What up ya’ll? I’d like to welcome you to another exciting episode of “Pope’s Underground Spotlight!!!.” Where we take some time out of our busy schedules to dig deep into the underground and uncover an up and comming artist! I’ma drop an interview, some pics, and free mp3 downloads for each featured artists. Lets look at this as a way for the Juggalos to broaden their horizons and check out some new stuff, and for some fresh ass new artists to spread the word about what they got goin on. For this edition we’re heading as far south as anyone without a parka on can go, yes ladies and gentlemen, Australia! We’re gonna toss the boomerang around with none other than the wickedest artists in the outback, KidCrusher! He’s been spewing his own metal-laced wicked shit throughout Australia for several years now is really starting to create some waves throughout the underground. So hit up the freshness below where you’ll find a full on interview, some links, pics, and some free mp3s. Also, give the pic below a click to visit his official site for more info and tracks. So read on and get schooled by KidCrusher!

Faygoluvers: so first off, tell us about KidCrusher. i.e. where yer from, how long you been in the game, anything else we should know, etc.

KidCrusher: Hey Killa’s! My Names KidCrusher,straight from the bottom of the world, Adelaide, South Australia. I started a rap game back in primary school, but nuttin I really wanna talk about. That was back in the old tape deck recording days proberly around 1995. I properly did not start CD recordings until early 2001 with my homie $tash, didn’t really release or press anything back then, wasn’t worth it. I was still learning, didn’t wanna make a name out of myself trying to rap.

Faygoluvers: So Tunnel Runners is dropping in two weeks. Whats up with it?

KidCrusher: It’s the craziest project i’ve ever been offered to be upon. And to be called a Master of the Wicked Shit.. and to mix with some of the sickest of the sick is the biggest rush of my life, I bow down to the Hatchet House.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DCc6nTP_sQ[/youtube]

Faygoluvers: On top of Tunnel Runners, your making the long trip to the U.S. from Australia for this years Gathering. What can we expect from KidCrusher at the Gotj?

KidCrusher: Everything you imagined it to be, Very Bloody. I put my whole life on hold for the Tunnel Runners and the Gathering of the Juggalo’s this year. I’m bringin my homie Chico with me as a hype man and we’ll be mixin some of the old and brand new together and also Ill e. Gal is going to be up on my set as well as me on her set.

Faygoluvers: Awesome, is this your first time to the states? What are you looking forward too?

KidCrusher: To experience a gathering like i’ve always dreamed which i never thought i’d ever do. To see all the psychopathic members live, besides ICP, nobody has toured down under. So its the first time for a lot of things for me, and to be this close to Ohio, I’m just pumped because I know theres alota Victims in that area ;P And to have my first big concert, as I don’t do much live shit.

Faygoluvers: what kind of projects have you worked on in the past and who would you like to work with in the future?

KidCrusher: A lot of personal projects in between 1996 and 2006. Raw Recorded on shit house sound cards and microphones. A lot of different bands and characters even till this day, I’m still working with different bands as I’m always open for a new sound. I only recently in 2006 stepped up my game in a Recording Studio, so I had alot of muck around time, but I knew it was time to drop some serious shit. I’m down to work full time on KidCrusher and Commit to World Wide Tours and Long Term Projects. And i’m eager to express this wicked shit I’ve created in as many different ways that come to mind. I’m always open to work with new killers. Collabs are the most interesting songs for me to make.

Faygoluvers: So I for one am curious. Whats the juggalo culture like in Australia? Do you guys have shows, events, gatherings? Whats goin on down there?

KidCrusher: until after ICP came down to Australia in 2003, I never seen another juggalo before. I rounded up a lot of homies at the show and rocked a few gatherings at my wrestling events and got to know a hand full of them, but there is not a lot of real juggalo love down here at all It’s really sad, a few gatherings took place after the ICP show. One in Sydney, and nobody was really showing any love for the hatchet. It was really a spit in the face after all the traveling I done to chill with them, but I did get to chill with the dramatic Dyad Souls which was dope.

Faygoluvers: The wicked shit has obviously influenced your work. How were you introduced to it and just what has it meant to your life?

