White Wolf

Hardkoornografie

You can put a name on your album but to be hardcore takes more then just music.

In ART12 #8, I wrote that I couldn't relate to the music of White Wolf. Wondering "why". I got the answer when I walked them to the subway station.
Samp B.: "Is this The Netherlands?" We live in the same country but in a total different world.

After two cd's came number three. A cd that I can dig. They sound more grown up. Samp. B: "Well I never knew what I wanted to do. After 'De Posse' we had a record contract for an album. We did it, and right after it I thought it could be a lot better. Same thing with "Bij Nacht En Ontij".

In the business where the sales aren't big you don't have to warn any A&R man to be careful what to put out and to keep an eye on the costs. Samp. B, C.MC and DJ PWB first recorded 6 songs before going to DJAX. Proving they had material for album number three. Miss DJAX gave the green light. So here is Hardkoornografie including a video track.

Samp B.: "Before we started recording, I moved out of my parents house to live on my own with my girl. Now everything became a lot more serious. That made clear for me what I wanted. I want to have fun! This is the first cd that I still like. Instead of the others which I very quickly didn't like." They look what their idea's are and look what the fans want to hear or how they want it. That is how it works. Come with an idea and work it out before you start.
Samp B.: "Make sure the organization is tight.". Other people come up with an idea and think step two will come easy". Well... they have it wrong. Samp. B: "Thats just the point where all the problems start."

In the music you can hear DJ PWB is growing. PWB stands for Power Brain. On the first album the sample choice was quite childish. On the second album a lot more original samples. And on this third and also his first Breakbeat album (DJAX BREAKBEATZ #4, ed.) he got into diggin in the crate where you can find dope flava's. DJ PWB is leader of SL Troopers. A crew of 4 dj's: DJ Sopa, DJ Champ, DJ DNS and of course DJ PWB. Cutting up records and bringing a show of their own. On the solo tip he's busy trying to win the Turntablized championships. At home he has his own professional recording and production studio. Finished his sound (engineer) education and started it up officially. "So my father and I first put in a concrete floor in the barn." Big ass question mark above my head: "Barn ?! You think that it's safe while you're in your flat?". DJ PWB: "I live on a farm." Aah, that explains. Stupid me, not everybody lives in a flat. And when he wants to he rents it out to other artist. DJ PWB: "Only if I like them."

Samp B.'s second project is the "Vrijsprekers" (Freestylers, ed.). With a very simple concept, 'Call a subject and we freestyle'. But not that simple to do. But he's a master in freestyling. What are your influences, with which cats are you hanging? Samp B.: "It sounds stupid but I really don't talk with anybody in HipHop." You hardly run into Samp B. at a party. He is some head and shoulders bigger then me, moves like a still not full grown human and misses the b-boy stand/attitude/mind. I know him since the first days of 'De Posse'. So we go back a while...

In Goes I meet Caz One Production Crew, the break dancers. And guess what! It's DJ Wan 2 of 24K. He also breaks! A b-boy I really know a long time. Man, with One Two and the other cats from Eindhoven fun has no-limits. Eindhoven is the gezelligste (Coziest, ed.). With DJ Wan 2 it's like instant fun, just add some attention. With other words: some old b-boys on the loose. And hey, we have some markers, we have some, almost, clean dressing room walls... Hitting with no running, yes!

Well..., No. That last one wasn't totally correct. Hitting, no running and (shit) paying'. Samp B. was really pissed of. Not even to speak about the venue manager. DJ Wan 2: "It's HipHop. It is a tradition. The manager ain't gonna complain." Well he did. Samp B. came up with the idea that everyone who did some writing had to pay. Of course the White Wolf crew had no writings on the wall and every sticker of them was putted up there by me. He was very easy to handle by the venue manager. And even worse: he asked me to step in his "office" (the showers) and gave me a lecture. Samp B.: "AQ, can you understand that you gave me this bullshit?!". Yes of course I can understand! Since when does HipHop bring no bullshit or no problems?! So I had to pay f15,-. It's nothing. But Samp B. showed a lack of b-boy mentality. Guess the skills are there, but the soul wasn't. I don't think Eric B. and Rakim will ever know if Samp B. got it.

AQ's big ego tripper: "Why did you use the 12 from ART12#7 logo in the illustration of your third cd?" C.MC: "The designer asked us to write down everything what we think Dutch HipHop is." Thanks guys!

AQ