Your new single Moonlight Bop is out soon. How did that track come about?
"My boy Mattu [producer] was listening to some Limp Bizkit in the shower and came up with the idea that we need to make something with the same energy. We went to the studio and a few hours later we had a party song. It was good to make something fun and heavy."
You also got recognised by Fred Durst on TikTok. What was that like for you?
"When me and my teammate made Moonlight Bop, we kept saying, on the fly, that Fred Durst is going to hear this. I really believed in it, though. I released my first single on TikTok and it did whatever it did, then he actually hit us up – I can't believe it actually happened! It was weird, but by the power of the internet I feel very fortunate and gassed. Lots of people have been hating on me a little bit, but to get recognition from OG is like I'm doing the right thing."
At
the same time, we’ve heard about some unfortunate negativity also coming your
way…
"You know what it is – it’s the sly racism. They look at the way I look and think I’m a SoundCloud rapper, but then they see me wearing a black metal T-shirt and they can’t fathom that I enjoy this type of music. Or the fact I’m using a drill flow on a metal song and some people aren’t getting it. Most of the time it’s younger metalheads and alternative people. The older ones like it a lot, which is weird! Even when we play shows, we have older people coming up to us who are nice. But yeah, there’s a little bit of racism because I’m not white."