The location of Minneapolis, MN isn't exactly the ideal spot to try and maintain a career in hip-hop. There are of course, exceptions. Mr. Sean Daily, AKA Slug has seen many overcast days on his way to hip hop stardom. After 20 years of rhyming, this rapoligist has no problem tapping into his ether. He has not forgotten that a new MC is born every night and to maintain his position as a Midwest heavyweight, he must be ready for the verbal fight club at any moment. Grazing through woeful pastures of intelligence with Slug is like having a conversation with Einstein and Shakespeare mixed with street corner linguistics. Mr.Dibbs is the DJ who has a very appolyon look with the Midas touch for turntables in a heavy metalist sort of way. Producer and long time friend ant laces the tracks for these plight-climbers to rock the Mind. The most recent album "Seven Tales" is a bit of reflection in warp drive. You can see it's past, present, and future. I would like to thank Shazila at MSO and Rhyme-sayers for putting in effort for a journalist who had no I.D at the time.

Sixshot.com: I think your attitude towards your music is almost like meeting a girl and telling her you suck in bed, almost like a rhetorical preconceived notion do you agree?

Slug: (laughs) Possible yeah, but I don't suck in bed. The whole it sucks thing is not necessarily that I think it sucks, I just rarely bump my own shit. Now know what I mean? It's like put my r ecord next to a Redman record, and hands down my record sucks. So I'm glad other people can appreciate it and people allow me to do what I do, but at the same time I have no crazy illusions that I make incredible music ya know? It's like I jokingly humble things cause if I really tried to be serious about dissecting my music; I would end up sounding arrogant. Basically instead of having an opinion on my stuff I just blow it off, that's easier.

Sixshot.com: I read that your writing a book for a small publishing house called Word Worrier in the Twin Cities, what's that about?

Slug: I'm actually in the process of finishing that now; so don't ask what it's about, you'll see soon enough. Word Warrior is a press that is out of Minneapolis. It was started by a woman named Gale and it's kidnap like anything else, she started on the independent tip, so she asked me to do a book for her. I don't know if I was stoned or what, maybe she just asked me at the right place right time but I said yeah. Afterwards I freaked out cause I don't know how to write a book, I don't know what I'm doing so I'm just writing a bunch of stuff and giving it to her, so whatever happens happens.

Sixshot.com: You have some of the suicide girls on one of your tracks. Are you friends with them or are you banging any?

Slug: I never "quote, unquote" have done anything that you would call banging, um but I've dated a few and those girls are the shit so I'll leave it at that.

Sixshot.com: A lot of emcees these days are making their own beats, do you think it's man or machine that are getting better?

Slug: Well that's a good question. I think that this is a type of music that has suddenly traveled everywhere across the world and the universe and back; and everybody is interested and involved, It's kind of the fact that not that it's gotten so much easier to make as far as the talent side, but it is easier to make as far as the beats go. I mean if you have a small savings and a computer you can have your own label. It's very easy for people to put out music now. So it's suffered in that sense, so there's all this average stuff that's getting over because the fact so many people are producing something. Shit I could be included in that. But back in the day you only had a handful of dudes making records, so you would go out and buy damn near every record that came out and 90% were good. Now every little facet of hip-hop like thug shit or scientific shit is over-saturated with people. But I think that comes hand in hand with how many people out there are accepting it now a days. Millions are listening and like anything is going to have a downside in the eyes of the elitist, but at the same time how much power does this culture have now? Look at how kids are paying attention to little sub-sub cultures in hip-hop. There's a major power here instead of putting up these walls between ourselves; we should unify better to create a better movement. It's always had that kind of spark behind it, even when it was only 8,000 people. Now the movements have come and gone, but none of them have necessarily made anyone's life better, except some rappers have money and they have made their lives better. In general, were reaching a point where there's a 25-year-old rookie cop on the street who grew up on hip-hop and that state of mind. So now in the future governors and mayors will grow up on it, so the sense of awareness of the inner city type has increased, and people are understanding the depiction's of a different life through hip hop. My cousin is a cop in Las Vegas and I used to give him all these dope records for holdups or whatever cause he lived in a smaller town by me. But that's dope cause now he doesn't look at every kid as a street punk, because of hip-hop there's something else in his head other than PPRU. As the hip-hop state of mind has given us some room in area's we might not have had. Part of me says fuck cops, but at-least part of me knows that there are good ones. OK I'm bad at interviews this has gone way into left field. Let's proceed.

Sixshot.com: A lot of people think you signed to Epitaph. Could you break down the layers as far as what role they play and what Rhyme-Sayers play?

