Norwalk rapper Duece Bug made the transition from hardcore to hip-hop

Duece Bug was actually influenced by The Doors and Steve Miller Band

Not a lot of rappers listen to Tom Waits on their way to the studio, or count the Connecticut hardcore band Hatebreed as one of their biggest musical influences. But Norwalk’s Duece Bug isn’t your typical rapper.

Priding himself on being unique, Duece Bug calls his upcoming album, Fuck Duece Bug, “A little different, a little edgy … It definitely stretches the parameters of conventional hip-hop music. It even stretches the parameters of unconventional underground hip-hop music.” According to Duece Bug, the album features, “Crazy live instrumentation,” including appearances by all of the members of the rock group Edison.

Fuck Duece Bug was produced by Duece Bug and Kenny Cash from Factory Underground studios in Norwalk. With samples from everyone from Weezer to Earth Crisis to the aforementioned Tom Waits, the rapper sizes up the effort saying, “It’s weird, it’s out there, but it bangs.”

Duece Bug’s musical history actually started with classic rock. He listened to the likes of The Doors, Lynard Skynard, the Grateful Dead and the Steve Miller Band as a youth. Hip-hop, he says, was also there, with artists such as Ghostface Killah always having a place in his CD collection.

When he was in middle school, Duece Bug formed a band with some friends. Calling themselves Blacklisted, the group was inspired by Nirvana and similar bands. They quickly found the punk rock and hardcore scenes to their liking. The band continued throughout their high school years, but like most high school relationships, they broke up after graduation. Duece Bug found himself in New York City, at the Institute of Audio Research, meeting a bevy of emcees and producers.

Having written what were essentially raps with his hardcore band and having a longstanding appreciation of hip-hop, Duece Bug decided to create some hip-hop of his own. “After going to school and learning production and engineering a little bit, that’s when I started to get into it, both the production and writing rhymes.”

Duece Bug quickly found that hip-hop and hardcore have some distinct similarities. “I can’t really say that writing rhymes is much different than writing lyrics for hardcore,” he explains. Also, both “Scenes kind of come from the streets.”

Fuck Duece Bug is his second hip-hop project; his first being his self-distributed demo, Consider the Source. While some artists flood the market with albums, Duece Bug floods the stage, performing locally and opening for such acts as House of Pain, La Coka Nostra, Method Man and Redman, Mr. Lif, Reef the Lost Cauze and Ghostface Killah. The shows have been part of the dues-paying process for Duece Bug, who feels so passionate about that aspect of the game it’s the reason his name is spelled with a “due” in it.

Duece Bug’s next show will be his album release party on July 30 at the Factory Underground studio in Norwalk. In addition to Duece Bug, legendary underground emcee Cage will be performing with DJ Chauncey and Sean Martin of Hatebreed. Political Animals will be the opening act. The Rising Sun Quest and D_Cyphernauts are also on the bill, and Ant Farm Affiliates emcee Pruven will be holding things down as the host.

Already excited for the show, Duece Bug says that much like how his music is different and edgy, so is his stage show. “I bring that hardcore with me every time I perform.”

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LLBB (Frizzll)  - What it is????   |2010-07-26 19:00:58 Yea....... What it is? Its Frizz.... Duece is Hip Hop. Duece is Rock and Roll. FUCK DUECE BUG!!!!!! Reply 0   0

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