On September 9, 2009, Strange Music released a video on its YouTube account showing Yates regarding to his upcoming music video for "Show Me a God", stating that it would be a very serious video dedicated to his mother.[10] The music video for "Show Me a God" was then released through Strange Music's YouTube account on October 2, 2009.[11] On October 7, 2009, a second version of this video has also appeared on the label's account, except this one is in high definition.[12]
Tech N9ne Show Me A God
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When hip-hop live wire Tech N9ne isn't busy co-founding his own record label--the Kansas City-based Strange Music, Inc.--or breaking the SoundScan mark for one-million indie albums sold, or shooting television commercials that lambaste the music industry, or cutting a track for his new LP that features Ice Cube, or inventing his own world-renowned mixed drink (the Caribou Lou), or rockin' shows in out-there villes like Billings, Montana, or surviving near-fatal tour van crashes, or chowing the finest barbecue K.C. has to offer, he's at home hangin' with his three kids. Is this Midwesterner--part Bacardi-addled ladies man, part Disney-style family man--really the next big thing in rap?
T9: That's exactly what happened, man. Black Walt already had a group by the name of Black Mafia. He heard me rap [on this song] I wrote...[called] "The New Breed," my very first rap...I was the new breed back then. He said, "You have a name?" I'm like, "No." And he picked up a Guns & Ammo book, and he's looking at it, and he's like, "AK-47?" I'm like, "Nah, nah." "Uzi?" I'm like, "Nah, nah." "12-Gauge?" "Nah." And on the back of [the book] was a picture of a Tec-9. He said, "Tech N9ne--because you rap so rapidly...[imitates the sound of machine-gun fire] BRRRAP!" I'm like, "That's cool." And he said, "That's what your name's going to be till we find something else." But it stuck--you know what I'm saying? And as I got older and wiser, I peeped how we spelled Tech N9ne, and it wasn't like the gun. The gun is spelled, T-e-c. We spelled it, T-e-c-h. Nine being the number of completion--nine months completes a pregnancy; a cat has nine lives; the whole nine yards... It's, like, my name turned out to mean exactly what I am: technique number nine--the complete technique of rhyme. It's perfect how that happened, much love to Black Walt for that.
T9: Yeah, man. Slick Rick sparked me to really want to bust--you know what I'm saying?--like that. I started hearing reggae artists like [imitates dancehall flows], "Come again/Come again now/what a bye-bye..." Me being in the Midwest: getting it from the East Coast, getting it from the West Coast, getting it from down South--I'm a product of musical overload...you know what I'm shizzlin'? My uncles were really into Lynyrd Skynyrd and Elton John back in the day. Metallica [even]. Everything came: gospel, rock, rap, R&B...and at my shows, it shows.
It's like a melting pot; my music is supposed to be for everybody, and that's why it's irking me a lot that I haven't got to the rest of the world yet. Because that's my goal...true indeed, if I am the complete technique of rhyme: that means I am supposed to belong to everybody. You know what I'm saying? People say, "Oh, these dirty-ass Juggalos [i.e., hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans] come to your shows. Why...?" Juggalos are part of the human body; they're part of everybody. So they've got to find something in me that they love also. So [do] the Technicians [i.e., hardcore Tech N9ne fans], so [do] the Kottonmouth Kings and Queens, so [do] the metalheads...even people who listen to Citizen Cope and Portishead. It's going to be like that...Avenged Sevenfold fans coming to my shows. So it's like...that's my journey, man.
I sacrifice everything for my music. I lost my wife to this music. I lose time from my kids for this music. Everybody I love feels like I stay away on purpose; they don't understand that my role is to be in ten places at one time. I sacrifice all my love for this music, and I expect to get it to the rest of the world, so I can show my loved ones that this is what I've been doing.
You know...I'm just a walking Bible. I come out with the robe, and people think it's just theatrics or whatever. But I'm an angel-slash-demon, man. What makes me a demon is "lust"--I'm girl-crazy, and that's why I couldn't keep my wife. You know what I'm saying? The lust demon lives within me, but my heart loves big. I know a lot of demons come to my shows, as well as angels [do]...lot of demons...
