ArtistInfo

Nightbreed

Band,
Hip-Hop/Rap

From a Ka interview with Diamond Media 360: "After [Natural Elements], I took some time and joined a group with my boy Kev. His rap name was Oddbrawl The Lyrical Juggernaut, which indeed he was that. One of the best rappers I ever came in contact with. He was my best friend, but he was also a phenomenal talent and I learned a lot from him. Taught me a lot, just working on different styles – you know, he was a genius a far as i’m concerned. He was rhyming backwards and would do all types of fly shit that wasn’t even in my head to do. We had a group called Nightbreed, never had an album out, but we dropped a single, “2 Roads Out The Ghetto.” We tried to get signed, we just didn’t make it. This is in the mid-90’s and at the time, this is what some people call the “Golden Era.” At that time there was so much talent out that you could get lost even if you were dope. You could pick any and everybody and they would be dope, so we got lost in the shuffle. We just felt like maybe we should get jobs, you know be family men and things of that nature. So that’s what we did, we quit. It was a tough decision because we both loved it. We said we quit but as an artists, lyrics keep coming to you so everyday I was struggling with should I be doing this, should I not be doing this? You know fighting myself like this is a young mans dream. I’m older now, need to be responsible, you know, do what everybody else is doing: go to work and live your life until you die type shit and I just couldn’t do it. I felt like I was dying everyday, I wasn’t rhyming and I’m hearing shit on the radio like…you know it was tough, I wanted to hear my own music. Luckily I had the support of family and beautiful friends that were just like ‘Yo just do it, fuck chasing a record deal.’ And I did. It took a lot of courage cause I’m older now, so you know the diss at one time was you 30/40 years old and rhyming. Those were disses, doesn’t even matter if your dope or not. Just looking at your age like ‘look at this stupid nigga still rhyming.’ So i just had to put that shit to side and say ‘fuck what people say, I’m just going to my thing’ and I did."

Members

	Kev
	Kaseem Ryan