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Interviewer: First of I would like to thank you for agreeing to do this interview. I believe this is your first interview.
MC RICE: Yes it is.
Interviewer: Let me start off by saying how did you come up with the name MC RICE.
MC RICE: You know how rice is good for you yeah, I believe that my music is good for everybody like rice.
Interviewer: So if they don't buy your CD they will be unhealthy.
MC RICE: Something like that.  
Interviewer: So where were you born.    
MC RICE: I was born in East London, with two brothers and three sisters. I'm the youngest. Growing up grime music never appealed to me because I believe it's a blatant rip off of hip hop music. Don't get me wrong there are some good music that comes out of it but the rest is just plain noise. I like original things like if it wasn't for hip hop there would be no grime music.
Interview: Even though your are new your still classed in the grime category.
MC RICE: You gotta start somewhere.
Interviewer: What I heard about you is that you don't like sampling other artists music.
MC RICE: Yeah I don't like sampling music because you can get sued and I don't want to pay someone money if the song sells well, I know I'm not in any position to be sampling music because I'm new but I like making original material.
Interviewer: So in 10 years time, if someone asks permission to simple one of your songs would you say yes. MC RICE: No. Make there own music. I would probably say yes if I like the person.
Interviewer: So your debut album rice and peas is going to be released in early December, could you tell us what people will hear when people listen to to this album.
MC RICE: Well the reason why I named the album rice and peas to show the world that rice equals money. Interviewer: So this is not about food.    
MC RICE: No its not like a cooking lesson, i'm just trying to say that in a months time im going to be a millionaire.      
Interviewer: In a months time.      
MC RICE: Yeah.
Interviewer: Wow, you really have your live planned out.    
MC RICE: Yep.    
Interviewer: So what are people going to hear in your album.
MC RICE: Oh yeah. There is going to be a lot of references to rice and i'm going to talk about how live was like growing for me.
Interviewer: So how was it.
MC RICE: It was great. I stayed out of trouble, was good in school and I never got kicked out of the house.
Interviewer: Seems to me that you had a good childhood.    
MC RICE: Yeah. You were expecting me to say something totally different.
Interviewer: Yeah:    
MC RICE: I was a good kid. In school I only hung out with the good kids. I never had a desire to be a problem child because that wasn't gonna get you anywhere but the jail cell.
Interviewer: So you never befriended them.
MC RICE: They went to me, I never went to them. But if they decided to talk to me and say hi, I would say hi back. That's as far as It went.
Interviewer: Were there any troubled youths in your school.  
MC RICE: Yes. That's a posh way of saying it. They would be bullying people, try to be rebellious and try to defy teachers.
Interviewer: Did they ever get in trouble.
MC RICE: Yes. By teachers and the police. Some of them are still locked up now.
Interviewer: Do you have any sympathy for them.
MC RICE: No. They are fools.
Interviewer: Were you ever bullied at school.
MC RICE: A little bit but I always stood up to them. For example there was this one kid who was teasing me and punching me on the arm. I said to him if he didn't stop I was going to tell the teacher. He stopped punching me but the teasing carried on. So I went to the headteachers office and told him, the deputy head and all the assistants. They all wanted to speak to him at the same time. So he went to the office, I was already there and he had a scared look on his face. All the teachers yelled at him and he was crying like a little baby.
Interviewer: And what were you doing.
MC RICE: I was just sitting their laughing at him. If only they had popcorn.
Interviewer: He had it coming.
MC RICE: Nice to see the bully pick on someone his own size for a change.
Interviewer: But the bully's just the kid and the teachers are adults. They must of been way bigger then him.
MC RICE: Yeah big something that he thought he was until he messed with me.
Interviewer: Were you always into hip hop.
MC RICE: Yeah. I liked listening to it from a young age. My favorite rapper is Eminem.
Interviewer: Good choice:
MC RICE: The rest of the rappers are just OK but Eminem is the greatest.  
Interviewer: What can we expect to see from you in the future.
MC RICE: More albums.
Interviewer: Thanks for joining me for this interview. We hope to hear from you again soon.