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Saturday, October 3rd 2009 4:03am

Endangerment of The Cool Interviews Jonwayne.

EOTC: So whats up Jonwayne? Thanks for taking the time to do a lil’ interview with EOTC.

Jonwayne: No problem, how are you?

EOTC: Chillin Chillin.

EOTC: Can you give the people a brief description of yourself?

Jonwayne: Sure. My name is Jonwayne. I’m from Los Angeles, California. I’m an emcee and producer, but most people know me as an emcee. I work on the SP-404 for beats. I’ve worked with many producers such as Mr. Dibiase, Durlin Lurt, Cupp Cave, Ras G, Dakim and others. I’ve put out a lot of music but have yet to release anything officially.

EOTC: Thats wassup dude.

EOTC: How did you get into rapping? O and making beats as well?

Jonwayne: Well that goes back to when I first got involved with writing poetry. I liked a girl who was really into poetry and so I started writing to impress her. Turns out I really loved writing. I really started to discover who I was instead of who others wanted me to be and was a big factor in my individuality at the time (this was sophomore year of high school) Not long after that I started performing spoken word in local cafes and places until some group discovered me and I started to do actual shows. One summer I was picked to do this show in a broadway style theater with 14 other teens and that’s when I met AVI. He heard my stuff and he told me to go with him back to his house so I could lay down some raps. I was kind of skeptical about it but eventually he got me over there and it turns out I wasn’t bad. Looking back at those first songs, they were horrible but if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be doing any of this now.

Jonwayne: As far as production goes, that’s a little bit more humble of a story. I used to play those music games on the Playstation 2 like Music Generator and Frequency. From that I learned I wanted to make music of my own, so I illegally downloaded FL Studio and started making music. For the first 3 years or so of producing, I did mostly electronic music but when I figured out how to sample on the program, I instantly changed gears. About a year ago I purchased the SP-404 out of an urge to use hardware and I hated myself for doing it for about 4 months. It just sat in my room, collecting dust…until I learned how to use it. It’s all I use now.

EOTC: Cool. The sp-404 is a good piece produce magic.haha

Jonwayne: You said it. It’s definitely less of a tool and more of a partner in the making of music. See, with most samplers you tell it to do something and it does exactly what it’s told. But due to the limits and gargantuan amount of effects the 404 has, it’s almost like a conversation between your 404 and you rather than a dictation. At first it’s frustrating, but then you learn to love it.

EOTC: Word.

EOTC: So exactly how long have you been rapping and making beats?

Jonwayne: I’ve been rapping for about 2 years (since September 2007) and I’ve been producing hip-hop for about the same amount of time.

EOTC: Nice. Keep at it.

EOTC: What inspires you to make music?

Jonwayne: That’s a complicated topic for me, but I’ll do my best to answer it.

EOTC: iight.

Jonwayne: It’s a form of therapy for me. I know a lot of people who do it for the status, or to say that they know how to do this or that. Most people do it for the life or the fame, and it shows in their music.

Jonwayne: But for me, I have a lot of inner demons running about in my head, and writing is a way to keep them in line, to take a bat to their skulls and show them who’s really in charge. My music comes from my pain, even if I don’t talk about pain all the time. It’s life, the non-sequiters or instantanious thoughts that we have in every day life that are just passed by because they are deemed by us as too insignificant. I use this to fuel my fire. I try not to forget the micro-thoughts that we have because in reality, that’s all we have because all those small thoughts become a big picture.

Jonwayne: Also it’s quite a magical feeling when you can make something that you’re proud of. I’m not going to tell you I don’t like it when people say “oh that’s dope” or things like that, because I do.

Jonwayne: But that’s just a side-effect. I’m talking about this because “inspiration” technically is the same thing as “reasoning behind action”. Well, to me at least…hope that wasn’t too pretentious.

EOTC: Naw its cool. Your absolutely right though. And it all shows in your music.

Jonwayne: Thank you.

EOTC: What do you label your music as?

Jonwayne: I would have to say experimental hip-hop. I try not to label anything though.

EOTC: Cool. But Why?

