Lyrics Born Brings It Live

April 8th, 2007 by Skinny Friedman
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(pics from queen of subtle)

This is an interview I did with Lyrics Born right before Overnight Encore dropped last year. LB’s live show is the least corny live rap show I’ve ever seen and I swear that’s not a backhanded compliment. The live album does a pretty good job of capturing the show’s energy. Anyways, URB only used like three lines from the interview and I just found the full text again tonight.

Enjoy.

how long have you been doing a show with a live band?

i put the band together in late 2004. we played all throughout 2005 and, obviously, now onto 2006. for me, the whole point was…obviously i’ve been making records for a long time, and i’ve been touring and playing shows for a while, and it was really the next logical step for me as a live performer. i still do play with dj’s, i still love playing with dj’s, but i definately hit a point where i wanted to try something new.

was it just people you knew?

a few of em were mutual friends, friends of friends, ones that had played in other bands. the music scene in the bay area is pretty small.

there’s a few live hip-hop bands in the bay, aren’t there? live human’s the one i think of, but I know the coup is touring with band too.

I don’t know if it’s the next step for hip-hop, but I know it was the next step for me. and I think because of the way my music sounds, it lends itself to that.

yeah with the disco-funk aesthetic, i keep expecting gap band hooks to come in. i know “callin out” did really well on rock radio, did that influence your decision to take it more live, thinking that your audience was shifting that way and that they might respond better to a live set?

i think so. I started to look around and see that most of the big shows weren’t opening their doors to very few groups that were going strictly off turntables. but that’s just sort of a happy byproduct of the whole thing. i wanted to grow. when i came up, i listened to a lot of early 90’s dancehall, and a lot of those guys were essentially doing what I do, but they had bands. it was exciting to see. it was a different kind of energy. and they would play in front of dj’s too, but when they took the show on the road, or if it was a big festival or a big show, they had bands behind them. shabba ranks had a band behind him. ninjaman had a band behind him. you see buju on tour, he’s got a band. it allows you to do a lot of things in a lot of different ways. it allows you to be more spontaneous. and for me, it was the next logical step, like I said.

and also, when I was coming up, the artists I respected like BDP or curtis mayfield or public enemy, I mean, these guys played live shows and did live albums. and just going back to what you said, I think I may be one of the few hip-hop artists to ever even put out a live album. that’s before we even talk about independantly. for me, when I leave music, I want people to be able to look back and see what it was that i was doing live in addition to what it was that i was doing in the studio. because they’re two totally different animals. i spend so much time on the road, I do 150 shows every year, it’s such a big part of who I am as an artist, it just seemed appropriate to put out an album.

so you mentioned the early 90’s dancehall artists, who else were your inspirations in terms of were you tried to go with your live show?

like I said, I loved watching reggae groups. I loved watching old james brown tapes, just seeing what they were doing. I loved old parliament videos.

you can definitely tell there’s a p-funk influence.

yeah, to tell you the truth, I’m more of a fan of old parliament live than I am of a lot of their records. they have such a live sounding sound, being live is just crazy. i’m talking about the old stuff.

well even the george clinton revivals we get now are still pretty crazy for that reason.

I mean, they’re just nuts. they’re chaotic, in a good way. i was really affected by seeing prince as a little kid. prince concerts. when I think of all the great performers, I’m not talking necessarily about the top selling aritsts of all time, but I’m looking at the great performers of all time, they all had great live shows. and that’s just what i aspire to do.

talking about all your influences, it sounds like you pretty knew what you were going for from day one. do you feel like the set’s evolved at all over time?

my set? no doubt. as I grow and as my audience grows, you have to play differently. you play differently to different crowds. I’m not gonna play the same show at a Reggae on the River as I am Lolapalooza. I’m not gonna do Coachella the same I’m gonna do Hip-Hop in the Park. you just go out there, you scope out what the audience is looking like, you think about your history in that country or that town or that state, you think about what people responded to in the past and you just roll with that. I think most touring professional bands will tell you that.

so half the album’s in melbourne, half the album’s in sydney. any reason you chose austrailia?

number one, they’re a fantastic music audience. as a live music audience, they’re unbelievable. they really love music in austrailia. and they love live music. i’ve been goin out there since ‘97 or ‘98 with latyrx, and they’ve always been crazy. so i thought to myself, pretty much whether it’s a live album or a studio album, I sit back and I look at the landscape and I say ok, what are people not doing? one of the things people are not doing is live albums. so let me go ahead and do a live album. ok, where are people not doing live albums? well I’ve never really heard of a live album done in australia, and being that I have such a good following out there, why not go ahead and do it out there? you can hear it on the record, they’re just fucking out of their minds. that kind of speaks for itself. so many people, if they’re gonna do live albums, they’re gonna do it in san fransisco, they’re gonna do it in new york. something like that. london. but like I said, I haven’t heard anybody do this yet. so that was why. and it is interesting when you step back and you see how big the world really is. a lot of people don’t realize…the world is bigger than the block…for me,it’s bigger than the bay.

talking about the bay, so you said it’s a very small scene. you got mistah fab on the album. did you reach out to him for that?

yeah I did reach out to fab. because…well, first off, fab is just a dope emcee. and, obviously, it’s a whole new generation of rappers and producers and musicians out there. and I tried to get a little of that on the live album. teak, the guy that did “knock knock,” these guys are like in their early 20’s and they’ve produced songs for ice cube and wc. and trackademics are one of the bigger name producers in the bay area. and fab obviously. just keep it fresh.

are you planning on working on anyone else in the hyphy movement?

definately, y’know, but it’s gotta work. I don’t really look at it like, is it hyphy or not, I just look at it like is it good? I want to make a song that’s gonna be tight, i want to make an album that’s gonna be dope. it’s gotta be good. so I hope to. actually I am, I’m working on a new studio album now and I’ve got people on there.

you gonna drop any names?

not yet.

so you’re working on a new studio album. any hope for a new latyrx album?

well right now I’m finishing up joyo velarde’s album and I’m really excited about that, I love the way that album’s turning out.

who’s producing that?

i did about half the album, jake one, he did beats on there. rjd2 did some production on there, cheif xcel from blacklicious, jumbo from the lifesavas. my whole band is on there. if you love classic soul and you love what’s going on now also, this is the album for you. first quarter 2007. and I’m working on a new studio album that’ll be out next year.

latyrx any time soon?

we’ve talked about it. he’s got an album that he just finished, once we kind of both get those out of the way, we’re talking about doing another one. the 14th year reunion.

sorry this is in sloppy recently transcribed form. i spilled beer on my ibook last night and now my left and right arrows don’t work. luckily everything else does, but that makes editing a bitch.

Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Skinny Friedman

One Response

  1. Derek Says:

    Hey,

    I’ve been reading your blog for around two years now and it’s among my daily reads. I’ve had my own blog for a while now, Can’t Hang, and was wondering if you’d like to swap links? I’d appreciate it. Holler back at me if you’re down.

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