Crypt Keepers of Hip Hop: March 2014

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Fubar - Real Muthafuggin' G (Domes Boogie Dis)

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Interview with Eskr-One

What is your artist name?

Eskr-One

Where are you from?

Ottawa, Ontario

Are you a rapper/beatmaker or DJ?

I like to stay as well rounded as possible.My first introductio to hip hop culture was my dad playing me Grandmaster Flashand the Furious 5 which he had on vinyl. I went on to watchStyle Wars and that got me heavy into graffiti and from there I went on to explore hip hop in all its elements.I started dabbling is turntablism at 15 had apair of XL500s my parents got me and I practised many scratch techniques. I was obsessed with DJ Q Bert and Mixmaster Mike. I always freestyled with my friends an thats how I started writing and homing my rapping style. I also am a huge vinyl collector, mostly sci fi, horror and fantasy soundtracks and have done some beatmaking as well with my MPC500 and FL Studio. But these days I am focusing on my rapping.

Do you have a crew?

I collaborate with many MCs and producers worldwide. I am apart of Optext which is a Apss One and Sadida from Texas,USA, ILLtemper from Philly, USA and Donny G from Canada. I also roll with a huge collective of artists called Dystopianz founded my LA rapper Ganjre The Giant. Dystopianz have is a large group of hardcore MCs, producers, graff writers, tattoo artists and artists. I am also involved with a Canadian movement called SFTS or Strictly For The Streets founded by Roch from Toronto. I work with alot of other brilliant artists like Plague Plenty, Roch.Beatahoe, Rated R, Blaq Masq,Casacas,Toombs, Shushi,Drew Dollars,Trem Bison, Lone Ninja,Grim of Dead Rabbits, Bender of Flight Distance (KOTD Champion) Jnyce of Psych Ward and just finished huge tracks with Blaq Poet of Screwball.

How old are you?

Just turned 30.

What kind of music do you make?

Hardcore, concious, hiphop

What kind of artists are an inspiration to you?

Ill Bill, Ghostface Killah,MF Doom, Q-Unique, Tom Morrello, RZA, and all the artists I work with inspire me.

How long have you been making music?

For fun and a hobby like 11 yrs and seriously on my grind for the last 2yrs. So 13yrs all together.

Is music your job or just a hobby?

Its my life now. I had a pretty rough and crazy run until I sobered up and got clean in May 2012 and now I just focus all my energy and passion on positive building, my family my fiance and music.

Can we expect some albums of you this year/next year?

Allied Forces EP with Sadida, Casacas and Beatahoe, 3Demons EP with Rated R and Julius Sleazer, Blaq Masq's production album and more Optext and Dystopianz music and also just tons of single because Im always hungry.

Can you name some artists you want to work with?

Killah Priest, Ill Bill, RZA, MF Doom, Madlib and I could go on forever lol.

Thanks for the interview.

Interview with Halfwit

What is your artist name?

My name is Halfwit

Where are you from?

I am from beautiful and sunny Ventura, California

Are you a rapper/beatmaker or DJ?

I am mostly a rapper, I am trying to train myself to make and fully produce beats, I know some tricks but I still need practice. IMO anyone can be a disk jockey lol but I'm no hard style dj if that's what your asking haha

Do you have a crew?

Yes my first crew is Conceptual lyrics (Hesh studios/half wrath ent) also I roll with Street Gryme and Voodoo Docterz.

How old are you?

I'm 19 going on 20 years old

What kind of music do you make?

I make satyrical hip hop and rap music. I love that dirty grymey underground shit. But I'd like to also start making doom metal, reggae and punk rock and other types of things as well (but not as seriously just to be able to say "hey look at what I did"

What kind of artists are an inspiration to you?

All sorts of artists are inspirations to me. My first musical inspirations where my dads band synoptic sinfoney, eminent and rob zombie when. As I got older I got heavily ino black sabbath, slayer, iron maiden, Korn, system of a down and disturbed. Later in middle school (8th) grade I started listening to necro, spm, Afroman, cypress hill, tech 9 and killa mike. That's when I started rly getting into hip hop.

How long have you been making music?

I recorded my first song at my friend games house with the homie critic back in 10th grade. I was fifteen at the time. We never used that track for anything and it was never finished but we recorded something lol.

Is music your job or just a hobby?

Right now music is on the fence. Im getting paid as an assistant sound tech and I'm being trained as an engineer and how to mix and master music etc etc but I'm working on making it into a job. The way i see it though until I'm selling CDs, pushing beats, charging for music videos, selling collaborations and getting payed to perform, my music can only really be considered a hobby. Sadly.

Can we expect some albums of you this year/next year?

Yes I'm going to be getting on the ball with this album here really soon. I have some songs that's are in the works that I need to record a few things for. And they will be killer when they are done. But I should be dropping my lp later this year and maybe if I have time a small mixtape or ep.. Definitely music videos and a couple remixes!

Can you name some artists you want to work with?

I'm working on a song right now with gmo skee and Whitney Peyton. That one will be amazing once it's released. But as far as artists I'd like to work with still I could name a million but here are some I'm going to reach out to in the next year or so. Marcanum x, mad child, inspectah deck, block McCloud, Kung fu vampire, kid crusher, mc cumblood, sun sun scissor hands maybe more. I UNO.