Radar Raiders: KRYSIS PT. III

• Do you have any current projects or projects coming up in the near future?

Yezzir! Right now, I currently have my 1st ever album out...called "STAND WIT ME"..completely produced,recorded and mixed by my brother Kemo and also songs are written and recorded by yours truly! It's a very well rounded album...I release in August 2007. It's available on iTUNES, cdbaby.com, musicishere.com,cdconnection.com and a few other websites. Just google us at "L1 RECORDS" or "Krysis of L1 RECORDS" and you'll find all of the sites that the cd is available to purchase at. You can also check my myspace page at www.myspace.com/krysisL1records.

I actually do have some projects comin out. I'm currently on an album with my boy named Vocab. We have a group called "Impakt" and we're planning to call the title of the album "MOMENT OF IMPAKT".It's gonna be produced entirely by my boys Red.October and KuoteOble... they made sum INCREDIBLE beats for this project!! I can't wait for everybody to hear it! I don't want to give a set release date because we're still in the process of recording at the moment. This is gonna be a deep album, and it's also gonna have sum cuts for the ladies, a lil party joint or 2 and of course it's gon have dem lyrical joints in it too.After that, I want to drop some mixtapes to prep the release to the follow up album to "STAND WIT ME"...That's gonna be another project produced completely by Kemo, and will feature some new L1 artists.

• What label do you feel would best suit your personality and style?

A while back, I would have named a huge amount of labels that I would love to be on.But the more i've studied the game in the past few years, I would have to say it's best to build up your own label and not move on a label that's owned by someone else.On the label of every artist I like, they'll have at least 1 more dope artist on their label. But that other artist seems to get overshadowed by the main artist and not giving the respect he deserves because the main artist is the one that's mostly in the "spotlight". I think me and Kemo could really build a strong fanbase and build artists around us and become a successful label ourselves.

• Anybody you'd like to shout out or send than yous to?

Hell yeah,I wanna send a shout out!! (lol) Shouts out first to you Ocky, for giving me this opportunity to voice my opinions and experiences that I have in this interview. I appreciate it bruh. You put together some great questions, u can tell by how long my answers were yo! lol. On the real bruh, thank you fam'. Also, I'd like to send a shout to all my friends and family. Thank you for all the love and support, I appreciate each and every one of you. Shout outs to the underground artists that I know out here...Vocabolous, Mattmatical, P16,Lotus Tribe,Mr. King, Lucky Brown and the whole Duce Dime Entertainment. I enjoy all the shows we did and the conversations we have. And shouts out to Kemo out in Nashville, and all my people out in Tennessee...Gutta,Piwa,Danai, Carp,Info, Eaz-y,Xcel, Mynd Ryte and Lil Amp!! I'll be there in Tennessee real soon! And shout outs to all the people out there that love real music and are in favor of living a positive life and motivating the people around us! I love all of yall!

• So where can those interested in your work contact you?

If u need to holla @ ya boy...u can contact me on my MYSPACE PAGE or u can email me at Impakt19@aol.com. Yo Ocky, thanx again 4 the interview bruh...u know I'ma be linkin back up wit u soon man! Keep grindin and do it big bruh! Peace out yall!

special edition part IIII tomorrow!! Make sure you check it out folks!

RADAR RAIDERS: KRYSIS (part II)

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• Who are some of your biggest influences?

My biggest musical influence 1st and foremost is my older brother Kemo. He's the main person that gave me the desire to the type of music I create and inspired me to keep pushin myself to the next level on the tracks that I make. I have a whole lot of music influences... Nas, Anita Baker, Styles P., Lupe Fiasco, Jay-z and Talib Kweli.

NAS has the best rap catalog, PERIOD!

ANITA BAKER is my favorite singer of all time. She's a real humble and quiet person, but when she starts singin', her vocal range and delivery really shows she's one of the most dynamic artists to grace a mic. I love that about her..plus her music as whole is real positive and shows a wide range of emotion.

STYLES P. is one of the dopest artists i've heard. Dude's delivery is sick, plus the pain and anger in his voice is crazy! But the biggest thing is that he is one of the deepest artists, that i've heard. He says some of the most thought provoking lines that i've ever heard an artist say. But he keeps it gutter, and still holds his intelligent side of him in place. He is the BEST mixtape artist out...dude puts out classics for the streets everytime he comes out... VERY underrated.

