I assume that most of you juggalo haters care less about juggalos/realjuggalos.com, but they are a kick ass site, but anyways... here's the interview....keep in mind that this was from a while ago before Strange Music helped out.
1. For those who might not know what you've been up to lately (what's wrong with you people?!), shed some light on who/what Project: Deadman is and when these poor unknowing souls can get their hands on it?
MEC- Well....been working on finishing the debut CD from Project: Deadman. The CD is the bomb. Project: Deadman is me (Mike E. Clark and Prozak) that¹s right. Im IN the group! ProZak is doing the wicked ass rap's and I'm doing the wicked ass beats. I finally found a rapper that can freak my beats again. I'm really happy about this project. We been coming up with a lot of cool shit for the past year. It's been a lot of work developing this project but now its ready. the CD is done. It's called "Self-Inflicted" and I'm releasing it on my own label B4 Edge . We are curently lining up distrubition (to get the cd in stores), so it may be a little tough at first to get the CD unless you go to B4 Records.com and buy it online. Just go to www.b4records.com and we will keep y'all posted. The CD will be avaliable by April 15, 2004. I'm bringing the wicked shit back. However...I have to build from the ground up again.... So..yea..I'm in the fucking band and I will be doing all the shows with Prozak. I will be the "Wizard" in the control booth on stage bang'n the tracks. We're putting the stage show together now. So we will be doing show's this summer.
2. What led to you and Prozak working together in the first place?
MEC- Well Prozak has been approaching me for years to do somethin'. After I did the Bedlam mix on their last record, Prozak said he wanted to do a solo thing. He came by the studio and played some of the stuff he was working on and we went from there. I played him some of the tracks I was going to use for Samhain Witch Killaz . Since the SWK project got squashed, Prozak and I started writing. It happened so quick. It definatly worked out for the better.
3. On the B4 Records message board awhile back, you mentioned that the Project: Deadman album was going to feature the likes of King Gordy, Tech N9ne, and many more....including a super surprise guest you couldn't mention at that time.....can you start dropping names yet or we still gotta sit in the dark?
MEC- Well ....I really can't say at this moment..let's just say..I have a few cards up my sleeve. And if everything works out...we'll see...
4. In one of the Violent J chats a few weeks back, J was naming off various former Psychopathic artists that he still respected.....Myzery, Marz, Project Born, etc....and right in the middle of that was Prozak.....BWAH?!
MEC- Really??...are you sure it was J? That¹s kinda wierd..I haven't spoke to J in over 3 years...hmmmm...thats cool. I guess..
5. When can we expect the upcoming Puddle of Blood album and what can you tell us about it?
MEC- Oh man...the new Puddle Of Blood record is hot. It's 2 songs from being done. It's an underground masterpiece. Produced by Keymaster (of Dead By 28) and myself. I cant wait to put it out. POB wanted to call it The 666th! I said "No way!!" so we setteled on "The 666th Symphony"... I'm still not sure I like that title but, oh well...its their CD. Fuck em.
6. As was to be expected, "Beats For That Ass Vol. 3" was tight as hell....one question I have though, in the last RJ interview you did, before the album came out, you said that you might end up using some beats you had ready for the 6th Joker's Card and instead put them out on the BFTA3 album.....so, did you? And if there are any, which ones might they be?
MEC- Yea..tracks 6,8,10,and 11 were some of the demo ideas for "the 6th" (that I had) on BFTA Vol 3. The PDM track "Dead Man Walking" was one also. I love that track. I had to use it. I didn¹t want it to go to waste. Those tracks were done a long time ago...like July 2000 or earlier...fuck it ..I got way better tracks now.
7. On a personal note now, soley because I jock the everloving fuck out of them, is there any new word on a new Abstrakt Intellekt album and/or this Mike King solo album I heard about?
MEC- Well, I have a Mike King solo project in the works. It should be near ready this fall. Also Abstrakt Intellekt started there follow up to the "First Contact" CD and that should be done this fall also.
8. Okay, let's address some of the rumors flying around with this MEC/ICP stuff. What is your relationship with Psychopathic at this time, specifically with ICP?
