Well – I have to say that this was one of the most interesting and provocative interviews I’ve done in a long time. First of all, a duo such as Twiztid carries with them the name and the rapport that may make some journalists turn the other other way. I’m not one to back down from a challenge, and voila! I had a very intriguing, yet stupendously perverted, conversations I’ve had in a long time.
Needless to say, this interview may be under that NSFW category. Unless your employer is totally cool with direct sexual overtones, profanity, and murderous talk, you may want to save this one for home viewing.
Read on if you enjoy something a little different…something a little out of the norm…something a little off center, something most definitely TWIZTID!
How are y’all doing today?
Jamie : Doing good how about you?
Hanging in there.
Jamie: So you’re going out tonight? Trying to get lucky?
Heck yeah! What you mean by “trying”? There is no try in this game.
Jamie: Wow
Monoxide: It’s a lot easier for woman. I think a woman can do anything that she wants, and make it happen. An ugly woman can walk into a bar and walk out with a guy. An ugly man can walk into a bar and that motherfucker is walking out alone.
Jamie: Going home to masturbate!
Monoxide: You don’t have to try, ALICE!
Jamie: Yeah, ALICE!
Sorry. BUT, you all can love yourselves hard though.
Jamie: You know it! If you’re going to do it, do it right! Right?
Monoxide: I’m a two-handed kind of guy.
Will make a note of that! Here’s the thing. There are no guarantees when you hook up with a guy that it’s going to be any good. With you all, you know it’s always going to be good.
Jamie: I appreciate you for saying that. That was nice of you goddammit.
Monoxide: Are we talking about sex? What are we talking about? I just want to make sure we’re on the same page.
Jamie: You should probably put your pants back on. (laughs)
I was supposed to wear pants? What?
Jamie: OH! I guess take your pants off, and I’ll take mine off too.
Monoxide: I was going to ask you what that weird buzzing noise was.
Jamie: Come on!
It’s how I roll.
Jamie: I’m not mad at you.
(laughs) Do you want to go ahead and get started?
Jamie: Absolutely!
Your genre has been defined as Horrorcore. Do you feel this is accurate?
Monoxide: We are the anomaly. We are what is known as everything. We are the all-encompassing. To classify us as horrorcore would be wrong. We are the wicked.
You are the wicked?
Jamie: We are the wicked SHIT!
Monoxide: We are the wickedness. We are the darkest of the dark.
Jamie: We are the asses of all light.
Monoxide: We are the hungest of the hung.
Wow. And were not Skyping why? Your following is borderline cultish. What is it about your music/style/je ne sais quoi that evokes that reaction in certain people?
Jamie: We allow them to be themselves. We embrace that fact. We expect individuality, you know what I mean? For everybody out there, who is too one thing and not the other, we take them all. We are like Jesus. We don’t turn nobody away! If you want to be part of this, we love you, and we welcome you with open arms!
Monoxide: Wow. You just said we’re like God.
Jamie: I didn’t say God! I didn’t say Godzilla. I didn’t say God, I said “like”. You feel me? You feel me over there?
I can’t. We’re not on Skype.
Monoxide: What is that buzzing noise?
Jamie: I heard it!
Why do you keep asking? We all know that you know what that buzzing sound is!
Jamie: I’m sorry. Indeed.
Monoxide: Honest emotion: be it anger, be it horror. Be it whatever it is. It’s earnest and it’s genuine, it is relatable. As crazy as it may sound to some people, it is very relatable for most. You just have to be honest with yourself.
Jamie: We are like an audio medicine, of sorts. We help out in those bad times.
Monoxide: We are the ones who say he is I! (laughs)
Jamie: (laughs) YEAH! Holy SHIT! That was great! I love it!
I can feel it! I can feel the love!
Monoxide: You’re feeling it now don’t ya…Ooh yeah.
Maybe it’s not the “love” that I’m feeling, but…
Jamie: Indeed. It’s all good in the same! (laughs)
You will be starting your own label. Can you disclose the name yet?
Jamie: Not yet. Not yet, because we are still working out some minor kinks, as we like to call them.
Monoxide: Making sure the copyrights and the whole thing to be intact, because we don’t want what happened to WWE…
Jamie: …to happen to us. That’s right!
Monoxide: We’re just making sure that everything is lined up and when we release and launch this name, you’ll know.
Jamie: You’ll be in the top five of the first people to know. We’ll have you all tied into the e-mail that says, “boom, we’ve done it!”
What made you decide to go in this direction?
Monoxide: Because the music industry needs us. They need innovation. They need different. They need the next 25 years of music. That is us.
Monoxide: The next 25 years of entertainment. Fuck music. Music is merely a part of what we do. Jamie: And we can provide that!
Jamie: That’s right. It’s just part of the vehicle.
What have you learned during your career that makes you sense that you will be successful in that endeavor?
Jamie: We’re very watchful. We are like sponges. We soak up a lot of things. We’re not going to say that we know it all…
Monoxide: Nobody does. For the last 15 years, we ran Twiztid. Though we were on Psychopathic Records, every decision and idea, everything was done by us. We are just going to apply that same knowledge to us, and other artists. I’m not trying to take anything away from Psychopathic Records. They had that trust in us.
Jamie: And if they had that kind of level of trust in us, then we must have been doing something right, because we are still here, and were going to do it on an even greater scale.
Monoxide: We are going to have something everywhere.
You’ve also recently released a couple of EPs. The frequency of your releases has increased within the last couple of years. Is this in reaction to the current state of the music industry, to satiate fan’s demands, or to satisfy your own artistic needs?