Jonwayne: Music is music. Nowadays, when people are getting so open-minded as to fuse many genres in together as one, labels are becoming less and less relavent. What is hip-hop? Honestly, some electronic songs sound like hip-hop and vice versa. Once someone becomes actively obsessed with labels the capabilities of their music become more and more narrow because they are afraid to venture out of their supposed “comfort zone”, and since I don’t have one of those I don’t feel comfortable making myself a “comfort zone”.

EOTC: Nice way to put it. Its allows you to do more than what people or labels are expecting from you.

Jonwayne: Exactly, music is self-expression and it’s a shame so many artists feel pressured to do only a certain form of music.

EOTC: Word.

EOTC: How do you want people to feel when they hear your music?

Jonwayne: It’s not “how” I want them to feel, but “what” I want them to feel…they can feel however they want. What I appreciate in hip-hop is lasting value. That’s a hard thing to come across in such a disposable genre so I do my best to contribute to the cause. I write my lyrics specifically to have multiple levels of meaning and deepness, so people can hear a song 50 times and still catch new things. I also want people to feel a sense of wonder and discovery when they hear my music. I want them to feel innocent as if they were experiencing an unexpected presence.

EOTC: Thats wassup.

EOTC: In your lyrics, do you try to deliver a message?

Jonwayne: As in like the way conscious rappers try to deliver a message? no…the human soul doesn’t like being talked at. Ultimately it’s relatable feelings and personal relevance that gets to an individual. So I guess in an abstract sense I do try to deliver a message of relatability and common experience. I want people to maybe think about things differently, but not in a self-righteous way.

EOTC: Ahh thats pretty Interesting dude.

EOTC: How long does it take you to finish an album/mixtape?

Jonwayne: It all depends, really…sometimes I get a creative burst of energy or perhaps I discover a new style I want to portray and I’m encouraged to do a lot of songs. For the past couple years I’ve been bouncing around from style to style trying to find who I am, but only did I find my real voice recently. Now, it takes a longer time to write a song, let alone put out a release, but but the end result is extremely satisfying to me. I think I’ve been on my game as of late and will only continue to become more comfortable with my voice. But to answer your question, it can take anywhere from a month to a few months to get a project done. In general I work fairly quickly. the longest time an album ever took was the 3 Musketeers album which took a little over a year.

EOTC: Cool Cool.

EOTC: Are there any current projects your working on? Like Mixtapes, Collabs, etc.

Jonwayne: Right now the big one I’m working on is an album with Mr. Dibiase. We’re a group called Darkhorsemen and the album is looking fantastic, so far.

EOTC: Cant wait to hear the results.haha Mr. Dibiase is a good producer.

EOTC: One of the tracks we’ve listened to numerous of time is “The Famine Address”, Can you explain that track to everyone? Pretty ill track.

Jonwayne: Personally I’ve felt a lot of neglect from the hip-hop community in their level of awareness towards my music, so my writing has been very bitter as of late, almost angry. That song is me portraying Famine, one of the four horsemen of apocalypse and basically writing my address to all the current emcees/rappers of this generation. There’s parts that talk about what I have done and what my job has forced me to become, but ultimately I put my opposition in their place.

EOTC: O I see.

EOTC: I’ve recently downloaded “From The Vaults Pt.4”. How do you feel about it? Did you take any different approaches to Pt.4, compared to Pt.1, 2, and 3?

Jonwayne: Well, Part 1 was a collection of earlier material that had been unheard at that time, so it wasn’t meant to be a release but it ended up being one, so that one was the worst, haha. Part 2 was my beginning into the experimental side of hip-hop and it was also my first music I made in my own studio, so it was very raw, but a lot of people really liked it. Part 3 was like Part 1, just stuff I threw together so it wasn’t nearly as good, in my opinion, as part 2. But Part 4 was an actual album I did, but half of the beats weren’t even mine to use, so I put it out as a mixtape. I’m very proud of it and I think it was a great finale to the series, because it also marks my departure of myself searching for my voice.

Jonwayne: Now I’m ready to buckle down and make something official.

EOTC: Sweet. Yea part 4 has a lot of songs that are being in my fav list.haha Pretty ill.

EOTC: Outside of music, is there other things that you enjoy doing?

Jonwayne: I still write and perform spoken word whenever I can. I’m also a Theater nerd. I’ve been in 20-30 productions, alot of times as the lead. Not many people know that about me, haha. I just like to make/perform art. Expression.