MEC- I don¹t do business with Psychopathic or ICP anymore so there really is no relationship.
9. Is it true that you produced at least one track for the upcoming "Hell's Pit" album? And if so, what happened to "I'll do all of it or none of it?" What changed your mind? (of course, if it's untrue, then just scrap that last part).
MEC- No. I did not do, nor have I been asked to do, anything on Hell's Pit.
10. At the time of the last interview you did with RJ, you had only heard two songs from "The Wraith: Shangri-La". It's been out for well over a year now and I presume you've heard it all by now. What is your opinion on the album and what would you have done differently?
MEC- I didn¹t care for it. If you want to know what I would have done differently...go buy the new Project: Deadman CD when it comes out.
11. All the years you worked with ICP, were you aware that the Unveiling on track #17 was how the saga was going to end? Or were you kept in the dark along with everyone else?
MEC- No. I was not aware it would end like that. I think if I would have been a "die hard" ICP fan, I may have been upset. I hate religious bullshit. And if that is the "end" they chose to pick...so be it. Like the song say's...."With every end there is a beginning...Project: Deadman!"
12. With all these other projects finally finishing up (Project: Deadman, POB, etc.), what's next on your plate?
MEC- MORE Project: Deadman!!...I have some catching up to do! We all ready have a bunch of tracks ready for the next record.... I'd like to do a record with Madness and Prozak (Bedlam) soon and I have been talking to Marz about doing an upcomming project together. Etc. etc.
13. Anything else you wanna add before we end this here jolly ol'interview?
Fuck ya!! Thanks for sticking by me. Thanks for the support. It's been pretty hard the last few years. But I'm going to build this thing back up again. And Project: Deadman is going to do it! Oh yea...clean the wax out your ears. "The PDM is coming...." stay tuned.
Go to Projectdeadman.com
P.S. Register and VOTE!.... FUCK BUSH and fuck THE FCC! Don't let people tell you what you can and can't listen to. Don¹t be a sheep. Think for yourself! Support the underground! Oh yea...Howard Stern is the shit! Fuck the FCC...Oh..I already said that.
B4Records.com
1. For those who might not know what you've been up to lately (what's wrong with you people?!), shed some light on who/what Project: Deadman is and when these poor unknowing souls can get their hands on it?
MEC- Well....been working on finishing the debut CD from Project: Deadman. The CD is the bomb. Project: Deadman is me (Mike E. Clark and Prozak) that¹s right. Im IN the group! ProZak is doing the wicked ass rap's and I'm doing the wicked ass beats. I finally found a rapper that can freak my beats again. I'm really happy about this project. We been coming up with a lot of cool shit for the past year. It's been a lot of work developing this project but now its ready. the CD is done. It's called "Self-Inflicted" and I'm releasing it on my own label B4 Edge . We are curently lining up distrubition (to get the cd in stores), so it may be a little tough at first to get the CD unless you go to B4 Records.com and buy it online. Just go to www.b4records.com and we will keep y'all posted. The CD will be avaliable by April 15, 2004. I'm bringing the wicked shit back. However...I have to build from the ground up again.... So..yea..I'm in the fucking band and I will be doing all the shows with Prozak. I will be the "Wizard" in the control booth on stage bang'n the tracks. We're putting the stage show together now. So we will be doing show's this summer.
2. What led to you and Prozak working together in the first place?
MEC- Well Prozak has been approaching me for years to do somethin'. After I did the Bedlam mix on their last record, Prozak said he wanted to do a solo thing. He came by the studio and played some of the stuff he was working on and we went from there. I played him some of the tracks I was going to use for Samhain Witch Killaz . Since the SWK project got squashed, Prozak and I started writing. It happened so quick. It definatly worked out for the better.
3. On the B4 Records message board awhile back, you mentioned that the Project: Deadman album was going to feature the likes of King Gordy, Tech N9ne, and many more....including a super surprise guest you couldn't mention at that time.....can you start dropping names yet or we still gotta sit in the dark?
MEC- Well ....I really can't say at this moment..let's just say..I have a few cards up my sleeve. And if everything works out...we'll see...
