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Loading...Return of the Neighborhood Serial Killer is the second album by Nashville MC Wicked, who’s looking to make an impression on the juggalo scene. We sat down with him, at opposite keyboards, for an interview right here:
When did you start rapping and what’s your background in music?
I started back in 2010. My background before rapping was punk rock. Once I started rapping that mixed with my punk background just seemed to click.
From what I understand RotNSK isn’t your first album, correct?
Correct. My first album came out in 2012 it’s called Devilious Wordz.
Do you produce, know your producer, or find beats?
I find a few different producers for each project. I like to have a full range of sounds. Currently I’ve been messing with a lot of beats from Stitch Mouth who actually produced my first album.
Any particular reason you decided to cover Saturday Night?
Oh yes. I’m a huge fan of The Misfits! Always wanted to cover or sample them and when I finally got the chance I took it.
What were your goals for this album and what are you looking to do in the longterm?
For this album I’m hoping fans and people in general will see how I keep improving. As for long term I got many projects already in the works and hope to tour sometime next year. Fingers crossed.
What do you think you have to add to the horrorcore scene?
Emotion. A lot of my lyrics are inspired by what I really see in my mind or experiences I’ve been through. Other then that a horrible sense of humor haha.
Your choice of artist name was pretty ballsy. You know what happens when you search for Wicked on FLH or any other juggalo site there is?
Oh I do lol. Makes me hard to find so if people are interested in me they have to look pretty deep. Hell when you Goggle Wicked you get a Broadway play! I kind of like it that way, makes me an acquired taste musically.
Yes, the gated community’s resident maniac is back and I’m sure the H.O.A. is delighted to have him at the meetings again with that queso they liked so much. I just hope this isn’t going to be riding as many nuts as the cover art indicates.
Intro:
We enter the album with the sound of static, flipping to pitched down old school pre-feature theater announcements, horror flick samples, and I shit you not, the actual Halloween theme… which is copyright protected. A lot. The cuts between samples was rough and arbitrary at times. If the goal was to build an atmosphere it was achieved with all the gusto of a 350 pound Olympic diver.
Room 138
Our MC makes his entrance in a vinyl crackle crusted whining violin beat in typical horrorcore fashion. The track details his state of detention and inevitable escape from the asylum that held him. By ‘details’ I mean the song is a minute and a half long and there’s no actual description. From what I can tell he just grabs his stuff, the orderly turns his back to the presumed homicidal maniac, naturally, and inexplicably bleeds all over the place. Then he cums his pants or something, I don’t know it’s all a blur at this point. The monster voice sounded like a muppet. (0/5)
Beautiful ft. Raven Hunter
The piece is laid out over a really poorly thought-out metal guitar riff with some shrill organs in the back. We join our protagonist(I guess) with a freshly captured archetype. There’s a lot of recurring horrorcore themes through this like an unobtainable beauty that he… obtained… I guess. An awkward kid, killing a shallow type and they don’t mesh together well. The only thing that Raven hunter adds to the track is his ability to be on beat and voice but overall between the two lyricism was lazy and at times operated outside the barrier of grammar, but hey who needs that. (1/5)
Interlude
Somebody got a hold of a cracked version of FL Studio and played with
“Let’s All Go To The Lobby”. Another copyrighted property. The problem that I have with that is not necessarily that it’s copyrighted but that if you’re going to ignore those boundaries you need to use those samples intuitively. Which is not what happened.
Saturday Night (Misfits Cover)
Covers are always very tempting for new artists but pretty dangerous, not everybody is Alien Ant Farm, and miscalculating what you add stylistically to someone else’s music can be tragic. Saturday Night is a Graves era 50’s sock hop ballroom call back about having puppy love for his murder victims. Here’s the original:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XobHupqgNu4[/youtube]
It’s a neat song for people who wouldn’t normally be fans of the punk band and Wicked thought that he could take it and do some justice. The recording sounds like the instrumental is being played off of a cassette deck and his voice is coming in over an intercom. He’s not rapping, he’s not singing, he’s just kinda angrily talking all the exact same lyrics on beat at you. If I wanted to I could legitimately get a DJ in trouble by replacing his copy of Saturday Night with this. (0/5)
What’s Wrong ft. Rukus & Komatose
Some far off 80’s ballad type track with some more pretty horrorcore-by-numbers lyrics that don’t capture any solid picture connected to a hook that is also just bad at English in general. His bars are about being a formidable murderer while the hook calls out for understanding. Komatose was the most solid out of the three and has a voice that compliments his genre and so far he’s the only thing to salvage from the project. (2/5)
Turn The Page
I bet you can’t guess which very famous song he used for the background for this one. It’s about his now deceased father and serves as a tribute so I’m not gonna touch this since I’m in the “Dead Dad Club” too. It would have been cool if he was at a campfire and this broke out sporadically.
Outro
9 minutes of a pitched down version of “The Song That Doesn’t End”. Why Wicked?! What do you have against the free space on my hard drive?! Also the intro, interlude, and outro all start with the exact same clip of static. Genius production guys, really. Make sure you’re stocked up with extra Ctrl, C, and V keys.
The whole project is a ham handed attempt at an obviously beloved genre to him but it’s drenched in amateurism and over-eagerness to be profitable. I did a test where I turned on his version of Saturday Night, left a different friend in the room 5 separate times alone to let it just bask on the ear drums and not once did I hear it upon return to the room. The guy is doing contests for merchandise. It might just be me but art doesn’t seem like the motivation. Also there wasn’t really a way of serializing his murders. Which I’m upset about. How is a Serial Killer not gonna have a pattern? At least he’s about as good at killing people as he is at finding a flow, if he was we might very well have all been fucked.
Length:
- 29 Minutes 18 Seconds
Record Label:
- Independant
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