***On another track on the album, “Killuminati,” you really go in on secret society conspiracy theorists. Those theories are so ingrained in Internet culture. Do you think people will ever be able to move beyond these alleged connections between Hip Hop and the Illuminati?

It goes so deep. I wish I could say that it was phony. I say that because I don’t know if the Illuminati is a universal thing or if it’s really physically a group of people who sit around and plot what’s about to happen. I don’t know if that’s the case, because if you look at how many people have not been around. A lot of people died. A lot of people won’t make it to even see the Illuminati come true or passage of its vision.

I was just talking about down with the [New York] Daily News. I hate that paper. I always say, “the Daily News brings you the daily blues.” I can’t stand that paper. Yet, it does promote Illuminatism. Why? Because it’s always promoting something about how eventually your freedom is going to be turned into crap. You think freedom is just being able to walk around as much as you please? Even that’s going to stop.

Freedom is not just walking around as much as you please. [Real] freedom is having the freedom of your own person. Freedom of living in your own world. You don’t want somebody watching you all day, every day when you get on the train, off the train. All of these things are real. Right now they have cameras on the trains.

Is that what inspired that track?

I’ve always been in touch and in tune with that whole vibe, that whole phenomenon of the Illuminati. It just means those who are in the light. That’s all Illuminati means. So those who are in the light of a computer before it hit the public were considered the Illuminati. Because those were the people who able to trade stocks, invest.

Those who didn’t know were like, “Nah, get out of here.” Those who knew made millions of dollars. Of course they’re going to be considered the Illuminati, because they made millions and they’re not around for you to see them. The cycle just goes on and on and on.

All the pawns of the Illuminati – the cops, the banks - those are little kids. They’re not in touch with no Illuminati. Hip Hop – we’ve always been in touch with the consciousness. Like I said, ever since KRS-One. That ain’t nothing that’s new to Hip Hop.

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