Necro is an artist you won't find on MTV. You probably won't even see him on 106 and Park on BET, nor are you likely to find him on mixtapes from Whoo Kid, Clue, or Green Lantern or any of the other hot mixtape DJ's. You aren't even likely to see that many ads for him in your favorite hiphop magazine. Yet this Brooklyn artist with his unique blend of rap, metal music, brutal content and often heavily explicit lyrics, has a huge underground following. HoodStars.net caught up with Necro to talk about his vision, his collaboration with the notorious Mark 'Chopper' Read, and his own brand of rap music, 'Death Rap' .... .... ....

"I rap the most brutal shit on the planet whether violence or sex, obviously there is way more depth to all my styles, but to be blunt, I'm the sickest fuck on the planet rapping!" Necro like his subject matter of choice in his music is complicated and diverse and very in your face. He is also quick to make sure people know 'Death Rap' is his baby. "I created the term death rap. Let's get that clear! Thats my term! Fuck what Wikipedia claims! That's a lie! It's not horrorcore, it's a term I created to describe what I do when I rap violent shit. Anyone claiming they are deathrap got it from me."

Necro ("'Necro' came from necrophiliac, I just shortened it and now it means the pre-fix for death!") is someone who has never been shy when it comes to the 'darker' side of life. With album titles such as 'Gory Days' and 'I Need Drugs' or his latest album 'The Prefix for Death', with such memorable song titles as 'All Hotties Eat The Jizz', or 'Fuck You To The Track', along with artwork reminscent of Metal bands such as Obituary, he is as an artist, someone that some either find amusing because of this subject choices.

"That's cos those people are talking about songs that might be funny. Alot of the porn shit is funny but totally amazing. It's funny when I say a bitch is cutting queefs!"

I have created a great foundation so far and it's solid like my cock. - Necro on 'success' & a mill in sales

All humour aside, Necro is never one to stray away from speaking his mind or saying what he feels and it's back to business. "If they find a death rap song of mine funny cool. I ain't a joke. So maybe they think in person I'm a joke and they would get smacked in the fucking face, snuffed back into reality. But yeah like Pesci is funny when he shoots Spider. I can be funny, very funny but I ain't here to amuse you, or am I?" Is he or isn't he, that really is the question only Necro knows the answer to. If he does, he isn't telling us.

But with alot of focus on hiphop lately between artists being killed, questions again being raised over violence on record becoming violence on the streets and hiphop corrupting it's listeners and in the case of a recent study by the non-profit Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, listeners were more likely to be involved in substance abuse and engage in aggressive behaviours.

But Necro is more sceptical about the lines between entertainment and reality being blurred and the need to make music a scapegoat as it so often has in recent times and as Chris Rock once so succinctly put it; 'What the fuck was Hitler listenin' to?'

'Rap-Rock' is more Limp Bizkit. They don't play metal in my eyes and they can't rap! - Necro on 'rap rock' (which he's not!)

"Who gives a fuck? Why do writers analyse that shit so much? Where is the line between actors and movies? Who cares? It's music! So I rap about murder. I say I do it, I say I will do it. Whatever! You like what I'm doing buy it or listen," says Necro.

"You don't turn it off! I mean everyone is so worried about who is real and not and I feel you, you need to decide who you feel is real and then enjoy their music. But whether I'm Manson or Mr Rogers, music is music. The person is not the music. The person represents the music. In the end, humans express their thoughts whether real or fantasy, thoughts are expressed in rhyme!"

But Necro's brush with the reality of violence is closer than you think. Necro collaborated with one of the most famous & notoriously violent men in the world today; Mark 'Chopper' Read.

"He dont rap like I do. He is more [into] poetry; expressing his life over beats. It's different, but on some street shit. Chopper is iller than alot of people!"

Alot of rappers lay claim to 'be the hardest', but surely Chopper by this foray into a rap collaboration can now lay official and undisputed claim to being the 'hardest man in hiphop'?

"If you're hard that means you can handle ruckus, hold ya own. I can hold my own, so I'm hard. Chopper obviously can hold his own. He is alive and known for fucking shit up! I'm sure some [rappers] out there have been stabbed mad times and shot and ice picked in the brain, but Chopper is the most famous and deserves those props for marketing it and repping it properly."

I rap the most brutal shit on the planet. - Necro, modest as ever.

When asked about how he felt working with someone of Chopper's fame and notoriety or whether he had preconceptions of the man or apprehensions. Necro told us this collaboration was not done in person and was done through the miracle of technology but is quick to

"I never met him. But I wouldn't mind meeting him and I'm not worried about him. What, is he gonna kill me? For what? I would show him respect. Real recognise real. I never been through what he has but I'm no less because of it. I have punched people in the face in drama and then found out they were made men after and it didnt matter. The point is Chopper is a legend and he is real. So if I meet him I'd show him his respect, he earned it, simple!"

But fusing rap and rock music is nothing new. Aerosmith did it with Run DMC, Ice-T did it with Bodycount, Diddy did it with Jimmy Page and not to mention there are countless 'rap-rock' acts out there. But Necro is quick to point out he is not rap-rock, or in any way associated with it.

"I feel I do it correct but it also comes out very non commercial and experimental. But I do metal for real and hiphop for real. That's why the commercial version is rap rock. The term I also created to describe my shit is metal/hiphop cos rock is not metal and rap is not hiphop. Metal is the rugged shit and hiphop is the real shit. 'Rap-Rock' is more Limp Bizkit. They don't play metal in my eyes and they can't rap! That's the difference, I do it correct on some 80's shit!"

So what's next for Necro? He's busy arranging his touring schedule and working on some new material ("I am itchin to drop flames!"). When it comes to handling the business side of the industry, Necro knows how to handle business not just behind the mic, but behind the desk having done over a million in sales.

His popularity and continually growing popularity is very simple in his eyes.

"I'm popular because my shit is awesome! I mean it's as simple as that. The beats are insane and fuck with anyone in the game. The lyrics are technical, murderous, depraved and everything that is missing in the game now!"

So Necro is not a wallflower in hiphop, not someone who is willing to be in the establishment's moulds to be shaped for the MTV-generation, but pushing a million in sales when you're not being backed by a major label is no easy feat, and something that alot of artists can't or don't do.

"I'm sure it does make some people jealous because they still don't acknowledge me. But if you knew I could hire your father to be my janitor you might hate me too! I have done over a mil in sales but that's just the start of what needs to be done. Cos doing a mil in sales doesn't mean you made a mil, there is expenses that you have to pay. But, I have created a great foundation so far and it's solid like my cock, like that Assford and Simpson song!"

To find out more about 'Necro', please visit NecroHipHop.com.

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