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Muggs Tell
me about the Napster tour. Muggs:The Napster tour is a thing Limp Bizkit put together to get back to the basics. Itís time to give back to the fans that have supported us for years. Weíve sold a lot of records and made a lot of money. We wanted to let the fans come and enjoy a concert for free. We needed someone to sponsor it and Napster stepped up to the plate with two million dollars. We are playing pretty small places. 1,500 to 3,000 seaters and everybody gets in free. Kids hang out for three days to get tickets. Kelloggs comes and gives them cereal, Dominos comes and gives them pizza. Everybodyís been having a great time. Whatís
going on with the Soul Assassins project? Weíre
about to drop ìSoul Assassins, Chapter Two,î which is straight
raw underground basement hip-hop. I wanted to bring it back to the
essence of what hip-hop felt like to me in 86-87. I like to let kids
know that you donít have to conform to whatís going on right now
in music. You donít have to conform to the radio, you donít have
to conform to the trend. You can still sell records and be
successful without doing some radio or some corny sounding shit. Who
else do you have on it besides Xzibit and Kurupt? Kool
G Rap, GZA for Wu Tang, Cypress, Goodie Mob. You
all came into the game officially in ë91. Whatís the biggest
difference between now and when you first came out with ìHow I
Could Just Kill a Man?î Back
then hip-hop was an underground culture. Now hip-hop is the pop
culture of the world. Hip-hop has invaded every form of music. It
just took over the world from movies, radio, videos, style, and
fashion. That wasnít there back then. I came into it when it was
an underground culture. Back in the 80ís there werenít any
magazines, there werenít any videoís. Iíd go to a club and
Iíd be the only DJ. Now you go to a club and everybody raps,
everybody DJís, everybody produces, everybodyís got a clothing
line, everybody works at a label. Sometimes I go to clubs in NY and
there arenít any fans because itís all industry people. What
do you do as an artist and producer to be different then every other
guy? I
look at whatís going on out there. I look into myself for my
inspiration and try to bring something to add to the game or bring
something where I think the game is lacking, and keep the game
moving forward. A lot of copycat producers are coming in and just
sucking from the game. Or they make beats and they call themselves a
producer just because they make beats. That doesnít make you a
producer. Anybody can make a good beat. A producer is somebody who
gets the group, picks the beat, and puts them on the beat. He sees
the project from beginning to end. He organizes the whole shit.
Iíve been blessed to be able to see a project through from
beginning to end, like a Cypress or House of Pain; where I put a
group together from scratch and see the finished project. Dre, RZA,
and Premier have that ability. A lot of these other fools are just
beat niggas. Thatís why they only sell beats to this guy or this
guy. Those guys I just mentioned are true producers, not just beat
makers that go have somebody rap on their record and thatís it. Who
influenced you when you were first coming up? I
liked Public Enemy, EPMD, and Ultra Magnetic MCís. Plus, I liked
Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath at the same time. When it was time to
create Cypress, I wanted Cypress to be bigger then hip-hop. I wanted
Cypress to be a universal phenomenon, like Led Zeppelin. Something
that stuck around for 20 years. Iíve brought things from both the
hip-hop and the rock world. Iíve brought it into Cypress. I wanted
more then just a ìhip-hopî band. Whatís
the first single going to be from the Soul Assassins album? Itís
GZA from Wu Tang. The song is called ìWhen The Fat Lady Sings.î
Itís on Rough Nation Records. Itíll be out October 3. Thatís
it, thank you.
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