HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT YOUR ENVIRONMENT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR STYLE AND YOUR RHYMES?
I dont really know how my environment has influenced my style, I rarely leave my house anymore but I probably did get it into rap just cus thats what all the cool kids around my neighborhood were doing or something like that, I think my brothers Marshall Mathers LP cassette tape was the first hip hop I really listened to back when I was 7. Then when I started writing my own rhymes I became like Zack in Zebrahead except with less support
nah Ive never done any real performances, you could catch me in PA though when I do
WHO ARE SOME OF THE ARTISTS YOU'VE WORKED WITH?
Ive worked with Dmentid from FNM, I used to send him beats a lot when I first started producing. I try and network with a lot of artists, I mostly work with this group me myself and I, theyre alright but theyre not real
HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR STYLE HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS?
Everythings changed, I used to just be a bitter battle rapper mad at the world spitting a bunch stupid shit, now Im a philosophical brother a knowledge lover, still mad at the world spitting stupid shit but theres a real meaning behind it now
WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST EMOTIONAL SONG FOR YOU TO WRITE?
Burn Down Hell, Comprehension, and a lot of other songs that dealt with suicide
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THEY LOVE YOUR SONG/S?
Its a great feeling, I usually never believe it though or theyll like the song that I hate the most on the album or something like that, but its still great, thats the reason I do it, for love and understanding
WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WANT PEOPLE THAT AREN'T YET FANS OF YOU MUSIC TO KNOW ABOUT YOU?
That Im just a poet that plays with words to stay sane, and that I try and communicate through music, I wanna be a voice for the voiceless and represent people like me
WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
MF DOOM, Open Campain, Eyedea and Abilities, Big Pun, Beck, Nirvana, Blu, J Dilla, Madlib, Cage The Elephant, Del The Funky Homosapien, Elzhi, Gorillaz, Killah Priest, Mos Def, Sean Price, Wu-Tang, Michael Andrews, and many others
WHO/WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
Who - MF DOOM, Open Campain, Eyedea, Beck, Kurt Cobain, Blu, Dakota, J Dilla, Madlib, Andy Kaufman, Tyler Durden, Black Dynamite, Donnie Darko, Bill Hicks, Sam Bell, Michael Rapaport in Special, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, Casino, and Raging Bull, and a bunch of other movie characters I try and live through. What - Life, the world, society, love, fear, and the whole spectrum of human emotion
WHO TAUGHT YOU ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE LESSONS IN LIFE?
Dwayne and Frank in Little Miss Sunshine, their conversion about how lifes just a fucking beauty contest, and Dwayne says "You do what you love, and fuck the rest." I really try to live by that, the movie Harvey with James Stewart taught me a lot too, how he chooses to live life oh so pleasant instead of oh so smart, that movie changed my outlook on a lot of things. Also all the philosophies in Fight Club, and the song "The Dive" by Eyedea really changed my life, it taught me how to let go and turn fear into love. Risky Business taught me a valuable lesson too, Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
IF YOU COULD CHANGE one THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE WOULD YOU? WHAT WOULD IT BE? AND WHY?
I'd get rid of all the anxiety, regrets, and loneliness in my life, cus that shit sucks, for obvious reasons
WHAT DO YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE WHAT WOULD TRULY MAKE YOU HAPPY?
Love
WHAT IS YOUR FAVE SPORT AND TEAM?
Basketball, Flint Tropics
WHAT’s YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE STATE OF MUSIC?
Its all types of fucked up right now at least in the mainstream with the type of bullshit the majority of the brain washed universe listens to
WHY DO YOU LOVE MUSIC?
Whats not to love about it, music can be the most beautiful thing on the planet, if it has soul
WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 MC'S
1. MF DOOM
2. Eyedea
3. Big Pun
4. Murdoc
5. Mygrane Mcnastee
those are just my personal favorites though, I do believe MF DOOM's the greatest ever and Eyedea's one of the greatest song writers of all time in my opinion, I really wish someone would make "Color My World" into a movie that be amazing
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 MOVIES?
1. Donnie Darko
2. Fight Club
3. Special
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. Seven
WHAT ARE 3 THINGS YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT?
