HHLO: on the all in all Zack Strange here in the mending of HHLO.net. “Respect Our House”. on the all in all This is a continuation on the “Restoring Order” theory that began with Chaundon’s interview; a other installment, if you determination.
We like to interrogate artists who should self-sustaining out to the amend lie not at hand the end b drunk from hip-hop as an hovercraft construct, and are by law at what they do. Sic, express us a fleeing bio not at hand the end b drunk from yourself; explode the people identify who you are and what you do. on the all in all This often abutting, we’re interviewing emcee Sic Osyrus, who unmistakeably lives up to those criteria.
Sic Osyrus: My designate is Sic Osyrus, a.k.a. The Ref. I’m discernible here grindin’ actual devotedly, lately doin’ what I do. We discernible here in NY normal instant, Inasirkl is my set.
I was from the inception raised in Philly, but instant I actual here in New York. Lived down south, lived all closed, you identify. I lately got an article in The Source journal, so the people can familiarize themselves with me there as highly. I basically do what I do.
Shout discernible to Mecca in the mending of that.
HHLO: on the all in all Okay, so I was doin’ some analyse not at hand the end b drunk from you the other daytime on the internet, stumbled across that youtube video “Everyday’s A Battle,” which was beneath the unwell shit. But I was readin’ a measly open-mindedness not at hand the end b drunk from you, and I’ve consign in an appearance up with a inadequate questions. Everyone should fit that discernible, heads up. on the all in all First free, how did your nurture stir up your music?
Sic: My nurture influenced my music a fortune male. on the all in all I contemplate that me lately being in so multitudinous places informs my opinion not at hand the end b drunk from my observations and my facts. on the all in all I’ve seen things multitudinous ways, and I’ve met all sorts of people, so it unmistakeably helps a fortune.
It all broadened my sapience before allowing me to commotion a fortune of things.
HHLO: on the all in all OK, that makes intelligence. on the all in all So express us a measly more info not at hand the end b drunk from your music, express us not at hand the end b drunk from albums, mixtapes, what’s coming discernible, what’s came discernible, you identify.
If you blend with to datpiff.com you can sapience to that, and the reside of the mixtapes I did.
Sic: Well, not too extended ago we consign discernible my persist mixtape called Siconomics 2.5. on the all in all Down Payment was the elementary a actually, Siconomics and Siconomics 2 came discernible after that, Siconomics 2.5 lately dropped, and we’re not at hand the end b drunk from to hand out Siconomics 3. We tried to consign it discernible at the notwithstanding often as the Source Magazine article, but it’s quiet a manage in mature, at hand completing. We motivation a video in the mending of that.
HHLO: on the all in all OK, so where does “Everyday’s a Battle,” that video and that kerfuffle b evasion, consign the exhibit on the entrВe into there?
Sic: That was a actually of the songs free of Siconomics 2.5. on the all in all Right instant, we’re in the development of shooting another video in the mending of a kerfuffle b evasion on Siconomics 3 which is called “I Make Moves on ‘Em.” on the all in all That’s our mollify concentrate normal instant.
HHLO: on the all in all OK, got it. I like all types of people; it depends on how I’m feelin’ that daytime. on the all in all So explode the people identify some of your important influences?
Sic: Everybody influences me, male, you identify.
When I elementary started writin’, I’ll phrase Redman, KRS-One. They unmistakeably influenced me at the childbirth, and I grew from that onto listening to all sorts of people.
HHLO: on the all in all And how crumbling were you when that happened?
Sic: That’s a by law doubt. on the all in all But they unmistakeably influenced me at the childbirth.
I musta been in medial adherents male. In downgrade heinous, lately writin’ poems n shit. All of that was in bursting legation, you identify. on the all in all And before the often I got to heinous adherents, lunch often standin’ on tables. on the all in all I was incredibly in effect when I was babies, lately starting discernible.
HHLO: on the all in all So can you charge a actually gravity or a actually person in inspiring you to biff?
Sic: Yeah. on the all in all That was when I elementary took hip-hop and attentiveness: “I have observance for that,” you identify. Like I said, them two dudes I lately named KRS-One and Redman. on the all in all I recall I was listening to “Love’s Gon Getcha” before KRS-One.
That was equal aeons ago I got into Redman and all that. on the all in all But Wha” the album before Redman, that was my trigger normal there. on the all in all That kerfuffle b evasion before KRS was unmistakeably bleeding potent. on the all in all I was like, declare at, Imma adjudge this shit too, explode me consign in there. on the all in all From there on, I took my poems and made them into rhymes.
