[Spoken: Violent J, Will]
Okay, we're back here. This is Will from Psychopathic Records. I finally got to catch up with Violent J to get down with him and ask him a couple questions. First, I'm curious, at what moment during the charity tour did you decide, "hey, I wanna keep this goin', and let's do another charity tour"?
JCW is something we love. We've loved wrestling since we were children, and now that we're adults, we're livin' our childhood dream by having JCW shows, you know. We put it on tour, we bring it on tour, you know, we advertise it on the internet, you know. It doesn't draw very well, you know what I'm saying, but the idea was to do a JCW tour slash, uh, concert, the last time when we did the uh charity tour in December of 2015. And uh, we did like, I believe eight dates or something like that, you know what I'm saying, and uh, Shaggy had back surgery, so he couldn't perform, so I did a solo set, you know what I mean, but they were at JCW shows, and JCW just doesn't really draw so well. Even though it was for charity, and we had a bunch of cool acts on the show performing, it was more or less looked at as JCW wrestling, you know, so it just didn't do very well, you know what I'm saying. Not to mention, me up on stage without Shaggy with no Faygo, it's not gonna draw what an ICP concert's gonna draw, you know what I'm saying, so we didn't make as much money for the hospital as we wanted, and then the end result, when we added everything else, me and Billy and Joey just weren't happy with the fuckin'- with what we were able to give to the fuckin', uh, hospital, you know what I'm saying, the amount of money. So I said, you know what, I'm gonna do some more dates, without JCW, a full concert, more on the west coast, and give all that money to charity, you know what I'm saying, and hopefully be able to give the hospital, St. John's Hospital of Illinois, children's hospital, be able to give them some more money, you know what I'm saying? Because that's what we're trying to do, is get the sick kids paid.
Dope, dope, and I'm definitely sure they appreciate every every ounce of help we get. Uh, curious, uh, you had Nova Rockafeller and Lil Eazy-E on the first and Young Wicked, what, was it hard at all to convince them to, "hey, let's do this again, let's go on a second leg." Was it hard to convince them to come on this leg?
They weren't on the first leg, you know what I'm saying? It was- it was different rappers on the first leg. We had, uh, Anybody Killa, Big Hoodoo, Razakel, you know, um, Myzery, we had a- Young Wicked, we had a gang of bomb-ass rappers, but once again, it was just more or less looked at as a wrestling show. All the rappers performed in the ring, you know, it wasn't a regular concert, you know what I'm saying. This is gonna be a concert, so it's just Violent J, Lil E, um, you know, Nova Rockafeller, and fuckin' uh, two localers in each city, and Young Wicked is my hype man, you know what I'm saying, so that's gonna be hellified dope, you know? So we did- and we did the song together, you know, "Sick Kidz," that- everybody on the tour, which is Nova, Lil E, Young Wicked, and myself, you know, but this is a full- the difference between this and the last, uh, thing, this is a full concert. I'm doing a full set. I'm doing a full hour-long set, so.
Dope, dope, okay, speaking of that, uh, "Sick Kidz" single and the fresh Mike E. Clark remix of it. We hear that that's gonna be available on tour only. Is that just on tour, or are we gonna try to put that on a Hatchet Gear or any other site to keep raising money, or what are you doing that?
It's gonna be on Hatchet Gear, too. It's out right now. This is what you're listening to. If you're listening to this, you have it, you know what I'm saying, and you did something good. Not only did you buy a fresh song and a fresh remix by Mike E. Clark, but you fuckin' helped the sick kidz, 'cause all the proceeds for this fuckin' single right here that you own, this collector's item and with this interview, go straight to the fuckin' children's hospital, St. John's children's hospital of Illinois, you know what I'm saying. So you fuckin' buying this bitch right here that you're listening to, you fuckin' hooked somebody up, man. You did something good. Every time you bump this song, you can feel good about yourself, because that's what you did, man. You fuckin' gave to the sick kids, man. We're talking about kids that are sick, alright. When I say sick kids, I'm not talking about a fuckin' flu. I'm talking about real sick, you know, kids that are dying, kids that have cancer, kids that fuckin'- burn victims, all kinda fuckin' crazy shit, man. Least we can do is try to fuckin' help them, you know. And it's not just about the holidays, it's all year round, you know, and so thank you. Anybody hearing my voice right now, that means you fuckin' bought the fuckin' single, whether off HatcherGear, iTunes, or in concert, you know, and thank you. Thank you for fuckin' not only supporting us, Nova, Lil E, Young Wicked, but most of all, supporting the sick kids, man. That's what it's about.
Beautiful. You heard it there first, directly from the Duke of the Wicked himself, to hold that head up high, family. You done something great. I am curious, though, we did, uh the Lost and Found albums, which, you know, gave a positive, just deep message. Was the single "Sick Kidz" too much out of a comfort zone from the wicked to write a song, you know, directly for this charity?
This is the days of fuckin' The Missing Link: Found, you know what I'm saying, positivity, you know what I'm saying? It was easy to make this song for me, you know. It's more on a positive kick right now, you know. It reminds me of the days of Shangri-La back in the day, you know. But this is the days of Found, you know, The Missing Link. And we're on a positive kick. It's nothin' for I- you know, thing about ICP, we'll make any fuckin' song, anything we want. From day one, from our early shit, when we released "Joke Your Mind," when people heard that song for the first time, that let people know we'll go anywhere, anywhere musically we want. We'll make a motherfuckin' happy friendly fuckin' dance song if we want, you know what I'm saying. We don't have no rules. We don't have no fuckin' regulations. When it comes makin' music, we make any fuckin' music we feel, and this song we feel like fuckin' talking about sick kids and helpin' 'em out, man, you know what I'm saying, and that's what we did. We're not stuck to the wicked shit, where all we can make is wicked songs. We'll make a song about anything we fuckin' want, any time we want.
That's enough said right there, man. Beautifully said. Lastly, is there any shout-outs you wanna give to anybody out there?
To everybody that bought this bitch, to everybody that came to the show, to everybody that fuckin' performed on this song, Mike E. Clark, you, you know what I'm saying, everybody, Young Wicked behind the boards, fuckin' Young Wicked on the beat, you know what I'm saying, everybody that came to the shows, everybody that came to the tour, everybody that was a part of this whole fuckin' charity movement, everybody, and to the sick kids, that's who we're shouting out. That's what it's all about, man. Juggalos, they think we're gangsters, they think we're gang members, and here we are fuckin' put- comin' together to help sick kids, man, you know. That's what it's about, Juggalos, man, that's who we shout out right now. Whoop whoop. Word up.
Whoop whoop, family. You heard it.