Sup juggalos and juggalettes and magic magic ninjas out there. It’s your boy BeZerk here yet again back with some fucking freshness for you’re magic ninja eyes. Before I get into this interview, I’d like to mention something more than totally fresh that happened today.

Was up late last night, woke up at like 2:30 in the afternoon, and all of a sudden my roommate is like “BeZerk you crazy ass motherfucker, you have a package.” Low and behold I had this big ass package from some address on the box I didn’t know. I opened the fucker like it was fucking Christmas time. Inside was a new laptop, and on it was a sticky note from none other than Scottie D saying “Enjoy man.”

So what does that mean exactly, it means I am able to bring more fresh full flavored underground crack.

Continuing with what is important, my next interview comes out of the place more dull and boring than Minnesota, Iowa, and Montana combined. Straight out of the Lakota reservations of the South Dakota, comes a beat producer and hip hop artist known as Maniac the Siouxpernatural.

Working with quite a few different people including Night Shield, F. Dux, J Reno, Psycho Jesus and more, Maniac has been doing beat for over a decade now. I got to meet him personally at the Hopsin show in Minneapolis, and we all had a jolly good time getting fucked up afterwards.

So juggalos and juggalettes, I’m sure your attention span is ending, so on with the interview.

Interview for: Maniac the SiouxperNatural
From: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,Eagle Butte, South Dakota
Lives In: Sioux Falls, SD
Rolls With: Night Shield Ent. Crime Central Prod. Low Life Ministries, Circle of Iron Crew

Faygoluvers: How did you come up with your name?

Maniac: Back in the day on my rez everybody and their mama was rappin, so at parties and shit mad people would be freestylin and battling. I was at a party when I was real young and just jumped in the rhyme session, everyone was rappin like Bone all fast or else talkin that big baller shit, and when I started spittin I was on that murderous “kill your whole family” type of shit, and this dude was like “that dude sounds like a fuckin MANIAC!”

I didn’t go under a rap name at that time, and that one just kinda matched my style, so I used it. Years later I would see like a dozen other rappers named Maniac, so I decided to switch it up a little and added “The Siouxpernatural” to it, kind of an ode to one of my favorite MC’s, MC SUPERNATURAL, along with the fact I’m from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and I been bustin nuts on faces under that name ever since.

Faygoluvers: Who would you consider as an inspiration?

Maniac: Music wise, what got me even wanting to rap, was Wu Tang Clan. I was bumpin NWA, Ghetto Boys, Cypress Hill and all that way before, but Wu Tang is what inspired me to be an MC and a beat maker. Producers like RZA, 4th Deciple, and Bronze Nazareth all played a huge roll in me making beats. As far as the content of my music, books and underground horror movies. I been watchin horror flicks since I was a baby, ‘cuz my grandpa was a horror movie fanatic, and been reading books by Stephen King, Clive Barker, HP Lovecraft, and comics like Witchblade, American Flagg and The Darkness since grade school, so I’m never running out of concepts and ideas. Oh and of course the drugs, drugs are a big inspiration when I make music, or even to just wake up in the morning.

Faygoluvers: What is your favorite Faygo flavor?

Maniac: Unfortunately here in in this Republican shithole known as South Dakota, we only have the basic flavors like Cola, Orange, Grape, Peach and Moon Mist. We don’t got all the crazy ass flavors like everywhere else, but one time on my rez I stumbled across an entire vending machine full of Rock N Rye, and it was the shit. So, Rock N Rye.

Faygoluvers: How long have you been doing music for?

Maniac: I really don’t know an exact date for when I started rappin’, but I started makin beats in 98′ so I just tell people 98′, before all the music though, I was a graffiti writer and a DJ, so I been involved in hip-hop pretty much my whole life.

Faygoluvers: You have done a lot of stuff with our homie and Tunnel Runner F. Dux. Who else have you been able to work with?

Maniac: For the Daywalkers project we were able to get a couple other tunnel runners (J Reno and Psycho Jesus) on that muthafacko, which was dope cuz they both killed it hardcore, and on my last solo album I had 2MEX of The Visionaries on a track, but I guess I’m more of a quality over quantity kind of guy when it comes to features. I don’t really want a lot of people on my tracks. I feel people do that out of lazyness so they don’t gotta do a lot of work on the song. If a mutherfucker is dope and I feel they’re dope, I got no problem collaborating, but that’s album wise.

