Adelaide-born rhyme-slinger Allday, who recently tried to tap Shannon Noll for a collaboration, has recently been busying himself over the in the United States, touring around the flat fifty and dropping a few bars for Mark Ronson.
He’s even found time to stir a little controversy. Speaking to Paper Magazine (you may know them as the folks who ‘broke the internet’ with that Kim Kardashian cover), Allday gave a less-than-stellar appraisal of the Aussie hip-hop scene.
“A lot of Australian hip-hop is trash,” he told Paper. “It’s not current. It’s a sham. I feel like to be in hip-hop, one of the things you need to be is effortlessly cool. The best hip-hop artists ever have been icons of culture and fashion as well.”
“People forget that you have to have a part of your personality that really makes you stand out. That’s a really big part of it. This is what separated me from these other dudes. Not that I think I’m cool, but I always did what I wanted to do and that resonated with my audience.”
“I’m not going to do anything different, just to become a rapper. I’m just going to be me. I’m going to hang out with the girls in clubs, I’m going to go to rock shows AND I’m going to rap. It’s about being you, and the more complex, the better.”
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As triple j reports, the emcee later clarified his statements in a series of now-deleted tweets in which he explained that he doesn’t feel like he belongs to a scene, though he doesn’t begrudge anybody making music.
Elsewhere in the Paper interview, Allday revealed the extent of his drug use around the time his 2014 debut album, Startup Cult, was released. According to the rapper, he was using his record advance to buy “cocaine, ketamine, MDMA”.
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“I was going out a lot and I burnt through a lot of my recording budget, which is what you have to do,” he explained. “I mean, no one is making solid financial decisions with their record label advances.”
“I was just addicted to the process of always getting high. I was just getting through a break up and adjusting to the fact that more and more people were recognizing me and knew who I was.”
In exciting news for fans, the rapper also said that he’s been writing prolifically whilst in the US, and that some of material could be ready to hear in “a couple of months”.
