Buckshot: Survival Of The Fittest
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Maintaining a lasting presence in the Hip-Hop game is a task of Herculean proportions. Record labels continue to emphasize fly-by-night singles from third-rate artists and blogs give up-and-coming rappers the chance to break into the game without paying their dues. It seems as if the time-honored title of “emcee” has been transformed into nothing more than a Cracker Jack prize.
Yet some still remember when being a legitimate emcee was something earned through years of strife and struggle. And this September 15, legendary lyricists KRS-One and Buckshot intend to remind Hip-Hop heads exactly what it took to become a high-caliber Hip Hop artist with their album Survival Skills. Buckshot recently spoke with HipHopDX about the project and how the one can survive in such a treacherous industry.
HipHopDX: You’ve got Survival Skills coming out on September 15. What was your mentality while recording this project?
Buckshot: [That] we’re going to war. When it comes time to doing something that I’m faced with pressure or discomfort, I always remember and say to myself that, "I’m a general in a boot-camp, and I can’t fail that position as a general no matter what I may personally feel." What I personally feel has nothing to do with my position as a general, so as a general, even though KRS-One [click to read] is the man [and] I respect him, and he’s a legend and I’m a student of KRS-One, I’ve got to get in there and bring back that trophy. I’ve got to get in there and assassinate that mic. I’ve got to destroy that bunker. I have to be a general at the end of the day.
DX: You’ve worked with KRS-One a couple of times before. One thing right off the top of my head, the “5 Boroughs” back in 1999. Why record Survival Skills now? Is this album a reflection or statement of where Hip Hop is nowadays?
Buckshot: Yeah it is. Of course it is, and it’s a creative version of allowing that. Yes it is...1000% yes it is [a reflection of present day Hip Hop] because we could’ve been putting the album out, but we didn’t. It wasn’t time. We didn’t think about it; we only knew that we were going to rock shows together and we only knew that we were going to do certain things together, but we never said that we were going to do a whole…album together because it just wasn’t in the air.
Read the whole interview here.................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1402
Yet some still remember when being a legitimate emcee was something earned through years of strife and struggle. And this September 15, legendary lyricists KRS-One and Buckshot intend to remind Hip-Hop heads exactly what it took to become a high-caliber Hip Hop artist with their album Survival Skills. Buckshot recently spoke with HipHopDX about the project and how the one can survive in such a treacherous industry.
HipHopDX: You’ve got Survival Skills coming out on September 15. What was your mentality while recording this project?
Buckshot: [That] we’re going to war. When it comes time to doing something that I’m faced with pressure or discomfort, I always remember and say to myself that, "I’m a general in a boot-camp, and I can’t fail that position as a general no matter what I may personally feel." What I personally feel has nothing to do with my position as a general, so as a general, even though KRS-One [click to read] is the man [and] I respect him, and he’s a legend and I’m a student of KRS-One, I’ve got to get in there and bring back that trophy. I’ve got to get in there and assassinate that mic. I’ve got to destroy that bunker. I have to be a general at the end of the day.
DX: You’ve worked with KRS-One a couple of times before. One thing right off the top of my head, the “5 Boroughs” back in 1999. Why record Survival Skills now? Is this album a reflection or statement of where Hip Hop is nowadays?
Buckshot: Yeah it is. Of course it is, and it’s a creative version of allowing that. Yes it is...1000% yes it is [a reflection of present day Hip Hop] because we could’ve been putting the album out, but we didn’t. It wasn’t time. We didn’t think about it; we only knew that we were going to rock shows together and we only knew that we were going to do certain things together, but we never said that we were going to do a whole…album together because it just wasn’t in the air.
Read the whole interview here.................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1402
