Bizarre Interview
Bizzare is releasing a new album, and is here in the UK, with the rest of D12 and Eminem, so we thought we’d catch up with the Detroit native, check You Tube for the full video interview.
So tell me, I know you were smashing it up at the Wireless Festival yesterday, I heard there was a good vibe there, how did you guys get on there?
Ah man, it was good man, it kinda shocked us how many people were there to support D12, it was just amazing, I’m still in shock.
Do you find that UK audiences differ from American audiences and other audiences across the world? Do you find it takes you a while to get us going or do you find us a real good, easy crowd to please?
It was all energy and love, right from the beginning, man. When we first got there we felt the energy, love, you know, the audience was ready for us, 15 minutes before we were on stage they started chanted D12, so, we knew they were ready.
Cool, it was a good vibe. So, tell me, the new album obviously just dropped, it’s “Friday Night at St. Andrews”. That albums gonna be different from a lot of albums I’ve heard. I know you’re usually perceived as the comedian from D12 but this albums so much more heavy and lyrical based, what were your thoughts behind that?
I just wanted to change it up a little bit, you know what I’m saying? Still, I’m still the same Bazaar, but a lot of people don’t know that D12 was an elite battle group that was put together so I just wanna display my battle skills a little bit more, and like, cut back on the humour a little bit more.
Looking at the album, obviously you got a lot of collabos, you got Redman, Royce Da 59, you got people from D12 on there...how different is it recording with people outside of D12?
Everybody’s different, you know what I’m saying, my biggest problem is I’m a fast writer, in D12 we’re all fast writers, cos theres 5 of us in the group, so we write real fast so when we collaborate with other people sometimes we feel like, wow, this man not done yet?. So yeah, probably just adjusting to new writing patterns. A lot of new rappers write in their blackberrys, they don’t use pen and paper no more. I’m old skool, trying to adjust to the new way to do it.
So you guys’ve got pages and pages of lyrics lying at home then?
I’ll leave them anywhere, I’ll tear pages out, I got no specific book, at all. So my raps is just something I just basically steal from someone else’s notebook, a piece of paper then I’m done, I’m a part time rapper, man, haha.
So looking at the new single, I saw the video for Raps finest the other day, it reminded me a lot of the old skool hip hop videos, like LL Cool J, black and white, just getting down to lyrics, I was feelin’ that vibe.. Again, why did you go for the old skool look?
Oh man, that was really direct to ethnic, big up the ethnic garth, he a detroit native too, and ah, you know, he heard the song, he jus’ said wanted to make it hard core grimey, it was in St. Andrews, lights flickering, crowds rowdy...that;s what we wanted to bring it back to..
It’s a real exciting video.. As a rapper, whats it like growing up in Detroit, obviously I’m from London, how did you feel growing up in Detroit?
It’s a real hip hop vibe there, a lot of people that we grew up listening to J Dyla, you know what I’m saying, the whole movement there, so, they got 2 outlets, you know, they got a wrong path and they got a hip hop vibe you could be into too, so I chose the hip hop vibe.
Looking at D12 as a group as well , there’ve been rumours that theres a new album dropping soon, some say at the end of the year, the titles are different... Can you confirm whether there’ll be a new album’s dropping soon?
No I can’t confirm that one’s gonna drop but I know the mix tape is coming first, so actually, as soon as when we get back from here, London, UK, we’re gonna start working on it, knocking it out, then the album will be coming shortly after that.
