Dom Pachino
has been putting in work on the underground scene for over 20 years. After
dropping three classic group albums with Killarmy, he embarked on a solo career
that has seen him release more than ten projects through his own Napalm
Recordings imprint. After a few years away from the mic, he’s now back with a
full length collaboration album with acclaimed beat maker Bronze Nazareth. The album marks the beginning of what seems
to be a new era for Dom Pachino, as he describes the problems he has had with
distributing previous releases and why he has now taken that into his own
hands. Listening to the album, Dom
sounds like a new man, he sounds completely rejuvenated, re-energised and is
spitting like he did back in the Killarmy days.
We touch on a lot of subjects throughout the interview including the
reason he called out Cilvaringz on the new album, and he even turns the tables
to ask a few questions of his own…
Interview conducted by Pattch82 (pattch82@gmail.com)
Interview Date: August 26th 2015
PATTCH82: What’s up man?
DOM PACHINO:
Peace, what’s going on Chris?
P82: Yeah I’m good man, you?
DP: I’m good
man, not bad, not bad.
P82: So the new album dropped on August
15th. The reaction has been
really positive so far, you must be happy with the feedback that it’s getting…?
DP: Oh yeah
definitely man. It took about a year to
put the project together being that Bronze is in Detroit and I’m in New York so
we had to work it out you know. But
yeah, the response has been real positive, I’m really happy with it.
P82: You and Bronze have a really good
chemistry throughout the album… He has also produced tracks on some of your
previous albums, but what made you decide to do a full length collaboration…?
DP: Like you
said it’s the chemistry you know, we make good music together. He produces that sound, I guess you could say
that early sound that inspired me to make music period. Really I think a lot of the cats that were
making that sound kinda drifted away from that a little bit. He’s got like that old twist with the modern
vibe you know.
P82: Bronze produced two tracks on your Tera Iz Him 2 album… was that the first
time you worked together…?
DP: I
believe so yeah… He did You Used To Be
and Vitamins right…?
P82: Yeah…
DP: Yeah I
believe that is the first time we worked together.
P82: He also produced The Sound Of Gunz on Bugsy Da God’s
album. That was originally supposed to
be a Killarmy track right…?
DP: It was
supposed to be yeah, but a couple of the members weren’t feeling it as a
single. So it was up in the air and
Bronze had already sent it to me before so I was like if we ain’t goin’ to use
this as a single I’m gunna go ahead and do something with it. So me and Bronze worked something out and I
ended up putting it on Bugsy’s album.
P82: No
Perseverance is another Dom Pachino / Bronze Nazareth collaboration from
your The Last Armageddon album. That was the last album you made for a few
years. Why did you decide to take a step
back…?
DP: I kind
of announced a retirement type of thing.
I was just a little frustrated with the direction the music was going
and the way it was being received and just the whole business behind it
actually. Sometimes you just gotta go
away to come back man. So I had to go
back to the foxhole, regroup, gather my thoughts and figure out where I’m
trying to go with it. I think The Last Armageddon was a great album in
all actuality. It just wasn’t received
as well as I’d have liked it to be. It’s
hard being independent in this game man.
The distributors I was dealing with man, they feel like they don’t have
a big financial interest in it, meaning they ain’t making a lot of money off of
it, so they don’t push it as much. They don’t have a vested interest in it,
they don’t push it as much and then it becomes a problem, you feel me? So I regrouped and ended up putting it out
completely independent this time with no distribution and I’m doing better on
it than I did with The Last Armageddon.
P82: Bronze really nailed that militant
sound… Did you request certain sounding beats from him or did he play you a
load of beats to pick from…?
DP: Well I
basically arranged the album. Bronze
sent me three folders of beats. So when
people hear this album, it’s an album arranged by me, as you can see on the
credits. Bronze of course got a bunch of
dope beats, he’s a great producer but for this actual project I’m the one that
picked the sound for it. I went through
tonnes of beats from Bronze and decided to pick the ones that I wanted. Bronze didn’t really have anything to do with
what actually made the album, he sent the beats, they were up for grabs for
whatever I wanted, and I constructed it.
P82: So Bronze sent the beats and then
was that his full involvement in the project…?
