Necro (2008)

Nach dem durchschlagenden Erfolg von “The Sexorcist” legt Necro nach und präsentiert das Album gleich noch einmal: mit neuen Tracks, einer Bonus DVD und einem erwartungsgemäß schweinigelnden Video zum Single-Smash-Hit “Who’s Ya Daddy?”. Wir bringen euch auf den neusten Stand in Sachen Psycho+Logical Records – und wie immer, wenn Necro in Redelaune ist, gibt’s auch die ein oder andere amüsante Episode aus dem Leben des New Yorker Psychopathen…

Why did you decide to re-release “The Sexorcist”, which so many people don’t consider as your strongest piece of work? What makes this album so special for you?

Anyone that doesn’t feel “Sexorcist”, which was a strong piece of work, is a faggot homosexual hater, I hope you don’t fall into that category. Also, where did you get that info from? It’s false, matter of fact. “Who’s Ya Daddy”, the main single off that album got over 1.6 million plays on Myspace, girls get naked to that song every show, I have gotten laid all over the world because of that song, and that started off the album. My “Sexorcist” album is also the only sex album to drop from a rapper in the new millenium. Nobody else, no other artist dropped such an album with real live porn stars featured on every track. I would say anyone that didn’t feel it was strong is a faggot and likes men, real perverts love it. If you watch the “Who’s Ya Daddy?” video and don’t get why I needed to release a Special Edition, then you just don’t get Necro The Sexorcist.The debauchery on this DVD is insane! Don’t ever question the master and why I do shit. Unless of course you’re interviewing me, can’t have an interview without questions. Besides that, never second guess god – I am the sexorcist porn god!!!

As we all know, Ill Bill’s new album will be released on Strange Music. Will you try to get a foot in the door of the Strange Music audience?

I ain’t sweating to do that. I did that with ICP and the metal world, I played the Sounds Of The Underground Tour and got hated on. I then opened up for ICP on their Hallowicked Tour and played the gathering – and I got 90% love. So the Juggalos are all good in my book, but I didn’t see any real spike in sales, so it taught me that I’m better off just doing my shit. As opposed to jumping on other people’s tours and opening, I’d rather headline my own shows and build like that. I’m at the point I can headline everywhere and get paper, there’s a demand for me. I pack 500 to 1000 everywhere, while ICP, Tech N9ne or Subnoize might do 2000 to 3000. So I ain’t far behind. But I’m not gonna get there riding the coattails of someone elses movement, I never did that shit. And although it was wa great experience doing some of that last year, I did it because my management thought it should be done. I can’t say I profited from alot of last year’s touring, it was all about paying dues. And it’s not seen in the record sales, where as I could have headlined 50 shows and caked up. So I’m getting in where I fit in. PLR is a movement itself and Necro is a movement – and I like controlling my own shit. Ain’t nobody better than me, i’m not below nobody. Not lyrically, not musically. It’s just certain companies have been around longer. Rhymesayers started in 1993, Tech N9ne is at least 5 years older than me, ICP was dropping shit in the early 90’s and was on a major. I never had a major record label push, I’m all indie since day one. So I got a few more years of dues to pay before PLR can sel out 3000 cap spots. Watch, it will happen. I went from 200 cap clubs to 400 to 1000. I sold out alot of major cities on earth. London, LA, NYC, Toronto, Melbourne, Paris, Czech Republic and more. So we got some work to do. But I ain’t going nowhere, motherfuckers are shook!

Could you just give up some more information about the Blood Brothas album that is supposed to be released real soon?

I’m not dropping a Blood Brothers album. If me and Bill dropped an album together, the name would be different ’cause another artist used that name after I announced it first. But we never dropped the record, so I guess they felt it’s cool to rock it. All good on that, because we didn’t drop it. And: Blood Brothers is a universal term. Me and Bill don’t have any projects together on the horizon. But, me and Hyde will drop a record together called “Gruesome Twosome”.

What about the problems with the release of the Secret Society album? After Ill Bill’s part on the PLR sampler everybody was waiting for more … and nothing happened.

Well, I cut of Goretex from PLR. Then I got burned out from dropping mad shit one after the other. Just the business, not even creatively. Just the way shit was going I felt it could have gone better. Looking back it was pretty good, I just aim really high. So Secret Society will drop, but it will come out when a bunch of new shit comes out. Like in the middle of a ton of new Necro produced records, maybe 2009 or 2010.

Will you try to extend the roster of PLR in the near future? What about signing peeps like Riviera Regime and Nems for example?

