RM Artist E.Bushido does an exclusive and in depth interview witha blog across the Pond in The U.K. called
Mad Good Music. The twenty three year old MC talks his childhood, his path to music, Relevant Mindset, working with other RM Artists, and more. Read snippets of the interview after the jump.
My brother, welcome to Mad Good Music! For those who don’t know, who are you, where are you from and what do you do?
Thanks for having me. The name is E. Bushido and I’m currently residing in New Jersey. I’m from many places along the Atlantic Coast starting with Atlanta, Virginia and Philadelphia just to name a couple spots. My dad’s job forced us to move fairly often. I think all of those moving experiences, making new friends, new styles and just from being in new areas have contributed a major part to my music. I pride myself in being a versatile artist and I believe a large part of that is from living in many different places. I think not having an allegiance to just one area has allowed me to push the boundaries and make music that isn’t geographically specific.
Last year you released a dope project, Katana Overture. We noticed a lot of the songs had a samurai theme, something often associated with the Wu-Tang. Did you take influence from them? Explain the whole samurai thing.
Thank you. I’m a Wu fan, but I didn’t really get the whole samurai idea from them. I’ve always been interested in samurais, whether it was learning about them in school or watching shows like Samurai Jack or Afro Samurai. Growing up, I had some identity issues from moving so often. I’d try to fit in and I’d adjust to my surroundings. Eventually through high school I came to the conclusion that trying to change for people is pointless and I then started to just be me and that’s actually when I started rapping. I was EB at that point and I did a song with my brother KyoTo Jones called “I Against Me”. Then my entire musical mindset changed. To this day, that is one of my favorite personal verses and it set the bar that I wanted to continue to match and even exceed. That’s when my name changed to E. Bushido. I felt like a different artist and I wanted to embody what I was about within my name. The Bushido Code was something I believe in and strive towards, and I believe everyone should. That’s the condensed version of how things came about (laughs).
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