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Hey readers!
I've had the opportunity to interview one of Bronx, NY's hottest up-and-coming rap artists, Mr. Klutch! He is one of the many talented artists to collaborate with Kaiyzer on the Global Takeover Mixtape. Check it out:
JGIC: What inspired you to get into music?
I've had the opportunity to interview one of Bronx, NY's hottest up-and-coming rap artists, Mr. Klutch! He is one of the many talented artists to collaborate with Kaiyzer on the Global Takeover Mixtape. Check it out:
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| Mr. Klutch |
MK: Music has always been a passion of mine. I listen to music religiously and never really leave my house without some source of music bumping in my earphones. Growing up for most of my life although I wanted to get into the NFL and play football professionally, Michael Jackson was always and will always be my #1 role model in life. His talent, work ethic & execution were all things that I admired to the fullest and made me honestly believe that anything was possible. He is my main inspiration because of how many lives he impacted & that is the kind of impact I want my music to have.
JGIC: How did you start?
MK: I started writing and recording in high school when my friend brought me to his cousin’s house who had a home studio. Before that I had no idea how to record music but after that moment I started to slowly realize that it is very possible. After that I’ve been writing and perfecting my skills. Because I was still into football, I didn’t start to take music seriously until I was forced back home from Penn State due to financial issues, despite my good grades while majoring in Nuclear Engineering . This gave me the inspiration I needed because now I actually had a worthy story to tell and hopefully will be able to prevent things like this from happening to other people in the future.
JGIC: How did you find Kaiyzer to collaborate on projects?
MK: I met Kaiyzer very randomly through twitter. I saw him tweeting that he was putting together the “Kaiyzernomics” project with multiple artists. It seemed to me like a small opportunity for exposure and I have always been the type to jump at every opportunity when I dedicate myself to something to I tweeted him and after he heard my music it was history from there!
JGIC: What are your top 3 fondest moments being an artist?
MK: Number 1 would have to be getting the opportunity to work with the Legendary Kool Keith of the Ultramagnetic MC’s. I met him at a studio I was interning at after I had graduated from a 9 month Audio Engineering program at the Institute of Audio Research in June 2013.
Number 2 would have to be seeing the success of Kaiyzernomics and all of the opportunities that followed it. Some of these are still in the works so I can’t say exactly what they are but things are looking pretty good as of right now.
Number 3 would have to be just working on my first official mixtape “Guard Ya Beat”. There were so many moments during the writing process where I shocked myself with the lyrical content. There is so much wordplay and a broad scope of Hip Hop. I made masterpieces out of instrumentals from pretty much every Hip Hop era and actually executed them to their maximum potential. I can’t wait to finally release hopefully in mid-december.
Number 2 would have to be seeing the success of Kaiyzernomics and all of the opportunities that followed it. Some of these are still in the works so I can’t say exactly what they are but things are looking pretty good as of right now.
Number 3 would have to be just working on my first official mixtape “Guard Ya Beat”. There were so many moments during the writing process where I shocked myself with the lyrical content. There is so much wordplay and a broad scope of Hip Hop. I made masterpieces out of instrumentals from pretty much every Hip Hop era and actually executed them to their maximum potential. I can’t wait to finally release hopefully in mid-december.
JGIC: What do you find is the toughest part of being an artist?
MK: The toughest part of being an artist nowadays is just dealing with the lack of exposure because the game is so flooded nowadays. We have to devote so much time to marketing and other tactics in order to see some type of success and its harder to just focus on the music until you have a whole team behind you handling that stuff and you can afford to pay them.
JGIC: Favorite artists?
MK: My favorite artist of all time of course is Michael Jackson. But when it comes to Hip Hop the 5 I’ve admired the most so far are Eminem, 50 cent, Jay-Z, Big L, and a new rapper by the name of King Los.
JGIC: I have seen one too many musicians with jealous girlfriends because the stereotype about musicians is that chicks dig them, so of course, there would be potential for groupies hanging around them. If you are/were in relationships, how would you deal with groupies?
