No talking....Enter the Future.
Go Download the ClassicillRoots.com: First off thanks for the interview.
Netic: Naw, thanks for even wanting to do the interview. That’s always a plus.
illRoots.com: Oh man, it's whatever. The music speaks for itself. One word to describe Game Rebellion?
Netic: One word…..ohhhh..one word , your putting the pressure on shit. FuckingInsane I guess.
illRoots.com: Okay..as one word.
Netic: yep one word…fuckinsane.
illRoots.com: Yeah, I need to coin that phrase..fuckinsane. So Websters can pay me some money.
Netic: Yeah we all need paper, so I can get a new Blackberry.
illRoots.com: Wait..Blackberry?, I got a Verizon new every two joint so damn.
Netic: Just don’t talk on the shit over the sink washing dishes.
illRoots.com: Alright.
Netic: That’s just dumb.
illRoots.com: Yea that’s just NOT SMART.
Netic: [laughs] That's just not the way to go.
illRoots.com: See how he tries to divert me from the actual interview when I hit him with a hard question.
Netic: That’s how I do, Master of Diversion.
illRoots.com: Okay as I dodge these bullets.What is your biggest problem with music right now?
Netic: If I could hate on anything right now…hmm.
illRoots.com: If you could hate on anything right now?
Netic: Normally that’s easy but my New Year’s Resolution was to not be judgemental.
illRoots.com: Okay so I just fucked that all up.
Netic: Since your asking me to fall so far back into my comfort zone. Right now I just feel like a lot of shit sounds the same. I really am very appreciative right now about being in Game Rebellion and all the grind work that we put in. Like our daily day-to-day schedule the work loud is a lot, and for the first time I stopped looking at artists as just their music and started looking at them as businesses and being like damn. The business aspect what you have to do on a daily basis is a lot. So I’m really on some like wow, I don’t know how they do it all every last hour has to be off the wall.
illRoots.com: How did Game Rebellion start?
Netic: Basically it was just my man the guitar player Yohimbe, and I was writing rhymes and going to the Open Mics and going to ciphers in the streets, you know when the ciphers in the streets were around. My man Yohimbe came back from college in the Bay area out in Cali and I was getting ready to go out to college and he said I’m going to be working on this music shit and I said the same. I was trying to do something different I was kind. Okay how it really started I went to a rock show in high school and after that I never felt that intensity again from a live performance and most of the live performances I went to were hip-hop based. So the only time I felt like a show was really a “Show” was when I went to go see like rock bands. I was how come these muthafuckas are going crazy, insane, the energy was crazy. I wasn’t really a fan of the music but the shit was so fucking captivating that I couldn’t help but to move or push somebody. You just want to be apart of this shit, you just can’t sit back. Basically that is what I tried to with Game Rebellion with the band we really tried to do. Yohimbe played guitar, I rhymed and my homeboy MED was the producer he played the MPC live. So he would play the MPC live like it was an instrument. Loading up drum samples and just playing that shit constantly and people were just literally giving us show and we didn’t know what we were doing, but we would just make it happen. Ultimately people responded really well to it and it gave somebody something different. When you’re a musician your progress is based on how much you can push that instrument and we realize really quickly that there is certain genres that you can’t progress within and rock is not one of them.
illRoots.com: In comparison to the Roots or Linkin Park, that have utilized the band concept what separates you guys?
Netic: Honestly, its our personalities that are expressed through the music. You can hear everyone’s personality as much as I am outspoken I am also very introspective. I will ride the train and just ride not to go any where but just to reflect. The questions that I have about my own developed at 25 years old and I’m trying to figure out how to be a better human being is really on my mind daily. I want to be on some high level shit not just economically but socially and spiritually on some greater than where I am now type shit. I feel that its very evident in the stuff that I write. Even if I’m not writing about myself, I’m writing about the shit I see. Like in Public Enemy #1 that song starts out real simple and open ended about hip-hop and about us being dope and all that shit. But then at the time that whole “Nigga, Bitch” shit was real big in hip-hop and people were having all these conversations and that shit wasn’t really that ridiculous to me. I remember being in school and teachers talking to us 100 times crazier than that. These are the people who are educating us, if their expectations are low who gives a shit if I say Nigga or Bitch my language reflects my reality my reality doesn’t reflect my language.
illRoots.com: Honestly this band is the future, they got a perfect from Okayplayer.com and soon to be the next thing. Thanks to Jon and Netic. And look out for much much more from illroots + Game Rebellion. Check them out Here
