RC: D***, there ain't nothing like interviewing the
Kottonmouth Kings cause there's so many friends
about you, you just feel happy. You could have had
a stressful day and you just come and chill with
these guys and it's all gravy baby, you know what
I'm saying!
D Loc: Wow!
RC: Congragulations on the new CD. I was talking to
Richter and D Loc last time you guys were around
and they were saying it's like you got a load to
let go on and you just got to wait for the label
to release it. Has it been a long process for you,
waiting for it to come out?
Daddy X: Nah, everything comes in cycles, you just gotta
have patience. It's cool man, we're happy that it's
out. It's probably gonna be our last colaberation
with Capitol records (clapping from Pakelika) since
they don't seem to see the vision of the
Kottonmouth Kings, what we're doing. So we're
having a lot of problems trying to get them to
support the record and get behind us.
RC: I'm sorry to hear that.
Daddy X: Don't be sorry brother, that's why we have
Suburban Noize Records, so we can launch our own
platform. We have a live album coming out April
20th along with a documentary of this tour, that
Porno Dave shot. Pakelika's got his new album
coming out Another Cult Classic.
RC: The silent man speaks out. How long did it take for
that to happen?
Daddy X: He's doing a lot of stuff this record. He and
Bobby B just finished right before we left on tour
called Another Cult Classic. Then Bobby B and D Loc
have a follow up to their own DJ records. Bobby B
has two out 99 Rips Beyond and Built from Scratch
and D Loc has D Loc Introducez Shakey Bonez, The
Green Room. But they have a colaberation DJ record
called The Tsunami Brothers.
RC: There's some stuff on the DVD about some of the
things you got going on at Suburban Noize.
Daddy X: There's the Judge(Judgement Day) album that's
coming out the Mix Mob(So Cal Drunks) album
that's out and there on tour with us right now.
Coorperate Avenger's album is out (Freedom is a
State of Mind). Then Taxman has a movie coming out,
it's called The Taxman's Revenge. It's a DVD/VHS,
his own movie, a little anarchy and chaos in your
own living room. So we have the foundation laid
for the underground. We got a platform, Suburban
Noize Records, to release all these things.
RC: I was kind of curious that you released Hidden Stash
2, Cream of the Crop on Suburban Noize. I was like
well, why wasn't Capitol back on that?
Daddy X: Long story with that one. That one didn't fall
under the classification of our contract with
Capitol, you know what I mean? So no need to get in
to details other than...
RC: Nice little loophole?
Daddy X: Very nice loophole, all the Kottonmouth King
album's are on Suburban Noize Records and then
Rollin Stoned, High Society, and Royal Highness are
with Capitol-as our partner put that out.
RC: Is that like a three record deal with them?
Daddy X: Exactly
RC: And then the contract expires and they decide where
they're gonna go with it?
Daddy X: Exactly, so we're moving to greener pastures
man. So we're gonna go home after this Rollin
Stoned tour and start recording the new album. When
we get home, besides the live album that we're
doing-it's called Classic Hits Live right, it's
gonna be a double CD set recorded in every city
across the nation, it's gonna come out April 20th-
we're also recording a punk rock record called
The Kottonmouth Kings, High Voltage Ten. It's all
straight punk rock, that was D Loc's idea.
D Loc: Yeah, we're just gonna do a punk record cause
we're just like that. We figure do a hip-hop record
do a punk record, let all the lies be told, let all
the truths be lies and we'll see what happens. You
know what I mean?
Daddy X: So we're doing that in January, recording that
album, while we record the next studio album for
the Kottonmouth Kings. Which will be a traditional
Kottonmouth Kings album, all the beats and
everything. And that's hopefully gonna come out
around a year from now, next November. So in
between you got the punk record, the live CD, the
DVD, the Pakelika record. We got all the stuff to
keep you guys fermented with new material, keep
your heads buzzin.
RC: You got a lot of kids out here with no radio play
and some cable access play, it's good that kids
catch on cause it's good stuff. I've turned a lot
of people on to the album that are hard-core
hip-hopers. I live in the inner city and their
coming back at me like Gigz this is some tight
sh**, who are these guys? And they're getting it.
