Q&A – Ying Yang Twins

Here’s a quick Q&A we did on the phone with Kaine from the Ying Yang Twins (the bearded chap on the right). As well as the customary yap about booty clubs and haters, he revealed some interesting details about his physical deformity, his contempt for politicians, and his distaste for anal sex.

VICE: Where are you? It sounds noisy.
I’m just driving in my 1990 Chevrolet Caprice. The colour of the car is green. It’s got 24s on it. It’s got a lot of trunk space.

Have you ever been in a fist fight?
I’ve never got in a fist fight I didn’t lose. The fights were usually over petty things.

Who is the most successful person you know?
Me, because I know where myself and D-Roc came from. The Ying Yang Twins, those are the most successful people I know. I came from minority and poverty and a lack of chances, and life was always against me. D-Roc had a premature hand. One of my legs is shorter than the other. All this was always against us and we made it this far, so we gotta be the most successful people I know.

What’s the worst fight you ever had with your mum?
Erm… the worst fight I had with my mom involved my baby momma. Women don’t know how to hold their talk. It was over money but I don’t wanna talk about it.

If you could dress one animal up as another animal, what would you choose?
I would dress a giraffe up as a Sagittarius because I wanna see one of those with the naked eye and I know a giraffe would be taller than the Sagittarius.

If you had to get a tattoo, what would you get?
Praying hands, like when you get on your knees and pray.

Do you believe in God?
Yeah, but I don’t believe in a lot of these church folk. There’s church folk and then there’s Christians. They not Christians.

Do you think there is any kind of life after death?
Yeah man. You’d got to be a fool to not think there’s life after death.

Which living person do you hate the most?
Myself. I’ve got a fucked up attitude and nobody can change that.

What should be made illegal?
All the hating-ass niggas. Those motherfuckers should be made illegal. And all the punk ass shit in the world – that ought to be made illegal.

What’s the greatest rap lyric of all time?
One lyric? There’s not one greatest rap lyric. I know a song that’s the greatest rap song: “Lord Knows” by 2Pac. My favourite line from that song is: “Fuck the five-oh ‘cos they after me / Kill me if they could, I’ll never let ’em capture me / Done lost too many niggaz to this gangbangin’ / Homies died in my arms, with his brains hangin’.”

Would you say politics has a place in music?
Fuck no. That’s the reason why music is fucked up right now – because people wanna put government on the music and you don’t put government on the music. Music is for the masses man. That shit started with somebody beating on their chest. These motherfuckers wanna get all type of recognition and fucking with people’s talent. God damn right music ain’ t got no room for politics. I don’t call it politics, I call it “politricks” – because that be some tricks, man.

When did you last disgrace yourself?
All the time. The songs we write, I really don’t be agreeing with them. We do them because they pay.

What was the least fun year of your life and why?
I haven’t had one of those. I’ve always been able to create situations of joy.

What would you say to young kids who want to make it? Is rapping as fun as it looks?
Yes and no. They’d need to speak to an industry person to find out about how to make it. It’s hard.

Who is the most overrated artist or musician you can think of?
There’s a lot of those, man. A lot of those. I ain’t gonna open my mouth on that though because I’ll end up having to fight the whole industry.

If you had to create a Frankenstein band, who would you have on vocals, bass, guitar and drums?
I’d let George Clinton put the band together for me. You gotta let the grandfather of funk and soul do that – he’s so old he already know Frankenstein.

On a scale of 1-10 how much do you enjoy anal sex?
No, not a part of it. That’s some nasty shit. Nobody needs to get too up in an ass. That’s nasty, oooh next question please.

What’s your worst sexual experience?
Never had one. As long as you bust, it’s a good sexual experience.

Who was the last person that you made cry?
I’ve made a lot of people cry. The last was probably my daughter, which makes me sad. She cries when I don’t play with her.

If you could be reincarnated as a member of another ethnic group, which would you choose?
I would want to be born on Christmas day in Jerusalem, like Jesus. Jesus was not black.

What was your greatest achievement as an adolescent?
I was in the choir when I was in kindergarten.

If you could have one super power what would it be?
To heal the world.

So what are you up to at the moment?
Right now I’m in my lawyer’s office waiting to have a business meeting, trying to get you off this phone.

Ok, thanks, that’s it. Bye.

PRANCEHALL