Sup juggalos and juggalettes and underground fiends a like. It’s your boy BeZerk here with my 40th FUCKIN INTERVIEW FOR THE UNDERGROUND SPOTLIGHT!!! That’s right. Since about October (I think), I have put out 40 interview starting with my homie Snypa and now with this one.

Now I wasn’t going to put some band I didn’t even hear about for my 40th (and won’t for my 50th), so I looked thru all the interviews I have stockpiled, and chose some truly horrifying lyrical killas. Coming out of the rival state of Wisconsin, Dark Half has been grind for a little while. I first hear about them like a year ago.

Being the King of Horrorcore’s hypemen, Dark Half has gotten to open and work with a lot of people. They now are currently signed to Lyrical Snuff Productions (LSP) owned by SCUM (another UGS, but one I didn’t do). They also only have more to come, and get better and better. So here they are juggalos. Trust me, if you will like these guys if you haven’t liked what I have put up before. This is truly wicked shit. Enjoy.

 

Interview for: Dark Half
Members: Damien Quinn and Ian Stone
From: Wisconsin
Rolls With: LSP

 

Faygoluvers: How did you guys come up with the name Dark Half?

Damien Quinn: Me an Ian Stone always had this different mind state that we felt was far from the norm of society! When I was locked up back in 04′, I actually started reading books, which is fucked up cause back in my teens the only book I ever read front to back was Behind The Paint. Obviously when your locked up, there ain’t shit to do but fucking eat, sleep, play cards, workout, and/or read [*BeZerk here* this is very true]! Anyways, I came across this book named The Dark Half by Stephen King! It really inspired me to make music with darker lyrics, and one day when me an Ian were trying to think of a group name, Dark Half was a name that popped up! Me an Ian loved the idea an we went with it!

Faygoluvers: Who would you guys consider as an inspiration?

Ian Stone: Scooter Ward, Aaron Lewis, King Gordy, Cage, Fiasco Andretti, and SCUM for giving us a great opportunity to be on LSP! Scum’s grind and focus really motivates me to get out there and spit this Wicked Shit, but most of all the memories of my father Mark Erskine, and my close friend Ryan Flores really keeps me driven to create the best possible music I can.

Damien Quinn: King Gordy, Esham, Jamie Madrox, House of Krazees, Violent J, anything from Psychopathic, the whole Wicked Wisconsin movement, SCUM, Fiasco and Bubba for everything there doing for LSP, Cyco of Insane Poetry, Gangsta Nip [*BeZerk here* that’s O.G. wicked shit right there], Komatose, Q-Strange, Syck Syde, Mars, Bedlam, Sicktanick, Razakel, Oderus Urungus, Jared of Hed P.E. and Dark Half’s number #1 fan an our fucking homeboy 4-life Ryan Flores!

Faygoluvers: What’s your favorite guys’ favorite Faygo flavor?

Ian Stone: Grape 1st, and then Moon Mist. So if you ain’t fucking with that Grape or Moon Mist, than we ain’t even cool like that!

Damien Quinn: Shit my favorite Faygo off all time is Blue Moon Mist! Red Pop and Peach are some of my favorite flavors to though!

Faygoluvers: You guys are on LSP with SCUM and have got to do work with a shit ton of people. Name some of the people you’ve got to work with.

Dark Half: Shit we know our memories ain’t that good from drowning the brain with alcohol and frying it with marijuana leaves but shit we’ve done collabs with SCUM, King Gordy, Potluck, Mars, Team Death (Sicktanick and Razakel), Liquid Assassin, Majik Duce, Monsta Squad, Bizarre of D12, The DRP, Fiasco Andretti, Smallz One, MoFoley, Maniax, Brew City Butcherz, Tha Morgue, Outbreak Monkey, Ruthless Unda Ground, A Ron Da Don, and Raven Delavega! If we forgot you don’t be pissed at us, or we’ll rub goat urine in your eyes. Shit, as far as shows go we’ve played with Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Anybody Killa, Boondox, Tech N9ne, E-40, Bizzy Bone, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, D12 and King Gordy, Potluck, Mastamind of Natas, Primer 55, Saint Dog and D.G.A.F., Mars, Grave Plott, Liquid Assassin, Hopsin and Swizzz, Project Born, GrewSum, SicFux an a shit ton of local acts an underground artists some real close homies of ours, but if we got to listing off that shit this interview would be long as fuck no disrespect to anybody straight up though, we got mad love for our people!

Faygoluvers: Who would you guys like to work with in the future?

Dark Half: Twiztid, Mike E. Clark, Esham, Natas, Scooter Ward of Cold, Prozak, KGP, Cage, The J. Hexx Project, Q-Strange, Madness from Bedlam, The R.O.C., Brotha Lynch Hung and shit we’d even like to fuck with Earl Sweatshirt!