Show wise Ive done performances with a slew of artists like ABK, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Axe Murder Boys, Kottonmouth Kings, Stevie Stone, Hopsin, Sicfux, Young Buck, Twista, Your mom, even Trina and Lil Jon. The list goes on…

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

Maniac: Believe it or not, I’ve always been a Q Strange fan. I’ve never met the guy or talked to him in life, but I always thought that mutherfucker was dope. It be awesome to work with him. Prozak is down to get on the next Daywalkers album, and there’s plans being made to work with this sick bastard Grewsum, who I just got the opportunity to see perform as well as meet and get drunk with (which also lead to F DUX hitting blank mode and being video taped while taking a shit)[*BeZerk here to say I have videos of F. Dux’s smashed lol]. Mars was a dude who was originally gonna be on the Daywalkers album, but he was on the Shock Therapy tour, and was unable to get it finished in time, but hopefully next time around. Basically anybody who’s dope and shares my same frame of mind and music. There are artists out there that click with each other and others who don’t. So, I’m open to work with anyone as long as we click, or they got some good drugs.

Faygoluvers: You make some dope fucking beats. How could people get a hold of you if they were interested in working with you?

Maniac: The Facebook beat page is in the works now, or you can hit me up on face book “Maniac The Siouxpernatural”, but if people are serious about doin’ work, then the best way to reach me is at [email protected], or sometimes I stand outside of Dennys and push my balls against the window, but that’s usually only 4 times a week.

Faygoluvers: On the 7th of April you, F. Dux, and Night Shield did a show in Sioux Falls at the Boonies Bar and Grill, then you guys came over to Minnesota to open for Hopsin/SwizZz, then you and Night Shield went down to do a show with Stevie Stone in Iowa. How was that?

Maniac: It was cool, Stevie Stone and them are good people, but the highlight of that weekend was definitely the Minnesota show, the whole family was out in full force, painted up, scrubbed out, 400 plus psychopaths crammed into that venue goin fuckin crazy. Hopsin, Sicfux, Grewsum, F DUX and Maniac, alcohol and drugs, always a vomit and urine soaked good time. [*BeZerk here* I did not vomit that time.]

Faygoluvers: What do you have coming up? Any CDs, mixtapes, music videos, or merchandise coming out?

Maniac: Next up, I got an album with my homie Blue Earth comin out called “Maniac VS Blue Earth: 40 Years of Darkness” with Blue Earth Handling all the beats. I got another solo project I been working on. I got a music video/horror movie called “Candy & Corpses” I been workin on recently. I’m about to start filming for a Maniac Documentary type DVD, and I just started working on another album with my crew Circle of Iron, and of course, the next Daywalkers project has been in the works. We’re already a few tracks into it, so we gonna continue blowin wigs back and kickin bitches in the peaches.

Faygoluvers: What shows do you have coming up?

Maniac: The first weekend of May, I’ll be doin a show with Saigon in Sioux Falls,SD, the end of May we’ll be doin Night Shield Ent. 10th Anniversery Show also in Sioux Falls. The Daywalkers album was just nominated for a NAIIA award for Most Outstanding Hip Hop Album, so I might go to Albuqurque for that. I’m sure there will be more, but I usually don’t know about shows til the day of the show. So shit man, fuck it.

Faygoluvers: Shout outs?

Maniac: Shit, just all the peoples that been showin respect all these years. F Dux, Night Shield, Tara Iron Cloud, B Eats, Ricky, J Reno, Psycho Jesus, V the Noble 1, Vagabond, Genocide, Blue Earth, Biggs, 2nd Born Son, and the rest of the Circle of Iron crew, Chesty and his Minnesota scrubbs (Ray and Benias), Brent, and the South Dak Juggalos, and uhhh, oh yes, SATAN! And of course you faygolovin bastards. Thanx for the knife Bezerk…pieces

Websites:
Maniac @ Myspace
Maniac @ Facebook