KidCrusher: I seen ICP at a WCW Wrestling Event and i was fascinated by them. And also to hear by the WCW Commentators that they were rappers. I was curious, so i picked up The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and that Jokers Card Possessed me and will forever be my Jokers Card. It took me a while to completely understand it all, The Wraith: Shangri-La, really brightend up the picture and drove me out of depression. Ever since then i’ve been forever thank full for Juggalo Love and committed my life to represent it as it makes me happy feeling accepted into a carnival of freaks that stand out in the crowd :P

Faygoluvers: Your currently a part of “Foctam Records.” Where’d you guys come from and whats goin on with the label?

KidCrusher: It’s not really a label, It’s a Online CD Store. Registered so we can promote and sell Unsigned Underground Artists, Mainly just my friends in my area. Nothing too serious besides rockin some shows and collaborations together and helping each other out in the studio n shit. You can check out the roster n shit FoctamRecords.com. A lot of my merchandise and free downloads are up on there to.

Faygoluvers: The “Meet The Monstors” video just dropped and its fresh as hell. Tell us about it.

KidCrusher: Was the BEST experience of my life, full stop. I actually came across the trailer to a Zombie Horror Movie called ” THE DISTURBED ” being filmed in Melbourne Australia. I hit up the Director on Myspace, asking if I could do a song about the movie for the soundtrack, and he sent me the script to the movie for me to read and said if its dope he would fly me down to Melbourne and shoot a video for it. 4 Days later, i had my ticket to Melbourne.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1XOJ8oDYs[/youtube]

We had a Special FX Makeup Artist JUSTIN DIX. Who worked on the drones for the last two star wars movies which done my makeup and the zombie’s full blown body suit. Had Actors from the Movie in the video, as well as my self pretending to be a mental patient unpainted, ehhh… but it worked out nicely. Besides almost freezing to death on the set my skin turned BLUE, so i was close to.

Daniel Armstrong, The Director of The Disturbed Movie and the Meet The Monstors Music Video, was one of the dopest killers i’ve ever worked with, I’m so great full to have such a killer experience and i’m looking forward to playing a Zombie/Cannibal/Wrestler/Stuntman in the MOVIE!!

That’s right, I’ve entered into the CAST. But the Movie is still seeking Investments and proberley will not be in production until 2009. I’m also composing the entire Disturbed Movie Soundtrack all the background music to the movie etc. etc. etc. just recently got into working more for Daniel’s Company STRONGMAN PICTURES done work on two other upcoming movies called Z3D5 and FROM PARTS UNKNOWN.

Faygoluvers: whats currently in your cd player?

KidCrusher: A L O T A S H I T Slipknot, System of a Down, Rammstein, Mudvayne, Twiztid, The Berzerker, Pantera, Superjoint Ritual, Boondox, Soulfly, Insane Clown Posse, Anybody Killa, Blaze, Dark Lotus, Moshpit, Bawdy Festival, Lenny Dee, Rob Zombie, kCaveMen, Dyad Souls, Blindside, Trips, Nascent, 2pac, Spice One, True High Class, Professor Fresh, Fear Factory, CKY, (OLD Limp Bizkit), Cannibal Corpse, Tenacious D, Lamb of God, Cradle of Filth, Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Drowning Pool, Peeping Tom, Slayer

Faygoluvers: other than music, what else do you do?

KidCrusher: Watch a fuck load of DVDs, cuz i cant stand TV at all fucking ads everywhere.. I watch a lot of Family Guy, The Simpsons, SpongeBob, Bottom, Some Mothers Do Ave Em. I’m a movie freak, Used to work at Blockbuster Video!! Favorite Movie at the moment is Cloverfield & The Pick of Destiny

I love to smoke weed and get drunk and do the Humpty dump, haha, i’m also a professional DJ, grew up working for Online Internet Radio Stations like Hatchet Radio, Wicked Intent Radio, Outcast Radio and then I moved on to Live DJ’n at Backyard Wrestling Shows and Party’s. Then out of the blue i got a job DJn at a female stripclub which was the shit, but i got fired eventually because my music started moshpits and got people rowdy. But it lasted for 6 months and i got bitches bouncin to Psychopathic Records Bay! Bay!

Faygoluvers: what’s your goal in this game? as in, why do you rap?