MK: If I was in a relationship I would do my best to make sure my woman understands that she is number one in my life and hopefully she would be strong enough to believe me and always try to make things work. I never really had commitment issues but then again I’ve never dealt with “groupies” or especially women on that level. We all do make mistakes but all I can do is my best to stay away from all of that and focus on my music and my lifetime goal which has always been to change lives and have my existence be beneficial to this world.
JGIC: If you could form a “dream tour” with any musicians of your choice, deceased or living, who would you choose?
MK: It sounds crazy but if I had the chance I could make this happen. I would go on tour with Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Beyonce, Eminem, TLC, 50 cent, Big L, King Los and my whole 4th Quarter team and give the fans of Hip-Hop/R&B and Pop something they have never seen and probably will never see again.
JGIC: Any shout outs?
MK: I just want to give a shout out to Kaiyzer and DJ Mr Phantastik for working with me. We all just put together the new compilation “The Global Takeover” and released it on Datpiff.com on Halloween 2013. You can download that here
http://www.datpiff.com/Kaiyzer-The-Global-Takeover-mixtape.545950.html
I was an executive producer as well as mixing/mastering engineer and featured on 4 tracks! I also want to give a shout out to my team 4th Quarter we’re about to make some big moves lots of fresh, dope music coming very soon!
http://www.datpiff.com/Kaiyzer-The-Global-Takeover-mixtape.545950.html
I was an executive producer as well as mixing/mastering engineer and featured on 4 tracks! I also want to give a shout out to my team 4th Quarter we’re about to make some big moves lots of fresh, dope music coming very soon!
JGIC: Anything else you would like to add?
MK: I will be dropping a huge radio single very soon! Definitely watch out for that one, I am scheduling shows for it as we speak. Follow me on my social media accounts for more info.
You can check my music out on www.soundcloud.com/official_klutch and follow on twitter & Instagram @Official_Klutch
My first official mixtape “Guard Ya Beat” has a tentative release date of December 17, 2013. Stay tuned for that follow me on twitter for updates. You can alway “like” my facebook page “Mr Klutch”
My first official mixtape “Guard Ya Beat” has a tentative release date of December 17, 2013. Stay tuned for that follow me on twitter for updates. You can alway “like” my facebook page “Mr Klutch”
My official website is coming soon it will be www.mrklutch.tv
JGIC: Thank you, Mr. Klutch for taking the time for this interview! Looking forward to hearing more from you!
For more music from Mr. Klutch, tune in here on Jamsterdam Radio!
@JerZGrlinCanada
JGIC: Thank you, Mr. Klutch for taking the time for this interview! Looking forward to hearing more from you!
For more music from Mr. Klutch, tune in here on Jamsterdam Radio!
@JerZGrlinCanada
Hey readers!
After taking over the airways with multiple singles on your favorite station, Jamsterdam Radio, for the past couple of years, Australian-based hip-hop artist, Kaiyzer and his team put together a 30-track mixtape available online {Click Here To Download}, featuring various hip hop artists from all over the globe, appropriately named "The Global Takeover".
I had the opportunity to individually interview a few of the artists who are featured on the mixtape, so this week, I'll start off with sharing my interview with the man himself, Kaiyzer. Here it is:
After taking over the airways with multiple singles on your favorite station, Jamsterdam Radio, for the past couple of years, Australian-based hip-hop artist, Kaiyzer and his team put together a 30-track mixtape available online {Click Here To Download}, featuring various hip hop artists from all over the globe, appropriately named "The Global Takeover".
I had the opportunity to individually interview a few of the artists who are featured on the mixtape, so this week, I'll start off with sharing my interview with the man himself, Kaiyzer. Here it is:
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| Kaiyzer |
Kaiyzer: Music has always been in my blood ever since I could
remember. So for me it came naturally.
JGIC: How did you start?
Kaiyzer: While perfecting my craft, I learned the business
end of things first, then me being an artist was secondary. Because I wanted to
know what goes on behind the scenes, and was learning and making some connections. I stayed in the studio
collaborating with artists from all over the world. I produced my own public
access video show and it had a good run. I got my start in more ways than one. My first recording contract came after my first show, so the game has been good
to me and at the same time I was feeling the negativity that comes from within
the business.
JGIC: How did you find artists to collaborate on projects?
