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4/10/2006 What's good, Ic? I'm chilling. I'm just trying to get everything ready for this mixtape. What's good with your mixtape? It's coming out right now. It's hosted by Jamie Kennedy and Sickamore. It's going to be crazy. Sickamore's my boy. He's the new A&R at Atlantic Records. Shout out to my boy Jamie Kennedy. MTV just brought back another series of his show. We're grinding. What's up with your album? The album is coming soon. It should be in stores soon. It's called "Genocide." I got some flamers on there. You have to check the mixtape. It's like a prelude to the album. It's going to be crazy. How are you going to put the album out? I don't know, man. I'm trying to think of some new ways to do it. Redman and my company is giving me some ideas. I'm trying to put it out crazy. One of my ideas was that I was going to put it out on the internet before anything. We're still throwing around ideas. I have Rockwilder and a lot of big producers on there. What potential does your album have to do to the game? It's going to wake people up and let them know that Hip Hop isn't dead. Hip Hop definitely isn't dead, but you would think it was listening to the radio. Why has it taken so long for you to drop? I value my music more than these deals. I just got two good offers, so right now, we're really pushing it. How would you compare yourself to the mythological Icarus? Oh, I meant to tell you. That's not my name anymore. It's Icadon now. I'm done with Icarus. That shit is dead. How come? It's like I'm past that part in my life. You know how you go through things in life? It's like two different egos. When you elevate, you get new names and you elevate. Right now, I'm an executive and I have artistic wings. I don't consider myself an artist anymore. It's Icadon right now. Before Icarus, I was Warchild, and before that, I had a street name, a hustling name, that was Lice, and before that, I had my government name. I'm just elevating. What do you think Redman saw in you that made him want to work with you? Talent recognizes other talent. It's not hard to see. I'm not bragging or anything, but I puts it in. You know how hard Red goes in. How do you and Red work together? We work good. We have our own studios and we do it like that. We mp3 songs to each other. That's my dog right there. Do you feel that people see you in Redman's shadow? Yeah, I see that, because Red is a big dude. I'm a younger dude and Red was the first dude to introduce me to the game. But I'm not in anybody's shadow. We stand next to each other. We're brothers. A lot of people look at it like that, though, because I'm just coming into the game. I came to him nasty and that made him want to fuck with me. It seems as though Red never forced you to adopt his style. Yeah, that's a good thing. He's never told me to switch anything. Even if he wanted me to, he couldn't front on what I bring to the table. He never tried to push me to sound like him which is good. We have two different styles and they're both nice. What's been up with Gilla House lately? I'm not an artist, I'm out there grinding like I do. I don't really know what the artists are doing. We chill, we smoke, but I don't really know too many other people on the label like that. I'm not really involved in the label like that. One dude coming out that's ill is Mark Hammerz. He's the illest nigga coming up in Jersey to me. What's up with your ghostwriting company? I'm trying to get my cream up. A lot of people are coming to us. That's what it is. What's your main focus for the next couple of months? This album, finishing it up. I'm also working on dropping the mixtape. The album is going to be a banger. It's going to be like a twelve-gauge shot in the Hip Hop world. I'm going hard because they're not respecting Hip Hop or our culture like they should be. What do you want to say to everyone? Just know that there is nobody out there fucking with Ic right now. Quote that shit.

By Brian Kayser

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