Why the name Rapping Bastard though? Well, “I just be rapping. I be rapping all the time, non stop. I rap to myself in the car, I rap in traffic. I hear a beat and I don’t want to pay attention to the lyrics, I’ll start rapping. Being alone, nobody to father you into that type of position, it’s the rapping bastard,” Spencer explained. He started professionally rapping at 17, but remembers rapping as far back as 7th grade.
He grew up on hip-hop, listening to a lot of gangsta rap because of his brother, until he was on his own listening to Redman, MF Doom, Madlib and Sean Price just to name a few. These artists inspired Spencer and his rapping bastard mentality, “a lot of them really influenced my anger, not just I copied their sound or whatever, that’s where I get my ‘say whatever I want to say’ mentality from.”
Spencer and censorship may be phonically similar, but are nowhere near each other. He likes to be able to rap freely and be as truthful as possible. Spencer has a “no holds barred” mentality. “I just go with the flow, whatever is in my mind,” describes Spencer, “A lot goes through my mind, it’s very random. I know I talk about one thing and hop to the next on one song. It just goes to show there’s so much going on and so many ideas, and one of those ideas is not enough for a song.”
“I like to start with the beat. It’s the organic, Vic Spencer way,” he explains. He compares it to getting dressed, and he picks out his shoes (beats) first before getting everything else together. That’s why a favorite of Spencer’s on Rapping Bastard is “Lifegame.” “I was just in the zone when I heard that beat,” described Spencer, “I just nonstop wrote for the whole beat.” Alone in a room with only a speaker, manically writing a joint with no hooks, Spencer felt like the Rapping Bastard. The beat came from St. Louis producer Black Spade, and the concept came from a friend who coined the term “Lifegame.”
There is a bite when he spits. Spencer often gets compared to Tyler, The Creator, and back in the day, was compared to Ludacris and Busta Rhymes. “Owe” from Rapping Bastard may sound like Tyler, something Vic Spencer acknowledges, but he hears himself first, “I start listening to the pattern, I start listening to the anger, I start listening to the hunger in my voice; it sounds so deep as opposed to all of the other voices on The Rapping Bastard […] That was a special song. That’s one of my favorite joints off of Rapping Bastard.”
Spencer explains the intent behind Rapping Bastard as using his head to gain control of everything around him, “Everything that’s coming towards me in the game right now, all the things buzzing around me right now, just seeing that and not being able to be manual with it, so I have to start using my brain more to gain a better opportunity.” He is trying be above all of the chatter surrounding him, and to move forward in his own way above it all. “It’s kind of the platform to the music. It starts from the past. Wanting to be better than what I’ve done, what I’ve accomplished before. I just want to do better, so that where it comes from,” said Spencer.
Vic Spencer wants Rapping Bastard to be an opportunity to the point where he can continue to work outside of his comfort zone if the project takes off. It is a new style and sound for Spencer, something that he finds less comfortable than his previous work, but it’s a good thing. The sound is dope, and while it may be different Vic Spencer, it is just another facet to Vic Spencer. “All of my songs, all of my projects have one specific personality. People might look at it like, ‘Man Vic is the Rapping Bastard, it’s another one of his personalities.’”
Speaking of personalities, Vic Spencer has a moment on Rapping Bastard’s on “UNFWM” where the character Vic Greenthumbs makes an appearance. An alter ego Spencer once embodied to churn out 30 tracks on one project. Spencer admits to having a different personality on his tracks.
Vic Spencer’s work ethic and love for rapping has allowed him continually to produce dope music.
Spare studio time while creating Rapping Bastard meant that there was an opportunity to create more, and thus make a lexicon of tracks. Spencer released a new track every Monday as a promo of sorts for Rapping Bastard called The Red Button Series. He explained the series, “It’s random as hell, but it’s not bad at all. I feel like Red Button did a lot of justice for the Rapping Bastard. It’s like preparing you for the barplay, not so much of the concept.”
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