As an artist, you have to reach inside yourself and either offer your perspective on what's around you, or offer something from within. These are the things that interest us. The things that are on the records that we've released are topics that interest us. There is a song Empire which is talking about the instant American society and how our youth are under such pressures to achieve and accumulate materialistic items. It's so important, that it's impressed upon you by commercials and the media that this is what success is, this is what you need to do.
Empire deals with the crack issue.
Someone can turn around and make all this money so quickly, and the kids are instilled with this idea that you must achieve. But the thing is, that the album rocks. You can talk about these things, but it's presented in a way that rocks. I believe there are 5 questions remaining in the interview, which I will include in a digest when he finishes the transcription. A friend and I were talking about Rage for Order .