aka Talk of Christian Borquez Seo2 is talking from the genesis of the national rap music industry. His beginnings in Hip Hop were in Geneva (Switzerland) in the year ... Blablabla! We will not bore anyone by telling the story of one of the most distinguished emcees of our scene, except in an environment where all publications are read by an audience rapper, so despreocúpense because we do not win the coins with general education classes. had informed the previous entry
the pending Seo2 interview focused on his latest accomplishment
For pure love of rap, we finally re-program our meeting and took advantage of my work is located less than a block from his home to pluck at snack time and end once and this commitment. Had I known that I was preparing complete a cart had gone to deceive the gut ... so while he itched his fellow tomato and avocado grinding work, I settled in a corner of the kitchen table and made him some questions about the results of the first week of delivery, ready for lunch after we all sat down to put the conversation rec. Time was pressing, in a moment would Nick Calaveras and Switch TV people for another interview more, so as Italian ran rounds, we could quickly crumble each piece of content from his new album ... I had warned him to Seo, he was not there to ask about their beginnings, nor his step by groups like Makiza or Nemesis, or on their differences Anita Tijoux; wanted to see an end to Seo2 answering interview rap. For a man of 34 years, husband and father who is expecting her second child, and also is associated with a large, legendary and productive career in rap is not hard to keep things clear at the time to articulate answers, if you doubt yourself the time to read the following material ...
Beyond to register a union between the old and new school ... What are you looking to get artistic, professionally and personally with this new album?
I think it was as a return to real rap, not much rap mix ... pure. I am rapper, I'm an artist and an artist as such is experiencing different things, if you see visual artists, especially the graffiti-see constant evolution ... suddenly the emcee is not allowed so much because people I almost still hear your words, is aware of what you say and how they're delivered. It's difficult for a reinvent itself or be understood that these changes are part of a process, but I think I had my process ... I launched my first solo album, I tried to understand what was the side that really wanted to point out and which I felt more comfortable in what I also felt more comfortable with my audience, because I do not do this just to be alone in my house (laughs). There are people who do it and I feel fine, but I do not do and could not say now after all that I have shown and Market (laughs). is that, to define myself and return to the roots, which is why I also surrounded myself with all these people, who are people who are watching the rap of a much purer form than I can be me ... so polluted for years by industry, fame and everything that has happened. You start with
who will face?
, it talks about anyone else you end up defending their ideals. I recently commented that, despite starting as the idea of \u200b\u200bforming a group under the veneer of Heavy Artillery, this ended up being a new album with several collaborations Seo2. This is because behind all the work you are you and despite the appreciation that you have for all your employees, you are aware that when the
Quiubo
nobody but you can give up for disk. How and why did this transition from the original idea?
are basically two things. The selection of artists was to work with people who had their own engine, not someone I needed that I was pulling for rap, I was not to discover any talent ... there are talents, people who have their public record productions have their records. I think this was exactly what he played a double-edged in the sense of making a collective, because it is people who have an identity ... there are goats that are as out of the neighborhood has shown, do and have done for sick time and . One of the aims was to show them to my audience and take advantage of my arrival to the media and exposure I have ... will be fulfilled, is unlikely to be forming a group as was the DMS or CFCs, which are my crew for life because they are people that I grew up and therefore formed these sets. Instead, they are goats that have the same artistic inclinations and all have a respect towards me and I to them, but as they all have their moves are still to make his records and doing things ... once we did issue continued to work on his own, the more I wondered when the album came out, but they did more than record their own work. Therefore, there was a collective effort on the disc and in the end I put my name and my signature as taking responsibility, is as the architect who signed the plan and if something happens in the house he would go to shit. In the long run remains an album of collaborations, the album would not hold without all these people with whom I worked ... and that is seen, heard and what it is.
At the time this project was conceived with what you found? Can you imagine such a level of the scene anonymously? What was your challenge at that time?
The first is that as a moral one can not fall asleep on its laurels, but have to be continuously working, training, managing new flows, new bases, new metrics ... because these are new goats have less experience than one, but were born in an environment filled with rap, then the floor of them is riding the high of a . All this with what I found surprising, but expected, in Chile has always been a big move and has been much competition, it was evident that all were good. I had heard before inviting many to join those who had not heard the heard, then kinda knew what I had complied, in fact everyone who came was because I liked what I did.
