Ill Bill – Himself, Vocals
Death-rapper Ill Bill speaks his mind to SMN, who he has never heard of. His loss.
Have you ever heard of SMNnews before?
No.
Why not, because we think we’re quite awesome.
I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Do you feel as though your style of music gets enough love in the metal circles? In fact, do you even care?
If you mean amongst bands, I get a lot of props from a bunch of different bands in the game. Bands whose music I dig I’ve come to find out also dig my music. That’s a huge compliment cos I’m an old school metalhead. I started going to L’amours in Brooklyn when I was 14.
Are you happy with The Hour of Reprisal’s reception so far?
No and I’m still waiting for my fuckin Grammy. Nah, I’m just fucking around. The response has been great. Bigger than anything else I’ve ever done. People are digging it.
How’s the tour gone so far?
The tour is going great. Right now were driving from Louisville, Kentucky to Chicago. Different day, different city. This is what we do. It’s dope.
What initially attracted you to metal when you were growing up?
Same thing that attracted me to Rap music. It was outlaw music that I wasn’t supposed to be listening to. I got hooked and never looked back.
Whose a hip hop artist you’d love to collaborate with that you haven’t yet?
M.O.P.
I saw you back in 2006 with Jedi Mind Tricks at CBGB, and that was such a great combination. Are there any plans to do more shows together in the U.S. in the future?
No doubt. figuring that out right now.
Your brother has attempted crossing over and doing shows with metal/hardcore bands like Hatebreed and Madball and the Sounds of the Underground. And I know Non-Phixion would play at L’amour with Biohazard and shit like that. Would you want to explore that more in the future, and if so, what are some bands that you’d think you would fit well with?
I would like to do something with Slayer, Slipknot, System Of A Down, Obituary, Madball or the Cromags.
Growing up in New York City, it’s kind of hard to not be exposed to so many different styles of music. Hardcore and Hip Hop especially have their roots firmly planted in the local scene here. There’s also a lot of crossover between the fans. What do you think it is about the two that brings them together?
The streets connect both artforms. The graffitii scene is big part of that connection in NYC.
What’s going on with La Coka Nostra?
We just finished recording our debut album “A Brand You Can Trust” due to hit stores early 2009 along with a worldwide tour.
What were your top 5 metal and hip hop albums growing up?
- Master of Puppets
- Reign In Blood
- Dimension Hatross
- Peace Sells
- I Against I
- It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
- Paid In Full
- Criminal Minded
- License To Ill
- King Of Rock
Is Soulja Boy killing hip hop?
Hell No. He’s making a lot of money right now and I’m happy for him. Good for him. He used the tools he had at his disposal and made it work for him. That’s Hip Hop to the core.
Is there anyone else in the underground hip hop scene right now, that you’re not normally associated with, that you enjoy? Like anyone from the Def Jux crew or Rhymesayers, or something along those lines?
I dig both Def Jux and Rhymesayers to the fullest. Those are my peoples. Me and El-P go way back to the early days of Non Phixion and Co Flow. I also dig the Strange Music family. Duck Down are my peoples. Soul Asassins, Psycho Realm, Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind and their entire extended family, The Visionaries, Dilated Peoples, the list is endless. My ties within this underground shit run deep.
Have you ever collaborated with someone you really admired and just thought to yourself “wow, I can’t believe I’m doing a track with him?”
I thought that about most of the people I worked with on my new album.
Do you ever just sit around and give DJ Lethal shit for having been in Limp Bizkit?
Well, Limp has sold more records than Jay-Z, so at the end of the day, who’s giving shit to who?
Who do you want to win the Presidential election?
Barack Obama.
GZA or 50 Cent?
I thought the beef was stupid. I think they’re both dope.
Pretty much all the legendary venues in NYC have closed, and it seems like either Live Nation or The Bowery Presents controls like 90% of the city at this point. What do you think that says for the future of underground/independent music in this city?
It says if we want to complain, we need to open our own venues.
What do you have lined up for the future?
Check out myspace.com/illbill. My schedule changes daily so make sure you pay attention. Look out for the LCN album and alotta touring. One.
(+33 rating, 11 votes)
I’ve lost all respect for him. He won’t against anyone. Solja Boy is fucking garbage and IS destroying hip-hop.