LUPE FIASCO is the best new artist that came in the rap game within the last 5 years. The first time I heard him was on his mixtapes. Dude's delivery is reminincent of Jay-Z,but his content was a lil more deeper. And after I heard his 1st album,"Food & Liquor", I really became a fan...and his follow up album on "The Cool" really put Lupe in my list of top 5 rappers right now. Dude is ill. And he's gon do big things with the label 1st&15th!

JAY-Z... I ain't gotta say too much about dude,yall already know that's the GodMc...what I really commend him on is how business savvy he is. He showed other rappers that you could really make big money off in this game, if you got your business down packed. Plus dude switches his delivery up like NO other...BAR NONE. I don't care who you name, Jigga is the illest when it comes to playin wit words and switchin up the flo.

Last but not least... TALIB KWELI. I really respect Talib..dude is probably the dopest concious MC in the game. He's respected by all types of rappers in the game, whether it's thug rappers, bubble-gum rappers, concious..whoever. Everybody know Talib is that dude dat can spit and deliver a positive message in his song. Plus I admire him because he built his own label BlackSmith Records and is doin real well on the independent grind with that team.

• What's your take on the current state of music?

The current state of music is OKAY right now, but I feel like there should be a little more creativity in it, so it won't become a stagnant industry. We get a LITTLE bit of shine of creativity when we have artists like Lupe, Outkast, Kanye West, Star Trak, Keyshia Cole, The Cool Kids and a few others come out and drop a song that stands apart from everything else that is out. And I ain't one of these dudes dats gon come after Soulja Boy or any artist and point the finger at them and say their killin the music. Soulja Boy and artists like him have their own fanbase that they cater to. I wouldn't bump his music...but my little cousins and nephew like their music and he's not advocating violence and nut'n too crazy, so I ain't gon hate on the dude. I also would like to see a wider range of hiphop shown on TV and on the radio. Right now, most rap music on TV and the radio are club songs, dance songs and straight up hood songs. It's nuthin' wrong wit dat kind of music, we need that as a part of hiphop...BUT the only bad thing when you ONLY expose that kind of music, it sets up all artists under that umbrella of rap music to be stereotyped and criticized for just being a certain way. There are plenty of artists on the underground that have something extremely different to offer than what you hear and see on radio and TV,but they'll never be heard, because TV and radio are refusing to play their type of music. It's a huge imbalance in hiphop right now. There's 1,000+ gangsta and dance-making rappers in the mainstream music...and only like 5 real MC's that have a lil bit a light shed on them. It shouldn't be like that. All varieties of hip hop should be shown to the people, so the mass majority won't be so quick to categorize rap for being a certain way. Other than that tho', the state of music is still doin pretty good in the mist of declining cd sales and bootlegging. Recession my brotha... Recession.

• What artists in the industry would you like to work with?

Wow... what artists would I like to work with... ooohhhweee, that's a long list, but once again...i'll try to keep it short. Nas, Styles P., Anita Baker, Patti LaBelle, Dave Matthews Band, Chrisette Michelle, Kanye West, Jadakiss, Papoose, Trae, Z-Ro, Scarface, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Vivian Green, Cage, Eminem, Jay-Z, the lead singer of the Stylistics, Alicia Keys, Al Green, Outkast, Ludacris, Young Buck, Q-Tip, Mary J. Blige, Keyshia Cole,Beanie Siegel, Count Bass D.

• What producers do you feel would accommodate your style perfectly?

Count Bass D, MF Doom, DJ Premier, Statik Selektah, Madlib, Dr. Dre, Alchemist, 9th Wonder, RJD2, El-P, Salaam Remi, Just Blaze, Neptunes, Kanye West,DangerMouse and also an underground producer in Tennessee named Double JP which I will be workin with very soon.

PART III coming in the next few days!! Check back with the Radar Raiders!!

RADAR RAIDERS: KRYSIS

In this weeks edition of RADAR RAIDERS, I'd like to present to you a very close homie of mine from middle school and beyond. We've both been grinding ever since lunchroom freestyles and bedroom recording sessions and the plans are still set in motion. Hailing from San Antonio, TX, this focused and conscious individual has laid his own path and continues to follow it. Distancing himself from the typical southern rap that has run amok these days, Krysis finds time to build compositions of purpose and poetic luster with a delivery chalk full of venom and thunder. Get ya mind right folks, here's part one of this three part special edition of Radar Raiders!!

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PART I:

• What's your name and what city do you represent?