4. In one of the Violent J chats a few weeks back, J was naming off various former Psychopathic artists that he still respected.....Myzery, Marz, Project Born, etc....and right in the middle of that was Prozak.....BWAH?!
MEC- Really??...are you sure it was J? That¹s kinda wierd..I haven't spoke to J in over 3 years...hmmmm...thats cool. I guess..
5. When can we expect the upcoming Puddle of Blood album and what can you tell us about it?
MEC- Oh man...the new Puddle Of Blood record is hot. It's 2 songs from being done. It's an underground masterpiece. Produced by Keymaster (of Dead By 28) and myself. I cant wait to put it out. POB wanted to call it The 666th! I said "No way!!" so we setteled on "The 666th Symphony"... I'm still not sure I like that title but, oh well...its their CD. Fuck em.
6. As was to be expected, "Beats For That Ass Vol. 3" was tight as hell....one question I have though, in the last RJ interview you did, before the album came out, you said that you might end up using some beats you had ready for the 6th Joker's Card and instead put them out on the BFTA3 album.....so, did you? And if there are any, which ones might they be?
MEC- Yea..tracks 6,8,10,and 11 were some of the demo ideas for "the 6th" (that I had) on BFTA Vol 3. The PDM track "Dead Man Walking" was one also. I love that track. I had to use it. I didn¹t want it to go to waste. Those tracks were done a long time ago...like July 2000 or earlier...fuck it ..I got way better tracks now.
7. On a personal note now, soley because I jock the everloving fuck out of them, is there any new word on a new Abstrakt Intellekt album and/or this Mike King solo album I heard about?
MEC- Well, I have a Mike King solo project in the works. It should be near ready this fall. Also Abstrakt Intellekt started there follow up to the "First Contact" CD and that should be done this fall also.
8. Okay, let's address some of the rumors flying around with this MEC/ICP stuff. What is your relationship with Psychopathic at this time, specifically with ICP?
MEC- I don¹t do business with Psychopathic or ICP anymore so there really is no relationship.
9. Is it true that you produced at least one track for the upcoming "Hell's Pit" album? And if so, what happened to "I'll do all of it or none of it?" What changed your mind? (of course, if it's untrue, then just scrap that last part).
MEC- No. I did not do, nor have I been asked to do, anything on Hell's Pit.
10. At the time of the last interview you did with RJ, you had only heard two songs from "The Wraith: Shangri-La". It's been out for well over a year now and I presume you've heard it all by now. What is your opinion on the album and what would you have done differently?
MEC- I didn¹t care for it. If you want to know what I would have done differently...go buy the new Project: Deadman CD when it comes out.
11. All the years you worked with ICP, were you aware that the Unveiling on track #17 was how the saga was going to end? Or were you kept in the dark along with everyone else?
MEC- No. I was not aware it would end like that. I think if I would have been a "die hard" ICP fan, I may have been upset. I hate religious bullshit. And if that is the "end" they chose to pick...so be it. Like the song say's...."With every end there is a beginning...Project: Deadman!"
12. With all these other projects finally finishing up (Project: Deadman, POB, etc.), what's next on your plate?
MEC- MORE Project: Deadman!!...I have some catching up to do! We all ready have a bunch of tracks ready for the next record.... I'd like to do a record with Madness and Prozak (Bedlam) soon and I have been talking to Marz about doing an upcomming project together. Etc. etc.
13. Anything else you wanna add before we end this here jolly ol'interview?
Fuck ya!! Thanks for sticking by me. Thanks for the support. It's been pretty hard the last few years. But I'm going to build this thing back up again. And Project: Deadman is going to do it! Oh yea...clean the wax out your ears. "The PDM is coming...." stay tuned.
Go to Projectdeadman.com
P.S. Register and VOTE!.... FUCK BUSH and fuck THE FCC! Don't let people tell you what you can and can't listen to. Don¹t be a sheep. Think for yourself! Support the underground! Oh yea...Howard Stern is the shit! Fuck the FCC...Oh..I already said that.
B4Records.com