He kind of sucks now compared to what he was doing with Non Phixion. In fact HE was the one who broke up the band why lie to everyone i didnt understand that. His character also sucks for dogging out Goretex publically like that and he perceives himself larger than he is which is kind of lame in my book. His new stuff is ok but vocally seems rushed. Name dropping the same 5 bands that are so cliche is certainly a major turn off. Him and his fat fag brother needed metal cred so they milk the same bands over and over probably since they havent listened to metal since 1990.
hey fastballs…
bill is doper than ever and i challenge you to be more up on “real” metal than he is. get over non phixion’s break up already…that was years ago and their legacy is enough. bill and necro are completely different, so i don’t understand mentioning thm in the same sentence. bill always puts his metal where is mouth is and i guess sure him for still liking metallica and slayer. asshole!
Listen Jew Bastard Im sure I was collecting demo tapes when you were just discovering Slayer. I’ve followed all of their careers since 1993 so im no asshole. I didnt say his album sucked cock breath, just sounds rushed and a bit defensive in some areas. Also it’s not that im not “over” the break up, but for real fans it left a horrible taste in their mouths especially when the truth isnt even known. My point about the metal thing is that had it not been for Goretex being the guy who actually listened to metal and rapped about it when it wasnt trendy they would be lost and havent listened to metal since their own failed band in the 90’s. Necro only made “Death Rap” to try and out do Goretex quicker since rumor has it he was working on a all metal album and its concept was jacked by Necro, Necro never heard a Suffocation album in his life see how much you know douchebag. And yeah mentioning Master Of Puppets, Megadeth and Reign In Blood is old, stale and 10 years old. Obituary every interview?..Compare both Ill Bill’s interview & Goretex’s in terms of metal and sincerity and see whos realer. Bill im sure has never even heard of those bands. You said also there different than Goretex and shouldnt be put in the same sentence. How so? Because he’s better you mean? His replay value alone lyrically wipes them out clean. At the end of the day i enjoy all of their music to different degrees and their all talented but lets not be silly buy trying to discredit the backbone to their entire movement and style. Had not Goretex not started rapping in the projects, those guys were doing their metal band and had no interest in rapping until their group failed they would surely not be who they are today..do your homework faggot..
fatballs = one of Gores brainwashed myspace butt buddies or who knows, maybe even Gortex himself.
Anybody that believes this clown’s revisionist version of history is a bigger crackhead than he is. Hey Gore, why don’t you get off myspace for 5 minutes and make some new music? He hasn’t released an album let alone a 12″ in over 4 years but has time to sit on the net all day and lie about the only guys that ever helped him? what a lowlife. where’s his new record? all he does is drop shite quality “freestyles” over shite beats on his myspace and bad collabos with german nobodies. shut the fuck up about non phixon already and make some new music clown. all this crybaby finger pointing has cost you another fan. make some quality music or piss off.
As a fan of both Bills ans Goretex why would you bitch about it on the internet? like the previous poster said – fuck the he said she said. instead of faking jacks like your a “somebody” and have some inside info, let them work out their differerces behind closed doors. until then let the music do the talking.
Great interview..Bill is on point and the album is one of my favorites this year…I’m a Metal fan and a long time Bill/Non Phixion fan but even if I wasnt how you gonna question his list, wasn’t the question “What were your top 5 metal and hip hop albums growing up?” he is in his mid-30s right? what’s he suppsed to say? Gojira and Divine Heresy? when he was growing up Slayer and Metallica were it. In 1986 if you didn’t think “Master of Puppets” was the craziest shit ever, you were a poser, just like 95% of the lames that post on this site. yea Metallica sucks now but to not agree that “MOP” was the tits is blasphemy. stop hating on good music.
Fuck this rap bullshit. WTF this has to do with metal news?
Ill Bill is nu-metal and Goretex is a child molestor..fuck these dudes..the only hip hop worth listening to is Aesop Rock and Atmosphere
Hahahaha, fuck this guy. Sounds like a total tool. Worthless music. Worthless guy. Record sales seem awfully important to him on whether some one is good. Backing Soulja Boy and Limp Bizkit? What a piece of shit.
o_o so because these rappers like some metal albums that means they are on metal news, thats retarded, interview some bands, not these douchebags
That weed looks like some good shit
well i dunno this isnt metal news but alot of the beats they sample are metal; or metal influenced. Idontagree with arguing online about bill-goretex ijustlisten to the music its none of any ones biz but there own. Cant wait for the LCN cd todrop
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Its crazy to think things would get this foul between Bill and Goretex but enough of the Gore bashing in pathetic. Gore is one of the best ever, si mple and Bill is great too who gives a fuck. Gore has a new record hes working on let it fucking be.
