BrokenCYDE – Mikl (Vocals)
brokeNCYDE – Booty Call Feat. E-40
Meet the very modest and remarkably well-spoken Mikl – half of the vocal portion of BROKENCYDE (or BC13)…Check Their MySpace!
Brokencyde! Hello there! What it do? How art thou?
Never better life is great.
So, let’s get jiggy with this. question number one here. The correct way
to type Brokencyde…what letters are capitalized exactly…did someone’s
keyboard get stuck?
Yes, our keyboard was broke… ncyde… But no its brokeNCYDE because it helps to better understand the meaning of our name. We started making music because Seven and myself (Mikl) went through break ups with our girlfriends at the time so we were broke inside…get it, brokeNCYDE!
Alternatively, you go by ‘BC13’. Noting that there are not 13 members in
the band, and it’s nothing to do with “Before Christ” or being unlucky,
what does the 13 represent exactly?
The 13 represents our gang, the family of Crunk Kids that support us!
Would you guys consider yourself to be more metal, more rock, more rap, or…?
We don’t really subscribe to any labels or fit into any genres, so we made our own and called it “CRUNKCORE”. We’ve always just done our own thing and that’s what we are going to continue doing. Its funny to us that people are throwing 3oh!3, Millionaires and even Breathe Carolina into OUR Crunk-Core genre when none of them are Crunk-Core…I guess people just need labels to put on bands they don’t understand.
Crunkcore – it’s not in the Miriam-Webster dictionary. Please define.
It will be there soon enough! Crunk-Core – taking high energy beats and mixing top 40 rap with screamo. Bringing the club to the kids, getting Crunk and having fun.
On your most recent tour of the US in the spring, you were castigated on
stage by the lead singer of the headlining act, Senses Fail, what did
you do to royally piss him off. Was he not down with getting crunk?
He basically didn’t like that the opening group was getting the love we were getting every night! Maybe he thought we were stealing his thunder I really don’t know BUT i will say the rest of the guys in Senses Fail are actually really cool guys! A lot of his fans would come up to me after the show and complain that he wasted so much time talking instead of playing music; which is what they came for.
The song “Bree, Bree” – its genius. What exactly is your inspiration
for such an anthem?
You know when grind core bands do the pig squeal? Well in our home town kids would tell us we weren’t hardcore, so we made a song making fun of pig squeals naming it “Bree Bree” and it just took off from there.
If you got to bring the bree to the world, who would you most like to
tour with?
Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit.
What exactly is a ‘bree’ and how would one go about bree’ing? If that is
indeed at all possible?
It is VERY possible. There is a genre for it, ‘Grindcore”….bree = making fun of pig squeals.
Oh right. Of course…
You nabbed the magnificent E-40 and got him to lay down some hot, sweaty
madness all over the cut ‘Booty Call’. Are you down with E-40 like that?
How much did you have to pay him to get him to spit his stuff with such
a loud and aggressive act like yourselves?
E40 is a legend! We are so grateful that he wanted to come in and record something for our record and shoot a video with us. E-40 killed it and really brought out the best in the song “Booty Call”. When we heard that he was down with what we were doing, we immediately asked him to be on a track. He said yes because he believed in us and the movement we were creating. Dude did it for free 99.
What is your most lyrically deep song that you’ve written to date?
“Taking Life From Me”
How is the new album selling?
The record has done amazing so far! Never in our wildest dreams would we have ever believed it would have charted in the Billboard Top 100, but we did and we have all of our devoted fans to thank for that.
If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be?
I don’t know, that’s a weird question, but maybe cherries.
Some bands get hogwild bonanza bananas on the road. Holla back with one
of your greatest tour pranks or stories of all time.
Those are some good memories. . . We were on tour with our friend Kill Paradise and we tied some buckets to the back of his van and glued some pictures of naked girls all over it and left condoms on the handles!
Be honest, at any one time, how many ghetto booty hoes have you had in
your bed at once?
Not hoes, but fine ladies…. As a matter of fact, right now there are about 43 girls… Oh’ wait 7 more just walked in. How many are in your bed?
None of course. I’m a journalist of the highest order. Cigarettes or alcohol?
Neither for me
What are you guys listening to right now on the road? What’s in that
tape deck?
A Latino rapper called Gemini
You recently hit up the UK. Who appreciates your tunes the most –
European/UK audiences or folks in North America?
Both, but the UK fans though get super crazy and we can’t wait to go back! The tour we did over there was a blessing and it was amazing to go over to a country we’ve never been to before and have so many kids show so much love.
If you got to put together your most ULTIMATE tour package…who would be
in it?
3OH3, Hollywood Undead, and Innerpartysystem.
If I were to attend a Brokencyde gig. Am I expected to mosh, hardcore
dance, or just jump up and down? What is proper Brokencyde concert
etiquette?
It’s all up to you. We get it all at our show and we love every ounce of it!
for a couple of our songs like “Get Crunk” and “Schitzo” we get circle pits like real Punk mosh pits! and for other songs kids do dances and jump around getting Crunk!
Some homo emos are rumored to be boycotting Warped Tour this year if you
perform – which is just super insulting. What do you have to say to
those kids?
