Slaine still pushes extremes: during the recording of tracks for his next two releases, he was hospitalized several times for exhaustion. But he doesn’t want to slow down. “I am afraid that if I stop pushing myself I won’t make it. I am afraid of going back to feeling like a piece of shit with no job and a drug habit, or sorting mail and being a joke of a man to myself. I am afraid to go to sleep sometimes because I think somebody else is still up working harder than I am somewhere. And I am not afraid to go to the hospital because I’ve pushed myself too hard.”
He’s succeeding. He’s spent the past two years performing with area legends Edo G and Jaysaun plus DJ Jayceeoh as a member of Special Teamz. They sold more than 4000 copies of their debut mixtape and are now entertaining offers for a deal to release an album that’s in the can. Slaine has also been busy recording with a national supergroup called La Coka Nostra: Everlast, DJ Lethal and Danny Boy from House of Pain, and Ill Bill from Non Phixion. They’re releasing an EP this fall and an album in the spring. And he scored a supporting role in Ben Affleck’s upcoming Gone Baby Gone.
With all those projects shaping up, 2007 could easily be the year of Citizen Slaine. For now, he’s just looking for the next thing to do and not worrying too much about whom he might offend. “I could give two fucks if a parent doesn’t want their kids to listen to my shit. Kids are going through a whole bunch of shit right now. All these fucking Bible Belt do-gooders who complain about Howard Stern and Janet Jackson’s nipple are the same ones supporting the war in Iraq and the murder of women and children for oil money. Don’t get mad cause I make songs about angel dust and coke, or oxycontin robberies. Shit, that’s happening everyday, and your kids aren’t fucking retarded, they’re surrounded by it. Be mad at the people running the country.”
Ill Bill will join him at the Middle East for the release of Citizen Cain. The disc will be available exclusively through Undergroundhiphop.com before being distributed worldwide in November.
SLAINE | Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge | October 12 | 617.864.EAST
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