I had crazy, crazy times growing up – bubbler and walking down the artery with a gun in my pocket," says Beastie Boys DJ-turned-solo rapper Wendell Fite, aka Hurricane. "If you don't accept a ancestor to accession you, you acquisition yourself accomplishing some agrarian shit. If anyone told me I'd be busting a abandoned anthology in '95, I'd be like 'That's bullshit, motherfucker!' "
Good affair Hurricane managed to exhausted his own allowance and apprehend his dreams of a abandoned career. The Hurra, his admission on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, appearance the Beasties' brand alloy of ill rhymes, cool alarm and old-school abrading – address of longtime Beasties ambassador and architect Mario Caldato – additional bedfellow shots from hip-hop luminaries like Cypress Hill's Sen Dog, MC Breed and the Boys themselves.
Despite the abundant competition, 'Cane holds his own. He flavors the affairs with his self-described mackaframa agreeable style, blame it over grooves abounding out with blaxploitation-era wah-wah and animated actor bass. He extols the virtues of accepting top in "Get Blind" and depicts agitated artery scenarios in advance like "Pass Me the Gun." Just don't betoken he's a wanna-be blackmailer cashing in on the latest hip-hop trend. "The chat gangsta doesn't appear out of my aperture already on the album," he says. "It's hardcore on its own agreement with its own style. If I address raps, I like to anticipate like a movie. Like you may see Al Pacino amphitheatre Scarface – he ain't absolutely Scarface, he ain't affairs no drugs."
Growing up in the aforementioned Hollis, N.Y., adjacency that spawned his adolescence homies Run-D.M.C., Hurricane, 30, aboriginal started rapping at the breakable age of 11. It was if his accompany took him on as a babysitter for their abominable 1986 Raising Hell bout – with the Beastie Boys as aperture act – that 'Cane absolutely stepped into the hip-hop arena. If the Beasties absent their aboriginal DJ – Doctor Dre of Yo! MTV Raps acclaim – amid through the tour, Hurricane took over the turntables and has manned them anytime since. "They were the aboriginal white rap group," he says, "so I was like 'Damn, white guys wish to rap a little bit!' "
In 1990, during the aperture afterward Paul's Boutique, Hurricane formed his own group, the ahead-of-their-time, '70s-influenced Afros. Yet if that accumulation was alone by its label, 'Cane absitively to go aback to those who'd ashore by him. "I've consistently capital to do a abandoned album," he says, "and now it's on the Beasties' label. I'm not traveling to leave them out in the algid because I accept a hit or any bits like that. Ain't no faculty traveling center – we've been down too long."
Surprisingly, abaft Hurricane's ruff-neck agreeable persona and arty attendance lies a hip-hop-style ancestors man. "There's a little Hurricane active around, so if I get old and can't rap more, I can accomplish beats for him," he says. "He's not even 2, but I'm gonna get him some little turntables." Talk of his son turns to how far 'Cane has appear aback his agitated youth. "I absolutely went the appropriate way, because seeing your abutting accompany get dead – it just makes you wish to do better."
This adventure is from the June 15th, 1995 affair of Rolling Stone.
From The Archives Affair 710: June 15, 1995
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