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The Release of Recyclone's Corroding the Dead World marked the first CHR release that you did not produce. How did that materialize?
I fell in love with Recyclone - Numbers. Pip Skid was living in Halifax and he introduced me to Jon...We had started working on our project, Stagnation and Woe, and Jon was looking for a label to release Corroding the Dead World. I wanted to expand the label and I thought it would be a good fit. I want to continue to slowly build the label and bring in new artists. We're dropping Thesis Sahib's new album HOWL this spring. What has been your favourite hip hop moment or experience? I used to love getting records in the mail. Getting my first test press was great. Sometimes when I perform certain songs like "Midnight Run" or "We Always Thought She'd be the First to Go" I get chills... I like that. What is your favourite Beer? Holy... this is like the "name your favourite hip hop album" question. You know me Chaps, I drink for volume, so I tend to go for the affordable easy-drinking lagers like GW Premium Light or Olympia. At the pub I gotta drink Leprechaun lager (cuz it's so cheap) or maybe Alexander Keith's. On dollar draft night I usually end up drinking Pilsner, but our local delusional-jiggy-rap-dj ruined that night so whatever. On a payday I might pick up some Heineken or MGD but those days are few and far between. When I'm in Winnipeg it might be Moose Head or those giant cans of Blue or Fort Garry Pale Ale. I like the 6 dollar 6 packs in Alberta -- it was Lucky Lager or Crest. They had a bunch I can't remember... drinking regional beers is one of the better things about touring. When I go camping I like to get fun old school beers like Calgary, |
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Labatt 50, Boh or OV. I don't knock back too many 40's anymore, but my brother and I killed quite a few 40's of Old Milwaukee way back when.
What do you like to do when you aren't making music? I like to scheme about music, cook, drink beer, do a little art, drink beer, gossip and scheme about music. What are you listening to these days? Today I listened to Matre - Struggle Music, Blockhead - Downtown Science, Cage - Hell's Winter, I Self Divine - Self Destruction and the Epic & Nomad album! What is the best hip hop performance you have ever seen? My favourite show was either the Alkaholiks and Rascalz show here in 1997 or the Heiro show in 1998 in Calgary. Why did you quit writing Graffiti? There were a couple of contributing factors. I was getting old and I was losing my nerve for illegal pieces. I was doing legal stuff and that kinda made me feel like a herb. Once I started going to art school, it didn't seem like "real art" which is totally fucked. I've always loved the "fuck you I'm gonna paint this whether you like it or not" attitude... Who would win in an MC battle me or Epic? Well it would probably start out as a friendly little battle. You would say "I'm in the place to be, you can't see me" and Epic would come up with some funny lines about you liking the Browns or something. Then the battle would change sharply... you would pull out 10 years of dirt you've collected on Epic and |