Jamie: We were going to have to pull away. Just the creation of the record label, and putting all that stuff together, and the movie company, with just all of that, we knew that there was going to be a time where we would leave the scene for a minute. So, in order to keep everybody’s attention, this is what we did. We started releasing music, because after you boil it all down, that’s what they want. So, we could keep them occupied enough so that we could take care of what we needed to take care of, and everybody’s happy. It’s a win-win.
That’s great. I like win-win.
Monoxide: Unless what you want to take care of is MURDER!
Jamie: OOOOOoooooh!
Monoxide: And then somebody’s going to LOSE!
Jamie: MUAHAHAHAHA!
Monoxide: Music writing is the easy part. Going in there, writing a song, is the easy part. The hard part is getting people listen to it and to actually accept it for what it truly is. That is the toughest part about being a musician.
Jamie: That’s our daily challenge for what we do.
How do you overcome that?
Monoxide: You don’t pay attention to it. You do what feels right for you.
Jamie: Stay the course.
Monoxide: Right. (laughs) Stay true to yourself, and you should be all right!
Awesome. The song “Deep End” off A New NightMare speaks to the topic of suicide. I noticed at the end of the video that you offered a suicide hotline and offered the site befrienders.org. Why this topic, and why that particular philanthropic organization?
Monoxide: We’ve dealt with suicide before.
Jamie: Absolutely.
Monoxide: Unfortunately, it’s extremely prevalent.
Jamie: The reason we put the information at the end, is rather than trying to be the “cool people”, and always trying to capitalize off a horrible thing, we want to actually stop it. First of all, all of those people are important, but more importantly, to us, they are parts of our family. When you hear that, no matter who it is, where it is, it hurts your heart. If you could do anything to stop it, why wouldn’t you? So, we tried.
Monoxide: People don’t understand that their lives at 15 and their lives at 25 are going to be quite different.
Jamie: Right, you gotta tough it out!
Monoxide: They put a little too much weight into it.
Jamie: We’re cut from a different cloth Monoxide and I! We are from a different time, so we understand that. We see it. We go through it. You know what I mean? We hear about all these people through social media, “My friend committed suicide!” and it hurts your heart, because you could’ve helped. We dealt with the topic, and in a tasteful manner. At the beginning and end of the video there are quotes from actual people from social media saying, “I was going to kill myself, but because of you guys, I didn’t.” We hope that that can be a ray of light, and show these motherfuckers that there are other options (and killing yourself is not one of them).
Besides seeing these people reach out to you, have they reached back out to you saying, “Thank you,” and that it had been an option, and because of your music they chose not to end their lives?
Jamie: Absolutely! That’s how we know. There is a lot of that. When you hear people tell you again and again that your music saved their life, and that without it they wouldn’t know where they would be, that’s the greatest thing you can hear.
Monoxide: Everybody could be here because of it. Lady Gaga could be here because of it.
Jamie: Absolutely, and if she is, she needs to be thankful too, because that means we are all here collectively for a reason, and it’s to do what we do.
Monoxide: It’s something way bigger than music. It’s way bigger than us.
And on behalf of the suicidal Lady Gaga, we thank you.
Jamie: Hey, you know, we thank everyone who gives a fuck. Let’s put it that way. Lady Gaga gets no print in our article, THIS IS OUR TIME! THIS IS OURS!
I’ll make sure to let her know.
Jamie: Do you know her? Ask her if I can puke in her mouth.
Monoxide: I want to do something else in her mouth.
Ummm, alright. How do you feel your music has changed over the span of your career? Has it matured or evolved in any way in which you can describe?
Jamie: We are always evolving.
Monoxide: We’re better songwriters. We pay more attention to the laws of music, which is something we didn’t pay attention to before. Things like making sure shit’s in key, the right tone, the right style of vocal that you’re using. Everything plays into a part now, whereas before it was like, “we got the beat! Go in there! MURDER MURDER MURDER!”
Jamie: We are still the same people, but our sound is now perfecting. We are always a work of art in progress. We’re always trying to get better. Even if we think we got it, in our minds we are, “we can do so much better. Next time! Next time! Just wait! Next time we’re going to levitate.”
Monoxide: That’s so true!
Jamie: That’s just how we are. That’s the drive that we have that keeps us where we’re at mentally and physically for what we have to do. Always fucking ready like a Duracell battery!
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Nice. Levitating, like a Duracell battery.
Jamie: No no no! Levitating BECAUSE of the Duracell battery!
I think you’re confusing that Duracell battery with that buzzing sound.
Jamie: You had to come full circle. I didn’t want to go there, but you did.
Monoxide: You’re a tough kid, you’re still going. (laughs)
(laughs) Like the bunny. You keep going.
Jamie: You’re a “take your time” kind of girl.
Monoxide: I like it.
Exactly. You’ve also dabbled in acting: Big Money Hustlas and Big Money Restlas, as well as Over/Under. Will you be adding any further acting to your cinematic repertoire?
Jamie: Suuuure!
Monoxide: Absolutely. We started a movie PRODUCTION company.
Jamie: We did indeed!
Monoxide: We’re trying to be like Tyler Perry in this motherfucker! He’s got his own compound. He can do movies whenever he wants. He doesn’t need help from anybody. That’s the beauty of it: low maintenance. We don’t want to go knocking on Hollywood’s door. We really don’t give a shit about Hollywood! We just want to do what we want to do, the way we want to do it.
So you’re going to dress like women too?
Jamie: If the recipe calls for it, we will do that. Our heart is in it!
Monoxide: Do I want to?
Jamie: No!
Monoxide: No! But if that shit will make a couple of billion dollars worldwide? I’d have to really think about it.
There you go. Put a skirt on and let’s see how it goes!
Monoxide: Oh, I’ll tell you how it goes!
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