A new introductory video has arrived for Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival so settle in and get to know The Librarian, played by Tech N9ne, who teaches us that everything in Heaven is by the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbE_Ekn__eg
Just released on www.youtube.com/KottonmouthKingsVevo
Music video by Kottonmouth Kings performing Sink Or Swim. (C) 2015 United Family Music Inc.
Placentia, CA based psych/hip hop group Kottonmouth Kings have released a new track “Audio War,” now available on iTunes. The band also released a brand new music video for “Sink Or Swim.” Both tracks are from the group’s upcoming album Krown Power, out August 28th via United Family Music / Capitol Records. Krown Power is available for pre-order now on iTunes and in Kottonmouth Kings’ merch store.
Nearly 20 years ago, Kottonmouth Kings’ popularity began when word spread about their unique and original style that came to be known as “Rip-Hop”. Over the years, this iconic group has built a huge fan base who feel inspired by their lifestyle, their music and their fashion. The group is ready to release their first full-length album on United Family Music Group, their new label founded by KMK front man, Brad “Daddy X” Xavier.
For more information on Kottonmouth Kings, please visit http://www.kottonmouthkings.com/.
Pre-order Krown Power on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/KrownPower
Krown Power pre-order merch bundles can be purchased here: http://www.kottonmouthkingsmerchandise.com/
Listen to “Audio War” on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/track/1bdDaGg5uIEghVK9rV0DpB
2015 GOTJ CONTESTS AND OTHERS PICTURES BY THE FOOT VOL 1
MORE PICS FROM THE FOOT OF THIS YEARS GATHING OF THE JUGGALOS
The official PREVIEW for the comedy documentary, “Kegan Ault Presents: Am I Doing This Right?” coming September 2015! Follow Kegan on his journey to bring comedy through an Underground scene full of musicians. With interviews from legends in the underground, to behind the scenes action, and live comedy performances! This a DVD everyone should own!
Check out Kegan on facebook at facebook.com/creepasscomedy
and also at nativeworldinc.com and thewarriorspot.com
Welcome To The Underground 2015 Tour VIP Package Package includes:
Twiztid returns to the seminar tent in 2015 and drops some info – one heated moment, and the return of the BACON!!! Still no bacon suit though.
Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne confounds many expectations of what a hip-hop mogul should be.
Instead of having a major record contract, he releases his music on his own independent label. Instead of just collaborating with other rappers, he mixes it up with hard rockers such as Skipknot and Linkin Park. Instead of appearing on stage all blinged out, he shows up in white face paint and simple hospital scrubs.
Yet the 43-year-old artist and businessman has made the Forbes magazine list of top earners in hip-hop since 2013 and is now the No. 1-selling independent rap artist in the country. His Strange Music record label, founded with business partner Travis O’Guin in 1999, has a full roster of artists, including ¡MAYDAY!, Rittz, Ces Cru, Krizz Kaliko and more. This spring, Tech N9ne – born Aaron Dontez Yates – released his 15th studio album, “Special Effects.”
The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard Rap Album chart and No. 4 on the Billboard 200 album chart and had a breakout hit with the single “Hood Go Crazy,” featuring 2 Chainz and B.o.B. The rapper, who was dubbed “Hip-Hop’s Secret Mogul” by Forbes, will headline the Xclamation Festival, X-Fest for short, in downtown Modesto on Saturday, Aug. 22.
Tech N9ne spoke with The Bee from his home base in Kansas City, Mo., recently about his music, his image and his ever-expanding empire.
Q: So you’re an artist, businessman, music mogul all in one. Do you consider yourself any one more than the others, or are they all integral to who you are?
A: More of a musician, you know what I am saying. The business side came from Travis (O’Guin). A lot came from him over the years.
Q: When you founded Strange Music, did you realize what it would grow to? Was this always the dream?
A: I had no idea that the crazy idea in my head to have the snake and a bat as our symbol would end up on people’s skin forever as tattoos, on people’s cars. I didn’t know it would turn into something humongous like this. We haven’t reached the level me and Travis have set out to reach yet, but we’ve done so wonderfully. So we have a little bit more to go. I’d say we’re getting there.
Q: Why has it been important for you to be an independent artist with your Strange Music label?
A: You know, before I ran into Travis, I had three other record deals. After all those went sour, I never wanted to be in that position ever again to have to be told what to put out, what to write. I didn’t want to be told what image would work for the public. I have to be somewhere where I have complete autonomy and do whatever the hell I want.
Q: You’ve since had incredible success, making the Forbes lists for the biggest earners in hip-hop. Did those inclusions change how people looked at you?
A: I think that the respect is still growing. Over the years, my peers in music have said, “We respect your grind and getting out there.” After being on the Forbes list three years in row, it makes sure everyone else pays attention. When you have an independent record with Eminem on it, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, and the list goes on, people recognize now that I always had something special going on. Because people thought I was the weird black guy with red spiked hair (one of his old looks on stage).
Q: As you mentioned, your new album has a lot of great collaborations. How do you decide on who you want to work with and make it happen?
