{"id":62461,"date":"2016-01-06T14:43:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=62461"},"modified":"2017-08-02T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T11:41:33","slug":"season-ho99o9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2016\/01\/06\/season-ho99o9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Ho99o9"},"content":{"rendered":"
The nasty and nihilistic duo shredding paint and making noise-rap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n TheOGM and Eaddy are New Jersey duo Ho99o9. They make crashing, snot-nosed punk- rap: Death meets Death Grips in an industrial- sized tumble dryer, if you like. To date, they\u2019ve charred our ears with four releases and the latest, October mixtape Dead Bodies In the Lake<\/em> – which they claim is the \u201csoundtrack to the mass amount of corpses (found & unfound) located in a large body of water surrounded by land\u201d – is their best. As they prepared to churn up the moshpit in Belgium on their recent, hell- raising European tour, I chatted to them about Iggy Pop, dead bodies and being incomparable.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Wonderland<\/strong>: So you\u2019re called Ho99o9 and your new mixtape is called Dead Bodies in the Lake<\/em>. Do you like scaring people? W<\/strong>: It\u2019s safe to say your music is dark – there\u2019re a lot of violent themes at play in it. Where does the aggression stem from, do you think? W<\/strong>: The press are constantly comparing you to other noise-rap acts: Clipping, Hanz and the like. Does this frustrate you? T<\/strong>: Yeah, we don\u2019t wanna be compared to anyone, or think we sound like anyone, we\u2019re not trying to sound like anyone. W<\/strong>: It\u2019s a liberating position to take – trying to sound completely like you and not anyone else. T: To be honest, I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s hard but, in music, everything has been done. Everything has been overdone, so obviously any artist\u00a0is trying to find that route for progression, for progressive art and that\u2019s pretty much our goal to, like, evolve music and what we do. W<\/strong>: 2016 is…
\nEaddy<\/strong>: [We\u2019re] not really looking for a reaction, it\u2019s just something we decided on – we couldn\u2019t care less what people think about it. We could have named the project Rainbow Balloon and we would have been satisfied with it.<\/p>\n
\nTheOGM<\/strong>: From growing up, you know, just like growing up in dark times, hood shit, and not having much, you know? That kind of energy\u00a0is instilled in us and even now we\u2019re working hard, we\u2019re not rich. It comes from struggle, you know?<\/p>\n
\nE<\/strong>: Don\u2019t compare us with nobody.<\/p>\n
\nE<\/strong>: Nobody.<\/p>\n
\nE<\/strong>: A lot of bands sound the same and some bands get inspiration from certain people – the greats. The Cramps can sound like The Beatles and Iggy Pop took some stuff from Chuck
\nBerry, know what I mean? A lot of shit sounds the same. You could have a similar sound
\nor you could be the most unique [artist] and everybody\u2019s still gonna be like, they sound like \u201cthis\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nT<\/strong>: We got a lot more dead bodies on the way! A lot. A LOT.<\/p>\n