What surprises me most in essence, is that so much talent that just has many followers, but the bulk of which is unknown ... I understand that's what you mean by underground, but at some point artists need recognition. The recognition is good for your art because you can continue to do so, the vast majority of musicians, especially in the Hip Hop, have a parallel life ... we rap in the evening with friends or on the weekend,
week but sometimes we have to take the shit to hit we do not like (laughs).
We are clear that the purpose will always cling to the slogan of 'sharing good rap volatile', but before that is the innate spirit of competition the emcee. Being so, who succeeded in you a greater level of self?
One that surprised me most, that was the least cache and pulled out a flow of death ... it was Jonas Sancho, I demanded that I really work much harder the flow on that topic, although Gran Rah also the issue that we have an amazing flow and lyrically the UB has an extraordinary mind. I think everything was a requirement, but if I have to say a I say to you Jonas, especially that of everyone involved is having more low-profile productions and records everything, but no records, despite having the tremendous talent . He is the "sleeping giant" as I put in a new gringa page (laughs).
Throughout the process discovered " something was missing Seo2 and were unaware that without realizing it? Was the Supreme incomplete omnipresent?
If you'll refer to it, one of the objectives of the album was back to my roots and not lose credibility street rapper identity. I think when one is in these areas more farandulescos or so surrounded by lights, fame and beautiful things, for the Hip Hop is an environment where you throw all flowers, all applaud you and tell you that you Bakan for everything you've achieved ... but lack the rough side is the side street, the root of rap. That's what this album has left me and I felt that I lost, back to the roots, back to the street, back to make a rap out of pure love of rap.
When I listen to your productions, I can not help getting stuck in phrases like
"do not know anything and I question "
or
" if I do not criticize most new emcees " . Also I've seen you live and do not always have the best response from the public, then I assume at this point for you is not surprising rejection of the scene much remains to you. What do you think that this question be? Is
For love of the rap
a way to reconcile with the new school? Is it possible that your performance throughout the drive to achieve reverse this situation? Here are two things, I think there is a break in the rap generation Chilean general, the fact that there was a school where we had access to the media, live a boom that never was really into rap ... like that has continued in that sense, there has been a boom again. This made us posicionáramos as another layer, something like between human and gods, to say the form is not good ... I believe we are a different status and the truth is that this is not so well, I I am a normal person who needs to eat, need to get dressed and everything. So said they are two-three, because I also envy the one hand, many people in the new school are as intimidated by all this and on the other side is that they do not understand because they have not lived and have not had a chance to live , then it appears to us we were not really rappers, we were not their world ... despite what they are experiencing them today we live. I was at Mapocho, I was in the street, I was in a place making beat-box with a box of wine ... I lived the same, except that at my age of 34 years, singing lyrics that I do not have to feel goats identified teens and twenties. I think with For love of the rap to accompany me for all these people who are crazy people who are as dedicated today are those who hear the new school they grew up basically ... listening to me, they respect me, they are like the middle generation, are the "idols" of today's rappers, then with this unintentionally show them to the new generation I'm doing the same as the others and no longer rap . Here in Chile there is the fear of losing community identity rapper rapper, so I missed it the first day I had to bring a suit to go to work in an office, then going to "Another Life" and I was dressed like a rapper like the rest of the hueones. About all, if one day I rap with a group of friends who are rock because they invited me I will not stop being Seo2, rapper ever ... I joined because I wanted to do a mix, period.
now independent thought or vision that can keep people ... what happens in the head of one of the pioneers of the movement over the years has not been producing rap when faced with these reactions? More so when you keep billing work for free and without sacrificing quality and can easily take your address book and see the economic benefit to the music. Why is it raining Ana Tijoux flowers while you criticism?
(laughs). Well, that I have always found extremely unfair (...) The Ana is a rap icon, I should be the same level of her for being her companion, the two should be in them. I do not know, I think I've always demanded more rappers and I find that unfair, but at the same time also allowed me to keep doing rap. This is not because I want to receive applause, hueones I can mess up and I'm going to do rap and that can not be anything but love this. Not only do this to prove anything to anyone, rather I could turn off the microphone, turn off my computers ... and live happily here in my home. To me rap is not providing me any money, I do not bring anything that makes me live, but it feeds the soul and I still do that.
In January this year was the pre-launch of this project in the Sala SCD Plaza Vespucio, in that chance could you check in-situ way of working of this new scene that share disk, but I remember that at some point said "
with you anymore ..."
To put in context to readers, it was because of the chaos that existed in dressing among other things, this finally being the main focus for the public rather than the same scenario "was a risk to run hit with this sub-world? Does it affect in any way your initial aims with heavy artillery? Does the lack of seriousness can be a drawback for the new school and its claims to emerge from the sewers?