Slug: I don't deal with Epitaph. I never signed with Epitaph. The deal with them is the same we had with Fat-beats, where we put a record out on Rhyme-Sayers then we get ah old of people and say, hey would you like to help up distribute this record? If so you get this much off the top of each sale, blah, blah, blah. Its just epitaph is much larger, so when we did the licensing agreement with them it was unheard of up until that time. Nobody had really done anything like that on that kind of scale, so immediately you want to think "hey they signed a deal, man those dudes are so cool. They are down for shit." I don't even know if they have a full understanding of what we do or what were trying to accomplish, but they understand how much heart we put into and that's what made them go hey were down to do this. It's obviously you fuckers believe in your selves so much that we'll put some money behind that. Honestly I think musically I have a little more freedom with Epitaph than I had with Fat-beats, because Epitaph has more resources. So when you got ideas that are good, they'll be like yo that sounds good, but Fat-beats ain't got no money for that. Epitaph did a lot for us cause they didn't owe us nothing, I mean they throw up money for my video, even the stuff we were wrong about they were down to try. I got to give them props. When I get home in October I'll probably start recording my next album and the deal will be the same. I'll just try to find the next best one-off deal. But I own part of Rhyme-Sayers, so that's for life. It would be stupid to go anywhere else.

Sixshot.com: So what was it like making your first video?

Slug: Well we did the song trying to find a balance, it was on MTV a lot in Oct. of last year, but I don't have cable so then it went to MTV2 like hella late so at like 2-am I would get these voice mails like "Yo it's 6:30 in the morning and MTV2 just played your shit." Man I never thought I would make a video, but I decided to do it and it was fun. In fact I had so much fun doing it. I want to make a video for every record now. It did make me feel icky to see myself rap in the monitor. Fuck that Shit! Never again!. We made another video last spring from a song called nation disgrace, and apparently it was too arty and nobody played it, but that one to me was the doper video cause

I was barley in it and there was an actually story line that followed the song and that’s how I envisioned making video’s. A visual guide to the song oppose to this is how I look like, this is how I rap like, that’s bullshit I’ve seen my face in magazine s enough in the past year. I’m not that guy that likes Idol shit, and kids right now are shaking when they ask me for autographs apparently that’s my fault cause in a very small aspect suddenly it started that road. But I’m the type of dude that like to sit on the bench and just watch away.

Sixshot.com: You and Murs did the Christina Ricca tribute what about meadow from the Sopranos like a goddaughter thing?

Slug: Actually it’s funny you say that cause the next one was going to be meadow. (Man he stole my idea) We’ll we threw that idea away anyway because we already did a white girl. Were going to pick somebody else next time non-white women. I want to go with Pam greer cause I’m a little older, but murs is down with the Pam greer thing and it would make the album more west-coastish like Isaac hayes stuff with that kind of feel. He had another idea but I can’t remember which one but as long as she’s non-white I’m down. Remember Give me a break the t.v show Geneal Carter would be dope.

Sixshot.com: Lets just say if you could re-make any movie and be the main character who would you choose?

Slug: Man shit-fuck these questions are good. Um Johnny Deep 21 jump street haha just kidding. If they did a life story of Ralph Mathio the Karate Kid I would play that at age 24 that would fun.

Sixshot.com: OK so you’ve read the Illunnatti Trilogy so what’s your opion on the Science and church?

Slug: Um… I tend to lean towards the church I believe science and how and how to anazle and measure things But I don’t think science can necessary prove why some people have so much soul. But that doesn’t exclude the Concept of the invisible hands or the aliens watching us like I’m in the process of writing my own truth (ME Too) of what is really going on. But I go through this weird cycle of what I believe and it changes every couple of years. So as long

As I can figure out by the day I die it’s alright.

Sixshot.com: What’s your definition of selling out?

Slug: That’s a tuff question that sort of evolves also. I guess the minute you know your doing something wrong rather it’s lying in your songs about shooting Mother-fuckers you’ve prete much sold out if your heart you feel wrong and your kid or grand-mother will be disappointed in you for just the funny money. I’m not mad as I us to be about people grabbing money it is a resource that’s not natural. I do believe in the concept of stealing from the devil. Like if sprite offers you 80,000 grand to put up a banner behind you every night you play, some people want like that but if you take that 80,000 grand and use that so 4 other rapper’s can go on the road with us, so I can feed all those guys families and make life comfortable for them and be able to go out to that small ass city in Omaha, NE with like the freshfest having 8 groups thank god sprite gave me that 80,000 grand. It’s a matter of what you do with the money

It’s like if I moved to the suburbs and came out with a fancy video, and drove around in my Bentley, somebody hopefully like my son will put a fucking bullet in my head. Some how you’ve just got to do right what the devil did wrong. If you really want to fuck somebody go get a job with them and fuck there shit up from the inside. Get paid to fuck there shit up from the inside out. Taking that leap to look I got 2 million extra dollars in my account for me is little scary cause that fear is in the back of my head that I might drink myself to death. Doing this for years and taking baby steps and mistakes has taught me a lot compared to just into anyone’s pool.