EOTC: Thats good man.haha I tried back in high school but stage fright gets the best of me.

Jonwayne: Whenever I go up on stage, no matter what it’s for, I always feel like I have to urinate. Sometimes I even get too excited and feel like I’m gonna lose my shit and throw up.

Jonwayne: It’s all about experience, man. Just learn what makes you tick and work around it.

EOTC: Thanks for the advice.

EOTC: So what’s a day to day life of Jonwayne?

Jonwayne: Well, right now I don’t have a job, just recently got let go, so I’ve been spending all my time with music until I get another job, which I’m looking for.

Jonwayne: But I wake up in the morning, around 7 am and drink some water, sit down with a pad and a pen and write.

Jonwayne: When I get done writing, I go to my 404 and make some beats…repeat this process til lunch.

Jonwayne: Then I go to either AVI’s house or down to LA and connect with people. And in the evenings, there’s usually a show I can go to but until I turn 21, my options are limited

Jonwayne: Almost every day I record too…most times until I lose my voice.

EOTC: Cool stay humble and hungry! haha.

EOTC: I dont mean to sound surprised but, How old are you?

Jonwayne: Don’t worry, most people can’t guess. I’m 19.

EOTC: haha. Im 19 as well, most people can’t guess either because I look 15, but I got a little beard now, so I look like a young man. haha

Jonwayne: haha the immediate facial hair helps

EOTC: Word.lol

EOTC: Here’s a question I like to ask, Is there anybody in the future that you would like to collab with?

Jonwayne: I’m pretty picky when I collaborate with people…emcee wise I’d like to trade verses with Elzhi. I’d also like to work with DOOM.

Jonwayne: There’ s a lot of people I’d want to work with but I’m just naming off the biggest ones, here…

Jonwayne: I’d want to do a song with Rugged Man, too, he’s always been one of my favorites.

Jonwayne: Production wise…some people say it’s not that far off but I would love to do an album with the Brainfeeder Crew.

Jonwayne: If I could do an album with one producer that’s currently not probable I’d have to say Samiyam.

Jonwayne: I think he and I would make something monstrous.

EOTC: All of those are awesome. Samiyam and Doom , and most of the people in Brainfeeder is all I listen to.

EOTC: One word to describe yourself, and why?

Jonwayne: Homblejafflinger…because that word doesn’t exist.

EOTC: haha. ok cool. Can you give it a meaning?

Jonwayne: Oh, we don’t know the meaning, but then again, that is the meaning isn’t it?

EOTC: Hmm. Twilight music* haha

Jonwayne: haha, I find the unknown to be much more realistic than the known.

EOTC: I see. haha

EOTC: Last but not least, Any Shout outs?

Jonwayne: Woo shout out time, always fun.

Jonwayne: Ok, first off the West Covina family, you know who you are. My mans Josh G, Mr. Dibiase and all the Green Llamas. The Twin Galaxies Crew. Jarrod Fowler, Oscar McClure, Durlin Lurt, DeloFi and all of Cleveland Tapes. 0 aka SelphConscious, the homie. JotsOne, the Rhode Island Raider haha…shout out to the homie Dr. Robutnik, matthewdavid, Dakim, Ras G, Cupp Cave, Sci Fi, all the beat making homies. And anyone else that I forgot to mention. I also want to let people know that besides Darkhorsemen, I also have a couple other collaborations in the works, one being with Vincent Price of the Green Llamas and another with the group “Unfinished” which features me, 0, dp and culprit. Big things for 2010 baby!

EOTC: haha

EOTC : Aiight Jonwayne thanks for the Interview. Hope we here at EOTC can hear more from you, and link up again in the future.

Jonwayne: Word…


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That’s our Interview, thanks jonwayne for hanging out with us. Check’em out @:
http://www.myspace.com/jawnwayne.
Today’s Interview was done by: Marz.
Enjoy!
Peace.

cool...nice read

nice job


long as fuk tho haha

vincent price??? luckyyy cant wait for that man! good read brah!

cool... good read man...

also, that rawberries tape is dope as hell, j...

keep going.

Dope! makin moves my dude. keep doin your thing. your shits raw, rough, n rugged right up my alley. im in love with blueberries, and im in the process of listening to rawberries and what ive heard so far is sick!....1


-wiz

berries! thanks for the shouts