Interview w/ Creator of MURDER DOG Magazine

[STEVE]

Interview: Murder Dog’s Black Dog Bone on Hip Hop’s Most Successful Underground Magazine | Red Bull Music Academy

this is an interesting read. i always dug MURDER DOG and learning about how it started was eye-opening. creator was a sri lankan who was in punk bands in iowa writing about some of the most obscure hip-hop of the time.

if anyone has old MD scans Perhaps you could enlighten Me

 

[STEVE]

I had a girlfriend [who lived] in Iowa. I met her in Sri Lanka when she was like 15 years old and we kept in touch. I’m a real letter writer, I always write letters. She was going to school in Kansas and said, “Come down, my parents will sponsor you.” So I collected a little money from all my Holland friends, sent $200 to her parents and they sent me a ticket to come to America.

She was going to school, I went and met her in Kansas, stayed there for a few weeks. I ended up in Iowa, living with [her] parents. They kind of adopted me. It was a Jewish family and they had a furniture store. They got me this job to do yard work. I’d rake leaves, clean the roofs, whatever. I had a three month visa as a tourist. I’m like “I’m not gonna leave, I love America!” I went to New York, I went to Kansas. I love this place. I don’t give a fukk what people are saying, I love it. I was working for these people who had this huge mansion, like a 40 room mansion, and I told the couple that I had a visa as a tourist and I might have to leave soon. “Don’t worry about nothing, my son’s a congressman.” It was Jim Leach. They called Jim and… Story over. He called a couple of schools, got me admitted, got me a student visa. I’m here then. So forget about school – I’m in a punk band in Iowa.

 

[Stir Fry]

Bump for a great interview. Came here to post it myself.

 

[shakobe]

http://www.murderdog.com/archives/1999/jayz.html

 

[Mac Casper]

There was a Murder Dog Mac Dre article I wouldn't mind seeing the scans of if anyone's got them

 

[ZEupTWN]

how does this only have 3 replies

great fukkin interview though one of the best ive read in awhile....dude whole life story is crazy as hell, seems like a very real person who seen it all who has genuine love for the art.....but anyone find it weird how secretive he is doesn't even mention the punk band he played in back in the day, weird might not be the right word but fam must really have some major shyt going on the side(he kind of gets to it in the interview) or just a really private person whose protecting himself from potential shyt he might have got into to .....there is literally nothing out there about dude at all on the web no pics, info, social media, wiki..just a black and white promo pic with his contact info from years ago...... truly a international man of mystery, underground as they get

There was a Murder Dog Mac Dre article I wouldn't mind seeing the scans of if anyone's got them

there was a dude on instagram who had a bunch of exclusive scans a couple years back....
they must have pressed the dude out and forced him to delete the shyt cause he didn't last long...but i think he was tryna sell them cause they only showed parts of the interview