DP: He did
the mixing on it too. After I picked the
beats that I wanted, I laid my tracks and arranged where I’m going and who’s
going on the tracks and everything like that.
I arranged where I want the skits to go, the whole thing. Then Bronze went and mixed it to the set up I
gave him, I gave him the blueprint and he did his part with his beats as far as
the sound, levelling the sounds and the vocals you know.
P82: I need to ask about the Haunted Dreams track… You go in on
people that are repping the Wu that maybe shouldn’t be, especially
Cilvaringz. What is the issue you have
with Cilvaringz…? Do you feel he
shouldn’t be repping the W…?
DP: Nah not
that he shouldn’t be repping the Wu or nothing like that, it’s just the way he
went about it. I’m goin’ to take you
back to the history of it… He has a song called Man, Woman & Child which I did a feature on, I don’t know if
you ever heard it. First of all he was
supposed to pay me for that, then he told me his budget, he didn’t have
it. You know that album he put out back
then, he had Killa Sin on it, we were all in the studio, he was getting
different members of the Army to get on his shit. I went in, I worked. I went in to the studio, I wrote a rhyme or
hook or whatever, I did my work on there.
We had an agreement for how much I was gunna get paid and that never
happened. He said I can’t pay you for
it, I don’t have it in the budget. So I
said alright well you just can’t use it, because I already went in there and
wrote. That’s work. Once you in the studio and you write a rhyme
for somebody tailored specifically for their project, you’re on the job already. It’s like going in and building a house for
somebody or a deck and then they say I don’t wanna use the deck… you already
done the work.
But anyway,
that wasn’t the problem. So the
agreement from that point on was you can’t use it. I said if you get the money together and you
wanna put it out, then hit me up. I end
up finding it out on some compilation album or something, I see it online for
free. That’s a snake move. That was way back then. I didn’t even know he actually released
it. I go do some research and I seen the
shit about two or three months ago online.
He licensed it to some sort of reggae compilation or some shit. I’m sticking my lawyers on the situation, I
already contacted them. So he ended up
releasing it and I’m pretty sure he got some motherfuckin’ money for it you
know what I’m saying? That’s just how
the business is, it was actually released.
So now that’s a problem.
So that’s
one thing, now I’m gunna take you to another thing… A while back, I don’t know
what album I was dropping, it could have been Tera Iz Him 2. I went to hit Cilvaringz up on the Wu-Corp site
because he got banners of all the Wu cats and Wu affiliated cats and I was
gunna ask him how much for a banner. He turns around and hits me with a pretty
big price. Now that site was built for
Wu-Tang fans. First of all, he was a
fan, I know him from being a fan you know.
He was giving us all his little tapes and stuff and hanging out in front
of the office years ago. In front of the
Wu-Tang office in Manhattan. He used to
come, trying to get on, he was hungry, trying to do his thing. He looked up to us, he was a fan of us and
that’s cool. This was all before he got buddy-buddy with RZA and all that. My thing is this, you end up building a
Wu-Tang fan site and now you charging the dudes that you looked up to money. And I didn’t even mind about the money, he’s
trying to run a business, that’s his site and that’s cool, but don’t try to
charge me more than a site that’s bigger than yours like Undergroundhiphop.com
and other sites, they give me great prices for banners and all of that. So he’s trying to charge me, he came up as a
fan of my music and his whole site is catered to my fan base. You trying to charge me more than another
Hip-Hop site that’s bigger? That’s
faulty business.
Now I remind
you, he already did the snake business back in the day of releasing that
track. I never even spoke to him about
that because I didn’t know about that until after. I just found out about that a few months ago. So now I’m putting two and two together so
now I just had to expose him. I know his
history, I know what he do and I think he’s a leech. I personally think he’s leeched off of the
W. I don’t care how affiliated or close
he is with RZA. That has nothing to do
with my personal issues with him. And
I’m not the only one that feels this way.
There’s a lot of Killa Beez, and I’m talking about dudes from my era,
original Killa Beez that feel the same way.
I talk to them, I do shows with them, I don’t gotta say no names, they
got their own feelings and they do what they wanna do, but I speak my mind.
So those are
the reasons, if the fans want to know.