Faygoluvers: What do you guys think makes you unique from other artists and groups?

Damien Quinn: Basically the fact that we’re trying to bring theatrics back to the Wicked Shit/Horrorcore, or whatever you wanna call it. It seemed like artists were scared to wear a mask or paint there face on stage, and what were trying to say is don’t worry about what another motherfucker thinks, do you! Back when this genre first started it seemed like everybody was more creative on how they expressed themselves! To us there’s more to this game than just going on stage and rocking a mic, we’re actually trying to scare you!

Ian Stone: I think the more melodic aggressive punchy hooks was a great add on to all of this as well and the fact that were willing to touch subjects some artist might not wanna touch about there personal lives. We tend to mix in personal things that happen to us in our lives and turn them into horror stories!

Faygoluvers: The last concert I got to check you guys at was the Wicked Winters Ball at Station 4 in St. Paul (on a nice cold February day might I add). What other shows have you guys done since?

Dark Half: We always do a fuck load of local shows here in the Wicked Wisconsin and our homie Mo Foley even started streaming them on-line for free! If you check our Facebook page you can find the links. We got to play the Pittsburgh date for Hopsin’s I Am Raw Tour big shout out to Troll, Dan from Columbus and The Gemini Projekt for giving us a great opportunity to come out there and rock it for the fans!

Faygoluvers: LSP is dropping fresh merch on their website all the time. What could juggalos expect for Dark Half flavor? (in other words, got any new merchandise coming out?

Dark Half: We can’t say to much, but LSP is always putting out some bomb ass merch.! We always have ideas for new shit we wanna do, and SCUM is always great at getting that idea out and bringing that product to life!

Faygoluvers: What do you guys have planned for the future?

Dark Half: You can definitely be expecting a video for Dead and Dying off our Chapterz album [also featured on The Musick the soundtrack] sometime here in the near future. As far as releases the next big release for Dark Half, our second LP…”Graveyard Bluez,” but in between the time of dropping that album, we’ll be surprising the fans with some new unheard morbid music! Also be on the lookout for a new internet web show by Dark Half and Dark Half’s return to The Kitchen Sink Radio!

Faygoluvers: What shows do you guys have coming up?

Dark Half: Well shit we’ll be playing with Prozak at Reggies Rock Club in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 8th. We’ll also be playing the Milwaukee (East Troy) date of T.O.N.E-Z Sublevel Sickness Tour on Sunday, June 12th. Plus we’ll be playing the Milwaukee date of Mars’s last tour! The Gospel To The Grave Tour featuring Mars and Psycho Jesus on Saturday, June 25th at the world famous Rave where Hatchet Attacks was held this year!

Faygoluvers: Shout outs?

Ian Stone: Shout outs to my Dad for giving me the will to become a better person, my Mom for always being there and supporting me no matter what, Scum, Fiasco Andretti, Bubba, McFly an all of LSP, our manager Michelle Vargas for always having my back, King Gordy, Jolly Jane Vorhees, B-Rock an Andrea my kids, Ryan Flores, Mars, Ikkurruz, Sicktanick and Razakel, my brother Damien Quinn, Raven Delavega, Bloodshot, MoFoley, Pit Stain, Stux, Lost Art Tattoos, Mr. Kiltcha, Juz-10, Tha Morgue, R.U.G., Davine (T) from Random Certainty Entertainment, all of Wicked Wisconsin, and most of all every single fan that ever listened to our music without you this dream for us wouldn’t be possible!

Damien Quinn: Man much props to the homie King Gordy for letting me and Ian Stone be his hypemen we’ve had some of the greatest experiences in our career’s fucking with the King, Shouts out to Scum, Fiasco an everybody in the Lyrikal Snuff camp, mad love to Sicktanick and Razakel for believing in us, Also I gotta shout out Tina Bingham, Ryan Flores, Michelle Vargas, The DRP, Maniax, MoFoley and Pit Stain (Ryan Foley) for always showing us a good time at Foley’s Bar “n” Grill out in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Mars, Stir Crazy, Polk Dilly of Project Born, Liquid Assassin, Mr. Kiltcha, Juz-10, John an Ian from Stux, GrewSum, Raven Delavega, Psycho C and Mutilator, all of the true soldiers still reppin’ Wicked Wisconsin, J-Crow, Andrea, Sarah, Whitney, Juggalo Jeff and E, King Krak, Tha Morgue, BeZerk, Scottie D and Faygoluvers.net, and of course all of the Juggalos and LSP fans that have support Dark Half over the years you mother fuckers mean the world to us!

 

Websites:

Dark Half @ Facebook
Dark Half @ Youtube
Dark Half @ ReverbNation
Dark Half @ Myspace
Dark Half @ Twitter