A Public Apology to Bizzy Bone

Yooooo a lot of controversy has arisen from me posting this interview last week. I got a couple calls last night after the Allhiphop story came out telling me that Bizzy and his people were angry and at the time, I was thinking to myself, "Why?" All I thought I did, was what I normally do, recorded the show and posted it online. The fact that Bizzy was on the show acting wild was just a bonus. Why would he be mad at me? He came in, he acted that way, that's it. You can hear it for yourself.

But fact is, one of my statements in the post on my blog was taken out of context. And this is the statement:

"And man, when you listen to the Bizzy Bone interview, you'll hear a man on the verge of a breakdown, trying to hold it together and contain his rage, sadness and multiple intoxications in the hopes of presenting a quality interview. And then you'll hear Bizzy straight whylin' out like a demon possessed."

The first sentence is referring to me. I can totally see how it could be taken as referring to Bizzy but if you read the entire post you will see that I was talking more about how I walked into the station and was informed that our show had been cut by one hour. Not only did I have Bizzy Bone in the guest room yelling here and there and at times kind of dancing around, I had my station manger telling me that we were being cut by one hour, for whatever fucking reason. Yes I am still mad about that.

So if you read the first part you'll see that I am going off a bit, trying to keep my cool about the situation at the station. And during the Bizzy interview I was honestly trying to keep my cool as well, because I was mad at something totally unrelated to Bizzy, I was mad at our time being cut. I was trying to get my head around that.

The key word in the above quote is "PRESENTING." I was the presenter of the interview. I said I was angry, sad and full of multiple intoxications. Anyone who knows me knows that um, after dark, I'm pretty much always full of multiple intoxications. Mostly beer, and well, of course some of that wacky tabaccky. Pretty much anyone who knows me, knows that, but the other 10,000 people who read that, didn't. And honestly beer doesn't even make me drunk anymore, it kind of calms me down and helps me sleep.

Anyway, so what I was saying is I was sitting there, sad, mad and had already had a few beers that evening and smoked me one good one earlier. Damage Control is chaos and I am a livewire, I seriously have to wind down a bit before going up there. People get all in my face at times and I have to stay calm. That's not to say I was drunk or stoned out of my mind, I wasn't. But yeah, that was a pretty accurate desciption of my mindstate preceeding and during that interview.

Look at the second sentence, I say "And then you hear Bizzy.." That should have seperated us but it didn't I suppose. I honestly didn't even notice that part in the allhiphop story, in which they quoted my blog as saying Bizzy was angry, sad and full of multiple intoxicants. THAT is obviously where the controversy really sparked and I am sorry for that. I should have read that thing better and made the change immediately.

Fact is, I maybe should not have said "LIKE a demon possessed," but listen for yourself and tell me what you think when you hear those low growls and shit. Seriously, what do you think when you hear that shit? It was ill.

So in defense of me, I had a statement taken out of context. In defense of Bizzy, no one really knows what is really going on in his mind and no one should assume that they do. But fact of the matter is, he put himself out there like that, I did my best to hold down a decent interview and it got both of us loads of attention. Good or bad, Bizzy I think is used to the media and how it works. You take it for what it's worth and capitalize off of it the best you can.

I will say right here that I have no idea as to what Bizzy may do with his personal time. I don't care. I like dude as an artist and appreciate him for coming by and giving me a compelling interview. I'm sorry if I didn't fully understand everything he was saying at the time, it does get a bit more coherent on subsequent listens, but shit I don't care who you are, you would have done the same thing. Or you would have crashed. I think I held it together fairly well, as best I could, and that's the deal. I don't know what else to say. I certainly was not trying to insult Bizzy or spread false rumors. He knows how the media machine works and I am glad he has been able to release statements and go on Russ Parr and have a chance to clear it up.

If he wants to come down to Damage Control again to clear things up he is welcome, if he wants to call in he is welcome. I am down for whatever. I don't want to defame the dude I just want to do great radio and bring the music to the people, like I do everyday.

If anyone out there has ties to Bizzy, please get him in touch with me as no one seems to be able to get me any contact info.

Thanks for your time, hopefully our new shorter Damage Control this week will be just as good as last week.