Sacrificial Lambz

Esham discussed the album during a 2008 interview with Adam Bernard of RapReviews:

Adam Bernard: The image on the back cover of Sacrificial Lambz, which is a lamb’s head with the skin peeled off, I’m guessing that’s not a statement about vegetarianism, right?
Esham: Nah, not at all. Actually it was just a statement about being a sacrificial lamb. Throughout my entire career I feel like I’ve sacrificed styles for the industry and we get to this point, which is Sacrificial Lambz, and it’s more of a gift from me to the consumer, from me to the industry, to show em basically what to do again. After I do something then it becomes accepted by the mainstream. The mainstream always looks to the underground for their ideas and for new ways of doing things and I feel like we’ve been the nucleus of the underground for so long that this is another gift to the industry. And there’s nothing more cute than a couple little lambs anyway… and them not knowing what’s about to come.
AB: This is your 12th studio album, so content-wise what’s different for you this time around?
E: Content is still the wicked shit, but we tackle some political and social views, as well. Songs like “Zeitgeist” which is actually a Russian word that means the spirit of the age, that’s what this is all about, we feel like we’re the spirit of the age, we’re that driving theme out there right now. Songs like “Garbage” are about the garbage that the industry is putting out. I want people to recognize your boy Esham is one of the greatest and I consider everything that they’re doing garbage. When it comes to lyrical content you got Jay-Z, you got Nas, people claim that they’re the greatest lyricists out there, but I feel like my lyrics are on the same level if not better than those guys’ lyrics. That’s where the whole “Garbage” theme comes from, my frustration with the industry putting out so much crap.
AB: Having done so much, what else would you like to accomplish in your career?
E: I’m really shooting for a platinum record. Really, I’m trying to go diamond, that’s why I threw “Ringtone” on there. If I can go diamond I’ll be happy. Until then I’ma just keep grindin. I see everybody doing what I do so I know if this was football they’re reading out of my playbook, they’re running my O plays. I can’t stop because we do everything ourselves. We got no handouts from the industry. I don’t even have no industry friends, not even some famous person where I could be like “yeah, I’m cool with him.” These people are morbidly scared of me and for no other reason than I kick the wicked shit. They want to put me in a box and be like you’re anti-religion, or you’re a devil worshipper, and it has nothing to do with that. I listen to some of the music they play on the radio today and I’m thinking to myself, that’s not gospel, they’re talking about selling dope and killing each other. It’s a funny thing, they try to act like because they wear a cross on their neck that they’re holy and it’s just the opposite of that, they’re the most evilest people on the planet. It’s camouflage. They’re the wolf in sheep’s clothing.