emajyn- …so with the season album concept the motif seems to be this thing of change. Like what is change? The seasons change, you talk a lot about change…
Qwel- Change is like first cousins with suffering. Change is the painful thing that we all… see we are conscious of growing, the tree isn’t conscious of growing, but the side effect of being conscious of growing is pain. Man you want your muscles to grow bigger you have to pop your muscles so they grow back bigger, you want your hair to grow thicker you have to shave, kill it and it grows. That is one of things that we’ve neglected with all our science is like pain is the physical sensation of change to some extent. Because our free will makes us so intelligent we’ve made ourselves unwise. No serious there are two different intelligences. There’s reading books, but wisdom is like if you touch a burnt cigarette you won’t do that again. You don’t have to remember it and show it off to your fucking F. Scott Fitzgerald friends. You know it forever, youknowwhatImsayin. But we know F. Scott Fitzgerald and we know so many of these other details that we the lose the big scheme of things a lot and shit. I dunno man… we just neglected that sensation I think.
emajyn- I think its on your track asceticism, you talk about at the end when your done rhyming one thing that will be a conduit of change is this thing that we live forever.
Qwel- we really, really do live forever dawg. Man I don’t know, I just see it. Even physics the first law of fucking thermodynamics, and that’s like everything is thermodynamics and shit like Einstein and all these motherfuckers. But the first law of thermodynamics says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Okay I agree with you. It just exists. When Moses said to God ‘what should I tell people to call you.’ Call me ‘I am’. The I am that I am. I exist. That sensation, that realization. The only way you can really appreciate and understand that situation is when you realize I am. Okay you learn what am I. Where am I?When am I? How am I? And then ultimately when you start talking to Him, its like why am I? He holds the answers to all the whys. Where a bird flys, how it flys, when it flys, what is a bird, why does it fly? nobody knows…I gotta go watch this booth man, serious man.
emajyn-all right cool man, thanks a lot Qwel.
(a hip hop head who was listening in on the conversation who I started talking to after Qwel went back inside to sell product)- I’ll tell you right now Qwel is the greatest mc in the world right now. Bar none. Involve every element of hip hop, it doesn’t matter, Qwel is the greatest in the world. I’m not trying to convince you, its just a fact. And there is nothing anyone can do about for probably another couple of years. We’ll see how long he lasts. But right now he is the best.
emajyn- yea he keeps putting out those albums. Well you heard it straight from… whats your name man…
hip hop head- Luciano,
emajyn-Luciano?
Luciano-Luciano (with an Italian accent) whats your name?
emajyn- Jesse
Luciano- hell yeah
emajyn- cool man, thanks, peace.
So that concludes the inner view with Qwel. I had planned to ask at least one more question, like what he wanted on his epitaph, what he wants to be known for, what legacy he wants to leave on this earth, but oh well. I was blessed to say the least to get the conversation that I did. I think I agree with Luciano to, Qwel is one of the best mcs, but his music is the type of music that grows on you. Ask my homie Ms.haps who introduced me to Qwel and he’ll tell you I wasn’t feeling him at first. But his stuff just grew on me. I’m learning more and more that crazy good things can happen when we slow down our busy lives and take time to listen. peace.