It has nothing to do with the album, that Once Upon A Time In Shaolin or whatever they’re trying to do. I think that’s funny business too because I
know that was a Cilvaringz album that he tried to turn in to a Wu-Tang
album. It wasn’t meant to be no Wu-Tang
album and the true fans know that too.
The true fans know that and it’s all over the forums, all over his
site. That’s all I’m saying you know,
sometimes dudes need to be exposed, and that’s that. So that’s my issue with Cilvaringz, you know
when dudes get too big for their britches and forget to pay homage to the dudes
that actually inspired them to do what they do.
That’s when I have a problem with it.
There’s a lot of that going on now, you got the Action Bronson /
Ghostface thing. That’s another
situation like that, dudes that came up catering his whole style to a dude and
then act like you didn’t get it from there.
That’s a problem.
P82: Did Bronze have anything to say
about the Ringz diss…?
DP: Well
Bronze got a different relationship with Cilvaringz, but you gotta understand
there’s also freedom of speech. So he
said just do what you do man. I told him
I gotta do what I gotta do, I gotta speak my mind, that’s what I do, I’m a
writer. I’m speaking for myself. This is a Bronze and Dom Pachino
collaboration, but the words came out of my mouth.
P82: At the end of the track you also
put the little interview clip of Meth talking about the B level Wu artists. Who do you consider to be the original Killa
Beez…?
DP: The
originals would be Royal Fam, Killarmy and Sunz of Man. Also 12 O’ Clock and you got some other dudes
you know, solo dudes and stuff like that, but those are the original Killa
Beez.
P82: The people that were around at the
beginning…
DP: Yeah in
the beginning. It breaks it down pretty
clearly on The Swarm album. RZA broke it down, you can see the levels of
Killa Beez there is. Killarmy and Sunz
of Man were like the most deadly Killa Beez. You got the Wu-Tang then you got the first
draft of Killa Beez which were Killarmy, Sunz of Man, Shyheim. That’s the most lethal Killa Beez, and when I
say lethal I mean even going in to sales you know, the most successful also.
P82: The next track is Warheadz and it features Bugsy and
Leatha Face. Some Wu fans will remember
Leatha Face from being down with U-God back in the day. We don’t really hear much from him these days
apart from on a couple of your projects.
Did you reach out to Leatha Face or is he someone that you work with on
a regular basis…?
DP: Well me
and Leatha got a long history because we had a group before Killarmy came out
called O.M.S. It was me, Leatha and
Hakim. Hak also did production on the
first U-God album. So yeah, we had a
group called Original Mic Stylez, O.M.S., and this was pre-Killarmy. Me and 9th Prince already had our thing, this
wasn’t before me and 9th Prince got together, it was just we didn’t get to form
Killarmy yet because 9th had gone to Ohio.
In the meantime, I went to Junior High School with Leatha and Hak so
this was when I was about 14 years old.
So yeah, me and Leatha had history but then I got in to some shit with
his people back in the day. There was a
little beef and I ended up actually going to jail for doing something to one of
his mans. It was deep back in the
day. That’s actually on the album too, a
little statement on there, it’s on Guilty
Conscience. I said a line about
shooting somebody and having to go to jail, it breaks it down. So we had a little beef or whatever but you
get older and we had a mutual respect for each other, things pass on. We still from the hood, I have a respect for
his music, he has a respect for my music, there was no reason not to work
together so we put something together.
We bump in to each other and it’s all love, it’s deep rooted. We all live in the same area. We all meshed, the chemistry was cool and me
and him be politicking. I be with Leatha
every other day, I’m about to work with him and do something for his project
now.
P82: You also got a verse from Killa Sin
on the Sin of Terra track. Did you have much time to hang with Sin when
he was out of jail…?
DP: Oh yeah
yeah we got together, hung out, did our thing.
We went to a party together, he was on parole at the time so he had to
be easy. We did a Killarmy reunion show
together while he was out so that was cool, we actually did two shows while he
was out. We got in the studio. While he was out I got him on the last joint,
EZ Killings off of The Last Armageddon. So yeah we got to work and we got to politic
you know. That’s my brother man and it’s
unfortunate what happened to him but I love him and I’m always there for him.
