The Past/Your Career:

U-GOD: Hell yeah I would still have been with the Wu.  One thing I would do differently is not get incarcerated during the making of Enter the 36 Chambers plus not sign with Wu-Tang Records/Priority Records and signed with Universal instead.  Overall I would not change the struggle I have gone through, it has helped me write rhymes and keeps me strong.

U-GOD: With 9 of us, helped me to move and think quickly in the studio.

U-GOD: The verse I did on ‘Black Jesus’ for the Ghostface Killah – Ironman album is my favorite, but I feel like I never got to really finish it, I wish the verse had gone on longer.

U-GOD: Don't ask me that gay shit

 

U-GOD:  Barry White - Greatest Hits
              Marvin Gaye – Here My Dear
              Slick Rick - The Great Adventure of Slick Rick
                              Atlantic Starr
              Donna Summers

U-GOD:  No favorite track overall, trying to top everything I have already done and keep pushin’ myself.

U-GOD:  I am WU.  All of us are. Wu-Tang stands for Witty, Unpredictable, Talent and Natural Game.  So basically I can do what the fuck I want to do and I can come with any kind of music I want to...This is Wu-tang people! On Mr. Xcitement, my first solo album since Golden Arms, I wanted to do my thing. I challenge myself to stay musically adventurous. Either you’re with me on that or you’re not. Stay tuned for more albums, tracks and collabos from me. Mr. Xcitement is a new beginning for me.

U-GOD:  You're not living our life.  You are looking at it from the outside in and not grasping the magnitude, size and complexities of our group. What is G-Unit, three dudes really and why don’t they rep Shady or Aftermath. Wu-Tang is RZA's baby, niggaz wanted to start their own shit, their own biz.  We’re 15 years into this, at this point in the game, everyone has their own crew of artist, producers and shit that’s got nothin’ to do with the other Wu dudes.

U-GOD:   Expectations get bigger yet people don't want us to grow as musicians, they want us to stay the same, keep us in a box.  They want us to put out a 100 C.R.E.A.M.'s (which was a club/radio hit by the way). If we did that, we’d be stagnant and you’d find a new reason to say why the Wu fell off.  As for me, I am underground. I ain’t afraid to take a musical chance. When we do Wu albums, I let the Wu be the Wu. I’m still going to do what I want to do on my solo albums.  I’m not up in my room watching 5 Deadly Venoms 24 hours a day 15 years later. If the club I was at last night was hot to death and I’m feelin’ it, I’m going to write a club track.

U-GOD:  It obviously upset me.  Hell fuckin' yeah we were close, I’ve known for a long long time so of course we were close. I knew him before he was ODB when he was A Son Unique and he just to drink Ballentine Ale and he used to beat box. What kind of wake up call?  What are you talking about? It blows my mind, there is so much mis-perceptions, flat out wrong ideas and straight out lies about what goes on inside Wu-Tang and people just take it hook line and sinker. People hear something and take it as gospel without using their common sense.  

 U-GOD:  There is always a missing sound.  Someone is always discovering new types of music.  It’s considered underground until the media embraces it or the majors spend millions of dollars to make you believe you love it. Stop talking about G-Unit, get off their dick.  When Wu was on top, the press said we was doing it and they were on our dick, then Jay-Z, etc.  And when we get back on top, everybody will be on our dick again. It’s the natural cycle of music.

Your Album/Recent Events:

U-GOD:  I’ve got the usual couple of sample clearance problems that we’ll work clearing again for the next time but yeah, I’m real happy with the way this album turned out. Plus, I’m already half way through my next album.

 U-GOD:  I’m on my way to Swizterland this week for a show. I need a European promoter, do you know one you can set me up with?  Get me out there.

 U-GOD:  I recorded the majority in pre-production before entering the studio.  That  gave me some raw Wu element from back in the day.  Once I started, I was flowing, That's it!

U-GOD:  I did some music for his fights, we got close.  He's a cool dude!  Get free tickets to fights, thanks to Kimmy in his office.

The Future: 

U-GOD:  Why wouldn’t I be?

U-GOD:  I’ve got some cool things in the works that I don’t want to speak on yet. Right now it’s all about Mr. Xcitement. Check me out on myspace.com/ugodzilla. That’s where I’m going to post new music, remixes, that kind of stuff.

U-GOD:  If you have some that want to collaborate with me, call me up.

U-GOD:  That’s the plan. Like I said, I’m on my way to Switzerland right after this interview.

U-GOD:  Don't like to talk about the future and what I am doing in the future, people like to copy what I do but saying that yeah Mr. Xcitement is only the beginning, you’re going to see a lot more projects from me.

  U-GOD:  

    EXCITING!  That's why it is called Mr. Xcitement.

(Thank you so much to U-God, and freeagencyrecordings.com  for the interview)