Lauren Wise recently conducted an interview with Tech N9ne while he was out on his Something Else Tour. In this discussion Tech N9ne talks about working with the Doors, his favorite horror films (including his upcoming project), writing about Earth, Wind and Fire, who his ultimate collaboration would be with and more.

You can check out part of this interview below.

From Blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com:

How’s your tour going so far?
Wonderful. I’m laying in my bunk on my tour bus in Victoria, Canada… we just crossed some river on a ferry on the tour bus.

I’m betting the weather is better there than out here in Arizona.
Is it hot? I’ll be there soon. I thought I was going to play at an amphitheatre, but then I heard they moved it to the Marquee. Do you know?

Last I heard it was moved to the Marquee, yes.
That’s so weird, because, um, the police had said that we were no longer welcome back at the Marquee because they said they had to arrest a bunch of people last time we were there. I had no idea for what, though–I was heart-broken! Marquee is a like a home for me! So maybe they changed their minds.

First off, I’m a fellow music fan from Kansas City–I actually went to Shawnee Mission South high school.
Oh yeah; that’s wonderful. I just did a video in Shawnee Mission Park. It’s a song I recorded called “Party The Pain Away.” It was a beautiful setting.

Is that connected to Special Effects, the new album?
No, it’s connected to Something Else, the last album actually. I have no direction yet, just a title. Special Effects is something I have to achieve to be better than Something Else, and that’s going to be a hard task.

I know that’s something you aim for with every album; setting the bar much higher than the last. Do you have a method to the madness for doing that?
It’s really simple, actually. My producer, Seven, and my producer, Young Fyre–you know, I just know they have to be bigger than the last and way more different. The beats tell me what to do. If the beats sound like someone would sound wonderful on it, I send it their way.

You know, I sent one to Madonna for Something Else. [Laughs] Nobody responded, but I sent it! It was a song called “Drowning” that Liz Suwandi ended up doing. It’s wonderful.

I feel like Something Else has some intense beats. Nas was supposed to be on the track “Burn the World,” but he felt it was too personal and requested a different track to work with you on. What was it that Nas wasn’t feeling?
Oh yeah, he just said it was something that was too personal. That song was based around a four-year-old that got raped in Kansas City who was the daughter of a friend of mine. I understood that.

I got it, that he didn’t want to do something so… personal to me. He wanted to do something harder. So I’ll get him on the next one.

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Tech N9ne Interview @ Blogs.PhoenixNewTimes.com

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