P82: The 9 Henchmen track is a real Wu-style posse track. Can you talk me through some of the MC’s on
the track…
DP: We got
Shogun, one of my Killarmy brothers on there, I had to get him on there because
we haven’t really worked together on any of my solo releases. And also Shogun
was away for a while, he was in the penitentiary for a couple of years. So we got him on the album. We got C-Rayz Walz on the album. We got Shyheim on there, I got him on there
before he ended up going in. I had that
verse so I mixed that in. I had some
work with Shyheim, me and Shyheim is always working together so I had a verse
laying around from that. I just had the
idea of 9 Henchmen, when’s the last time you heard nine dudes spitting on a
track together. Even when Wu-Tang did a
posse track I don’t know if it was the whole nine, it might have been eight
members on there. I don’t even know if
they ever got the whole nine on one track.
I just wanted to take it to another level with different styles, rhymes,
versatility, a bunch of dudes just spitting raw bars back to back. I had the idea, and the name of the track
just came in my head and I thought it sounded ill. We got Sav Killz on there, Timbo King came
through with a verse for me on there.
Bugsy Da God is on there, Dro Pesci.
And Bronze topped it off and ended it.
Did I get everybody or am I missing anyone? It’s a lot of MC’s haha.
P82: Haha I think you covered them
all. The first track that you released
from the album was Mental Calisthenics. Can you tell me the concept behind that
track…?
DP: Well in
a day and age where dudes don’t really have to think much about the music, it’s
all very very simple, a nice drum pattern and saying very simple shit. But I guess it’s commercial and it’s
appealing to the masses because they don’t have to think so much. So in return, the Mental Calisthenics is the
workout, so when I spit my shit you’ve got to work your mind out. You might have to sit there and rewind it one
time just to hear and understand what I’m saying. So I came with the concept of a mental
workout and then I put in a physical workout in the process of the lyrics
too. I did the comparison of comparing a
mental workout to a physical, you know doing push-ups, sit-ups, taking a run,
whatever. So that was the concept,
basically you gotta think for this kind of music that I’m making. I wanted dudes to work their minds out, not
just be lazy.
P82: There’s also a bonus track produced
by 4th Disciple. Do you have anything
else in the works with 4th at the moment…?
DP: Well me
and 4th we talk every other day, I’m in tune with my brother. He’s going to be back in town any day now
actually and he reached out to me, he wants me to do something with him. So it’s always a possibility, we haven’t
actually spoke about it but he’s working, he’s doing his thing getting active
again so that’s good.
P82: He had a couple of beats on the
last Wu-Tang Clan album. What were your
thoughts on the album…?
DP: In all
honesty I ran through the album real quick, I played some tracks but that album
didn’t grab me as much as a Wu-Tang
Forever or a 36 Chambers you know
what I mean. That’s just my personal
opinion. The most touching track on
there for me was when Ghost kicked the dart about Dirty, like reminiscing. That was the one I felt the most, that
verse. But it wasn’t my favourite
Wu-Tang album, my two favourites are 36
Chambers and Wu-Tang Forever. It’s not what personally gets me going you
know, raises the hair on my arms.
P82: Back to your album, you recently
put another batch of the physical CD’s for sale on your bandcamp page. Is that likely to be the last batch or will
there be more if the album continues to do well…?
DP: It’s
probably going to be the last batch. The
intention was a limited edition. We
really did well with the first batch, it moved at an unexpected rate and I took
it down for four or five days but the amount of emails and requests was
overwhelming man. So I was like you know
what, let’s put it back up. Bronze
hollered at me, he was like whatever you wanna do we can do either way, because
they’re bothering me too haha. So I was
like fuck it man, let’s get the physical back up. A lot of cats slept on it at first. So what happened was the first batch was the
hardcore die hard soldiers that I have, they went and supported it and they was
playing it and promoting it. And the response
got so crazy that the other dudes that doubted me like “oh I dunno if he’s gunna come with it this time”, they got whiff
of it and was like “Whoah! Dom P came
with some shit!” So now they went
crazy like damn I should have got in on this and they were apologising
haha. I basically had to make them
submit to this beautiful terrorist shit, haha.
P82: I mentioned before that I wanted to
ask a couple of questions about Killarmy… what is the actual status of Killarmy
as a group right now…? Is there any
chance we might hear new material any time soon…?