Yeah, I wanna build PLR even bigger. But it has to be the right kind of artists that I get along with. Because artists are like kids sometimes: they don’t know as much as you and you have to teach them the business and it gets hard. If you have seven artists … some parents can’t even teach their one kid. I need to be on point for seven and still hold it down for Necro. That’s why I’m so quick to punch anyone in the face. You got no idea of the stress and pressure I can be under. That I’m just waiting to explode violently on some random person. Watch ya step!!

How did you get in contact with these two anyway?

Riviera Regime got at me online because they read an interview where I said I treid to get down with Israeli rapper Subliminal. He’s like the biggest rapper in Israel. I figured he would show a NYC jew love, I’m the realest NYC jew in HipHop period, next to my brother and Danny Diablo. So I actually brought Danny and Hyde to come with me to meet Subliminal at BBKings, a club I happened to tear down and get banned from. Anyway, dude wouldn’t even get us backstage. Like if you see us make sure we are taken care of. We are NYC G’s, homie, it’s a blessing that we go out our way to check you. Long story short, dude was disrespectful and didn’t show up to a studio session because they were busy buying Levis. And the Regime heard about this and hollered and was like ‘We real israeli jewish rappers, we fought in Golani Brigade, the hardest unit in the IDF. We get busy, we hood, what’s good, let’s get up.’ I felt the way they came off and were respectful and not eager. I hate eager motherfuckers. I met them, looked them in their eyes. They seemed cool. After a bit we got really right and been rolling together for over 2 years now. So they family and we been through many fights together and beefs on tour. So the street side is solid, they held me down with a gat in Toronto. It is what it is, we pushing their record now in ’08, motherfuckes cop it. As for Nems, I sent him a message online, someone posted his EPK on my message board, some hater kid actually. Anyway, I peeped it ’cause he had the word ‘murder’ in his name, Murderfest. I was like ‘I wanna see what the fuck he murdering and why these dudes is on his dick.’. I seen dude was a rican/irish kid, walking through the streets ryhming, rapping on trains, dropping verses, dope battle like disrespectful joints. Then I seen him battling actually in battles and he was sonning niggas. So I was like aight, he straight. Someone gonna fuck with him, so I fell back and he just was on my radar. Anyway, I decided I wanted to add a few artists for ’08, so I hollered. He ain’t have nothing poppin’, labelwise, people sleepin’ on him, giving fake promises and so on. So I met up with him, let him know how we get down, made sure he was like us mentally. And boom, he been down ever since. He has his own movement FYL, but PLR is my shit, so he reps that, too, now. And he seen how we get down at shows in Cali, in the streets. The way we roll is official. So it’s cool to have someone understand. Him being half white he understands the hate we get in HipHop, but him being Rican je also has that side to him. All in all, he relates to the streets and can murder people verbally with his skills. So he is a good addition to PLR.

What about Uncle Howie – how’s he doing and when will we hear something new from him?

I don’t even know. He in the streets, he still getting high. He ain’t my concern these days. He wore out his welcome with me as far as help. I done helped him too many times. I don’t hate him, I got love for him. But he is his own man, he likes roaming the street. You can’t help someone that don’t wanna help themselves.

What’s your opinion about La Coka Nostra and how strong are your ties to the group?

They doing their thing. It’s cool to see Ill Bill have something after Non-Phixion that people took a liking to. I still always felt Bill should have stuck with me and PLR and rolled through the hard times. ‘Cause it isn’t like he has blown up juge since me. But he is my big brother and like my father. They have very strong personalities and wanna be in control. So he needs to do his thing to feel good. Same as me. I am a control freak ’cause I feel I know what is good and isn’t. That’s just me, so it’s cool that he is doing La Coka Nostra. If not for that I might not have PCP, because Bill working with Psycho Real lead to me fucking with The Realm. Taking them on tour and, boom, now a group with Jacken and Muggs. I think we could do alot of things together if shit really blew up. PCP and LCN, as long as I get my paycheck I’m down. I got love for Slaine, he always showed me love. Like at least a year before LCN was even created, Slaine was showing mad respect. So it’s all good, Bill has his movement and I got mine. If he doesn’t win with his and I win with mine, you can be sure the door will be open for him to fuck with PLR anyday. I still believe he is one of the beast, I just feel when I produce him I get the best out of him. It’s that sibling rivalry that makes him slaughter my beats. Competition is always good, I’m very competitive.

