This is a snippet from his interview in the upcoming XXL Magazine, ENJOY!
XXLMag.com: Let’s talk about your show on Sirius Radio, The Invasion. What were some of your favorite On the Spot freestyles from last year?
DJ Green Lantern: We did the year-end awards and Slaughterhouse took it. They went for like 18-minutes straight. Joell’s shit was disgusting. But for me, what really stuck around were the surprises. We had Melanie Fiona singing over “Who Shot Ya.” Crazy! The Dream came in, also over some Biggie beats, and he went off the top. It’s another level of special to me when you can come up with words and melody at the same time. It’s a gift. The rappers all pretty much killed it. But this is what I will say; don’t try to freestyle and go off the top if that’s not your forté. Tell me, “Nah, I’m good” and I’ll respect it or spit some hot written shit. I’ve had some lyrical monsters in there that just felt like freestyling and it just came out like, “Hat, bat, that” and that’s never cool.
XXLMag.com: So you’re not mad at Drake and Nicki Minaj for spitting writtens?
DJ Green Lantern: Not at all. To me, I don’t care. As long as what you’re saying is hot; why would I care if what you’re saying is written or not? Unless it’s a segment purely designated for that like Supernatural or one of these guys that do observational freestyles, I don’t care if you look at your Blackberry or write something down. That infamous Eminem freestyle on Tim Westwood’s show, where he did that freestyle over the Mobb Deep “Got it Twisted” beat. He had it in his mind but he took a minute to write it down because it was so complex. I wouldn’t trip if anybody was to write something down.
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**HOLLYWOOD**
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