DP: I
actually tried man, me and 9th were talking about it. We just can’t come to a common understanding,
I tried every angle possible. The ball
is in 9th’s court, I just told him if we’re gunna do it then it has to be done
a certain way due to the past dealings.
We had agreements last time and tracks were leaked on his solo album,
you know how it went, broke all the rules.
So that’s no secret, that’s already been public. So now, like I told him, if we do it it’s got
to be done a certain way. So I made some
suggestions because the fans do want it, and I do want to give it to them. And I think it would work out for all of us,
all of my brothers. I guess he’s not
with it, and I’m not gunna keep forcing it, I’m good on it. The only thing that bothers me is that he’s
always on Twitter saying Killarmy coming soon and I’m like huh? Haha.
I’m giving up on it. And the
other brothers, they’re on board with it but they ain’t too crazy about doing
it either due to the situation. So to be
honest with you I doubt it happening. In
my world I never stop working so it’s not going to be a make it or break it for
me. So I’m just doing my thing. Unfortunately, I’m just trying to let the
fans know I would love to give them another Killarmy and I tried. I really don’t see it happening.
P82: With regards to the other members,
I know Sin is locked up right now but is everyone else out…?
DP: Yeah
Beretta is in Ohio doing his thing.
Shogun is about to graduate from audio school, he went away and did some
school stuff. I’m very proud of him,
he’s due to graduate any day now. He
just put an EP out with 4th Disciple, an iTunes release. 9th is doing his thing, I guess he’s working
on something. Islord, me and him be
kicking it. Islord is just doing his thing you know, he’s doing his family life
thing. We know where Sin is at and 4th is
doing his thing with the production.
P82: What would you say is your
favourite Killarmy album of the three…?
DP: Yeah Dirty Weaponry is hands down my
favourite. Not taking anything from Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars, that was
what made us and established us and I love it.
But as far as my favourite, I think overall as far as production and the
cohesiveness of the album I would say Dirty
Weaponry. But then again Fear, Love & War is dope too, to be
honest with you I love all three albums, they’re my babies. If I had to tell somebody to listen to a
Killarmy album and they could only listen to one of them, I would say get Dirty Weaponry.
P82: I wanted to ask you a question
about Dirty Weaponry… There was a
video by someone supposedly linked to the Wu saying that there was some
friction in the studio when Holocaust came through to record his verses…
DP: No, no,
no there was no friction with Holocaust.
I actually seen that post on Youtube with some cat who thought he could
break down Killarmy as if he knew us but his whole story was fictitious. I guess that’s what you’re talking about,
that youtube video yeah?
P82: Yeah…
DP: He was
talking about Sin having a lot of features because he had close ties with RZA,
he got the whole story wrong, people just don’t know. It’s incredible out here man, and people
listen to that shit thinking this dude knows what he’s talking about. He said something about some friction with
Holocaust in the studio. First of all he said when Holocaust came out to New
York. The album was recorded in
California, not in New York so Holocaust didn’t come no where. He was in his back yard. That’s the first thing. We did that album in California, in Sound
Castle studios with Gabe, Michael Jackson’s engineer. We did the whole album in Cali. Holocaust came to the studio, we told him to
come to the studio because we liked the shit he was spitting, it wasn’t no
friction or nothing. Nobody puts someone
in the studio with Killarmy, we pick who is on our album. Nobody says oh he’s getting on your album,
nobody said that, ain’t nobody forcing that.
We constructed our albums, so that’s just the way it is, no
friction. Holocaust was hot at the time,
we had good chemistry and he was fuckin’ with us so we told him to come in the
studio and see what he could get on. He
wouldn’t have got on the album if we didn’t want him on the album, we wouldn’t
have invited him to come to our session, so that’s that.
P82: Did it inspire an element of
competition having Holocaust in the session…?
DP: There’s
always competition, I’m dealing with Killarmy, you got six brothers spitting on
the mic. How much more competition you
need. If there was seven or eight it’s
not gunna change the demographic too much.
It was cool, it was fun.
Holocaust did his thing on the album, I think we all did our thing on
the album. Everyone is going to have
their favourite but I think Holocaust did his thing, he was on two tracks and
he did his thing.