Music, Dreams, and Music again
IF YOU COULD PICK 3 ARTISTS PAST OR PRESENT TO WORK WITH WHO WOULD YOU PICK?
MF DOOM, J Dilla, Mygrane Mcnastee
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE: COOL LAID BACK, IN YOUR FACE, CONSCIOUS?
My Style? You could call it the art of fighting, without fighting...
TWITTER ACCOUNT? LINKS?
@BigSouz
EVAN DARKO FB PAGE
SOUNDCLOUD/EVAN DARKO
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SUCCEED?
I dont really know, I guess if retards like soulja boy can be millionaires it cant be that hard, but thats not really success to me, anyone can sell their souls, I just do it for the love and if someone could listen to me and really understand me then I succeeded, and I think if I just keep making music and putting my heart into it then I'll achieve my goal
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO TO RELAX? (THAT YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT) = )
I mostly just listen to music, make beats and play xbox to relax
WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU LOVED MUSIC MORE THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON?
When I started making my own and looking at music as an escape
IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME AT HOW RAPPERS CAN JUST GO OFF THE TOP WHEN FREESTYLIN... HOW DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU, DO YOU JUST SAY AIIGHT IMA GO ON THIS TOPIC OR DOES IT JUST COME TO YOU AS YOUR SPITTIN?
It amazes me too, I suck at freestylin, I just like writing songs and taking the time to think about what Im gonna say, I only ever really freestyle when im with my friend joey cus he was the first person to hear me rap so i'll freestyle with him but any other time I feel like I got something to prove so I just spit a song I already wrote when people ask me to freestyle
HOW DOES THE BEAT COME TO YOU? I KNOW SOME PRODUCERS SAMPLE BUT LIKE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL BEAT HOW DOES IT COME TO YOU?
When it comes to production I just sample everything cus I cant play any instruments, I just mix loops then find some love songs from the 60s and 70s to add to it, I got this mega juke box hits box set that I use for sampling, I really like the Sound of Music soundtrack too I sample that a lot. I do make some beats from scratch using virtual instruments, mostly for intros and outros, I try to do some film score type production
I dont really know how my environment has influenced my style, I rarely leave my house anymore but I probably did get it into rap just cus thats what all the cool kids around my neighborhood were doing or something like that, I think my brothers Marshall Mathers LP cassette tape was the first hip hop I really listened to back when I was 7. Then when I started writing my own rhymes I became like Zack in Zebrahead except with less support
nah Ive never done any real performances, you could catch me in PA though when I do
WHO ARE SOME OF THE ARTISTS YOU'VE WORKED WITH?
Ive worked with Dmentid from FNM, I used to send him beats a lot when I first started producing. I try and network with a lot of artists, I mostly work with this group me myself and I, theyre alright but theyre not real
HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR STYLE HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS?
Everythings changed, I used to just be a bitter battle rapper mad at the world spitting a bunch stupid shit, now Im a philosophical brother a knowledge lover, still mad at the world spitting stupid shit but theres a real meaning behind it now
WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST EMOTIONAL SONG FOR YOU TO WRITE?
Burn Down Hell, Comprehension, and a lot of other songs that dealt with suicide
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THEY LOVE YOUR SONG/S?
Its a great feeling, I usually never believe it though or theyll like the song that I hate the most on the album or something like that, but its still great, thats the reason I do it, for love and understanding
WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WANT PEOPLE THAT AREN'T YET FANS OF YOU MUSIC TO KNOW ABOUT YOU?
That Im just a poet that plays with words to stay sane, and that I try and communicate through music, I wanna be a voice for the voiceless and represent people like me
WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
MF DOOM, Open Campain, Eyedea and Abilities, Big Pun, Beck, Nirvana, Blu, J Dilla, Madlib, Cage The Elephant, Del The Funky Homosapien, Elzhi, Gorillaz, Killah Priest, Mos Def, Sean Price, Wu-Tang, Michael Andrews, and many others
WHO/WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
Who - MF DOOM, Open Campain, Eyedea, Beck, Kurt Cobain, Blu, Dakota, J Dilla, Madlib, Andy Kaufman, Tyler Durden, Black Dynamite, Donnie Darko, Bill Hicks, Sam Bell, Michael Rapaport in Special, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, Casino, and Raging Bull, and a bunch of other movie characters I try and live through. What - Life, the world, society, love, fear, and the whole spectrum of human emotion
WHO TAUGHT YOU ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE LESSONS IN LIFE?
