July – Static The Mic Addict

Welcome to our special, Hip hop edition of Artist of The Month.  So here is our second interview from across the pond. Say hello to Static the Mic Addict from Canada, one of the best emcees we have come across! So sit back, hit play (on our brand new music player!) and most of all enjoy!

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Static doing what Static does best!

Piewatch - When did you become static the mic addict and who devised the name?

Back in the days of Realistic mics and tape deck recordings there was a small group of us who would do very little outside of freestyling and doing drugs. I became addicted to the microphone and alot of the recordings were overlayed with alot of static due to ghetto equipment. This spawned the name static the mic addict.

Piewatch – What would you say is your biggest achievement to date?

Musically my greatest achievement was about 5 years ago. I was sitting on the bus and I could hear a beat coming from a girl’s headphones and it took me a second to realize it was a beat I MADE! and when I listened a little closer it was ME! It was my song Can You Feel This? … And I guess she could.

Piewatch - Who are your musical influences? Any unexpected ones?

As far as hiphop my influences are mainly underground artists. Sweatshop Union, Blue Scholars, Brother Ali, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Josh Martinez, Aesop Rock, Immortal Technique, and many more…. Unexpected ones? Hmmm Our Lady Peace, Matthew Good Band, Maroon 5 (ya, they’re pretty hardcore lol)

Piewatch – When did you first feel you could do well from a musical perspective?

I don’t really think there was a first time… Music is in my blood and always has been. I’ve been playing instruments and singing all my life, and for the past 10 have added rapping into the mix.

Static dropped his contact

Piewatch – Your always writing and we know you can write songs very fast, whats the quickest full song you have written and how would you rate it in comparison to your others?

How 2 Write A Rap Song. I don’t know what came over me when I wrote that song, but it came out about as fast as I could type it. Writing took 10 minutes or so. Then I made a beat for it in about 10 minutes, recorded it and mixed it in 10 and had a completed song in about half an hour. And honestly, it’s one of my better tracks in my opinion, and apparently in the opinions of many scouts on this site.

Piewatch - What is your best rated track on STP? Why do you feel this is?

I have tried uploading and deleting all kinds of tracks on this site, testing the waters to see what the audience responds to. People on this site seem to be very sensitive to swearing and I try not to do that in many of my tracks. Can You Feel This has been uploaded a few times now and is consistently my highest rated track each time. (except the one I wrote about scouting, but that doesn’t count as it wasn’t on a “commercial note” (no one but site members would understand it)
I think people respond to Can You Feel This because they can relate to it. I think it speaks to alot of people and speaks FOR them as well… I try to make music that you can feel as well as hear.

Piewatch – If you achieved financing tommorow what would be the first thing you would buy?

A Macbook and the newest version of PROtools with a Mbox2 recording interface… Or maybe a pack of smokes…. Ya, I’d probably get a pack on the way to the music store.
But, I don’t think I will ever get financed from this site unless it is through a private contract with someone who shows interest and has the money to invest themselves… I don’t need even CLOSE to $15000. More like $2000. That would be all I’d need.

Piewatch - Who do you currently like in the charts?

I don’t really listen to the radio much, or watch T.V. I tend to search the internet for underground hiphop that isn’t the brainless bling gangsta stuff you hear on the radio and on MTV

Till death do us part

Piewatch - If you could have any super power what would it be?

The ability to heal those who are sick/dying.

Piewatch - Elvis dead or alive?

dead.

Piewatch - Any irrational phobias?

I don’t eat food that’s purple. Try to avoid small vegetables too.

Piewatch - Mcdonalds or Burger King?

Neither. But if I had to pick one I’d go with BK… maybe some onion rings… I can’t believe McDonalds hasn’t caught on to onion rings.

Piewatch - Any last words?

Beer, Table, Truck, Seven, Aluminum, and Computer….

wait, not that last one.. I’m gonna save that one for me.

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