Sunday, 30 March 2014
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.
Thanks for the
interview.
