The podcaster and Goldie Lookin’ Chain rapper displays on his musical obsessions…
What was the primary track you bear in mind loving?
Once I was a child I wasn’t into pop music in any respect, I assumed it was all frilly cuffs and make-up and I simply thought, that is for women, I simply need to set hearth to stuff within the again backyard. However then Stan Ridgeway did a track known as Camouflage and that fully blew my thoughts as a result of it was so totally different.
I preferred songs that had been bizarre, that weren’t love songs or folks dressing up as pirates. Additionally Intercourse Machine by James Brown as a result of I bear in mind sitting behind my dad’s automotive and considering it sounded actually good despite the fact that I didn’t know what a intercourse machine was.
Oh, and Wired For Sound by Cliff Richard. That video is sensible – it’s simply Cliff on curler skates in a procuring centre.
So what obtained you correctly into music?
It was 1988 and I obtained given a double cassette known as The Hits Of 1988 and all of a sudden you had folks like Salt N Pepa and Bomb The Bass in there and I simply thought, that is actually totally different.
Did you could have any pop star posters in your wall as a child?
Not likely, you couldn’t actually get Public Enemy posters in Athena, it was simply photos of a person along with his high off holding two tyres or some lady scratching her arse on a tennis court docket. However my sister had posters of Elvis and Bros and issues like that.
I like loads of that 80s music now, however on the time I simply didn’t get it. I used to be listening to Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy the opposite day – the 12” model of that’s implausible.
Do you could have an all-time favorite album?
Verify Your Head by Beastie Boys is de facto good, it crosses loads of genres. Paul’s Boutique is a good album too, however no person purchased that one. Not one of the children in my faculty who had been stealing Volkswagon indicators off the fronts of automobiles, none of them knew of it. However Verify Your Head is a very good introduction to totally different genres of music.
Have you ever met any of your musical heroes?
We did a present with De La Soul a number of years in the past. They had been headlining, cos they’re just a little bit higher than our band, they usually had been simply milling about backstage and we simply frolicked and had a chat. They usually had been straight-up good folks which was good. We loved some cigarettes, let’s consider, collectively.
That was beautiful however I don’t perceive why folks get enamoured by assembly movie stars and pop stars. I stood beside Paul McCartney as soon as and I simply thought, “What am I gonna say to him?”
We had been at some do, and I used to be by a buffet desk wanting on the sausage rolls after which Paul McCartney came to visit and he was like, “Alright?” and we appeared on the sausage rolls collectively and I assumed that’s all he wants. He will get sufficient folks asking him, “Are you that bloke from The Beatles?”
Are there any bands you’re a completeist about?
De La Soul. The Magic Quantity was the primary single I ever purchased and I simply purchased into De La Soul immediately. However I’m superb usually at choosing a track or an album and loving that after which transferring away from a band, not as a result of I dislike them, however simply because there’s at all times one thing new across the nook.
So I’m not a lot of a purist within the sense of I’ve obtained to get every part they’ve ever recorded. De La Soul are one of many few bands the place I’ve listened to all of their again catalogue.
Do you go to gigs a lot?
I’m previous now, so standing up hurts. I’ve obtained tickets to see Aphex Twin this 12 months. I’m actually enthusiastic about seeing him, cos the final time I noticed him was on a ship in about 1997. I think about that is going to be barely extra upscale and extra elaborate, so I’m actually intrigued as to what he’s going to do.