Kaiyzer: Most
artists that I have worked with in the past was just me meeting them at the
studio or from another artist. On the Kaiyzernomics project most of the artists
I worked with were connects from Twitter and LinkedIn. Also, I knew some
artists from working in the past with them (whether it was from my video show
interviews, marketing and promotions, etc.) and they were happy to see come
back to the game after 1996. I met Klutch via Twitter, I sent him a DM and he replied.
We listened to each other's music and the rest has been history since. DJ Mr.
Phantastik I met through my homie DJ Emmo, he came to one of the Kaiyzernomics
sessions and once Phantastik and I linked up it's been a wrap! We haven't even
hit our pinnacles yet. There's more to come!
Klutch and I are forming a
partnership soon. Phantastik and I are working on some things too. So who knows
Whats about to jump off. I will tell you this much, no matter what if a label
or distribution company wants to work with me they gotta be willing to work
with Me, Klutch and Phantastik and now we got new Fam overseas in @beeezmusic:
we are collectively known as TVDV: THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS! I've had a few
offers on the table from investors and such, but the lack of support that they
had for the artists that I'm working with I walked away from those deals.
Because if you working with Kaiyzernomics you gotta work with the whole team or
be willing to give me the creative control to put on artists like Klutch, Cool
Quest, Phantastik and others.
Shout out to DS at TDS RECORDS in
Australia. He has been open to the ideas that I've placed on the table so far.
We are working through things, so the love and respect is there on both parts.
We are currently working on a collboarative with artists from the Kaiyzernomics
team, HHRS and the TDS family. The concept for that project is dope and more
details are forthcoming! Y'all will be the first to know.
JGIC: What are your top 3 fondest moments being an artist?
Kaiyzer: 1- the fact that I got signed
after my first show at NYC spot from back in the day called Sweet Water's
2- just being able to make some
great music on my own and with many of the artists that I have collaborated
with throughout all these years.
3- This Is answer is in two
parts. Part one: meeting all the wonderful people that I have in this industry
whom after 16+ years being removed from the game; are still there supporting
me. Part two: the doors that Kaiyzernomics
2013 and The Global Takeover have opened. I mean all the downloads and
love has been tremendous. Two project doing good numbers, compared to
everything else I've done. These were the most successful.
JGIC: What do you find is the toughest part of being an artist?
Kaiyzer: The toughest part is just having
people separate me from the next artist. Folks will be like I need you to sound
like so and so. I'm like no this is me, take it or leave it. I'm not going to
sell myself out for mass appeal!
JGIC: Favorite artists?
Kaiyzer: My favorites are as follows (in no particular order): Tupac, Scarface, Ice Cube,
Kendrick Lamar, Notorious BIG, Michael Jackson, KRS One, The Legion, Pudgee Tha
Phat Bastard, Diamond D, Jay Z, MC Ren,
WC, Ice T, Nas, 50 Cent, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Paul Lipsey, Mr Klutch, Cool Quest, DJ
Mr Phantastik, Positive K, ENotez, Poetic Lace, Tha Vill, OutKast, Naughty By
Nature, MC Lyte, YoYo Queen Latifah, De La Soul, all artists from the west
coast. The No Limit Family (The did there thing back in the days). There are
too many to name right now, but I love Hip Hop artists as a whole!
JGIC: I have seen one too many musicians with jealous girlfriends because the stereotype about musicians is that chicks dig them, so of course, there would be potential for groupies hanging around them. If you are/were in relationships, how would you deal with groupies?
Kaiyzer: Groupies will always be around,
that's the nature of the business! I'm like this if I'm with my
lady, she need not to be jealous. She's the one I chose so it's all on me to
keep my self in check when these groupies come around. If she is so insecure
about herself when the next chic is around then she can either see the exit or
be cut off like a Con Edison. I tell a groupie like this I'm taken and if you
can't respect the fact that I got a lady and I'm happy then you should be happy
for me and respect my decision. If not, then you have no self respect and if
the shoe was on the other foot you won't like to be disrespected either. So we
can be cool and hangout, but respect my relationship.
JGIC: Amen. If you could form a “dream tour” with any musicians of your choice, deceased or living, who would you choose?
Kaiyzer: Wow!!! My dream tour would be to bring every rapper
dead and alive on one stage and have them rock out with the Kaiyzernomics Team.
