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DMX Gives Great Interview

I just read the greatest interview ever. XXL Magazine interviewed DMX and asked him about a whole slew of shit, but his reaction to Barack Obama is priceless as well as his ability to not give a shit about anything, and by anything I really mean this guy isn't aware of anything at all.

Here are the best parts, the full interview is here.

How do you feel about the digital—like, everything going through the Internet as far as...
I don't even think about it. I don't even think about it.

Right, but do you think there's a reason that rap isn't selling like it was in your day?
Yeah 'cause niggas ain't saying nothing. People ain't saying nothing. Ain't but so many people... Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that buy records 'cause they listen to every song. They not feeding the people properly.

Do you think it's a good thing that Southern music is pretty much dominating the game? There's no cats from New York, you know. It seems like there hasn't been in awhile. What do you think about that?
What do I think about Southern music?

Yeah.
I really don't think about it.

You don't think about it?
I really don't care for it. To focus on other shit is a fuckin' headache.

What were you doing in between—from the last album to this one, that whole time? What have you been up to?
Life. I been up to that. It's been crazy. Fuckin' police keep on fuckin' raiding my house and shit for nothing. They took all my fuckin' guns. All they did is take is take my guns. All they fuckin' do is fuck my house up and take my guns. That's all they did. Straight robbed me—that's what they did.

Are you happy with how your last two albums did as far as sales?
Oh yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy with whatever they do.

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You're not? You know there's a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there's Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.

Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain't no fuckin' name, yo. That ain't that nigga's name. You can't be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.

You're telling me you haven't heard about him before.
I ain't really paying much attention.

I mean, it's pretty big if a Black...
Wow, Barack! The nigga's name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain't his fuckin' name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, "Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit" [laughs] "That ain't your fuckin' name." Your momma ain't name you no damn Barack.

So you're not following the race. You can't vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you're not following it?
No, because it's just—it doesn't matter. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. It doesn't really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess.... What, they gon' give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should've done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn't be in the fuckin' position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, "Here you take it. Take my mess."

Right, exactly.
It's all a fuckin' setup. It's all a setup. All fuckin' bullshit. All bullshit. I don't give a fuck about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn't matter. I don't care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don't make no damn decisions.

The president...they don't have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.

But Bush pretty much...
You think Bush is making fuckin' decisions?

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.

He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin' speak!
Can't be serious. He ain't making no damn decisions.

Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.
Good for him, good for him.

Are you happy right now?
I don't wanna be happy.

Why not?

'Cause when you happy you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

Right, 'cause when you're happy you think you're safe and you don't...
Yeah, you get sleepy happy.