Child molester? wtf are you smoking meth? bill is surely nu metal and lost in the good old days but where the hell do you get off putting bullshit like that out there you fucking jackass. Goretex has kids you cumgulper. Your probably some juggalo Necro groupie who paints his face to feel hard. TRUTH IS.. had not Gore started rapping those guys WOULD NOT BE DOING HIP HOP..THEY HAD A FAILED THIRD RATE THRASH BAND then became wiggers. Agreed he can be putting out more music but what they DID TO HIM was even more foul do some real research instead of talking out of your dickhole. Necro ripped him off and paid him nothing. He also tries every day to convert people against Gore. Gore is fucking metal and in my opinion the truth.
la coka sucks
everlast sucks
the best thing he ever did was non phixion soory if that offfends anyone
necro is a lisping bisexual who pals around with transexuals and was even caught with one. im not impressed with him buying guitar solos from alex skolnick either. bill doing songs with bad brains wouldve been great 15 years ago as well but only proves posers. money doesnt buy you cred. this is a metal site and ive actually met goretex and have spoke to him numerous times and he seems to be a real metal encycopdia and cares about metal not just using it as some pr bullshit.
now fuck off
grindcore/sludge is goretex’s gimmick. he mentions eyehategod in a verse and calls black people “nigger” on the internet for metal “cred” and you racist losers buy into it hook line and sinker. he’s hated by hip hop people that know the real deal, he’s like a wannabe hip hop phil anselmo..phil would spit in this faggots face if he ever met him and knew the deal..he’s a one dimensional grind rapper that mentions anton levay in every verse so you’ll think he’s “edgy” and “dark”. nobody wants to hear that bullshit. that’s why his career is over.
that and the fact that he crys about Necro/Bill “fucking him over” day and night like thats even possible. like these underground nobodies have the power to make the entire music industry turn on him like this big conspiracy theory. fuckouttahere. Goretex is a faggot heroin junkie. end of story. thats why nobody fucks with him and why he cant get his shit together. it isnt this big, winding conspiracy saga that he tries to weave it into to explain his dead career. I’m not even that big a Necro/Bill fan anymore but defending a racist junkie piece of shit like you’re are doing right now is pretty gay. you like GORETEX a little too much, homie. you sound like maybe YOU are Goretex actually. i hope not cos that’d be really sad. either that or your talking to alot of losers on the net spreading your “story”.
go to necrohiphop.com and do a search on the forums. there were multiple quotes where gore was saying shit about black people – part of the reason why Non-Phixion didn’t want to have anything to do with the guy anymore (not to mention he sounded like a total shitbag, even to Necro standards) – He said shit like “why don’t you go suck off killah priest’s nigger dick again you ho” and shit like that… get on the necro boards and do a search. I assure you that it was real. He even got on there and argued back for a minute – and I don’t recall him ever denying that he wrote those messages..
Ill Bill >>>>>>>>>>>> Goretex
mitch the bitch aka goretex was cool as fuck with me then cried like a bitch cuz i was wearing a “i need drugs” and a “ill bill” tshirt and told me to change my default pic…wtf that is child shit
this bitch goretex is trien to fuck up my career before it fully fuckin starts man even his fat wife is a goddamn snitch to they both sent me a bunch of rude ass messages and sprending lies about me…and his fake ass”cult” following the supercoven are a snitches too they going the wrong path following this guy i just now found out after years a listening to him that he is a liar!
its fuckin dirty though homie cuz i have been a fan of the whole team…even when shit was stale between Necro, Bill and gore i still had love for all of them ,but this bitch goretex thinks if u like him then u cant like bill or necro etc which is bullshit
…Bill , Necro, Q-Unqiue, Sabac, DJ Eclipse, Mr. Hyde were all right about this guy…he has completly stabbed me in the back….after a year of bein a good friend he flips out over a fuckin tshirt
yeah know what im sayin? he was like yo ” u need to change ur default pic”?!?!
and when i said hell no he started a fuckin war with me and now has his”cult” lol talkin shit too
this pieceashit even called my wife a meth whore??? wtf she dont do meth thats mitch and katies shit
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this is metal, smnnews? sharks, jumping