The name is Krysis aka "The Deepest" aka "Tha K/R" aka "K-R to the I wit the lil antennas on it"(u remember dat line Ocky,lol). I am on an underground independent record label called "L1 RECORDS. The "L1" stands for "Lyrics 1st". This label was formed by me and my older brother Kemo. We formed this label in an effort to emphasize and deliver true lyricism for the listeners who really are lovers of good music. Not just hip-hop or rap, but MUSIC in general. But yeah, I'm from San Antonio, Texas. Some of us down here like to call it "SA TOWN" or "Tha 'Tone". I was born and raised down here. Overall it's a very nice and cultural city. It's good food down here, there's also good people. It has it's bad areas too, but what city doesn't. I love this city, but I could definately say without a doubt, it's not the city for an artist to be exposed or to catapult a musical career at. Hopefully, that will change within the next couples of years.

• How would you describe your direction & sound?

The overall direction of my music is to send out a positive message and to also showcase true lyricism in my songs. I feel like God blessed me with a talent to not only be able to write songs, but also to be able to change people's lives and to drop knowledge on them through my songs that could help them in present time and in the future. My "sound" really can vary, due to the fact that I was influenced by different kinds of music... mostly being gospel, R&B, Soul, Jazz, Neo-Soul and of course hip-hop. So I really have a wide range of "sound" in my music.

• When did you start creating music?

Honestly, the beginnings of me gettin' into music as a whole came about when I was only about 9. I started writing poems in my free time. My 4th grade teacher at the time got a hold of one of my poems I wrote during class and was extremely impressed and showed it to one of the teachers for the Gifted and Talented class and they actually offered me to be in the G&T poetry class. I didn't accept the offer, but I thought it was coo' that they felt the poem that much. Around that same time, I got interested in wanting to play instruments. I was intrigued by it at the time, because my father actually is a band teacher and an outstanding musician himself. He could play drums, trumpet,saxophone, piano...anything, jus name it. Every Sunday at church, I would study my dad as he would play the drumset. And when church was over, my pops would let me play around a lil bit on his drumset. I just kept practicin' at it and one day, I finally got it and once I figured it out, I could play any beat I heard by ear. At the time, I was a big Timbaland fan. One beat that I remember learnin how to play was for the song "One In A Million" by Aaliyah, which is still one of my favorite beats to this day. That beat was a lil difficult, because of the timing, but once I learned that, I pretty much knew I could play any beat I heard by ear. I started playin' for the church choir from ages 9 to about 17. And by the time I hit middle school, I was already about 3 years deep on knowing how to play drums, so I decided to go into band to further my skills on drums. I actually did real good doin' that, I was the main drummer at the middle school I was attending and I won numerous awards. It was a good experience, and I also acquired the skill of learning how to play other instruments that are in the percussion section. I also learned how to read music, and not jus how to play by ear.

In my 7th grade year, I started writing raps. I was influenced by hearing my older brother Kenny(aka KEMO). At the time, him and his wife were puttin out cassette tapes and cds of their music. It was mostly gospel rap, and I really gravitated towards their music because of the honesty in it. When I heard Kemo's music, he would throw all of his emotion into his music, and by the end of the song, he would let you know how he would always find God to help through anything he went through. But he would also talk about the dirt he did, or how he would have second thoughts about havin faith...he would even role-play in his music to show how to deal with problems and how to approach God for assistance. This influenced me to start makin' my own raps and my earlier rhymes were very gospel-oriented. I actually would make lil homemade beats on this cheap Yamaha keyboard I had at the time. I wasn't recordin none of these songs at the time, I was jus really trying it out and trying to perfect my skills lyrically. I wasn't real serious about the rap though until I turned about 14 years old. The one MC that really sparked me to take it to the next level lyrically at the time was Mos Def. That's around the time his single "Ms. Fat Booty" came out, I also heard this other song that him, Talib and Common did called "Respiration". That song til' this day is one of my favorites, and once I heard more of Mos Def and other lyrical artists music..I fell in love with hiphop and I started really trying to sharpen my lyrical skills. I started bumpin' artists like Nas, Jay-Z, Biggie, Eminem(Marshall Mathers LP was my favorite album in my 8th grade year and still is in my top 5 best albums), RedMan, Wu-Tang. I always felt outta place sometimes too, because down here in Texas, everybody was trippin' on the "Chopped and Screwed" music. I liked it, but I was bumpin' mostly east coast artists, because I've always gravitated towards lyricism..screwed music was too slow to listen to all the time.

