Interview with Duns Broccoli

I do a lot of online researching. What my wife would call wasting time on twitter or facebook or tumblr or the google machine, I call interactive understanding. I educate myself like a day dream. One link leads to another, to another; so forth/so on.

Every once in a while I come across a gem. Like this fun little ditty here:

Going by the handle Duns Broccoli, the rapsmith caught my eye with his interesting viz and funsome rappage. But also: The #yeg.
I immediately recognized WEM because I spent some time crying in the same food court in which some of the vid was shot. It hit home. Right in my home hole.Next thing I knew, I was e-mailing Mr. Broccoli to see if he was up for a quick little interview, because that is what I do. For some reason, when I see something interesting I like to draw attention to it. It is the hipster in me. The hipster in me that I make fun of when I make fun of myself. As my wife would say, I’m a hipstercrit.

Anyshoe, here we goo:

When did you start writing music?

In high school this kid named “Philly-D” received mad cred when he battled some other guy in the gym. I thought that was cool, so I battled him and it was pretty lame but we became friends.

I didn’t start recording until about 2011. I went through a break-up and I was writing emo love raps. Long story.

Are you from Edmonton?

Yes I’m from Edmonton. YEG780BROGUY Laurier Heights, JP2006.

How do you conceptualize your videos?

I think “What’s the most Edmonton thing I could do?” and then I get my friend Charles to do all the work.

Who are your mentors/influences?

My mentors/influences… This is a hard question. I have to give props to my friend Thew Zastre for teaching me how to sample and mix. Musically I like DOOM, Nas and Gang Starr above all else in hip-hop. Outside of that, I’d say Daniel Johnston, The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

What is your joe job?

I don’t have a joe job.

Where do you want to go with your music? Do you see a future or are you just doing it for the creation?

I want to make a cult with this and rove the street at night causing a shit disturbance.

Do you have cohorts? People you usually work with/record with?

Cohorts, I have a few. Shouts out to The Little Scrappy Fetus Crew, Philly-D, Bad Charles, The Bearded Kid and The Beautiful Beast.

Do you have any other creative outlets?

Yeah, I was the World Yo-Yo Champion in 2010 and I also paint, draw and do whatever else needs to be done.

(No shit agent Jensen Kimmitt)