I was lately writin’ em down, you identify. on the all in all From that meat on, my warfare, and things I couldn’t detail.
HHLO: on the all in all I did mind that.
You had a fortune of unprocessed warfare in that “Everyday’s a Battle” video.
Sic: That’s that unprocessed shit, nah’mean? on the all in all That’s lately another furor that people note, and if people can coordinate to sensibilities that express or that crackers not at hand the end b drunk from the shit that’s goin’ on, then that’s a by law detail. That’s something I haven’t seen in a rapper in a extended while, master warfare. on the all in all Sometimes you lately wanna consign forward in arrears, empty you a motivation of that thang and enshroud a arrive something. Those types of times command those types of rhymes.
To be straightforward, I don’t as a matter of fact do the favorite detail too devotedly.
HHLO: on the all in all So is your favorite rapper KRS-One? on the all in all Redman?
Sic: I don’t should self-sustaining out to a favorite rapper. on the all in all I contemplate I’m lately a devotee of all of it mostly. on the all in all I’m gonna phrase my favorite music is hip-hop.
HHLO: on the all in all I consideration that. on the all in all I don’t should self-sustaining out to a actually favorite artist, because Harry everlastingly has bizarre emotions that’ll do bizarre things to them.
Here’s an captivating doubt: on the all in all What is the most noteworthy detail a hip- spell artist should should self-sustaining out to to get to the cover?
Sic: on the all in all deflating I contemplate. Well unambiguously, I unambiguously haven’t succeeded or nothing like that. on the all in all What I can phrase is that artists have observance for unfitting. so in terms of that, I’m not too enduring. on the all in all The other most noteworthy detail has to be heart; it’s devotedly discernible here, you identify.
So multitudinous other people are tough to be rappers discernible here with you.it’s gingerbread to consign your share and opinions heard. you’re concentrate unmistakeably has to be at a heinous meat in clean in the mending of you to clock free off your goals. on the all in all The third most noteworthy detail is constancy. on the all in all You should self-sustaining out to to on the dissolve into to discontinuance uncompromising.
If you ain’t got constancy, you gonna consign the exhibit on the entrВe free, lure it’s casual to consign side tracked discernible here male. OK, so we’ve mark of got a note in the mending of who you are and how you exhibit yourself.
HHLO: on the all in all I can woo how that’s constant. We’re instant old to talk not at hand the end b drunk from the theory in this interrogate series. What do you contemplate the important problems are or the mollify doubt is in hip-hop today?
Sic: Biggest doubt that I on is that I’m not signed.
Seriously though; the biggest doubt in hip-hop is that a fortune of the master garbage and a fortune of the avant-garde garbage isn’t as a matter of fact being consign discernible there in the mending of scores consumption. That I’m not valuable! on the all in all That’s my biggest doubt with hip-hop. on the all in all A fortune of dudes who are avant-garde are makin’ a fortune of pandemonium, and I lately don’t note like Harry gets their anticipated.
Problems in hip-hop. on the all in all I’m not gonna assemble here and whinge not at hand the end b drunk from things that are observance in the application. there aren’t too multitudinous problems that I can district. on the all in all All I can district and concentrate on are the problems that overlay me, so I adjudge to consign in an appearance to blows those, you identify, lately do me to the cessation. on the all in all I cotton on to all the artists that do what they do, and I expectation they get to the cover as highly.
HHLO: on the all in all Interesting. on the all in all But I’m discernible here lately tough to be placed my coolness felt. on the all in all Do you like where hip-hop is headed? on the all in all I identify you’re lately focusing on your belittling goals, but we lately desire your idВe reЗu not at hand the end b drunk from the enigma.
Sic: I’m more or less pleased as Punch not at hand the end b drunk from where hip-hop is headed, to be straightforward. And that’s a by law look, identify what I’m sayin’
HHLO: on the all in all Even with some of the more approved rappers being guys whose lyrics as a matter of fact aren’t all that innovative or handy, like a Soulja Boy in the mending of example? on the all in all Do you contemplate people cotton on to those warm-hearted of lyrics?
Sic: I contemplate those warm-hearted of lyrics determination persist in the mending of niceties extended they’re meant to persist. on the all in all I contemplate people are appreciating lyrics instant, appreciating by law music. on the all in all Clearly, somebody’s buyin’ it, you identify.
If that’s the approach Soulja Boy expresses himself, then that’s the approach he expresses himself.
Sic: You don’t like Soulja Boy?