Daddy X: It seems to be a lot of word of mouth all
around the nation. It seems to have always been
about word of mouth, people spreading the good
word. So we kind of like it that way, keeping it
on the underground, kind of fly below the radar
and just do our thing.
D Loc: We've been stoked you know, come here and do all
these shows in all these crazy cities and all these
different spots. To have a hundred kids, a couple
hundred kids, stand out four or five hours before
the show, hang out wanna catch the vibes. Hanging
out getting high in the parking lot wanting to just
be a part of the whole scene. We're fortunate just
to have that opportunity to have that and it's
killer, we're stoked. We just want to make hip-hop,
punk rock straight up.
RC: Now what do you think about Nevada? Nevada shot down
legalization, were you guys on the bandwagon with
that?
Daddy X: Yeah, you know, any where they're gonna
decriminalize weed is a good thing, a good effort.
Unfortunately... it's a heartbreaker. Hopefully one
day we'll live in a world where ignorance won't
reign supreme and when all of a sudden we live in a
society where violence and military action and guns
and all these crazy things are completely
acceptable but yet a plant is not acceptable.
Alcohol is completely ramp and acceptable, a plant
is not.
RC: It's a shame what's going on in this country, it's
about guns and butter.
Daddy X: Yep
RC: I don't know if you remember that flick Refer
Madness? It was made by a guy that was in to oil,
Hurst. The whole idea behind it was that he found
out that oil doesn't break down and he didn't want
that infringing on his oil industry so he put out
Refer Madness to put on this big scare that you'll
go crazy from smoking weed.
Daddy X: Propaganda. It's the earth medicine. It really
is the perfect plant, it can be used for oil, fuel,
clothing, shelter, for medicine...
RC: Paper, we shouldn't be tearing any trees down for
paper. Wood should be used for guitars and houses.
Daddy X: (chuckling)I'm just saying it's a God given
resource that was given to us as human beings to
utilize and for them to outlaw it, doesn't make any
sense to me. You can walk in to Wal-Mart and buy
a gun at sporting goods or you can turn on CNN any
time and see violence. Scan your TV and guns and
violence are acceptable, yet a plant is not.
RC: Rollin Stoned, that's the sh**. Are you picking up
the guitar any more?
Daddy X: We have Doug Carrion, who's out with us on tour
playing guitar on the Rollin Stoned album.
RC: Yeah, but you're a good player.
Daddy X: I don't like to do my tasty licks too much.
(licking his fingers)
RC: Are you saving them for the punk album?
Daddy X: I used to be quite a player in my day.
(laughter)
D Loc: He let the licks lay low on this record.
Daddy X: Doug Carrion is out on this record. Doug used
to play with The Descendants and the Humble Gods
and he's playing with the Kings on this album, so
it's killer. Add that dimension, that's only one
layer of the dimension, the beats, the layers, the
keys, and the scratches, there's all kinds of
layers to a Kottonmouth Kings album. Hopefully we
defy in a category, I don't want somebody to be
able to say oh they're this or they're that. We're
just the Kottonmouth Kings and hopefully we make
music that no one else is doing, and hopefully
we're doing that.
RC: You are, it's great music. One other thing that I
wanted to ask you, you went and recorded Positive
Vibes at Jim Henson's recording studio. Did you
get stoned with Kermit?
Daddy X: It's funny that you say that, it is where the
Muppets were made, but what happened basically is-
it gets back to the whole Capitol records thing.
We're trying to put out the album and they hear
this song Positive Vibes-like the original
recording is a lot more organic, more of a Sublime
feel- so they're like listen we think this is a
hit. We want you to come in with our producers, and
we usually produce our own stuff, and do this and
that. So we're trying to work with these people and
so we say alright we'll go along with this,
whatever. So we went along with the program, it
came out, it is what it is. It isn't necassarily
exactly how we interpreted it, but it's one
interpretation of that song.
RC: Are you going to be playing it out live.
Daddy X: Yeah, we usually close the show with it.
RC: Are they gonna even try to promote that track?
Daddy X: No, they're not gonna try to do anything,
they're done.
D Loc: We do have a video that for that song that we
shot ourselves.
RC: I wanted that so I could play it for you.
Daddy X: We'll get you that, we'll give you a bunch of
new videos that we shot ourselves.
RC: Well thanks for being on the show, nice chillin with
yah.
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