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Interviews: Necro

Necro Interview 8/9/99 1:29 a.m.

I've been tryin' to set up an interview with Necro for almost a year now. I've kicked it with him on several occasions but never got down to interviewing him. For those that don't know, Necro is one of the most talented and diverse underground hip-hop artists out there. This kid makes beats, raps, and makes independent films. All very well I might add. His Psychological style "cause it's logical to be a psycho" ranges from crimey thug rhymes to ill porn rhymes to straight up brutal evil shit that would make H.G. Lewis cringe. His singles "Get on your knees" and the " Necro" E.P., as well as his films "187 Reasonz Y' (cops should die) and "The Devil Made Me Do It" are already cult classics in the realm of underground hip-hop. He's made beats for cats like Cage, Non-Phixion, and Missin' Linx and is currently working on a new single as well as a full length. To put it blunt the kid is puttin' in mad work. So sit back, puff your Raid-sprayed dimesack and experience the brutality.

Fangface99

F: Where are you from?

N: Brooklyn.

F: How long you been rhymin' for?

N: Like 11 years, I started in like 88. I started rhymin' serious in like 93.

F: Yeah, I heard this freestyle you dropped in I guess 94. You were like " Necropheliac...nineteen-ninety gore. Rappin' about killin' fags and shit. That shit was brutal. Ok, If you had to how would you define your style?

N: Psychological

F: Besides hip-hop, what type of shit do you listen to?

N: As far as like sittin' and listenin' to shit, I listen to like 70's shit, funk shit, Black Sabbath, jazz records, like obscure 60's acid weird shit, Obituary.

F: Do you think you got an edge over other cats that make beats cause you listen to so much different shit? You don't limit yourself.

N: The majority of the world don't appreciate my outlook because my outlook is so obscure and bizarre and that's why realistically I have my edge. You know I might not get Mr.A, but I'll get Mr. B. regardless. So, what I do, I understand people love me they love what I do and that's my edge right there, and I can't lose. There's enough people in this world. It's like fish in the sea. It's like don't fuckin' sweat that bitch, there's more fish in the sea. One person don't like me it don't matter, there's always gonna be people feelin' Necro's shit. And that's pretty much my edge, me bein' me doin' what I do. Workin' hard.

F: So, what possessed you to do films? You don't see too many cats in hip-hop doin' that.

N: You know, I did the first film in hip-hop. Before "Bout It, Bout It". Before Master P. Most people don't know that but, I did.

F: Yo, I know that shit.

N: Yo, you know my shit came out before him.

F: Yeah, I got that shit. I had that shit.

N: I just wanted to do some ill shit, you know niggas wasn't tryin' to put me on in hip-hop, a lot of people flakin'. I was like hold up let me do some film shit. I was thinkin' that actually from that film I might blow-up from film maybe, you know get props, people sweat my style. I'll get a big deal and make rent money and then I'll be able to do rap and everything. I thought it would open up a door but, what it really did was just drained my time away and it basically failed. It's not that it failed. Yeah, underground niggas love it but I'd prefer for more people to see my shit. I don't wanna go commercial, look at it like this, people think you're commercial so a lot of people like you. What I think is that there's at least a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand more people just like guys like you. They just don't know where my shit is. That's why the film was holdin' me back. Now what I'm gonna do now when I'm not doin' film is strictly work on my Necro now and I'm gonna strictly blow-up my raps. Once I do that then I'll be able to do my films. On the big level. I'll be puttin like two hundred thousand into a movie instead of like five thousand or a thousand. Shit's just gettin better and better.

F: So, what's in progress as far as like the production?

N: I got my record label Psychological Records. Cause it's logical to be a psycho. I got Necro records comin' out now Ill Bill, Gore-Tex, Al Tariq from Beatnuts, Mr. Hyde the singles comin out then after that, I'm just gonna put Necro albums out. That's it just work on Necro. Produce myself, rep myself; just put out fresh, cold, brutal albums that no label would ever put out. So vile and fucked-up and brutal that the only way you're gonna get that is on my label. Know what I'm sayin' you're gonna have to come to me. What's gonna happen is it's gonna build me up. The more people support, the more shit I'm gonna put out and then I'm gonna put videos out. It's gonna elevate and elevate and then I'll have an empire like Master P. See when I have an empire like Master P. it's gonna be different cause I'm different from Master P. I make my own beats. You know I rap on different shit than he does. You know I make a different style than he would make so it's like they're gonna get Necro flavor. But on the same level as Master P. It's gonna be sick. It's gonna be my perspective. It's gonna be phat. There'll be lots of treats.

F: What type of niggas buy Necro records?

N: Pretty much right now it's a lot of back-packer kids, a lot kids that love hip-hop, the sickos don't usually buy it they just hear it. A lot of sick kids that are ill are not like record buyers. They listen to the radio they hear the freestyles. The kids that really buy it are like D.J. kids. I don't really know who goes out and spends money and buys it, but as far as who likes it, it's all different types. I got thug kids, I got violent kids, I got psycho kids, I got nerdy kids, I got logical kids, all different types. Everyone loves Necro realistically, can't really front. The niggas that hate me behind my back, they sweat me in my grill. I can't really front really.

