Bol in XXL (sort of)

A while back, Elliott "Mellow Yellow" Wilson, the IF Stone of silly rap magazines, had one of his interns email every third blogger on the Internets about doing an interview with him to help promote that XXL Raps CD he was putting out.

Admittedly, I was less than interested in the CD and I may never get around to actually picking up a copy of XXL (at 24, I may have missed my window for that sort of thing). But I figured what the fuck; this guy is the editor of an important magazine and I know he had some issues in the past with Hashim and jimbrah izrael, so I figured he might have something interesting to say.

So we ended up doing the interview that weekend. He seemed like a nice enough guy, and I could appreciate the fact that he was willing to put up with my rank amateurism without getting too testy (nullus?). I didn't have too many questions for him, so I kinda let him ramble on about his important work at the magazine and how important it is to get paid.

Since he made it such a focal point of the interview (he mentioned it like 8 times) I tried to get him to reveal exactly how much he gets paid from XXL, but he wouldn't budge on that point. Not even a little bit. I did sorta kinda get him to call both Prodigy and 50 Cent gay, which I consider an accomplishment on a par with the time I had the word "jig" published in Slate.

I figured I would try to have the interview up by the beginning of the next week, before jimbrah could get his up, but then I got caught up with some important volunteer work that I do with the elderly and also children. The next thing you know, it was a week later and 40 different sites had published theirs.

Since mine wasn't especially different, I figured I might just pull the interesting parts and post them, but I never really got around to that, either. Mellow Yellow then emailed me and was like, When are you going to post the interview? I told him whatever I needed to tell him to get him off my back, and the next thing you know it was going on Festivus. The interview most likely wasn't going to happen.

Anyhoo, here's what Mellow Yellow had to say about the incident in the editorial of this month's XXL, pictured above:

...shout outs to all the bloggers and rap Web sites across America--the ones who interviewed me about my album, XXL Raps Vol. 1, and ran typo-filled interviews, and even the fuckers who didn't have the courage and/or the skills to post them up.  Thanks for wasting my time and yours.  I don't talk too fast, you just listen too slow...

Aww dang....

From what I understand, Bomani Jones and Hashim also did interviews with His Yellowness and have yet to post them, so I guess that goes out to all 3 of us lazy black bastards. Since he made such a big deal of it, I think I will try to post some excerts from mine, if not the whole thing Monday.

But don't take my word for it, because something might come up.

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TRIVIA TIME: Does everybody else here know that Donovan named the song "Mellow Yellow" after a vibrator they used to advertise in women's magazines back in the late '60s? Yep, it's true!

(nullus)

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KINDA IRRELEVANT: The important poll in the sidebar will end Monday, when I'll post the results (or forget to). If you haven't already, vote. If you have, you might even want to vote again, if it'll let you.

Comments

[jeliza]

Stop pissing about Bol and just put the interview up.

[John Q.]

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2006/01/24/310989.html

[James]

This site blows, dude. I wan the interview. What the deal homie?

[WJC]

Just because someone takes the time to let you interview them, doesn't mean they should expect a story to run. That's Journo 101, bitch.

[A to the L]

Elliot Wilson is the Nas of this journalism shit. Meaning that when he first got a little bit of fame, he and his band of warriors at Ego Trip were the Peoples' Champs (no Paul Wallus)... taking on the might of The Source, Rap Pages (lol) and whatever other MASSIVE mags did their best to run arse-licking interviews with Kris Kross or Common Sense at the time. Then the fame went to his head, and he started wearing white suits and hanging out with fake gangsters (like Nas in the Street Dreams video) before plumbing even lower depths by working with the very cats he and his fans used to take the piss out of it in the beginning. Nowadays, he's a bit of a joke, occasionally releasing the odd-thought provoking piece, but still nothing that hits the standards of his earlier days, and usually staggering around annoying the youngsters like a drunken uncle at a wedding. All the while he's snuggling up to people that he (in his prime) would never have fucked with, while the people who supported him enough to put him in that position sigh and shake their heads.

And post about it on internet messageboards.

Nas is a tool. So is Elliot Wilson.

The end.

[Hashim]

my interview was boring, once i really looked at it. But let's race...I bet I'll have mine up before yours.

[i'm the skwidawd]

"The end."

^^ well put.

[Won't]

Yawn.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

[Robbie]

I can't believe he got mad about that shit.

He really needs a hobby.

[nastack.com]

Lol @ every third blogger.

[ja fool]

Lol @ nastack.com laughing @ every third blogger!

[www.bolisgay.com]

Lol @ ja fool lol @ nastack lol @ every third blogger. P.s. Bol is fat.

[noz]

that's funny, i "set up" an email interview but then never sent him questions after much procrastination.

[John Q.]

Lol @ www.bolisgay.com lol @ ja fool lol @ nastack lol @ every third blogger.

[Barrayn]

Did he refer to himself in the 3rd person as that yellow nigga? Just curious...

[jimi]

I had hoped he was building bridges, but I think he was just kinda in it for what he could get, and it's a bad look that's gonna bite him. But on one hand, it's brilliant, because now a segment of the population that never knew he was or gave a fuck now knows. Personally, I think he's smart in a half-a-Rainman kinda way. Smart by accident. He looks like one of the lost Letter People or Bert with a texturizer.

[Uptown Sinclair]

See what had happened was he had posted what he had thought of when he had gotten the time had had had

[UH HUH]

"When are you going to post the interview? I told him whatever I needed to tell him to get him off my back"

SO BASICALLY YOU RODE HIM TILL HE SHUT UP?

[amanda wenk rocks]

If Wilson thinks that Fiddy and his weed carrier are so gay, than why does he let them and their Aftermath peeps be on the cover of XXL so much?

[Nicole]

Good site! I'll stay reading! Keep improving!