At DJBooth.net, there’s a new article by an editor named Nathan who spent several hours on the tour bus with Tech N9ne.  I wouldn’t call this article an interview, per se, but more of a “day in the life” of Tech N9ne while on tour. In this piece, Tech talks about how unlikely his success in the industry is, how he’s still got a lot to prove, how the rock scene has always welcomed him with open arms while the hip-hop scene has been a constant struggle, and more!

Check out a quick excerpt from the article:

In fact, he’s often found a more comfortable home with metal and rock artists than hip-hop. While the hard rock crowd can often view him as an outsider too, when he plays festivals like Rock on the Range he reads comments from angry rock fans concerned he’s going to bring “gang bangers” to the show, but on the whole, rock artists like the Deftones, like his friend Corey Taylor of the band Slipknot, have been more open to working with him than many of his rap peers.

As Tech said, “It was harder to get Eminem [on the album]. Harder to get any hip-hop artist. It was almost, at the end of the album I was getting frustrated with the hip-hop side. The metal side has always been there for me. My label was started because I was a rock fan, Strange Music, people are strange, strange days. By the grace of God though, through all my work over the years, it’s starting to come around, but hip-hop artists have always been the hardest to get.”

Though this article was a decent length, I was still clamoring for more.  Give it a read by clicking the link below:

Tech N9ne on ‘Special Effects’ and his unlikely success @ DJBooth.net

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• Tech N9ne on 'Special Effects' and his unlikely success @ DJBooth.net