KidCrusher: To have fun, I love to kick back and listen to a final product of mine. Ever since 1996 i still cant get over the feeling. I just wanna give birth to more projects to get that feeling again and album after album, I’m getting better at what i’m doin and i’ve started to perfect it all, Quality and Performance wise. Now i treat it as a business, and i’d love to work full time on it.

Faygoluvers: Your newest album Cannibal Clown is available now. Tell us about it and the aftermath of its release.

KidCrusher: since I’m unsigned, its been real hard for me to book shows, get gigs & to be taken seriously. I have no job, besides working in the studio. I hustled to pay for cannibal clown to get released it still proberley would not be available if not my homies Trips & Nascent had my back in the studio. Money is a mother fucker in the unsigned underground world. All i can say is if you wanna be like me, better get used to bein a scrub like me. Unless you can handle working a real job and rapping, your one red bull mother fucker with wings. Fuckers think i’m rich, but there bootleggin my shit and i still haven’t made back what i spent to make the cd. You have to have a real passion to create it, if your just in it for money, you’ll die down quickly.

Faygoluvers: where can people learn more about you and check out your music?

KidCrusher: KIDCRUSHER.COM is my main domain and Myspace.com/KidCrusher is my daily updated page. i also sell my shit on iTunes

Faygoluvers: Whats the music industry like down in Australia. Is it as whack as it is here?

KidCrusher: I was just about to ask you the same question. I guess, unless your an Australian/American Idol right now nobodys gonna even look at you and say NEXT

Faygoluvers: You have some really awesome metal influences in your music. Where’d that come from?

KidCrusher: Serj Tankian (System of a Down)
Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park)
Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
Kudd (Mudvayne)
Rammstein & The Berzerker

Faygoluvers: On top of being an MC, your a regular in some outback style Backyard Wrestling. Whats up with that?

KidCrusher: I honestly have not wrestled in about 2 years. I’m currently putting together a crazy documentary more like, a music video movie called the XBA Death Death Documentary. We had alot of crazy events, might as well show somebody pretty much like a rise and fall of ecw, without the bitchin. You can check all that info out @ WWW.XBA.COM.AU

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VsrGiwYvsE[/youtube]

Faygoluvers: whats yer drink of choice?

KidCrusher: VIRGINS BLOOD!!!! haha just playing.
V Energy Drink, Blue Powerade, Coke, Chocolate Milk & ORANGE SODA! and Coopers Pale Ale & Tooheys Extra Dry is my Alcoholic Choice

Faygoluvers: How can the juggalos find you at this year’s Gathering?

KidCrusher: I would not have a clue what time/day i’m performing yet but it will be on JuggaloGathering.com soon Pretty sure all the tunnel runners will be on one after the other which will be dope, but who knows yet, i dont call the shots

Faygoluvers: Fresh, so to close, whats next for KidCrusher?

KidCrusher: The Metal Murder Mixtape
21 Brand New Songs

Featuring Tracks with:
Trips, Chico, Lo Key, Razakel, Sick Tanick, LepriKon, Nascent, Dyad Souls, The Iron Lung, Rotten Mouth, The Syniister, ProjectX & Vect

Featuring Instrumental Production by:
BuZzhawg Productions, Shadowville Productions, Professor Fresh, Death or Glory & KidCrusher

& Featuring a BRAND NEW Music Video for the single BLOODY featuring CHICO

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Available on FoctamRecords.com September 2008
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KIDCRUSHER CANNIBAL CLOWN DVD

**Featuring Live Footage from The Gathering 2008 On The Road to The Gathering & Backstage Footage

**Cannibal Cantina Music Video

**Bottled Emotions Music Video

**Meet The Monstors Music Video

&

**Bloody Music Video (Single from Metal Murder)

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Available on FoctamRecords.com DECEMBER 2008
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Faygoluvers: A huge thanks goes out to KidCrusher for droppin in and hookin us up with some info. I am incredibly excited to see his set at GOTJ this year, its sort of like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us. On another note, make sure to grab your copy of Cannible Clown as soon as possible, and a copy of Tunnel Runners as soon as its released. Thanks again to KidCrusher and to each and every one of you for reading. This is Pope…signing out.

~Pope~

 

Websites:

KidCrusher.com

FoctamRecords.com

Myspace.com/KidCrusher