An interview of Rammellzee that Ed Gill did for Mo’ Wax back in June 1995.
This interview was set up and recorded in the dimly lit studio in the basement of Mo’ Wax by the sound engineer, John. We sat on the floor and recorded to a DAT. The interview was originally longer than the half hour that is transcribed here, but sadly the master DAT was only ever dubbed on to one side of an audio cassette before being misplaced, leaving the interview cut short forever.
Rammellzee was not so much iconic as iconoclastic. MC, graffiti artist and rebel theorist, he left an indelible mark on early hip-hop and graffiti culture, as the friend and foil to Jean Michel Basquiat, with whom he recorded the seminal and hugely influential ‘Beat Bop’(a highlight of Charlie Ahearn’s film Style Wars).
But as he describes in this interview, Rammellzee was friend to no-one, a fierce individual who rebelled against the form and meaning of his medium, developing a theory he dubbed Gothic Futurism, which described the battle between letters and their symbolic warfare against any standardizations enforced by the rules of the alphabet.
In this extraordinary, sometimes incendiary and utterly compelling interview, Rammellzee lays out his theory of Gothic Futurism, wind tunnels and how these developed into a new phase of his visual worked, which he called Iconoclast Panzerism.
He was pioneering through music and art and came up through a gang culture at exactly the right time - the late 1970′s. He applied his theories to music and visual art and was able to become saturated with both, which made him interesting
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