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!

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