F: Do you think you'd have trouble gettin' signed to a major cause your shit's so raw?

N: A few reasons. Major labels, they're all brainwashed, don't fuck with anybody white. Then number two you need somebody black to get you in if you're white. Every white kid that came out was with somebody black. MC Search and them, they was with Russell Simmons. They had Zev Love X in their first video. Snow he came out with MC Shan. Eminem and Dr. Dre. Every white boy has some fuckin' black guy with'em know what I mean? Nobody ever came out by themselves and got proper respect. Even Beastie Boys came out with Russell Simmons. Every white boy that ever came out never came out by himself being a white boy that just demanded respect because he was real. That's how I'm gonna come. I'm not latchin' on to any other race. I'm not latchin on to anybody. I come out with a black kid it's cause he's rollin' with my crew…not because he's makin' money off of me, not because I need him, not because he's producing me. I'm puttin my own shit out and I'm producing my own shit. So, realistically it's all Necro. Therefore fuck a major label. I don't want no nigga to pimp me. It's like Master P. says. I don't need some guy to call me up and wake me up at nine in the morning to tell me to go to the other part of town and to take 85% of my fuckin' shit. Out of my hard-earned fuckin' art. Fuck that. I don't want a label deal either. Start from scratch, foundation, build up. Underground cats gotta come support me. It's brutal and realistically you're gonna get shit that you can't get on a major label. You love Eminem. Eminem he does his thing but, he's on a major label and so far he can go with that crazy shit.

F: Yo, I heard that cat dissed you.

N: He dissed me? He never dissed me. I'm tellin' you straight up, he didn't diss me that's not true. Cause I know too many people that would know. Nobody disses me. Niggas diss me, they got beef and they get mutilated. Nobody disses Necro.

F: I heard you rip Craig G's ass on a freestyle. What's up with that?

N: He was ignorant, he didn't know who I was. He thought I was some clown, he talked. I shitted on him. I challenged him to some show, he didn't show up to his own show and I was there with all my peoples waitin' for him. He tried to say his car broke down. It's all good though. He knows the deal. He learned. Sometimes you gotta teach people not to fuck with you. He didn't know and I let him know. I'm not sweatin' to battle people but if he wants to battle me. If he wants to go that route, he'll just be blowin' me up. That would just make me a legend. If I come out, the way I would shit on him verbally, it would just blow me up. He gains nothing by dissing me. I only have to gain. That's why I'm not stressin' it. If I find out somebody got somethin' to say about me, I'm gonna find out. I know enough people.

F: Do you still fuck with Cage?

N: I don't fuck with Cage. I'll never make another beat for Cage again in his life.

F: That shit you did with him is the phattest shit he ever did.

N: Yeah, you know. If Cage finds out what I just said right now, that's great. You know, if I ever speak to him again. I'd tell him. There's no reason for me to tell him that anyway, I'm not a dick like that. I'll never make another beat for him again. Even if he gets an album and he wants me to make a beat for him, I'm not tryin' to produce nobody. You know, even my boys, I'm not producing them. I'm producing me. So when I drop an album, you're gonna get 20 songs of Necro's illest beats. Know what I'm sayin'? It's gonna be all my shit.

F: So how long till the next single?

N: It's done. It'll be mixed on Tuesday and within a month it'll be out. One porno song, one brutal song, and a re-make of an LL Cool J song.

F: What's up with the full-length?

N: My freestyles are the best shit I ever do. Better than the records, and what's gonna happen is, you've only heard shit of me when I'm only concentrating like 25% on my shit. My new E.P. my new single that's about 75% concentrated. My album is gonna be Necro 100%. See cause I was so busy producin' other people before, when I made my records I didn't put 100% into them. The album is gonna be the best shit you ever heard. It's gonna be a classic. You know somethin' it might not be a classic in the Source. It might not be a classic to them mutherfuckers, but to 200,000 people, goons like you. It's gonna be a classic. It's gonna be in your hearts forever. That's what I know and that's all I care about. It's only about cats like you. I don't care if people don't like you, get in where you fit in. That's the way I look at it.

Necro discography:
Underground/Get on your knees (Evil side/Porno side nuff said?)
Necro E.P. (Necro raps on shit from cockroaches to S.T.D.s)

Necro filmography:
187 Reasonz y (70's thug shit Brooklyn style)
The Devil made me do it (Satanism and drugs shit)

Necro beats:
Cage: Agent Orange/Radiohead (This is the hottest shit Cage ever did)
Non-Phixion: I shot Reagan (Necro rhymes on the title track and uses Blood-suckin'freaks on the B-side)
Missin' Linx: Locked-D ( the organ loop sounds like some Italian gore-flick shit)

Get Necro's shit at Fatbeats or other fine record stores. Check out the Necro video on Fatbeats radio

Smother would like to thank our good friend Joey B. aka Fangface for hooking us up with this exclusive interview.