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An Interview with Jack Parow
He never really thought about a stage name as such, the name Jack Parow came about as he was “drunk, and then Pirates of the Caribbean was on tv and I tuned, fuck Jack Sparrow the pirate of the Caribbean, I’m Jack Parow the pirate of the caravan park…luckily I remembered it the next morning!”
Afrikaans and South African rap are not one of the most listened to genres, with Brasse van die Kaap, Dokte, Waddy Jones and Jitsvinger being the leaders in the industry. Jack’s inspiration as such is “Eminem. He is always king. He is one of my favourite rappers, but I was rapping before he came out, so I’m not like some white kid trying to be Eminem. Waddy [Jones] is a good chommie of mine and we roll the streets together, but I’m straight Afrikaans, they are more English and thus have a different approach to the market, but other artists don’t inspire me, I get inspired by drunk people mostly, the best lines come out of drunken peoples mouths, I also get drunk before I write sometimes, it’s kief. People that also inspire me are zef people, like myself and most of my friends…”
He’s loved rap “since [he] first started listening to music” he continues “you know when you’re younger you buy those NOW and Monster Hits cds and I always smaaked like Dr. Alban and Shaggy and those vibes and then I bought Monster Hits 5 or something, it was like a kief purple one with this heavy green monster on it and there was a track called Doggystyle by a gevaarlike man called Snoop and I was instantly hooked on rap. I was like 11 or 12…ja, that was it, but I never really wanted to be a rapper, I just liked rapping, I studied and still do web design and graphic design, but rap is obviously always been the main thing, I never thought I would be able to do it for a living….”
He started rapping in 2000 “but was just having fun and fucking around, trying to freestyle and stuff” Then he rapped in English for a long time, till “about 2004” it all changed when he “wrote this track in Afrikaans where I was being robbed by a bergie and I was like tuning him kak and so, and it came out so cool that I was like, fokkit, why haven’t I been rapping in Afrikaans all along?”
He is heavily influenced by “drunk people. I love drunken conversations, they are the fokkin best thing ever-also people who are like heavy into cars or systems, they have the best one-liners.”
The rest here
He never really thought about a stage name as such, the name Jack Parow came about as he was “drunk, and then Pirates of the Caribbean was on tv and I tuned, fuck Jack Sparrow the pirate of the Caribbean, I’m Jack Parow the pirate of the caravan park…luckily I remembered it the next morning!”
Afrikaans and South African rap are not one of the most listened to genres, with Brasse van die Kaap, Dokte, Waddy Jones and Jitsvinger being the leaders in the industry. Jack’s inspiration as such is “Eminem. He is always king. He is one of my favourite rappers, but I was rapping before he came out, so I’m not like some white kid trying to be Eminem. Waddy [Jones] is a good chommie of mine and we roll the streets together, but I’m straight Afrikaans, they are more English and thus have a different approach to the market, but other artists don’t inspire me, I get inspired by drunk people mostly, the best lines come out of drunken peoples mouths, I also get drunk before I write sometimes, it’s kief. People that also inspire me are zef people, like myself and most of my friends…”
He’s loved rap “since [he] first started listening to music” he continues “you know when you’re younger you buy those NOW and Monster Hits cds and I always smaaked like Dr. Alban and Shaggy and those vibes and then I bought Monster Hits 5 or something, it was like a kief purple one with this heavy green monster on it and there was a track called Doggystyle by a gevaarlike man called Snoop and I was instantly hooked on rap. I was like 11 or 12…ja, that was it, but I never really wanted to be a rapper, I just liked rapping, I studied and still do web design and graphic design, but rap is obviously always been the main thing, I never thought I would be able to do it for a living….”
He started rapping in 2000 “but was just having fun and fucking around, trying to freestyle and stuff” Then he rapped in English for a long time, till “about 2004” it all changed when he “wrote this track in Afrikaans where I was being robbed by a bergie and I was like tuning him kak and so, and it came out so cool that I was like, fokkit, why haven’t I been rapping in Afrikaans all along?”
He is heavily influenced by “drunk people. I love drunken conversations, they are the fokkin best thing ever-also people who are like heavy into cars or systems, they have the best one-liners.”
The rest here