P82: Back to your album, are you
planning on doing any touring in support of War Poetry…?
DP: I wanna
actually get out there where you are right now, the UK. Between me and you, the UK is the champion of
buying this new album man and they’re still buying the new batch. The US came in pretty heavy with the second
batch, they woke the fuck up and started copping. They went in for the first batch too after
the UK pretty much bought me out. The UK
is responsible for about 40% of the sales of the album so far. There’s also France, Denmark, Switzerland, a
lot of different European places coming in on this new batch. A lot of European love man. I wanna get out there, I never even toured
Europe. I went to Portugal but that was
the extent. So Dom Pachino is like a
fresh show out there, a breath of fresh air.
I don’t know if anybody ever seen my show but ask them about me man,
I’ll tear the house down man, my energy is ridiculous, through the roof.
P82: That would be dope if you could get
out here…
DP: Any
promotors if you know of any, put the word out.
I’m trying to get out there, I’m trying to rock them and burn them down.
P82: Yeah definitely. Do you have any other projects in the pipeline
at the minute…?
DP: Yeah I
got my artists album, Bugsy Da God coming in about another two weeks he’s going
up for pre-order. Havoc from Mobb Deep
produced a track on the album, 4th Disciple got a couple of tracks on the
album. He’s got Afu-Ra on the album,
Prodigal Sunn, Tragedy Khadafi, Killah Priest.
He got pretty much the whole Killarmy on the album. Big Noyd is on there. The banner is up somewhere floating around
online. It’s very heavy on the
production. It’s a dope album man, I think
he’s topped his first album and the first one was dope and well received. We working hard on this end man.
P82: Are you going the independent route
with Bugsy’s album too…?
DP:
Definitely man, I’m winning with it. I
came with a formula right now. It makes
no sense to distribute anywhere else when I got the set up to distribute on my
own. It makes no sense no more. This is how a lot of these sites work… you
sell your album over there, they buy a certain amount and then all of a sudden
they’re mass producing your shit and you don’t even know. They’re mass producing your shit without you
knowing because they already have permission, you already gave them your
album. So you don’t know how many units
it’s selling. They act like they’re
selling five or ten meanwhile they’re selling a hundred and they just keep
reproducing your shit and you don’t know because you’re not the fan receiving
it in the mail. So this eliminates all
of that funny business, you gotta get it directly from me. And I’m legit, every fan that bought my album
received it. My sales history is legit,
there’s no oh I never got the album.
Everybody got the album, they’re posting pictures of it, everybody got
it. I deliver. Good customer service, anybody have a problem
just hit me up they get a response back asap.
We’re working over here.
P82: Anything else you would like to put
out there for the fans…?
DP: I really
wanna give a crazy shout out to Europe, the whole of Europe for all the
support. I love y’all out there. Go knock down doors for me man, get me out
there man, I wanna build with y’all and see what it’s like on that side of the
land. Aside from that, Chris thank you
for reaching out and making this interview happen. It was very in depth, I’m sure a lot of fans
had questions of why this and why that and I think they all got answered. Thanks for all of the support. Peace to all my fans worldwide. It just goes to show that this music I’m
making, this militant brand Napalm is universal. Chris though, personally how do you feel
about the album? I got a question for
you, how about that, I’m reversing the interview…
P82: I’ve listened to pretty much
nothing else for the last week. I missed
the boat on the first batch of physicals but I got my order in on the second batch. It’s easily one of your best solo
projects. I think it’s better than The Last Armageddon, it’s better than Tera Iz Him 2. They are both good albums, but I‘m really
feeling this one from front to back.
DP: What
about my earlier work… Tera Iz Him
and Unreleased, is it topping those
too?
P82: Well for me, my favourite solo
project of yours is Domination…
DP: Domination? Oh wow that’s what I wanna hear, that’s a
change. That’s a first, nobody really
talks too much about Domination. That’s real good you brought that up.
P82: The original Tera Iz Him I always felt was more of a mixtape than an actual
album.
DP: Yeah
yeah it was like a mixtape yo. OK I like
that man, you know your shit.
