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Violent J of Dark Lotus Photo By Eric Johnson Continued From Murder Dog Vol.1 #2 Anybody Killa is back on the label and you’re working with Esham again. Is there any artist you’ve worked with in the past that you would not work with again? No, because I’ve just about worked with everybody that did leave. I mean, even Myzery, we did that song together. So, no, there ain’t anybody. I’d love to work with Mike P again from Zug Izland. Fuck, yeah, man. What’s up with Myzery now? I have no idea! I haven’t heard nothing in a long time. We have family together, but I haven’t seen or heard from him in a long time. He’s doing his thing somewhere, you know? What’s the connection between Psychopathic and Project Born these days – now that they’ve wrapped up the Toxic Terror Tour with Twiztid? We just seen them somewhere, started kicking it, “Hey, man, this is coming up, are y’all interested?” They came to the company softball game and it was cool because they used to be with Psychopathic back in the day – way back in the day. So they came to the company picnic and we were kicking it with them here and there. It’s just networking. They’re friends of ours. We don’t have no enemies out there that I know of. Back in the day there was the feud between ICP and Eminem. It seems that you don’t hold grudges like that anymore. Why is that? We don’t hold grudges no more because there’s no way we could be mad. How could we be mad? Things are going too fresh to walk around pissed off. There was a time in our lives when it wasn’t going as fresh, but right now fuck being mad. Everybody’s just making music and trying to get theirs, and there’s room for everybody in this bitch. How’s the Psychopathic sub-label Hatchet House going? Hatchet House is the shit. It’s going good right now. I think the only thing we put out so far was DJ Clay, but that’s doing real good. Hatchet House has a compilation coming out with 14 different groups and artists, all that do the wicked shit. That’s 14 different groups, not talking about Psychopathic acts. We’re gonna do cool shit like that on Hatchet House. Who else are you looking to sign to Hatchet House? We’re considering putting out the new Axe Murder Boyz album (“God’s Hand”) because their last one did pretty good. They did this one all on their own and we didn’t have to produce any track or spend a bunch of time doing it. They know what they want, so we’re considering maybe putting out their new record. I heard tracks that he sent over. I think it’s good. The R.O.C. is also signed to Hatchet House. Have you heard any of his forthcoming album, “Digital Voodoo?” I heard some of that today. That’s going real good too. He’s in the studio, he’s taking his time and we’re gonna put that out too. Have you heard of ill e. gal from Rhode Island? Yeah, ill e. gal – the girl rapper. I know her. I like her stuff. I liked her better when she was in a group, True High Class. I thought that was cool when she was in a group. But I don’t think we’re gonna do anything with her. She’s the shit, though. But I don’t know. We’re a bunch of roughneck-ass dudes. It’d be rough touring with a chick like that! What can fans expect from the Dark Lotus tour? It’s totally different than our individual shows. There’s a different set, a stage, there’s a different feeling to the show. We usually just do Dark Lotus music. Sometimes we do collabos that we’ve all done in the past. We throw them in there off our individual albums. We’ll throw some jams we’ve done with Twiztid together – throw that in the show. And we just give our all as Dark Lotus. Are you working with Wolfpac out of Philadelphia still these days? I talk to Daddy Long Legs all the time. I think they’re kind of in a regrouping stage. A couple of the guys left and they got new guys, so they’re just sort of working all that out. What else is new with Psychopathic Records? This is ’08 and this has been a crazy, crazy year, man. This is a big year for us. We’ve got a new Boondox record coming out. That we’re crazy excited about. And we’ve got this new Lotus album coming out and a big, huge tour. It’s a long tour – it’s seven weeks long. And then we’ve got Red Rocks coming up – the Hatchet Attacks super show, which is an all-day horror-rap festival (in Colorado). Bands start playing at 2 o’clock on the stage – bands and groups that all do the wicked shit. And then the entire Hatchet family performs. It’s gonna be the shit, man. What do you make of Boondox connecting with the fans as well as he has? You have a real knack for signing acts that go over well – like ABK and now Boondox. It’s because Boondox is the shit, man! He’s a crazy hillbilly fuckin’ scarecrow rapper. That’s awesome. And he’s authentic. He’s from the rural areas of Georgia. And his lingo and his knowledge of all that hillbilly shit is authentic. The reason why he works is because it took a long time to find him. It took a long time to find somebody like that with that kind of talent. And if anybody believes that he was something Psychopathic just created, what we did was bring the best out of him. When you hear his new album, there’s no denying he’s got an incredible amount of talent. Once again, that’s his second album. That’s one he basically did on his own. It’s fucking amazing and it’s devastating. It’s no denying Boondox is the shit. And I’ll tell you another thing – because I helped put him out and I basically heard him and saw potential and he’s doing as well as he is, I’m fucking crazy proud of that shit. He’s the shit, man. When you hear his new album, it’s stunning how good that shit is. You did the same thing with ABK a few years ago, taking a veteran rapper as a hypeman and the next thing you know everyone wants to wear his shirts, hats, jerseys – you name it! But ABK kind of developed into being as good as he was on his own. He was here as Blaze’s hypeman, but he had it. He had that shine and he took it from there, you know? It’s similar in a lot of ways to Boondox, but he didn’t know anybody coming in. He was just someone off a demo we heard. But he was the shit, man. It’s just like Killa. Some people just got it, man. They’ve got that shine. They can get out there and get in the studio and put their heart and their soul in the shit. Do you think there’s an age limit when it comes to rappers? I mean, we’re getting to the point where the industry is beginning to see some rappers hitting their 40s. No, musicians get a pass on age. Look at Bret Michaels. He lives in a house with 15 hoes and he’s 44. Rock stars and rappers, we get a pass on age. I don’t give a fuck if Ice-T’s 65. Ice-T rapping is the shit. That’s it. I don’t give a fuck how old somebody gets, man. It depends on who they are and what they’re doing. You can’t tell me Reverend Run rapping isn’t fresh. I mean, how old is he? It’s the shit. Nobody wants him to stop and he don’t want to stop, so more power to him. I think for some reason, people in music get a pass on age. |
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