100 BARS MAGAZINE 004 Dec/Jan 2013-2014 | Page 89

like filling yourself up with a real passion for it. Money is not going to create your passion, if it is then there is always going to be something missing, and the other guy is going to kill you in a battle for it, because your passion for the art & culture is gone. Novie Blendz: Now for the cheesy question (lol) Where are you from? Dizaster: I have Moroccan in my bloodline, but basically I am Lebanese American. I was born and raised in LA for the most part, but I lived in Beirut for a big period of time in my life, which is actually around the time that Verb was saying that I was in America in 92 trying to play basketball (lol). I was actually in Beirut witnessing all of the things that I rapped about in my battle against Arsonal. Like the war stuff, people limbs being all missing in the street, and helicopters destroying buildings around me, yeah I unfortunately got to see all that. People don’t understand what that’s like. Th