And while others struggle to maintain a foothold in the ever-changing rap landscape, R. The Rugged Man is the rare artist who has become more relevant with time, with each new album more compelling than the last. After building a reputation as one of the most talented unsigned MCs on the scene, he sparked a bidding war between several major labels. The fans who actually take the time to sit down and listen to that record, they go crazy.
The response has been astronomical. The Rugged Man: That was a fun record. The more government gains power, who do we trust? We wrote that before the quarantine. You inspire me. We did pretty good with it. We have to work it, let the fans come as the years go by. In other countries, we do good with the media. He said the first time he met me, he saw me bullying the bar staff at a bar.
Him and his little crew would go to your town, perform until he could ask for more money than all of them. All of them, everyday. Hip-hop has always been a competitive sport from day one. Being the most memorable act of the night. The rhyming constructions are multiples, fascinating, and their content is often exciting.
For the listener, it is sometimes too much with a near 80 minutes long effort. If there is one thing that R. And of all these dead heroes that the title of his album evokes, hip-hop is the first one that R. A is determined to get alive again.
This interview is the restitution of two email exchanges from which real hip-hop values are transpiring, nevermind for those who thinks that hip-hop fundamentals are today obsolete. Because if the Rugged Man seemed sometimes cumbersome, his absence would leave an empty place that no MC would be able to fill. Abcdr du Son : Your three solo albums conjugate the verb « to die ».
The first one, Die Rugged Man, Die , was a reference to your dark years, the years when the record industry blacklisted you. The second, Legends Never Die , was a reference to your father, who died three years earlier. All My Heroes Are Dead seems to be a reference to a switch of era, the end of an age.
Each album is a way to rebuild a vision of your personal history, but also of rap history? Die Rugged Man was definitely coming back from the failures, they tried to kill me but I survived. And as well, it was a dedication to our loved ones lost.
We lost so many at this point, and the culture is looked at as dead to so many. For that, allow me to give you a European and French point of view.
From a European point of view, your golden age in the U. S is roughly the years to A : Well you all like « through is better » because that is when Hip-Hop was marketed world wide on a high level.
Underground albums were marketed to the world and selling millions of records. There was the most money being pumped into real Hip-Hop at that time, so real Hip-Hop got the most exposure at that time. But as far as record making, was the pinnacle of Hip-Hop, that was Hip-Hop in its purist form.
They were breaking down walls, changing the sound and doing things that had never been done before, in new ways. They were advancing and changing the music. Some of the groups you named are great, but the template was already created and done by Rakim. Every rapper you named wanted to be him.
Kool G Rap, so many of those rappers you named would admit themselves they cant fuck with Kool G! No vocalist ever had the power of Chuck.
MC LYTE and so many countless other greats the list goes on and on and on… The more money and bigger Hip-Hop became, the more it became a corporate pet and the further it got away from the roots of what it was all about.
Rocking the mic. A : Besides, you make a lot of references in your songs to legendary lines or records, even to events involving rappers like the ones we just talked about. Most music opinions you read online from journalists are just cut and pasted, and a lot of information is inaccurate. I was there for a lot of history and I studied the culture.
When i was young, I educated myself on music especially the music I love. I like to preserve the culture. A : Your record contains a lot of scratches, several DJs play on it. Scratching, and even seeing a rapper accompanied by a DJ as you mentioned earlier, are things that have unfortunately completely disappeared from the vast majority of rap albums today.
A : I think culture today is more about personalities, wether its social media personalities or politicians, I think the world is less interested in craft and skill. The scratches had to be really on point. I love scratching, I love beatboxing, I love hard beats and hard drums, I love hard rhymes, I love storytelling. John A. Thorburn, was a Vietnam veteran affected by Agent Orange. Thorburn's family was significantly affected by the potent chemical.
His brother Maxx was born handicapped and blind, eventually dying at the age of Thorburn's sister, Dee Ann, was born without the ability to walk or speak. She died in at the age of Thorburn died 7 January from cancer. Thorburn said that his father was truly happy within his last year of life, due to his mindset that he could plan for his death. Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute!
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