Grow up; if you don’t like us there are a ton of other bands you can watch and enjoy! It’s so funny to see that a punk-rock tour is being so closed minded when it comes to a new style of music. The beautiful thing about Warped Tour is that there are so many different bands and different styles to enjoy. Nobody is forcing you to watch our set, so if you don’t want to check us out then by all means go check out one of the side-stages or someone you’ve never heard of before and take a chance. Who knows you might discover your new favorite band that way.
Speaking of controversy. An SMNnews commenter (aptly named “Anonymous”)
recently posted that he met one of you guys at a show in San Diego where
you were handing out some sort of white power pamphlet rambling on about
the band Skrewdriver While this is all hearsay and undoubtedly an
internet rumor, this has since blessed BC13 with a “racist” tag with the
SMN faithful. Would you like to respond, refute, and/or. comment on the
matter?
Anonymous… Isn’t it funny how the ones that talk the most shit and create these outrageous lies about our band want to remain nameless? Whoever said that needs to remember karma is a bitch, but it doesn’t matter because I already know who it was, so no worries. Honestly thanks for bringing up the stupidity of some people on the internet who have nothing better to do than make shit up, because it gives us a chance to address them. To set the record straight all the members of brokeNCYDE come from Hispanic backgrounds, our tour manager on Warped Tour is black and we have nothing but love for everyone (regardless of race, age or sexual preference). The best thing about coming to a brokeNCYDE show is we get to put aside our differences and everyone can get crunk together.
When is the last time you showered?
I’m in the shower right now actually…
What was the last meal you ate?
Breakfast; eggs, hash browns, pancakes and milk with some fruit
In the name of all things bree – I thank you for your time today. As a
final salute and gesture to your fans out there…any last words?
Thank you for the time and to our crunk kids, WE LOVE YOU AND APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT! “BROKENCYDE WILL NEVER DIE”
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yee yee
Again all I have to say is fuck you SMN. The only reason I come to this site is to look for new tour dates for whatever gets announced. Stooping down and interviewing this garbage, it’s pathetic, no matter how many scene kids come to this site now because of it.
well they pretty much mock him with the questions, he’s clearly just too much of an idiot to realize, or too much of a pussy to do anything about it, most likely the latter
and his comments on grindcore are cringe-worthy
This blows. I don’t know what you guys are trying to get at with this shit, but give it up. Interview legitimate bands (doesn’t have to be just metal) or don’t interview any at all.
Bree bree ;-)
Funny, this douche doesn’t know who wrote that they were Nazi’s
It was me
I can’t help it if other folks decided to continue it.
and I was obviously kidding, I’m not even from CALI
Brokencyde arent Nazis, just faggots
and I mean no disrespect to actual gay folks
but Brokencyde are fucking faggotts
Crunk/Fashioncore isn’t my cup-o-tea
I was just making fun of a band
It’s pretty funny that it was actually mentioned in an interview
II decided to make up a funny little story about them while I was checking out SMN before work or something and it actually turns into a wee little rumour.
BC is kind of like any other myspace celebrity, they post a bunch of stuff online which is read mostly by people who hate them. They sell records and play shows which are bought up and attended by all the high school boys who are looking for a way to express their gender issues while still being considered “hip” and for all the little girls who like boys who have an “edge” while remaining completely harmless and devoid of threat.
Really though Mikl, I can safely assume you do read all of youre articles on SMN so I would like to say that you and I both know that you wouldnt be anywhere near the point you are at if so many people didn’t hate youre band. Teenagers by their very nature are insecure and feel the need to rebel. By listening to youre band they can piss off the metal, punk and hardcore kids at their school and feel like they are part of “CrunkLand” or “Crunkville” or “What Not To Wear” or whatever you call youre fans. It makes perfect sense. It’s just like Insane Clown Posse, it’s a stupid image backed by vapid music and it attracts people who want to feel like they are a part of something that pisses other people off. With ICP it’s mostly white trash wigger kids, with your band it’s mostly insecure teenagers. It makes sense but c’mon if people didn’t hate you you’d be nowhere.
So you keep frosting your tips, buying big ol’ sunglasses and making stupid music and thinking that grindcore bands say “bree” (?) and we will keep making fun of you. You need us.
and hey if you really are gonna keep up with the “Latino” lie you might want to tell thee other three guys to hit the tanning salon because that bullshit just ain’t gonna fly esse.
:)
i don’t know why everyone’s taking this so seriously, in a negative way. i mean, it’s just another band that most of the metal fans hate. get over it. no one forced you to be a fan. i don’t like their music but i admire them. they created a new genre and they’re being very mature with their replies against haters. they just don’t give a damn! keep it up bc.
well its a matter of us not wanting to hear about them on the site we go to to find out about new metal cd’s and tours
dude if i ever meet any of these guys im gonna fuck their shit up then they’ll be brokenNCYDENOUT fuckin pussy’s
Just maybe, but did it ever occur to anyone that this interview is sarcasm / a joke? Some sure looks like it to me. Maybe SMN doesn’t like BC. Just food for thought…
Upon further reading I do see a lot of the sarcasm in there. I still only use this site for tours. Sometimes they break the news before others, lately that hasn’t been the case. As for new metal albums, pfft, haha ,many other websites are better. Rateyourmusic.com does that for me. But I do like all the shit talking here :D
Grindcore whats this faggot know about grindcore.
SMN… You just raped me… And I liked it!!
brokeNCYDE is my homies!!