T9: Yeah, Ang-hell-ic, you know? Before there was an album, that was me explaining how I am--I'm an angel in hell--my own hell at that. [I mean] I know a lot of devil worshippers come to shows because they feel my darkness...my pain, but never have I ever worshipped Satan. I've always believed there is a God, and I hope for a Higher Power...
I've done so much, man; I'm thirty-six years old. So if I happen to have an untimely demise--and I don't think I ever will. A fortune teller back in the day...told me in Dallas that I was going to die of old age, in bed, asleep. I pretty much believe that, even thought the gang shit follows me. My block is a Blood block, and I can't shake that as a...man. I've been blessed with people who come to the shows, and they don't want to shoot. They can wear blue or whatever and still love my music. But if I happen to have an untimely demise, like, I trip and fall and bust my head open, or I'm in a car wreck...because I know I won't die by the hands of another man, that'll never happen. But, lately, I've been like, "Damn, what if I say I'm never gonna die by the hands of another man, but what if [I die] by the hands of a woman?" Because I'm so into women, and hearts are always involved, and crimes of passion happen.
But my journey is incomplete [if I die an untimely death], because I want my story [to get out] to the whole world, while I'm here. Not when I'm gone--you know what I'm saying? You will never see a funeral with me. I will never let people come see me laying down, because I'm always standing up. So they're gonna burn me, man. I'm not gonna have no funeral service, or they have to do my hair up and paint me and stuff. But--and I'm staying on the subject--if I happen to go, I will say that I had my kicks before the whole shit-house went up in flame. So, yeah, we're gonna celebrate life like it's our last. Everyday...and we do that with these shows. It's like a big party for me; it's a sold-out party tonight. That's a blessing that I get to tell my stories, whether it be about a psycho-bitch, whether it be about this ring [motions to a ring on his hand], whether it be about how we party, or Caribou Lou. It's a party for Paul Wall and Ill Bill, too. I told them at the beginning of the tour, like, just think of it as...people are paying to come party with you. It's a job, but...we do music. We're blessed to "soothe the savage beast." And that's what God gave me, and I'm having my kicks, and the shit-house is going up in flame as we speak, because we've got soldiers over in Iraq still. So here we go, man. But we're gonna party in the midst of the pain like novocaine. You know what I'm saying? They used to shoot with novocaine, so you could suffer peacefully--you know what I'm shizzlin'? So it's that. They over there fighting for us, loving our music. The soldiers come over here; they come up and say, "I was over in Iraq, we was banging your music." I hear it everywhere I go. Let me go over there. My boys be like, "Hell, no--we ain't going over there." I'm like, "I'll go by myself." Celebrate life, man. I mean it.
[Laughs] How crazy is that? People looked at my face paint, my crazy lyrics, my wild red hair and how loyal and intense my fanbase the Technitions were. They were talking about me being a cult leader. Can you imagine being in a place early on where outside of Strangeland everybody calls you a devil worshiper or a cult leader and your own people -- black people -- are not even coming to your shows? So you do a Rock the Bells show in 2008, with Busta Rhymes, Nas, Damian Marley and Raekwon and everybody is commending you. I thought everybody thought I was a weirdo! That show let me know that everybody was paying attention to me. I created my own lane. I had no idea that Nas and Damian had respect for me. Nas would be like, "Come out on stage, Tech. Rock with me." That's crazy to me. I had no idea, dude.
The cons are that you will have no videos on TV and no songs on the radio. The radio game cost a lot of money, man. I would rather put my money into tour buses, merchandising and shows. Until we figure out if we want to play that majors game again, the way we tried to in 2002, and spent nearly $2 million doing it, we will do it again. The problem is, I don't look like anybody. With my face paint on I don't look like a regular black dude. MTV Jams is playing my videos now, but BET won't play me.
We've been selling out shows for a longtime. But the shows are double and triple now. The places are bigger and we are still selling them out. It's so crazy. I'm seeing it bubble before my eyes. It's growing like a forest fire and it's hard to concentrate because I'm looking out at all the people stacked in there on a Monday night. We do a show everyday. You are not supposed to sell out Las Vegas on a Monday night. We are playing to anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 people. I do over 250 shows a year. It's going to be more this year because we are doing 82 shows in 85 days. This will be the longest tour I have ever done. My fans are great. People call them the new Deadheads. I have the Juggalos that are loyal, I have the metal heads, and the gang bangers. It's a melting pot. 2ff7e9595c
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