"You might have one or two people that are always in Top Fives, but you always change it. There's too many rappers to be a Top Five. I can name ten dope rappers from the 80s alone—I could name twenty dope rappers from the 80s alone. I could name a hundred dope rappers from the 90s alone." Both Starr and Sticky don't give much weight to the idea that groups aren't properly celebrated.
"Nobody gets undervalued. It depends on what you value," Fredro explains. "What's your number? If you have a number and they can't give you a number, you're not undervalued. I wanna see the Car Max value. I wanna see the Blue Book, nigga."
"That's an opinion," Sticky adds.
And opinions are like assholes, a wise man once said. Onyx ain't gonna suddenly switch up on you. Thirty years in, it's still fuck the world. It's still Onyx versus everybody. And they're going to keep it hardcore.
"That's the only shit I listen to," Sticky says of the group's love of that classic aggressive sound. "That's not true, I listen to R&B shit, too. Hardcore shit just comes natural to me. If I did sing, it would be some hardcore shit!"
"We gon' do what we do," Fredro adds. "If you listen to Raekwon from Wu-Tang Clan, that nigga still raps like the first album right now. Niggas ain't changing. Niggas is doin' they one-two. It's just a different verse, but it's the same verse. This shit is just one long verse. My whole career is one long verse. We just giving it to you how we do it. You ain't hear Raekwon singing. That nigga ain't singing on his shit. He do what he do. Just like us, we do what we do. How else are we supposed to bring it, if it ain't hard, rough rugged, low down gritty and grimy? Shiesty."