Psycho Drama- Psyde, NewSense, YungBuk
Interview By Matt Sonzala
From Murder Dog Vol. 8# 3
Y'all have got to have a pretty long story to tell by now.
There were a couple of years of hype on that Suave House
record that never got released. What have you been up to
for these past couple of years and where y'all at right now?
Psyde: We been out in the world just doing a lot of travelling
around. Seeing what America's like in each city and state as
far as music.
NewSense: We been growing and developing. Mentally, as far
as getting prepared for the music industry. We learned a lot
of stuff, now we feel we in a good position and we at the point
that we can pounce and move ahead and be the best.
YungBuk: Just staying in the studio and doing our homework
basically in the past couple of years.
Are y'all independent now?
NewSense: As a group and as solo artists.
YungBuk: Expect 4 groundbreaking projects by all of our solo
albums and the Psycho Drama album. We ha
ve a lot of music on
the way.
What was up with that Psycho Drama's Greatest Hits that I've
seen? Is that a bootleg?
Yungbuk: That's something that I put together. There may have
been a lot of bootlegs of it, but that's something that I did
to like showcase all the stuff that we done for everybody that
forgot or might not know at all. It's all the hard to find
stuff and 2 or 3 unreleased songs on there. That's something
that everybody need to get, wherever you can find it.
Are all of the records coming out on the same label?
NewSense: The solo projects are to let everybody know and overstand that
we are three, separate, different individuals that create Psycho Drama. We all
got three different counter parts and personalities that make the perfect formula
for us. We have a formula. A lot of people think we not together no more but
we gonna correct that. We've always been together, for the record, nothing ever
happened to Psycho Drama. The group project is a Dark Side Production of Padded
Room Records. As well, Dark Side is coming out with the album "Monsters
of the Midway" featuring us, the Drama Ward, Twista and
Layzie Bone.
YungBuk: Danny Boy, Royce the 5'9". MC Breed. Triple Darkness,
Crucial Conflict.
What is that formula you're talking about? You've kept it together
through a lot of shit.
NewSense: I can tell you the formula. NewSense + Buk + Psyde
= Ignit. And we all got our own little Ignit way of relaying
messages to certain genres or certain demographics that we
be trying to hit up. We know that there's a whole bunch of
people out there just like us. Like Psyde, he's like more subliminal.
Buk is modest. And I'm kind of like in between. So we all equal
each other.
YungBuk: It's not about the rap industry, it's about
the music. It's just like we were called by someone somewhere
far away to do this, what we doing right now. It's like that's
the feeling that we come with. Everytime we speaking about
something.
Psyde: We done created our style. The Chi town style that they
got out there ain't our shit. I could give a fuck about
a style. We gonna sell records. Me and this nigga, as far as
the stuff that we went off and did, is the only ones. NewSense
is the only female that done pushed units like that on her
own, solo. And we still ain't got no whole album out. We finna
bring this album out.
YungBuk: This is a style that we just did because this is how we felt.
Our style come from somewhere so deep, and everybody else added up together,
that's the Chicago sound. There's a lot of people that do the Chicago quote unquote
style, but we do the Psycho Drama style. Psyde: We really
don't give a fuck. We on some get money shit. Motherfuker don't
sit up rappin' all motherfukin day. If we feel like we gonna
do something we gonna do something. And I call myself the Black
Jim Morrison.
NewSense: We underground artists, but we still go in
and out of town doing tours just like mainstream. We just don't
have the same pub that they do. We on our way now. We cool.
Everybody think that we not ok cuz we don't got a video on
TV, but we cool. Our music is out there. We flockin over the
mainstream, but underground is our love, it's where we at,
it's where we comfortable. We make money too, we go in and
out of the country too. We do it all too. We pop bottles. We
can get Cristal, Belvedere too.
I heard that you're going to perform in Belize.
Psyde: Yeah man, we got other artists going with us to Belize
too. For me, being from the west side of Chicago, it's tight.
It's time for everybody to get out there and prove that they
can do it overseas. I get checks from overseas still, from
Eightball's album. YungBuk: It's a honor to be going somewhere
like that being from where we coming from. And not even having
a video or a whole album. It's a real honor.
Where's this "Black Jim Morrison" thing come from?
Psyde: One day I was sitting up , I was sitting in the crib
out in Houston and shit. I had just came in and I popped in
the tape and I was real real high and I was watching it, and
I seen how he is and the attitude he has. Soon as you try to
tell him something and he knows he's right, he not gonna just
do this do this, he gonna do what he want. And the people love
him because he's standing for the people.