P82: Haha yeah I’m a big Wu-Head, big
Killarmy fan…
DP: That’s
dope man, I appreciate it, I appreciate all the love and support man and I’m
glad we got to touch some topics. As far
as Killarmy albums, what’s your favourite on that? I’m curious.
P82: For me, it’s between the last two… Dirty Weaponry and Fear, Love & War. On Dirty Weaponry you and Sin just went
crazy on there.
DP: That’s
why it’s one of my favourites man, I really got to open up, I grew in to my
flow and my style a little bit more on that album. I grew as an artist on that album, that was
my transition. That’s when my pen turned
to napalm flames. It was lukewarm on the
first album and then it turned to napalm flames on that album and then from
that point on I’ve just been working. So
yeah I was just curious man I wanted to pick your brain. What did you think of the last Wu-Tang album,
what was your take on that?
P82: It was just different. It wasn’t necessarily bad, it just wasn’t
what I expect or what I’m used to hearing from a Wu-Tang Clan album. I think 4th Disciple had the two best beats
on the album because RZA went a little left field with it.
DP: OK I
guess you pretty much got the same take on it as me…
P82: Yeah pretty much. 4th came with some heat on there.
DP: Well 4th
is incredible you know haha! He’s my
favourite producer to date, that’s just how it is. He’s my brother also. That’s my sound, he’s the craftsman of that
Killarmy sound, that militant sound.
P82: Another question I wanted to ask…
going back to this album you sound rejuvenated, reenergized again. Go back a few albums to maybe Power Rulez where your flow less
energetic, more laid back, was that you trying to switch it up a bit with the
styles…?
DP: Yeah
well you know what it is, people gotta understand that as an artist you grow,
you evolve, you try different things. I
didn’t start off doing music for fans, I didn’t know I’d ever have a fan. I made music for me and for my dudes to see
who is the best MC, or see who raps the best amongst personal circles. So when I create, I create for me. If the world loves it that’s a plus, if the
fans go crazy for it that’s a plus. As
an artist you paint a picture, you don’t paint it with the thought that people
are going to like it. You paint it
because it comes from his heart, his mind, his body and soul, everything he
gives he puts in to it. So when I do
projects it’s about the vibe, the energy, where I’m going artistically. It’s not about what they think, or if they
receive it or they don’t. Sometimes
they’ll be well received, sometimes they’re not. I was in a different place. Was I not as inspired on that album as I am
now? Yeah. Was I not as hungry on Power Rulez? Yeah. Did that
have something to do with it?
Possibly. But still, that don’t
take from going in different directions and artistically grow. Even on Rice
& Beanz, which I think is one of my best albums in my personal opinion,
but it got slept on because people thought I was doing some Spanish shit or
some reggaeton shit. But when you listen
to the album, it’s only really like two tracks on there that is actually a
Spanish vibe to it. So they got thrown
off with that. But I think if you listen
to it, it’s a little more for the masses, a lot of different people could feel
it, I had a lot of positive songs on there like Fly Away and Build It Up,
a lot of stuff that I was kicking that was positive on there along with some
real grimy shit like My Rap.
P82: I like a few tracks off of Rice & Beanz… My Raps, Thugz R Us, Box With Me…
DP: Box With Me was a hit you know what I
mean, that’s one of my favourite tracks.
When I do that at shows they go crazy, the production and everything is
crazy. So like I was saying, I made music
as an artist for myself first, I did this because it was something that I love
to do, it’s my passion. If the people
feel it and receive it that’s a plus.
Right now my pen is on fire again, I’m revived and regenerated, I’m
working on a new project now as we speak.
It’s gunna be crazy, let’s put it that way. This album was something I had to do in a
specific way, this was actually catered towards the fan base. I did this album more so for the original fan
base.
P82: You can tell that too, you could
play Dirty Weaponry and then War Poetry back to back and…
DP: You get
that same energy and vibe. So you get
where I’m coming from man.
P82: Definitely. Thanks again for taking the time to speak
with me.
DP: Thanks
for having me like I said. Spread the
word. All of the fans that wanna cop my
music and where it’s available, iTunes is where you go, I got about ten
projects on there. Most of them are
under the name Dom Pachino but there’s two projects under P.R. Terrorist. Thanks a lot Chris, just hit me up whenever,
keep me posted whenever you need to reach out.
Peace.
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