{"id":249,"date":"2012-01-26T05:22:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-01-26T05:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:22:54","slug":"interview-rhymesayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/interviews-2\/interview-rhymesayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Rhymesayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Interview:<\/a><\/p>\n

<interview conducted Winter 2000><\/em><\/p>\n

The Rhymesayers are a crew of MC\u2019s, breakers, and graffiti artists based out of the Midwest. Many look at them as some of the pioneers of the current hip hop scene in that area. They include such talented MC\u2019s as Eyedea, Slug, Beyond, Spawn, RSE, and many others. I got to talk to Slug from Atmosphere a little bit on what part Hip Hop plays in his life.<\/p>\n

How did the Rymesayers crew come together?<\/strong>
\nThe crew came together in 94\u2019. A lot of us were friends. We had all been involved in promotion companies. Me and Spawn had been rhyming together for a while. We started working with some of our other friends putting on parties. Eventually we started co-opting, and released all of our music under the name Rhymesayers. We started out just making mixtapes, building off each release to have enough money to put out another tape. Then we started buying equipment, and began to make ourselves into a real company. We became really self sufficient and started releasing CD\u2019s. Now we own our own store and studio.<\/p>\n

What was your first real exposure to hip-hop?<\/strong>
\nRiding on the school bus to second grade. Hearing the bus driver play \u201cRapper\u2019s Delight\u201d. He would play that shit all the time in the mornings to the point where the second graders knew all the lyrics and would sing the song and even make up their own words. My father was a young father when I was that age, and he even listened to it as well. It was pre-hip-hop, it was all about shit like Earth, Wind and Fire. Hip-hop just kind of climbed into it. Being from Minneapolis, I didn\u2019t really know what kind of music was out there in the rest of the country. Hip-hop started slowly, climbing into school at about the sixth grade. They were playing \u201crap\u201d, and there was even a radio show. It became a kid thing, a way to bond with other kids. We came to realize it was ours, and not our fathers. From there we got into break dancing, and by the time I was in junior high, I began tagging. I started buying records in the 7th grade. In 8th grade, I had gotten my second really bad turntable. I DJ’d at a few parties and some older heads from a crew back then kind of took me under their wing. I would be some small young ass kid break dancing at all these older people\u2019s parties.<\/p>\n