Twiztid Topics: Multiple Man Jamie Madrox drops by 1428 Elm
By Aaron Posey
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1428: Out of all your albums is there one specific one you are most proud of?
JM: I guess you could say, again they’re all for different reasons. I would say the reissue because it marked the first time we were ever on Island Def Jam as a merge. It was a pressing and distribution deal. It was big time stuff for two little kids from the hood. That was big time stuff. Freek Show we sold over 250,000 copies like that’s the closest thing to a gold record. Darkness because it was one of the first records we brought out ourselves on our own label, that’s important. Favorite, I like W.I.C.K.E.D. a lot. W.I.C.K.E.D.’s a really good record. That’s one of my favorites. But I mean it’s kind of like they’re all like children. To pick one is just kind of like uhhh God I hope the others don’t hear.
1428: You have to Sophie’s Choice one of your albums?
JM: They’re all good in their own way but W.I.C.K.E.D., because it has a lot of good things about it. It had a lot of good shit going for it. I like the theme about it, I liked how it all moved together, I liked the direction it was going. It was a crazy time but it was cool. I liked how it even ushered its way right into the tour that way. A lot of cool shit about it. Yeah, fuck yeah. Even the tour EP was like an extension of the record everything that was with that record was going like a train in a cool way. So yeah that would probably be my favorite.
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1428: Walk me through the creative process of Twiztid. What inspires you most to sit down and put the pen to paper and do what you do best? Do you have anything specific that inspires you or motivates you to write?
JM: As far as inspiration it can be anything and everything. I mean we’re very involved in the social media aspect, so we hear shit from very grassroots fucking stories. From you know you saved my life to can you help me, to this and that and it’s very inspirational. Like this kid had nothing or this kid faced adversity, your song gave them strength. This kid was getting picked on by bullies and was gonna not go to school anymore but said “Fuck that” because your song “Fuck That”. It’s like that shit makes me be in some cases Twiztid is like these people’s armor. It’s like their shield, it’s their sword, it’s their weapon that they get to use against the evil motherfuckers in the world that will have their way with them or will throw shit in their path or will whatever, and we’re the only defense mechanism that people have in some cases, maybe not always but in some cases. To some people, to certain circles we may be the only thing that they have, so that in some cases becomes a lot of inspiration to me to know that.
It’s like imagine being Obi-Wan and hearing Princess Leia say “You’re my only hope.” Is that not inspiration to get your ass to Tatooine motherfucker, or Alderaan or wherever the fuck Obi-Wan was supposed to go? It’s something as simple as that, hearing people say if it wasn’t for you guys I wouldn’t be here.
A chick the other day that came through and took time out of her day to redo her oath in the Air Force. Paul and I held the flag and she had her commanding officer swear her in for another four years into the Air Force and filmed it in the VIP. And because we were such a part of her life that she wanted us to be a part of her life and it was fucking awesome.
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Another chick, which made me mad and I actually yelled at her for this, and I understand, but she was like “I’m in Stage 3 cancer and I missed my chemo today to come to the show because I told my people I’m not gonna miss this show for nothing, this is 20 years in the making” and I’m like man don’t fucking do that shit again, you can beat this shit, you know. That shit fucking breaks your heart, and that is inspiration.
And that’s just two, I could do this for days. That’s the kind of shit we carry with us and it’s like “don’t stop” even if we wanted to stop. I’ve heard my brother say time and time again this shit is bigger than us and I didn’t used to understand what that meant and now I’m starting to see what it means to the point where it’s becoming more of a responsibility rather than I choose to do this. People look up to you, that’s what you do. You chose to do this now you do this. So yeah I mean it’s cool, it’s all good.