With the fusion of rap vocals and metal guitars you reintroduced something into rapmusic that seemed to be forgotten. How did you come up with the idea that this combination could still work?

I’m just a metal head, so I wasn’t ready to combine both genres until 2004 because I didn’t know how. We just mentioned bands, albums and band members in our rhymes. And we the first to ever do it. Me, Bill and Goretex. But too many people are biters. Nobody was doing shit with metal bands like I was in 2004. Everyone says “Judgement Night” but that was some movie major label shit out together. What I was doing was way different. I was getting real Death Metal legends and making them part of my production. Like 70’s musicians, taking shit to another level. That’s done, I did it. And nobody can fuck with me on that steeze, I see people biting my shit in ’08. I been seeing people bite my rap style on the low here and there, also my production style. It’s cool, it means I got hot shit to have biters. But I always move forward. So you can only bite me 4 years later, 3 years later after I do it, next shit I do will take you 3 years to bite, fucking faggots.

What metal bands do you have in your playlist and who do you like to work with in the future?

Metallica, always. Best band to ever do it period. Next to Sabbath, then Slayer of course. Megadeth, Obituary, Sepultura … those 6 are my favorites forver. I wanna work with Metallica sometime in my career, that’s a dream come true – Ozzy in a hook would be dust.

To me, your music is 95% rap but only 5% metal – could you imagine to reverse this rate, maybe as an one-time experiment?

I mean, it depens. I never set out to turn my shit into metal. I did some fustion on some songs, maybe 4 songs from an album that had mostly HipHop tracks. Just to show people some diversity, do something original. So I never claimed I was more metal than HipHop. But to make a whole metal album … I don’t know, I was gonna do this with Igor from Sepultura. But he flaked on me and then went right into the studio with his brother Max. After 13 years or so, that’s cool, I was the catalyst possibly for him doing that. Because prior to him connecting with his brother, I kept saying I wanna make shit like Master Of Puppets, Reign In Blood and Beneath The Remains. And he kept saying ‘Yeah, Necro, yeah Necro, I’m down, I’m excited’. So he was getting amped up. And then, boom, he leaves Sepultura from being bored. And it’s announced that me and him have a group on Blabbermouth. I think the whole time he was like ‘Shit, I need to do this with Max, not Necro’. And you wanna know what, I respect that. That’s awesome, to think in anyway, that me, Ron Braunstein, the little Sepultura fan as a kid who opened for them would maybe have any sort of influence or be in a band with Igor. That’s a dream come true. Not it’s not a big deal to me, it’s old news. But overall it’s cool, I’m happy for them and that they made it happen. They were meant to be together making the brutalest shit. If I was gonna make a metal band the first guy I would call is Mike Smith from Suffocation. He is so talented, it’s insane … on drums, guitar, he has so much potential for any musical direction you wanna go. Who knows, maybe in the future.

You toured Germany for the very first time last year – what where you’re impressions?

Alot of people said it was shady, that people were on some Nazi shit. They hate americans. But I found it pretty cool. No beef, no disrespect, the fans were awesome, they pitted hard. Hyde didn’t have the greatest experience because he got sick after punching 7 people in the face on Norway. He cut his finger, so he got sick and the doctor was like Dcotor Mengele. But besides that it was cool. I even got laid, it was so cold out and I’m in the van fucking. And everyone is getting pissed ’cause I’m having a good time fucking while they freeze outside. So I had to cut it short and bust quick, oh well…

Have there been at least some metal guys in the audience?

Yeah, alot of shows have metalheads. Maybe even 15% of the crowd is dudes with metal shirts or long hair.

Describe a typical Necro recording session … how does your work in the studio differ from the other PLR artists?

Everyone has their own way of doing shit, I can’t speal for anyone else really. But I take shit serious, I have a goal to accomplish so that’s what I focus on. I can’t hang out and do drugs and fuck around.

Last not least: you seem to dislike to speak on Goretex. If that’s still the case, this interview is over for this time. If not, you could clear up some rumors and bad-talk…

He was not real with the click. He fucked up, very disloyal and shady. Imagine a talented guy you know – he is very talented – but he will talk shit about you, try to fuck your girl, not back you up in beef, is soft and a pussy, has terrible work ethic, dead beat father, never says thank you, thinks the world owes him something, answers you back when he is wrong to the point so that you have to hit him to get your point across – I could keep going on, sadly enough … that’s Goretex. As talented as he is, he is unbearable to deal with, extremely immature and that’s that.