I'm sure I was the only dude my age who knew that one!' He explodes in laughter.īefore running down his list of 10 essential rock albums, Tech explains that he finds his pleasure regardless of genre – his iPhone is a cornucopia of styles.

'You know what song he liked? ‘Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight/ gonna grab some afternoon delight/ Sky rockets in flight…’Afternoon Delight, man. I remember him playing Elton John's Benny And The Jets – that was a great one.' He pauses, then snickers. 'But my uncle Ikey liked a lot of different stuff. 'It was the ghetto, so it was a lot of rap and R&B,' he says. It’s beautiful.”Ī lifelong rock fan, Tech recalls being the only kid in his neighborhood who even heard of The Doors, much less listened to them (he named his label Strange Music in honor of the band's album Strange Days). 'This is what’s always been seeping through my music, but now it’s got live instruments with Wes and Sammy, and I've got Alfredo Ortiz, who played percussion with the Beastie Boys. It would appear that the hardest-working man in hip-hop is just getting warmed up.Īnd now comes Therapy, a blistering, riffs-a-plenty rock-metal EP produced by heaviositude specialist Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot) and framed around the unrelenting grooves of Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and Glassjaw drummer Sammy Siegler. Featuring compelling collaborations with the remaining members of The Doors and System Of A Down's Serj Tankian, it's a bravura piece of record making, one which could stand as something of a personal best for Tech, which is doubly impressive when you consider the fact that he's issued 13 studio albums and six EPs since his 1999 debut. Kansas City-based rapper Tech N9ne released his dynamic new album Something Else only three months ago.

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