Dwayne and Frank in Little Miss Sunshine, their conversion about how lifes just a fucking beauty contest, and Dwayne says "You do what you love, and fuck the rest." I really try to live by that, the movie Harvey with James Stewart taught me a lot too, how he chooses to live life oh so pleasant instead of oh so smart, that movie changed my outlook on a lot of things. Also all the philosophies in Fight Club, and the song "The Dive" by Eyedea really changed my life, it taught me how to let go and turn fear into love. Risky Business taught me a valuable lesson too, Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
IF YOU COULD CHANGE one THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE WOULD YOU? WHAT WOULD IT BE? AND WHY?
I'd get rid of all the anxiety, regrets, and loneliness in my life, cus that shit sucks, for obvious reasons
WHAT DO YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE WHAT WOULD TRULY MAKE YOU HAPPY?
Love
WHAT IS YOUR FAVE SPORT AND TEAM?
Basketball, Flint Tropics
WHAT’s YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE STATE OF MUSIC?
Its all types of fucked up right now at least in the mainstream with the type of bullshit the majority of the brain washed universe listens to
WHY DO YOU LOVE MUSIC?
Whats not to love about it, music can be the most beautiful thing on the planet, if it has soul
WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 MC'S
1. MF DOOM
2. Eyedea
3. Big Pun
4. Murdoc
5. Mygrane Mcnastee
those are just my personal favorites though, I do believe MF DOOM's the greatest ever and Eyedea's one of the greatest song writers of all time in my opinion, I really wish someone would make "Color My World" into a movie that be amazing
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 MOVIES?
1. Donnie Darko
2. Fight Club
3. Special
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. Seven
WHAT ARE 3 THINGS YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT?
Music, Dreams, and Music again
IF YOU COULD PICK 3 ARTISTS PAST OR PRESENT TO WORK WITH WHO WOULD YOU PICK?
MF DOOM, J Dilla, Mygrane Mcnastee
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE: COOL LAID BACK, IN YOUR FACE, CONSCIOUS?
My Style? You could call it the art of fighting, without fighting...
TWITTER ACCOUNT? LINKS?
@BigSouz
EVAN DARKO FB PAGE
SOUNDCLOUD/EVAN DARKO
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SUCCEED?
I dont really know, I guess if retards like soulja boy can be millionaires it cant be that hard, but thats not really success to me, anyone can sell their souls, I just do it for the love and if someone could listen to me and really understand me then I succeeded, and I think if I just keep making music and putting my heart into it then I'll achieve my goal
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO TO RELAX? (THAT YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT) = )
I mostly just listen to music, make beats and play xbox to relax
WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU LOVED MUSIC MORE THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON?
When I started making my own and looking at music as an escape
IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME AT HOW RAPPERS CAN JUST GO OFF THE TOP WHEN FREESTYLIN... HOW DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU, DO YOU JUST SAY AIIGHT IMA GO ON THIS TOPIC OR DOES IT JUST COME TO YOU AS YOUR SPITTIN?
It amazes me too, I suck at freestylin, I just like writing songs and taking the time to think about what Im gonna say, I only ever really freestyle when im with my friend joey cus he was the first person to hear me rap so i'll freestyle with him but any other time I feel like I got something to prove so I just spit a song I already wrote when people ask me to freestyle
HOW DOES THE BEAT COME TO YOU? I KNOW SOME PRODUCERS SAMPLE BUT LIKE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL BEAT HOW DOES IT COME TO YOU?
When it comes to production I just sample everything cus I cant play any instruments, I just mix loops then find some love songs from the 60s and 70s to add to it, I got this mega juke box hits box set that I use for sampling, I really like the Sound of Music soundtrack too I sample that a lot. I do make some beats from scratch using virtual instruments, mostly for intros and outros, I try to do some film score type production