Dolores was actually more scared that day, I laughed no more (laughs). I expected a little disorder in the beginning of the concept of heavy artillery had done things with artists like Seal Vafe Aquilestraigo Sinsimil Jhous or Mc's ... and had problems with the professionalism, not the talent of the goats because that is undeniable. Obviously not at the same pace myself and not have the experience, there are things I did and I never want to live, then I knew more or less what I expected, I've been in dressing rooms of big events where I met with newer openers . Also I have experienced, for example when the Coup them started going well, we were going to fool hueviarlos to the dressing rooms and there we stayed until we cast. I expected it and when did this happen Dolores challenged me because I had a thousand hueones up in the dressing room, but my answer was what you expected? We had to let him live, I would be next to the stage relaxed and calm because I like to concentrate before playing and if they want to take your beer, if you want hueviar, if you want to sing ... he is happy, that is the maximum I can have recognition from my peers, because otherwise it would be if they had been all bitter or stressed. I think they need to realize at some point you have to put a limit, they have the need for this more serious, but most of the artists you like hueveo is our nature. Maybe I'm more serious and in fact I think That could be bad, but there is also the fact that very few people are doing in a professional manner, taking it as a profession of truth that leads to more like a game for everyone.
not why I got frustrated, I felt it was all good, I did more than anything to try and work all as motivated to go on to soundcheck ... I think those things are more important than if they were blown up, if hueones are flown and are able to perform 100% above the stage is good for them, I for example I can not smoke a dick before getting on stage because I forget the lyrics, but goes into each one. Obviously could not have a dressing room mine and split the dressing room backstage between the serious and the dressing room of laughter (laughter). I try to share a little experience I have ... I live like an old po '(laughs), I'm married, I live with my wife, I know ... I worry about things like having food in the dressing room before the crest of example, but are hueás (laughs).
Something that caught my attention is strongly aggressive cover art. I mean the fact of seeing a Seo2 wearing luxurious clothing with the belt buckle with your name and other details in the attitude very typical of Chilean identity in an album that is to say, is pure Chilean identity. Without judging, I say I was struck by the fact of reminding the school Seo2- times
The wind rose
in your concept of image was more low profile and be a symbolic figure at that time. Tell me about this position ... why do you identify with this image at this moment in your career?
Look, I've always liked the clothes, I know that does not make much sense with the rap, but stupid for example balls swelled to buy me a hat of Ryders and wanted the jacket that cost twenty times more than my parents could afford ... obviously I bought it (laughs). When I had the opportunity to do so I started to do, in fact the first thing I did when I got the silver Makiza was to buy the clothes that go out on the face of disk, which is branded clothing: Levis jeans, shirt Tommy, Nike shoes ... I used to get dressed with jackets and wool hats ... because what I had when I had access to something that was. I've always liked, when I prepared for
video The wind rose not go out dressed like that because it was the first clothes I wore in the day, was something that I thought and put it on, I've always been a little pretentious in this regard. I like to preserve the image, I think an artist is everything and can not do anything to chance, there are some who prefer to graphics, some do not like to show his face, others get angry face in the picture and others like to hang out with goats taking ... all in the long run is an attitude and thinking that ideaste concept. I have a friend who is very good photographer, he's Felipe Cantillana and I took these photos, graphics Alme did ... I think that is neat is part of my personality, all my work will always be neat, clean and perfect. I see rap videos Chilean and suddenly think why the goats did not care about their pilchas know it's his personality, but ultimately worry about your clothes combined with the background colors ... you see some art direction at work? That is so called because the rappers in Chile they lack, they do not in their videos or on their covers, is something that I like to do, because I work in a marketing agency and I move on it.
The apparel is nothing new, out is ... how you dress is part of the Hip Hop culture, I know that here in Chile there has been and is obviously a problem for Lucas, I have sponsored and give me clothes, I'm happy and I put in new clothes, so if it's something that I managed to rap after years of being hueviando (laughs) - I feel that it raises the hair on the move in general and not only me, is not to be reviewing other caratulas to do something that makes me feel that I look better than the rest ... I do, I like to be careful. I think there are things lacking in the Chilean and far rappers is not talent, but is caring for the detail, is to work a little more (...) we can export our music, which we fail to do because it lacks those details , anyone see any cover art and it seems that is made in the 80 for example, the stuff has to be seen as the music of those who are doing hueones outside even though it's a pure shock had to do to make it look attractive here and abroad.
