New Interview | Flavour Magazine speak with ethemadassassin

Leading UK online urban music, fashion and lifestyle publication Flavour Magazine took time out recently to speak with ethemadassassin, the hip hop MC currently based in Los Angeles but most associated with his native North Carolina.

Starting out in the 90's based in cities such as Greensboro NC and Camden NJ, he started out coming up through the rap battle scenes, although it was his relatively short time on the mic compared to others that earned him his moniker. He went in for the kill, short & sweet, and one night a comment was heard "damn, that's some mad assassin shit right there" and the name stuck.

Although the discography is relatively modest in comparison to others for an artist so long in the game - Soul on Fire being only his 3rd official studio album - this has been down to a variety of factors, the regular life trials & tribulations, the right producers to work with, moving from place to place, but it's always worth the wait. He moved to LA in the last couple of years to team up again with his old partner in rhyme from NC Veteran Eye to form Veteran Assassins, so time has also been spent recording and touring as a group.

There is in fact a new Veteran Assassins album in the pipeline with significant production from Edinburgh's Sci Fi Stu who who provided the beat for the killer track on the current album "80's & 90's"

London based journalist Taytula Burke jumped on the phone to E recently to speak on the new album and his time back in the day starting out and learning his craft. He speaks openly about his relationship with his parents and the impact that had and how his life changed when he took himself off to college and saw the comparison in life there to what he'd been accustomed to on the streets.

The album itself is very auto-biographical in nature and the interview goes more in depth into the background and what makes the man he is today. Read it all at http://www.flavourmag.co.uk/introducingethemadassassin/

Soul on Fire is one for the real hip hop heads, soul, rock and hip hop sample led beats with some skilled narrative in the lyricism and wordplay. You can buy it on iTunes now http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soul-on-fire/id685226091

Meantime, check out some of the joints off the album

80's & 90's



H.T.G. ft Sole-R



CAN'T GET ENOUGH



Follow him on twitter @EtheMadAssassin and the magazine @FlavourMag You can reach Taytula @Taykeova

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