Interview: Gangrene Talks Ayahuasca, Teleportation, & Ruining Your Laptop

And go on another journey.

The Alchemist: Yo, Complex is the shit. I think you guys are like on the top, right now man. I absolutely think, your guys’ lists are unmatched. List game proper.

Thank you man. I appreciate that. I also wanted to you about some of the other projects you have coming up. I know you and Action Bronson were working together.

The Alchemist: Hold on one second—Yo Action! See, I know Action Bronson.

[Alchemist hands Action Bronson the phone.]

Action Bronson: Hello, who’s this?

Action, what’s up man?

Action Bronson: What’s up man, who’s this?

This is Insanul from Complex.

Action Bronson: What’s up dude from Complex? How are you?

I’m doing good man, how are you?

[Alchemist snatches the phone back.]

The Alchemist: See that was my best Action Bronson impression, I do impressions of everybody. People know I’m good at impressions so that was my Action Bronson impression. It was good right?

[Laughs.] Yeah, it was pretty good.

The Alchemist: Nah we’re working right now we’re in the studio.

I know you were also working with Schoolboy Q.

The Alchemist: Absolutely. We’re gonna put out a record very soon. Action’s in L.A., we all worked on something together. I think the Internet might get something sooner than later—like real soon. You heard it here first.

Last year you dropped the Covert Coup mixtape with Curren$y. I heard you guys were dropping another mixtapethis year, is that true?

The Alchemist: I mean we’re working on it. He’s working on his album right now. I’m there for whatever he needs, he’s my funky rap friend. But I got a lot of projects coming, Oh does as well. We’re just getting this Gangrene thing going. We’re about to hit Europe up next month for the Vodka and Ayahuasca tour.

Oh, what kind of projects do you have coming up?

Oh No: I just finished this Ohnomite album. I got a project with Madlib coming out later this year. [I’m working with] Blackstar.

The Alchemist: And Oh just gave some crazy shit to Prodigy. P’s finishing up H.N.I.C. 3, the next release. I’m excited about that. I always thought Oh had that gutter shit that P needed.

Alright, you know, I guess wrapping things up for us. What do you want the fans to take from this project?

The Alchemist: They can take money out of their wallet and just buy it. [Laughs.] They can take their ass to the stores, they can take their fingers to iTunes. What else can they take Oh? They can shit while listening to it, you can take a nap, you can take your girl on a date to it. Just take. Take it.

[Laughs.] Alright, that’s all the questions I got. I dunno if there’s anything you guys wanted to add.

The Alchemist: Oh, any additions? Any last second additions?

Oh No: Take a blunt.

The Alchemist: I like that. Take a blunt. That’s deep. That’s poetry. It can mean a lot—take this blunt, man. Go ahead.

Oh No: Take a b-lunt.

The Alchemist: Take a b-lunt. All you girls, don’t be a c-unt. Oooh. See we’re rhyming over here, fam. Gangrene is in stores. People are gonna be able to write responses [to this article], right?

Yeah they’re gonna write in the comments.

The Alchemist: I need to see all my peoples shout me out in the responses cause I’m gonna read them. Let’s see how that works out. What if there’s only like three responses? I’m gonna look crazy! [Laughs.] I’m gonna make mad fake responses from different fans. Like, Gangrene23 is gonna write, “That shit is hot.” [Laughs.]

Have you ever done that before?

The Alchemist: All the time.

For real?

The Alchemist: Nah, I’m just kidding. Nah. I should just kept clicking on Gangrene videos to add up the views—thinking about getting my views up.