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	Interview with Dome of The Shinin By Pigballs You're coming from Alaska, a place we haven't heard from before, and your approach and image are very unusual, wearing clown makeup and all that. Where did this all come from? Number one we're not clowns, we don't do the clown thing. The whole idea of the Shinin is to be the Rap group the world has never seen before. You have a lot of Gangsta Rap groups and a lotta Wicked Rap groups who can talk game, but we like to put our money where our mouth is. We do as well as we talk. I don't care how hard your lyrics are, it's only talk and they mean nothing. Put your money where your mouth is, that's where we come in. For instance, recently during rehearsal I was swallowing fire, which I do on stage, and I burned the right side of my face up. The make up I was wearin was flammable, I didn't know that. As soon as it touched my face it took off. I got burned real bad. I wonder why you're going to this extreme? When you look at the other Rap groups and the things that they do, it gets pretty typical, pretty predictable. How many time do I have to watch you grab your collar and bling blingin? I'm not sayin those are bad things, don’t get me wrong. If I'm served spaghetti every night, it'd be nice for a change to have some lasagna. That's the concept behind it. You seem to be really performance oriented. What are we going to get at a Shinin show? Our show is the Fourth of July and Armageddon wrapped up into one. It's really made more for an arena than clubs or halls. I think we are the greatest Rap group in the world--past, present or future. I'm not saying that we're better rappers than anyone else. What I am sayin is there's only one Shinin. Nobody can do it better than us. Our show's so damn good. We upstage the best of 'em from LL Cool J to Cypress Hill to Naughty By Nature. Do you think people will remember you more for your visuals than your music? Not at all. A lot of people like to interpret us as "you have a great show, that's all." Whenever you stand out people try to attack you. But we're damn great rappers and make damn great music. We take our music very seriously. It's just we offer more, we have a twist to us. Not only are you gonna hear great songs and great lyric, you're also gonna get a great show. How did the Shinin begin? It's strange to me that you're from Alaska. A lot of people think we're from Alaska, but we're not from Alaska. We run our office out of Alaska. How we came to be in Alaska, I can't get into too much. We don't like to talk about where we're from. We don't care to represent any particular city or state. We don’t want to talk about how many units we've sold or who we're down with. All that is irrelevant to us. Our only interest is to tackle the people. Give 'em the best show we can. It's true when you do something different people tend to attack you. It can take a long time to get the acceptance you deserve. Also we don’t diss other Rap artists, we don’t do that. There was a time when Black performers couldn't get record contracts. The music couldn’t get played on the radio and Blacks could only perform in certain venues. But now Black music runs the industry. Now that we've finally made it to the top of the mountain, instead of patting each other on the back we're tryin to push each other off the platform. The Shinin will not contribute to that in any way. We don't do the dissing thing. I feel like there's more to you than just Rap music. We just take it the extra mile. We wanna give 'em something special. For instance when I'm on stage during my solo spot I take a live snake and put the head in my mouth. A lotta people wouldn't take the time to learn something like that. I went to Seattle, this Mexican dude got me the snake. When I put the snake into my mouth it bit into my tongue. It was shedding and when snakes are shedding they don't like to be touched. He bit my tongue, we stopped the show, took me back stage. Someone called the paramedics and the fire department came as well. I could feel the snake inside my mouth adjusting his jaws to swallow my tongue. I had blood coming out of my mouth, I was in pain. Finally the fire department cut the snake in half. I was rushed to the hospital, got a lotta shots in my mouth. That's the price you pay for bein in the Shinin. We're willing to go to those extremes. It's hard for me to understand what drives you to take such risks. Is it for shock? No, it's like when you're a stuntman doing all kinds of stuff, eventually something could go wrong. I've swallowed fire a lot, I've probably swallowed fire a thousand times. I've been hurt 4 times. One time I burned my mouth real bad. Now I have abnormal taste buds, I can only taste certain things. The other members of the group are doing similar things to what you’re doing? Of course. The Purple Face Gambler has close to 30 piercings on his body. He's got about 10 piercings around his genitals. That's just part of who he is. We have three members in the group--Purple Face Gambler is the world's fastest rapper. We have Chainsaw who's deaf. He's got a speaking problem, he's got a hearing problem. Then we have the Fire Swallowing Wizard, Dome, that's me. Now we have a new member, DJ Shadow. That's kind of premature, I can't go into it yet. Do you consider what you're doing to be kind of sick? Absolutely not. I think it's really perspective. You got people out there that'll smoke three packs of cigarettes a day. Not only are they wasting their money, they're puttin themselves at a high risk of cancer. To me that's sick. That's damaging your body. Some people will look at us and say what we're doin is sick. The same people will turn around and watch a movie like Scream or Freddy Kruger and think that's entertainment. It's all perspective.
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