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1. Illa Ghee - Illa Ocrates 0:00
2. Illa Ghee - Importante 2:35
3. Illa Ghee - Pop from the Barbershop 5:09
4. Illa Ghee - Walk With a Shotgun (feat. Prodigy) 7:37
5. Team Demo - Camera Flash (feat. Illa Ghee, Wais P & Method Man) 11:05
6. Illa Ghee - Price to Be Illa (feat. Sean Price) 15:31
7. Illa Ghee - Real One 19:20
8. Illa Ghee - Floatin' 21:53
9. Small Professor (feat. Rock, Illa Ghee & DJ Revolution) - Think About It 26:37
10. Illa Ghee - Bullet and a Bracelet 30:16
11. Sean Price, Illa Ghee, Royal Flush - Good Lobster 33:27
12. Illa Ghee - Come Outside 36:37
13.Illa Ghee - 4 Million Freestyle 38:41
14. Illa Ghee - 90 41:40
15. Illa Ghee - Bruised Ego (feat. JuJu) 45:22
16. Psycho Les - Thunder Bells (feat Royal Flush, Tragedy Khadafi & Illa Ghee) 48:23
17. Tone Spliff - What's in the Future (feat. Illa Ghee & Blacastan) 52:04
18. Sean Price, Illa Ghee, Rim - The Bryan Song 55:33
19. John Jigg$ - Earth, Wind & Fire (feat. Illa Ghee & Jay Royale) 58:00
20. Illa Ghee - Street Fame 1:01:19
21. Queen Herawin, Pretty Bulli, Illa Ghee - Denial 1:04:37
22. Illa Ghee - Injected with Gin 1:09:05

Illa Ghee is one of those emcees you’re bound to have come across as a guest star if you’re down with The Infamous. Dating as far back as the mid-2000’s the Brooklynite pops up on projects by Mobb Deep and The Alchemist, showing both where his loyalties lie and the respect with which they hold Ghee as an emcee.

"What were you doing before you worked with Mobb Deep and Alchemist?"

I was still rhyming, but I was more into the street life at the time. I went to school with Prodigy, they got cool with Alchemist and by the time I came home from jail Alchemist was hanging with them all the time so I started linking up with Alchemist too. My first actual CD I put together was called Body Music and most of the production on that was done by me. That was 2003.

"Were you taking rhyming seriously at that stage?"

I just wanted to rhyme on the radio! There was a show – Pete Rock and Marley Marl – at the time that was on the radio. That’s where most of the things I wrote were pretty much aimed at, just getting on the radio and lose my mind.

"Was there a particular song that made you want to rap when you were a kid?"

It was my cousin and my brother, they got me into hip-hop. My cousin used to wanna battle anybody, everybody. He had the turntables and everything, and that’s what made me really wanna get into hip-hop.

"What was your first MC name?"

Back then I was like Master G or something like that. I was like eight years old. Then I went to Greg G, and then Craig G came out and I had to change that. I didn’t have a name for a while, then when I used to rhyme in my neighborhood people would say, “Yo man, your rhymes are real ill!” So I would just say Illa. Illa Ghee – and there you have it!

"Was there a lot of lunchtime battling at school?"

You had a lotta people, 4th, 5th and 6th period. I went to the School of Art and Design, used to see Kwame battling people, used to see Prince Po from Organized Konfusion. Pharoahe Monch used to come up here sometimes. The group I hung with – we used to come with a new rhyme every day! We would sit there, maybe cut class two periods – maybe rhyme in 5th period and in 6th period we would just chill and talk – but you had to have a new rhyme every day. Nobody read it off the paper, you had to learn the rhyme and everything. It was a good time.

"How did you connect with Large Professor for ’90’?"

I seen him when I was talking to Premier, and Premier was like, “You know Illa Ghee, right?” He was like, “Yo! You got a song that is so ill!” I think he meant “Morning Rain”. I started seeing him at different spots and next thing you know he was like, “I’ve got this cool beat I’m gonna bless you with.”

"Did any doors open for you after appearing on Alchemist’s “Hold You Down” single?"

I didn’t know what to do. I figured Mobb Deep would guide me in a direction of what to do, but it didn’t happen like that. I just had to learn on my own.

"If you could remake Marley Marl’s “The Symphony,” who would be the three MC’s to join you?"

I would say Sean Price, Jay Electroncia and a young Nas.

"What is it about Brooklyn that set you guys apart?"

Our delivery. Most MC’s have arrogance, but it’s our delivery. You could check the files, from Whodini, Biggie, Big Daddy Kane. You know the whole Nas and Biggie thing, right? Nas was more lyrical, but Biggie had the delivery. Just like people would say Rakim was maybe a little more lyrical than Kane, but Kane delivery and lyrics at the same time.