Heavy Artillery is now for download, I'm interviewing four days since it was released into cyber space, the discharge rates are high and growing. I know that with 20mil Act generated a little misunderstood by the final edition of the beat, as originally
almost Much
For love of the rap ? What pros would like to highlight and what was missing?
I was missing pieced together with some artists, but it's hard. I after being the director of business development and dad, only after I can devote myself to the rap and is less time then I can devote to share with all these people who helped. The method was generally working well, I think that professionalism is something that will be acquired over time, for example when I had to ask the beatmakers instrumentals and asked them in a format that had not asked any of the Other artists with whom they work, is because I work with people who not only do I mix the disc to me, but it also mixes a disk Quillapayún please you. Quirino Rios works in a professional manner in the way it works in the major leagues and I like to get to that ... then I could not ask for bases mp3 with a L and R, I needed the bases for clues, each sound separately because we were going to get into a Protools and mix to sound really, anything that you put on your mp3 and if it comes after a gringo topic achunche not (laughs). That is something that happens a lot, after the Chilean gringo topic you have to turn up the volume or vice versa, he suddenly lost with the bass and drums are one ... all those things I like that are bitches. The move needs to professionalize and that happens because they are scared ... basically which shows the disk why I came back to this? I did not want to stop feeling love for rap. Not feeling that you get is a machine that turns this into a routine, for example in year 89 I wanted to be a rapper, and pulled in 98 official albums ... many years doing the same, then it becomes a chore in you see always the same people, your approach to work becomes a script, but instead when we left it was not, was all super free. You have to keep a balance so as not to lose that, I think it is fear that has the rap community ... it happened to me a little, but I think it's never too late to sit down and recap. What I now was the same creative process when we did the second album of Nemesis, we wanted to get a bit back, see what we did not lose the essence ...
If I remember correctly, that particular job was also released by the label Spain
Estaochungo
... what about use of those old contacts and expand the limits of the Big Guns?
Yes, they supported us once. We must go step by step, I have some friends moving in Colombia and Venezuela, the idea was to then generate connection. We have created a small catalog of rap Chile where I am the host, and beyond what anyone might say, I am a familiar face, then I can get to other places ... because here in Chile rappers see me as "pop" or "commercial" (emphasizing the quotes), but I'm still a hueón out underground. The idea is able to show this scene in a professional manner, so that a second volume, power and internationalize and work with both local artists and artists from English-speaking gringos other countries if possible. Although the format is not mixed as a mixtape, DJ B-that is encouraging and probably soon and have a mixed issue. All these are ideas that you have to work step by step as I said, I have also personal projects as a new ep with Origenbeats show in which four new songs and four remixes of tracks we already have, besides my next solo album is already I am working and will be produced by Nick Calaveras and besides I'm moving to produce a disc Mc Nauck.
In conclusion, I know your point of view about the benefits it can give your hard culture ... How can this initiative to unify the generations, potentiate and complement our scene?
is important to join the move, do not know at what point I lost my way and I did not worry about that ... I think that's when you get a little older and you lock yourself in your life, you end up seeing different perhaps. Some people have to do it, I know some have already done it before and Zaturno for example, that when Mista was the first thing I did was call his neighborhood friends and throw up, which cost him a lot, finally ended up doing it alone and threw the towel over it. We have the oldest experience that might never be repeated, the fact that you sign a major label ... again be the RAP of Chile, like what happened with Mista. These experiences are good to share and show them, but beyond that the labels tell you shit with money so worry to do something else rather spend your energies by sending demos, is the fact spur you to do your own thing independently seek sponsorship, raise funds, raise money with gigs. These are things that one has to share, I know that most would like to live the experiences to draw a conclusion, but we must also take all of this that is already built it but it serves to relocate the Chilean rap 25 years if not We have learned nothing. We talked the other day with Lalo Meneses; it's a guy that long had many differences and are now in the same boat, we can talk one on one very good way ... I'm understanding that at some point I'll have to remove the rap, I do not see old doing rap, I'm not old yet by luck (laughs). I know there are a legacy, to take another role within the rap ... go around, shaking hands with groups, go to support new talent. I did it in his time with Cevladé, it was with the people of the Demosapiens, when we found someone good so we climbed to the projects, Van Buddha Makiza got into disks and Nemesis, the same acid Sound ... everyone did what wanted these tools that we share, because we do not teach them anything, they all knew rap, all were people who came with this desire and talent, we can only share what they learned.