Mastacraft Interview |
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Rappfox interviews Adelaide hip hop artist and promoter, Mastacraft, in the lead up to his tour with Canadian rapper Madchild. Mastacraft is no stranger to controversy, but with the release of his debut album, Fuck You Patrick, and a national tour, the artist is moving forward in 2016.
For our readers who aren’t familiar with Mastacraft, tell us about yourself.
In 50 words or less, I am an industry oddball who never fit into the “In” scene, who works harder than anyone you know both as a Rapper and a Promoter!
2016 is shaping up to be a good year for you; you’re releasing your debut album, Fuck You Patrick, and touring with Madchild. What was the creative process making Fuck You Patrick?
The creative process was me travelling overseas to my homeland in Europe, Ireland, Barcelona and Paris. I recorded this album worldwide and with a range of people. The beats come from the US, the features from the US/Canada, the mixing from me here [and] the mastering overseas. A French singer who kills it in Paris sings a chorus! I have to write alone and I can only write when I am feeling down mainly. If life is going good I struggle to write any music. I use it to vent.
You have a number of international features, like Bizarre and Swifty of D12, how did you link up?
As a 15 year old in high school I used to email members of D12 saying I was a huge fan and would they work with me. They laughed it off, they even replied for a while, until I got serious with it and then boom years on I have been in the studio recording with the guys in Eminem’s crew and learning as much as I can!
The album is a mixture of party songs, personal and introspective, what was the main inspiration behind making the album?
I have been working on an album called Uppers & Downers for years, literally years, which spawned a single which hit on Nova called Ease The Pain.
After so many delays and hardships I put it on the backburner. Then the Xzibit drama went down and well I was attacked from all sides even though
nobody knew the real story and chose to believe under investigated media propaganda.
So eventually I went with it and was like if the whole world is saying "Fuck Patrick" then I might as well say "Fuck You Patrick" like Xzibit did. So I took the mickey out of myself and created a concept song on the incident which outlines what the media and some people actually thought happened!
From there I used my drive and momentum picking up major interviews and started to map out an album. I lost the love of my life, both my grandmas passed and my uncle died all in the span of a few months during making this so the album took a very serious turn as I was battling some pretty heavy depression, addictions and suicidal thoughts so I put it all to pen and paper (or laptop and mouse).
The whole album is actually very serious and very dark minus the single and the second single coming Lifeboat so really what started as a joke turned into
people getting to see the real me. I also rap hard on it, very very hard, you will not see 90% of the rappers today ride a beat like I do here.
Taking swag from King Gordy in Detroit, mixing it with flows I have learned from Tech N9ne and guidance from Madchild. The album is a hard record, I am proud of it and put it to any release from this country or underground overseas to hang anyway!
For our readers who aren’t familiar with Mastacraft, tell us about yourself.
In 50 words or less, I am an industry oddball who never fit into the “In” scene, who works harder than anyone you know both as a Rapper and a Promoter!
2016 is shaping up to be a good year for you; you’re releasing your debut album, Fuck You Patrick, and touring with Madchild. What was the creative process making Fuck You Patrick?
The creative process was me travelling overseas to my homeland in Europe, Ireland, Barcelona and Paris. I recorded this album worldwide and with a range of people. The beats come from the US, the features from the US/Canada, the mixing from me here [and] the mastering overseas. A French singer who kills it in Paris sings a chorus! I have to write alone and I can only write when I am feeling down mainly. If life is going good I struggle to write any music. I use it to vent.
You have a number of international features, like Bizarre and Swifty of D12, how did you link up?
As a 15 year old in high school I used to email members of D12 saying I was a huge fan and would they work with me. They laughed it off, they even replied for a while, until I got serious with it and then boom years on I have been in the studio recording with the guys in Eminem’s crew and learning as much as I can!
The album is a mixture of party songs, personal and introspective, what was the main inspiration behind making the album?
I have been working on an album called Uppers & Downers for years, literally years, which spawned a single which hit on Nova called Ease The Pain.
After so many delays and hardships I put it on the backburner. Then the Xzibit drama went down and well I was attacked from all sides even though
nobody knew the real story and chose to believe under investigated media propaganda.
So eventually I went with it and was like if the whole world is saying "Fuck Patrick" then I might as well say "Fuck You Patrick" like Xzibit did. So I took the mickey out of myself and created a concept song on the incident which outlines what the media and some people actually thought happened!
From there I used my drive and momentum picking up major interviews and started to map out an album. I lost the love of my life, both my grandmas passed and my uncle died all in the span of a few months during making this so the album took a very serious turn as I was battling some pretty heavy depression, addictions and suicidal thoughts so I put it all to pen and paper (or laptop and mouse).
The whole album is actually very serious and very dark minus the single and the second single coming Lifeboat so really what started as a joke turned into
people getting to see the real me. I also rap hard on it, very very hard, you will not see 90% of the rappers today ride a beat like I do here.
Taking swag from King Gordy in Detroit, mixing it with flows I have learned from Tech N9ne and guidance from Madchild. The album is a hard record, I am proud of it and put it to any release from this country or underground overseas to hang anyway!
You’re touring Australia with Madchild this month, what can we expect from the shows?
I have a serious health battle at the moment and I am going to give these shows my 110% all and leave nothing for anyone to say that is not positive. I aim to win over each crowd show by show. You can expect Madchild to put on a clinic of why he is one of the best live performers in the world today, even if it is on a smaller scale compared to Kendrick [Lamar], Drake, etc. He is an absolute superstar!
What else have you got in store this year?
Uppers & Downers will be released later this year and it will be big. Mark my words.
Click here for info on the Madchild and Mastacraft Australian Tour 2016.
You can follow Mastacraft on his Facebook here.
Mastacraft's debut album, Fuck You Patrick, will be out soon.
I have a serious health battle at the moment and I am going to give these shows my 110% all and leave nothing for anyone to say that is not positive. I aim to win over each crowd show by show. You can expect Madchild to put on a clinic of why he is one of the best live performers in the world today, even if it is on a smaller scale compared to Kendrick [Lamar], Drake, etc. He is an absolute superstar!
What else have you got in store this year?
Uppers & Downers will be released later this year and it will be big. Mark my words.
Click here for info on the Madchild and Mastacraft Australian Tour 2016.
You can follow Mastacraft on his Facebook here.
Mastacraft's debut album, Fuck You Patrick, will be out soon.