I would also add Metallia a, U2 and Depeche Mode to the mix. That's an awesome
show!
JGIC: That would be one insane tour! Any shout outs?
Kaiyzer: First of all, let me say, Thank God
for allowing us to get up each day and do what we do to keep our art form alive
and kicking. Secondly, thank you JerseyGirl and The big dawg Jay Hunt at
Jamsterdam Radio for this opportunity tote out voices and music be heard on
you're radio station. Tell Jay we got 32 #1's on this project. :) One for each
week!
Yeah, let's shout out everyone on
the Global Takeover: @beeezmusic for their hard
efforts in making this project happen. Also, I'd like to commend everyone that
contributed to The Global Takeover Mixtape: DJ Mr Phantastik, Mr Klutch, The
Cool Quest, Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard, Casanova Rud, ENotez, JBlizz, Neno Rocwell,
Tha Vill, JSyence, Gran Fortune, CB Wonder, Koto, Kostello, Masha Sheikh,
Sonik, Pinkmachette, Loer Velocity, L.I.F.E Long, Espinoza, Lady Kiz, Stan,
EmraS, Point 9, Tron Sagas, PJay, MC Phreaze, Myke Brillz, Earl-D, Crystaals,
Decoy, Ocho, Optometrist, Double A, K Will, Syracuse Doom, lml, Keez, Jessica
Nicole and Prez-P.
Let's shout out my Australian
fame DS Stanley, TRS records, Mon'arq at Hip Hop Rap Sheet. They were very
instrumental in the success of Paul Lipsey and I's last mixtape compilation
KAIYZERNOMICS 2013: THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL!
One big Shout Out to our nation
know as Hip Hop!
Respect and Salute,
Kaiyzer
Kaiyzer
JGIC: Yes! Thank you Kaiyz, for taking the time out of your schedule for this interview! Anything else you would like to add?
Kaiyzer: WWW.KAIYZER.COM
Twitter:
@TheRealKaiyzer
Instagram:
TheRealKaiyzer
Current
Mixtape:
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/mr-klutch-the-global-takeover-mixtape.100049.html?song-1
JGIC: Always a pleasure, and we look forward to hearing more from you!
Follow Jamsterdam Radio on twitter to find out when you can tune in for a special featuring "The Global Takeover" will air!
- @JerZGrlinCanada
JGIC: Always a pleasure, and we look forward to hearing more from you!
Follow Jamsterdam Radio on twitter to find out when you can tune in for a special featuring "The Global Takeover" will air!
- @JerZGrlinCanada
Kaiyzer is back at the number one spot this week on Jamsterdam Radio with "The Connection" featuring AceMirrorman and Paul Lipsey from recently released Kaiyzernomics mix tape. Kaiyzer and "The Connection" was voted the #1 track this week by Jamsterdam listeners. Take a listen to The Final Curtain Call Mix Tape Compilation for his slew of tracks and a free download.
Kaiyzer was recently interviewed by HipHopRapSheet.com and was able to touch on some of his main inspirations and his past in the hip hop industry that has lead to the Kaiyzernomics mix tape.
“The main two people that are important to me in my career have been; a rapper called MC Holiday aka Gucci Man, he was like my mentor for years and along with my brother Paul Lipsey, who pushed me to the edge, always bringing the best out of me. Those are the main two people that have been there from day one for me.
Kaiyzer leads into his early influences. “All the west coast rappers from the ‘80s and ‘90s. Especially the homie, Tupac Shakur and the living legend from Texas, Scarface. East coast artists like KRS – ONE, Positive K, MC Lyte, The Legion, Rakim, The Third Villains and Technician The DJ from the Bronx, and Spectacular from Brooklyn, all of them for real.
The defining moments in my career have been the opportunities given to me by the labels that I was signed to, the great and not so great people that I have met throughout this journey. Most of all, the opportunities that God has given me to still be here on this planet, collaborating with all of these unique artists in what I think will be my greatest masterpiece to date…besides all the work that I have done with my brother Paul Lipsey. - HipHopRapSheet.com
For more of Kaiyzer's interview check out HipHopRapSheet.com
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