This interview was conducted in November, 1992.



Why do you call yourselves Lench Mob?

Lench Mob: Brother Cube started that back in early '90, and he said he wanted to form a group called Lench Mob. At the time there wasn't really a big definition for the group, but now we can break it down. All the years the Black man had to struggle and be put through what he was put through — we're taking it into reverse. That's why we took the 'Y' and put the 'E' there, 'cause we lynching now. We don't have to hang the white man by his neck. We just turn him upside down and let all the money fall out of his pockets. We gonna kill him like that. we all know the best way to hurt a rich person is to make him poorer.

What's the most important message you want people to get from your album?

Some knowledge of themselves. Really, I don't want nobody to be trying to buck the devil or go get lost in the system, you know what I'm saying? Basically just sit back and listen to the tracks and listen to the lyrics. Form your own opinion.

I know two of you used to bang. How did you make the transition from gangbanging to be politically aware artists?

Reading. When we started out, all of us was hoeing on the first tour. We was wild. We was just hoes. Not sexually — just not having any control. We didn't really know no better. We was happy to be on the road, fucking with a brother like Cube. He helped us out a lot 'cause we wasn't really that familiar with music. The transition came around '91, "Jacking for Beats." It went from being real fun to just hard-core work. After that we were determined to make it work.

You've said that violence is necessary for change. In the South central riots it took a lot of people to die for people to awaken, but I still don't see the government doing anything.

You probably won't see any changes as long as the government's taking charge. You got to be willing to make things right yourself before you can run crying to the government. Knowledge of self is the key. Once you find out who you are and who you're dealing with, you can have a clear understanding. If you check your history, the oppressed always went to war with the oppressor. You get tired of trying to get everything. "Give us this, give us that." And then, when oppressor don't give it to you, you're gonna want to fight for yours.

Do you see any solutions to the problems that plague Black Amerikkka?

Yeah, I see a lot of solutions. First of all, we got to wake up. And everybody has to quit putting the whole muthafucking load on the entertainment's shoulders, 'cause we only learn, and then we try to reach out through entertaining. If we was big fucking professors or activists, we would know how to speak to the masses, but we're entertainers. Everybody say, "Why ain't rappers doing this, or, Why ain't y'all doing that?" What the fuck are the people who are talking doing?

Do you feel Blacks should exercise their right to vote?

We should exercise our right to have our own economic everything. We should exercise our right to have our own government. We should govern our own. We should police our own communities.

Do you think we should break the country into two sections, one Black and one white?

Yeah, that would be the best thing that ever happened to us. The majority of the foolish Negroes would be like, "Fuck that. I'm going where the white man's going. He's breaking me off a check." They would be scared to do for themselves. That's lack of knowledge of self.

Do you feel there's A place for white rappers in the industry?

Yeah, hell yeah. I know some white boys that's dope.

Do you think there can ever be peace between Blacks and whites?

Only if they bear witness to what is ours and what they owe us and know that what was done wrong many years back can never be done again. But there ain't gonna be no peace until we have separation or war.



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