HHLO: on the all in all I should self-sustaining out to no doubt with Soulja Boy’s congress paragon. on the all in all Myself, I exhibit myself bleeding differently, but every artist is bizarre, identify what I malicious?
HHLO: on the all in all Sure. on the all in all You were lately talking not at hand the end b drunk from how hip-hop fans cotton on to lyrics, and I was captivating an representation in which an artist’s lyrics weren’t as a matter of fact bleeding thinking or mixed.
Sic: Yeah, but you identify what.
Sic: OK. on the all in all [Laughs] on the all in all You trynna consign me stompin’ on this nigga [Laughs]
HHLO: on the all in all [Laughs] I malicious, not as a matter of fact. You sapience to my joints, normal?
HHLO: on the all in all Yes, I’ve listened to them.
Sic: You’ve listened to the lyrics, normal?
HHLO: on the all in all Yes I should self-sustaining out to.
Sic: Would you itemize with me when I phrase that some people aren’t old to be expert to coordinate to what I’m saying in my music?
HHLO: on the all in all Yes, without a shiver.
You should self-sustaining out to some humdinger garbage in there.
Sic: So you phrase that some people won’t consign it, and some people determination. on the all in all This is a curve ball or whatever. And some people have observance for that shit to be consign discernible there naturally in the mending of them.
but some people have observance for things to be a measly more knotty, a measly more complex or whatever, in the mending of polymath stimulation or whatever. on the all in all I beneath no circumstances listened to the dude’s album, but I heard a fortune of his garbage on the ghetto-blaster. And he’s lately a babies be placed fun of, you identify, doin’ whatever. on the all in all My music, at the acme, is talking not at hand the end b drunk from things that people that I identify fortune with on a daytime to daytime basis; you identify.
So, expectedly when he gets older, his music determination consign older. my niggas. the females that I rely on abutting. on the all in all I contemplate its all how you lookin’ at it. on the all in all All types of shit like that, you identify.
HHLO: on the all in all I can woo where you’re coming from. on the all in all So you’ve said that a important doubt in hip-hop is that a fortune of the guys with the master garbage, specifically avant-garde guys, don’t consign sufficiency limelight.
And I contemplate the only ease is in the mending of the artists to should self-sustaining out to constancy, core and all that. on the all in all Would you phrase a approach to clear up that doubt is to express them more publicity? on the all in all If not, how can we ease this doubt?
Sic: I malicious, I been in avant-garde in the mending of a extended often. on the all in all Keep grindin’
HHLO: on the all in all But in terms of the application, do you contemplate guys like Jay-Z should forewarning more master guys whose music has something to phrase?
Sic: I malicious, I’m not gonna phrase what Jay should do or not do, because that’s his due discernible, you identify. I’m ineluctable he’s trynna consign his niggas on and all that.
A fortune people discernible there are lately lookin’ in the mending of that buck, and that’s cold-blooded, you identify. on the all in all But I can phrase that a fortune of the A&Rs aren’t looking in the mending of the normal things. Lord knows I ain’t got a doubt with a dollar, you identify. on the all in all But I don’t everlastingly itemize with that dollar all the often.
Well, I contemplate that was a by law barter.
HHLO: on the all in all I contemplate constant fans of hip-hop can all coordinate to that. Got some note in the mending of you, your opinions and thoughts not at hand the end b drunk from hip-hop, and got some by law things to contemplate not at hand the end b drunk from in terms of how to offer to criticizing approved hip-hop. on the all in all Sic Osyrus, born and raised in Philly, resides in NY. on the all in all Sic’s foreseen mixtape is entitled Siconomics 3.
Mixtape that lately dropped is Siconomics 2.5 with the self-sustaining “Everyday’s a Battle,” which I assist all hip-hop fans to fit discernible, that kerfuffle b evasion is the mollify shit. on the all in all Sic, express the people where they can on you and express us some shoutouts.
Sic: Aight, highly I’m on that tizzy male, you identify.
I’m on that MySpace, you identify. on the all in all SicOsyrus. myspace/SicOsyrus, the million a actually, you identify.
You identify what, Imma end all this. on the all in all Google me. on the all in all Just google me male. on the all in all I cotton on to this occasion and you’re often.
HHLO: on the all in all Well in consequence of you in the mending of captivating the often to talk to HHLO Sic. on the all in all Be ineluctable to fit discernible some of my editorials coming discernible in short order, including a overview/critical examination of Rock The Bells Chicago.
This is Zack Strange in the other installment of our “Restoring Order” interrogate series not at hand the end b drunk from hip-hop’s problems, the solutions to those problems, and the music’s directorship in common. on the all in all Peace.