A: Corey and Eminem, I’ve been wanting to work with them for over a decade. I’ve been trying for a while. I guess I finally did a song (“Speedom (WWC2)”) that I sent to Eminem that he really loved. Same with Corey. When you approach Corey Taylor backstage at one of his humongous concerts, you have to know it can’t be with something soft. It can’t be anything subpar. So I knew when I took “Wither” in to Corey, I knew he’d fit perfectly. I do really well in fitting people with music perfectly.
Q: You also tour extensively, playing around 100 shows a year. What do you get from the stage that you don’t get from other creative outlets?
A: Other than spending time with my children, the stage is where I belong. When I’m home too long, I go crazy. We need to be out there connecting with the fans.
Q: Your style is really different, as well. Tell me about how it evolved.
A: Everything we wear on stage, from hospital scrubs to the numbers on the front, it all came from a group that taught me to think different years ago, called Nnutthowze, my first band. My best friend, Brian Dennis, painted my face for the first time in 1994. He died some years later. The clown I become in ’94, the killer clown lyrically, was his idea. It was from the killer clown myth in Kansas City that used to scare all the kids. In honor of him, I wear the face paint.
Q: How have people responded to your look?
A: In the beginning, everybody, the majority of people, thought we were weird. They called me devil worshiper for so many years. But now the scrubs are respected and the number 6688846993 (which on telephone buttons spells out Nnutthowze) is respected and the face paint will be respected. I don’t care if you think it’s weird or think I’m corny because I wear face paint and I’m in my 40s. When anyone says anything derogatory about it, they should know it is in honor of my dead best friend.
Q: So what can people expect when they see you live?
A: From this live show, they can expect it to be loud. Can expect it to be as crazy as you ever seen a show. It’s light, it’s dark, it’s confused, it’s smart, it’s human.
Official music video for the Bloodstepp track ‘Transform’ featuring Madchild from the album ‘Grand theft Ufo’. Available in digital or hard copy from www.bloodstepp.com
Hopsin’s Funk Volume Challenges Any Label to $500,000 Rap Battle
Funk Volume artists pride themselves on their highly-advanced rapping skills. As a matter of fact, they are so confident in their abilities that they believe no other label in the industry can beat them in a rapper battle. Stopping by Sway in the Morning on Shade 45 in promotion of his new album Pound Syndrome, Hopsin tagged along with Jarren Benton and Dizzy Wright. During the interview, they challenged their rap colleagues and appealed to any label to put up $500,000, pick their best three rappers and try to defeat Hop, Jarren and Dizzy. N****, I’m about to rob you,” said Benton. In other words, Shady Records, Strange Music, G.O.O.D. Music and ever other imprint in the industry can pick up the gauntlet and return to the roots of the genre.
¡MAYDAY! “All The Time”
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¡MAYDAY! “All The Time”
taken from the album – Future Vintage, in stores 9.18.2015
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Close friend of Sway and key member of 3 6 Mafia DJ Paul swung by to hang out early in the morning. Adding to the long list of hits (over 90 projects in the catalog), he has some more heat lined up in the new single “Extendos” off his upcoming ‘Da Light Up Da Poe Up’ mixtape.
Extending beyond the music scene, DJ Paul stays busy building his portfolio running his own real estate company in Tennessee and flexing in the kitchen with his own cooking show. Joking with the SITM crew saying those things are necessary for his “retirement” as he can’t see himself turning up on a cruise ship yelling “Tear the club up” at age 80.
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Metrotimes Detroit has released their weekly “Ask a Juggalo” column.
This week Metrotimes asks Vinnie Monaster “Is making fun of Juggalos one of the last acceptable forms of class bigotry?”
If you would like to send a question in to be answered, you can do so by emailing AskAJuggalo@metrotimes.com.
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Q: I read in an article that “making fun of Juggalos is one of the last acceptable forms of class bigotry.” What do you think about that statement?
A: You know, this goes back to younger times in our lives, when, for whatever reason, picking on somebody or putting somebody down made you feel better. Unfortunately, showing bigotry is and always has been part of our culture as Americans. If you don’t understand it, you mobilize, attack, and destroy it. It’s easy for somebody to try to blow out our everlasting burning flame and try to make their flame burn a little brighter. But the joke is on them. We, as Juggalos, will always have the last laugh. Especially now, being in my mid-30s, I can say that we are still on the way up. Twenty years from now, there’s gonna be Juggalos running this country, you know what I mean? And at the end of the day, don’t be surprised if we see mud being slung in the next 20 years over all kinds of political offices and Juggalos that are literally pushing for greatness and pushing for change and pushing to make things better for people, because we never forgot where we came from. We’re the same human beings. Whether you’re really struggling as a Juggalo or really well off, at the end of the day, we are very down-to-earth. That’s one of the big things about being a Juggalo that goes all the way back to the very first full-length Joker’s Card, that bigots are a dying breed, and haters, if you will, they’re not even on our radar. So at the end of the day, we can be judged by whomever, and most of the people that do judge us as a whole have absolutely no clue of what they’re talking about. The bottom line, man: Ignorance is bliss. And we definitely got a pie for every hater’s face out there. Hope you love whipped cream dripping down your jaw. Straight up.