HipHopDx has just posted a huge interview with Tech N9ne they conducted a few days ago. In this interview Tech N9ne explains his shocking admission on “I Am Not A Saint”.

Tech also discuses How The Doors Shaped his Musical Tastes, how the concept of “E.B.A.H.” came to him in a dream, On Balancing Business & His Personal Life, and much more. You can read part of this interview below.

Tech N9ne has also released a new video for the song “Straight Out The Gate ft. Serj Tankian” which you can watch by clicking here.

Part of Tech N9ne’s Interview with HipHopDX.

HipHopDX: What does it mean to you that one of the last songs Ray Manzarek may have recorded was with Tech N9ne and Fredwreck?

Tech N9ne: It doesn’t make me feel good, because it means we can’t record another one. But I’m glad I got the chance to work with the genius, and I wish he could still be here so we could still do more. I wanted to do “Spanish Caravan,” “People Are Strange,” and I wanted to do some original shit. They say that [our collaboration] was the last thing he did, so that means it was meant for me to do it with him. When he was with me, he was perfect—high spirited everything, jumping up and down, drinking Pinot Noir with me and everything. It makes me feel like damn, I wish he wasn’t gone so we could still be working. That’s how I feel.

DX: That’s understandable. Last time we talked to you about the black audience’s perception of Rock. Explain and the role Ray and The Doors played in your formative years while you were forming your musical palette. How important is it to be able to experiment with different genres during your early years?

Tech N9ne: It’s totally important, because it means I can reach more people. I’m not just in a box with one thing I do. There’s Rock ‘N’ Roll, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Trip Hop, Salsa, Rat Pack music…there’s everything. I thank my parents for that, along with my uncles, my aunties and my mom. They raised me and showed me rhythm, along with different things like Gospel music, harmonies…everything. You can hear all that in my music. My uncles were making it where it just wasn’t Gospel, R&B, and Rap all the time in the house.

I think it’s very important growing up, being involved, being eclectic, or whatever you want to call it, because you can talk to so many different people. That’s where education comes into it. If my teachers would’ve gave me French and Spanish classes, German class—I would have been even more treacherous. I stole books; I stole information. I stole psychology books since they wouldn’t give me the classes. I think just having information period, whether it’s from music or it be from books, it’s mandatory growing up to have as much information you can, because you can talk to so many more people. I talk to a lot of people with the education I have. It could have been so much greater with so much more information.

DX: That’s real. I want you to break down your line, “I was fucking it and then the music became my wife.”

Tech N9ne: Yeah man, I was just fucking around in the beginning when I was young. I was fucking around rapping, doing it to show out for chicks. Then as I got older, and people started paying attention to me, I married my fans…married my music. That how I lost my wife and my family. But my family still loves me. I still get to see them; I saw them last week in LA. I was just fucking around in the beginning, but then I married it. That’s what I do 24/7.

You can read the full interview by click the link below.

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Websites:

• therealtechn9ne.com
• hiphopdx.com