done that album will be notable for that reason, if nothing else. AKIR, Goldenchild, Hasan Salaam, Vordul Mega, Karniege, Masters, Kong & Spiega from Monsta Island Czars, that lineup was deep and the record took some chances. At the same time that record has its adherents, the people who got it really got it. We will see whats up when we do the next one and Hi-Coup is a part of it.
Edge: I would have like to see it move some more units, but I’m sure everybody feels that way about every record they put out. I think that some of the critics didn’t really get what we were trying to do, but that’s to be expected. I personally think to say it was slept on isn’t fair to all the fans of that record who paid for and love it, but sure it could have been shown some more love by certain factions.
Your father comes from Zimbabwe. Do you watch the political situation over there?
Billy Woods: Yes, I do, I was born in the US but I grew up in Zimbabwe. As anyone can see the situation in Zimbabwe is pretty fucking bad but there are a lot of questions that are not being answered or asked. The blame for the current situation is placed squarely by the international press only on the ruling party and to be sure, they are part of the problem at this point but there is more to it than that. Zimbabwe is portrayed as this perfect place until Mugabe ousted the white farmers but I grew up during Zimbabwe’s heyday and there were major problems of land distribution, class stratification, rural poverty and broken promises by foreign groups and the Zibabwean government. These problems have not been addressed correctly but I sense that some in the West thought they didn’t need addressing at all. The force of sanctions and international condemnation combined with the utter failures of the ruling party has certainly broken Zimbabwe but we are a resilient people. As long as widespread violence does not occur or any coplete breakdown of the State, I think things will be turned around. Time will tell.
What´s next for Billy Woods?
Billy Woods: Edge & I are going to be touring, we are going to Europe in the fall hopefully. I did a track with the Invizbl Men for their album on Backwoodz, that’s Karniege & Marq Spekt, and I‘ gonna do a couple tracks on Vordul’s next album, working on some things here and there with
Nasa from Uncommon Music. Hopefully we got another Reavers album soetime soon. As far as solo stuff, I am going to do an album of some sort with Bond but I really don’t have any idea what we will do with it. The way the industry is going it might be digital only or something, we will see. Either way it is going to be Bond doing all the production, and we will probably finally get around to remastering and repressing Camouflage. That was the first record I did, but its not really a solo because Vordul is on 6 tracks. It was really just Vordul helping me get in the game, we used to sit and burn L’s and just write all the time, rhyme all the time and then he was just like yo, you should be recording. Bond came though with most of the beats and Monokrome was my engineer and he also played a big part in it because honestly I had no idea what I was doing as far as working in a studio.To this day I have worked with very few engineers that could bring that perfect touch to a song like Monokrome can, so I was very lucky because between him, Vordul and Bond I was supported by a lot of genius on that project. If the end result is any good it probably reflects them as much as me. But yeah, I want to do this album with Bond and whatever, maybe we just put it on Itunes, who knows but I just want to do it.
