Twiztid Topics: Multiple Man Jamie Madrox drops by 1428 Elm

2 of 5

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Courtesy of Masterfully Macabre Entertainment

1428: You guys are friends with Kane Hodder, one of the horror heavyweights that all horror fans love. He was in your “Sickman” video and he has also been on your podcast Ashtrays and Action Figures. You did Kane’s theme song for his new documentary “To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story.” How did you guys originally hook up with him and what was the process and inspiration you used to craft his theme song?

JM: We hooked up with him because we had found out through the grapevine that he was a Juggalo. How it had got to us was we were on, I wanna say The Wicked Clowns from Outer Space tour with Insane Clown Posse, this was a great long while ago.

He had come to a show and was like “Hey” and they were like, “Kane Hodder’s downstairs, you know he’s a Juggalo.” Everybody’s like “Who the fuck is Kane Hodder?” I’m like “WHO THE FUCK IS KANE HODDER?!? Are you fucking serious, that’s Jason Voorhees!! What the fuck are you talking about, yes let him in! He’s on MY guest list, you let him in!!.” So it was all kinds of craziness. Briefly, very briefly met like “Hey what’s up?” then right to stage. I don’t even think we took a picture, it was like a “Hey how you doing? Holy shit, I love you,” walk away, you know, and it was just in passing.

It wasn’t until, say, three to five years later we had met again and it was like, “Look man we’re doing this project, will you fucking work with us?” And we started talking and he expressed to us that he was in fact a Twiztid fan. And he’s like, “I love the music.” I don’t know if he was just…I don’t wanna say that because I fuck with Kane a lot when we do panels and shit like that, and I break his balls a lot. I’m like, “He tells me shit to make me feel better, because I’m HIS fan and not the other way around.” That’s how I tell it, I’m his fan but he tells me when he’s doing his fucking beefcake routine, like when he’s getting all beefed up, he listens to “Diemotherfuckerdie” and that’s his favorite. You know he’ll be putting the plates on the fucking machine and [growls] and doing all that shit, and that’s his shit.

I’m like “WHO THE FUCK IS KANE HODDER?!? Are you fucking serious, that’s Jason Voorhees!! What the fuck are you talking about, yes let him in!

He gets all fucking raged up to that shit and he starts lifting his weights and I’m just like, that makes me feel good because it’s in theory, it’s like those images of the character that he portrays, has always been something that I mean I guess you could say that we took from [for inspiration]. But as well as Michael Myers, they’ve always been so near and dear to our hearts that we put them on stage with us to show everybody these guys. They’re our film counterparts.

If they could rap we would be them and we emulate them. They were our release coming up as kids we didn’t have the music that these kids claim we are to them we didn’t have that. Those movies were our release so in theory Jason Voorhees the mythology and character and Michael Myers, all those scary movies were our release we would put on those movies when we couldn’t take the world and it was giving us shit and we wanted to fucking choke somebody out. We would put on those movies and that would be our release, get lost in the sauce to the point we could methodically say the dialogue.

via LA Weekly

1428: You guys started your own label Majik Ninja Entertainment in 2014, and the label has grown to include phenomenal talent like Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Lex the Hex Master, The ROC, G-Mo Skee, Boondox. Have you found it to be easier or harder on you as artists to still create music, tour and run a label? What are some of the lessons you’ve learned since doing this?

JM: I don’t know if I’d say easier, well as far as the easier or harder stuff. We’ve been doing this for so long, that since we started we were always paying attention to how the machine worked, meaning the industry, and everything we’ve done was a learning process for us.

So as we were always coming up the ladder, we were always watching and growing and learning so that part of it I feel like was on the job training. We were already being conditioned for that portion of it, so that part we just kind of eased into, as far as the label it’s been some “put your big boy pants on” stuff. I’m not gonna pretend that it’s easy but it comes with the territory and we want it, you know what I mean?

We want this. It’s like I honestly feel that the world needs it right now. Because for that underground chunk of music where we came from and what it is right now, it’s taken some really really strange shape-shifting things going on with it, and it really needs some good shit right now. It needs a good few years of some really good music and I hope that we can be that, I really do. I hope we can at least give that to the world and have that good run so we can be like “Hey remember when Majik Ninja put out that… they had like years of good music.” I just wanna be that, to have that.

More from Music

I feel like our vibe is well received, our intention, right down to the artwork, to the music, to the onstage performance, it’s something more. I know the name is Majik Ninja but it’s like the magical something about the aura of our spirit, we feel it. It’s a good feeling. It’s a vibe of, “Damn they’re trying to make it happen again. They’re trying to bring back what we used to all love, they’re trying to rekindle it again, that’s the shit.” I hope that everybody gets that. I don’t think everybody truly does but I do see it in the faces of some people, so I know it’s not truly falling on deaf ears.

It’s like three out of five truly are like “You motherfuckers, I was almost this close to tapping out and you signed Boondox! You brought him back, holy shit I thought Blaze was gone. You guys are putting the family back together on me dude, what are you doing? I thought I was done with this shit, I was done in high school, what the fuck’s going on and I got kids now. Kids that are as old as I was when I was listening to this shit, and now I’m waiting to put my kids to bed so I can put on Boondox’s new record and go out in the garage and burn one, what the fuck are you doing to me?”

And it’s like, hey man I don’t know, we’re still trying to keep the world alive I guess. It’s a good vibe though man, it’s fun. I’m just blessed to be able to keep doing it I guess. We’re actually trying to pull you back into it. We want to be the reason that there’s something to be pulled back in for. That’s it. And hopefully when you’re pulled back in, we give you a reason to stay. That’s our next job. We executed job one now hopefully we work well on job two and you stay.

Home/Music