I soon started writin songs and lettin my brother Kemo hear 'em. He was producing music for underground artists in Nashville,Tennessee at the time while recording his own music. He liked my songs, but he always told me to stay on my pen-game. It was one particular song I spit for him one day over the phone that got him really interested in workin' with me tho'. When I was 15, I wrote a song called "Issues"...it was basically a song that depicted all of the problems that the world is goin through and how people are just sellin their soul instead of staying pure. Once he heard that, he wanted me to come down to Tennessee to record some tracks. I saved all the songs I would write in my notebooks and took all of them wit me when I flew down to see Kemo. I had about 15 solid songs at the time, and I actually cut a 15 track cd. It was my first time ever recording in a studio period...and surprisingly..I recorded all 15 tracks on that cd in ONE night. Kemo decided to actually called it "One Day's Work". I didn't release it or anything, I just let people around school hear it, so I could get some responses on how people felt about it. I was actually gettin GREAT feedback from people and they were most impressed by the deep messages I was providing on the tracks and the punchlines I would throw on the tracks. This is also around the same time, me and this monster RED OCTOBER met up wit each other! I knew dude since 8th grade in Middle School, but I never knew he was into music at the time. We started showin our music to each other and eventually linked up and recorded sum tracks together. I could relate to Ocky, cuz we both liked the same kind of music. He actually put me up on game on alot of undergound artists that I didn't know about at the time...like Cage, Copywrite, Cannibol Ox, Yak Balls, & Atmosphere. Til this day, Ocky has made sum of the best mix cd's I've heard!! He mixed in all of the dope music from R&B, HipHop, Neo Soul and he even put me up on "Trip-Hop". I also got tight wit my boy KuoteOble at this time. Ocky and KO were actually in a group called "Alpha Bionix". I stayed a close affiliate with them and I would do tracks with them whenever they needed a feature for any project. Ocky and Kuoteoble started puttin their own mixtapes out at the High School we were at. And I appeared on maybe one or 2 songs on each of their mixtapes, but I still created a real nice buzz around the school, and people really respected me as a lyricist. People also knew us because we would always have ciphers at school, and we always freestlyed at the lunch tables or even outside on campus. We always had people gatherin' around us to hear our rhymes. It was cool man, I really enjoyed it...I know u remember dem good ole' days Ocky! I started with this music thing REAL early and I've enjoyed this journey of learning more about it and expanding my knowledge on it. It's a great experience,and I'm still learning alot til this day.

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Tomorrow we'll have part two of this special edition of RADAR RAIDERS on KRYYYYYSIS!! Download "Mystic" below & vibe!!

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Radar Raiders: BANG BOOGIE!

Ocky feels special. I feel special not only because I shaved my pubic hairs down to a tee last night and now my jankie looks amazingly huge, but also because I have a special guest for today’s RADAR RAIDERS. She goes by the name of Bang Boogie and I must say, she is definitely next up. Pay attention, she was gracious enough to provide your boy some time to ask her a few things about her music. This is an artists you’re bound to see in the near future. I present to you… the boogiemeister.

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• What's your name and what city do you represent?
The name's Bang Boogie, representing Fort Myers, Fl.

• How would you describe your direction & sound?
Eargasmic, eccentric, new, fresh, bang bang boooogie babyy!!!

• When did you start creating music?
At the sweeet age of 9

• Who are some of your biggest influences?
Wow, so many. 2pac, Lauryn Hill, Gym Class Heroes, Eminem, Lupe Fiasco, Black Thought, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Santogold, M.I.A., Wale... I could go on forever lol

• What's your take on the current state of music?
I'm diggin' it! It seems that more artists' are becoming more creative and taking chances with different song concepts.

• What artists in the industry would you like to work with?
Pharrell, Kanye, Lauryn Hill, Travis from Gym Class Heroes, The Roots, M.I.A., Santogold, Wale… Alot!

• What producers do you feel would accommodate your style perfectly?
Pharrell, Kanye, Best Kept Secret.

• Do you have any current projects or projects coming up in the near future?
Yes! My CD "Self Made iLLionaire" is out! You can download it for the freeee at http://www.filefactory.com/f/bb4b7f569e93707c/

• What label do you feel would best suit your personality and style?
G.O.O.D. music, Star Trak, Rocafella, Young Money.

• Anybody you'd like to shout out or send than yous to?
Yezzir, Shoutouts to my big bro Ray V, Miss Long, Red.October, Frankie, Casey, Anna D, and any other motherclucker I forgot to mention!!

• So where can those interested in your work contact you?
Hit me on that myspace tip at myspace.com/bangbo0gie or thefutureofhip_hop@yahoo..com

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So there you have it, Bang Boogie is definitely an artist you need to keep your eye on. Thank you Boogie for your time! NANOOOOO!!

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