Where are you from originally?
St. Louis, I moved to California in 2004, about 5 years ago

Fan Question:
Nic from Atlanta – In previous interviews you named Bjork as one of your favorite artist, will we ever hear any electronica influences in your music?
Never say never, I would like to do that. I don’t know though, I’ll take it how it goes and how I feel. I see myself going in the direction of like the Massive Attack type shit, with a little Bjork influences but still staying true to my sound as an emcee.

What’s your creative process like? Do you write verses then go into the studio or vis versa?
Basically I listen to a bunch a different beats all the time. When I’m getting ready to start a project I’m listening to like thirty beats a day until I find something that I want to get on. Then the beat starts talking to me and the lyrics just come. It’s very rare that I do lyrics without having a beat first, it’s happened before though. Matter fact the last verse on “Very Bad Things” parts of that was coming to me without the beat and once the beat came I was like lets throw that in.

What mainstream or underground artists/ producers would you like to work with?
As far as producers I would like to work with Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley. It would be cool to fuck with Just Blaze, definitely DJ Priemiere. Shit it’s a bunch of mother-fuckers, I love Mad Lib. Let’s see and yeah and I wanna work with Bjork but she won’t return my phone calls—If you see her tell her to call me back *laughs*.

I know you went to film school and you were involved in that arena for a while, if you weren’t rapping and or decided not to rap anymore would you go back to film or would you go a different route?
All my life I thought I was going to do movies, I thought I was going to be a screenwriter and what not. But, when I turned 16 or so I was really into hip-hop and it was always about the flow for me more than the beats. So I knew that a part of me was into that, but I went for the movie thing. First off, I was gay so it was like no point in me trying to rap because that wasn’t going to happen. So whenever the music would come up in me, I would push it down and repress it and try and do the movie thing and focus on that. I don’t know if read this anywhere but my brother is a rapper. So I had a lot of familiarity with the studio even before I started rapping. I would go to his sessions and what not. But you know, I went to film school, graduated, moved out here. I was working a Fox, I worked a Paramount for a little bit and the music thing kept calling me. *laughs* I would write songs and rhymes and think to myself “the fuck you writing for?” Then I stumbled upon the Homo Revolution and I was like well fuck, shit why not? I mean and you know I was a younger dude when I trying to push music to the side. A lot happens to you when you get older you think in different ways. I’m a totally different dude now. I don’t really care if I make it, I just do this because it’s the only time I feel alive. *laughs* Like now I’m just giving music away for free because I just don’t care, but at some point, I do have to care. The next mixtape is kind of about this, Not for Nonprofit. I do have to start making something soon just if to make more! That’s kind of the theme of the mixtape.


I know you changed your name from Napier to Last Offence, where did the name Last Offence come from?
Napier was like when I was—I wouldn’t call myself like a straight rapper when I was Napier but I wasn’t out. So I knew I had to recreate myself. I came up with a few names and Last Offence was one of them. I stuck with that one because when I was going to come to the game I was only going to do one album and just leave. It was going be like this offensive “piss everybody off” themed record. So my name was heavily related to that. You know, the first offence is the slap on the wrist and then the last offence is the chair. *laughs* Honestly, I kind of wish my name was something different now, it’s too late to change it now. I thought of some new names and I was like “fuck, I should’ve went with that.”I like the nicknames though. *laughs* (i.e. Lasto)

Fan Question:
Donald from Atlanta - “So Magical” is my favorite song, was it inspired by someone in particular or was it strictly fantasy?
It was inspired by someone in particular...*LAUGHS*...

Break (You're tired of hearing it), Bury (You love it, you want to share it with future generations), and Buy (It’s coming out soon and you gotta have it)?
Break:
Hmmm*laughs* Anything with T. Pain—nah let me think—*laughs*Yeah, just go ahead and put T. Pain.
Bury:
Life After Death, mos def.
Buy:
Walle

What can we expect from your upcoming album, Red Rhetoric?
You can definitely expect more in depth shit, I’ve been holding back on getting too personal especially on mixtapes. Expect for me to get really honest with it. Red Rhetoric is a term that I created that defines all the shit you shouldn’t say. I’m saving the most offensive and most personal for the album. In terms of sound, I’d say it’s hardcore with a few kind of poppy records. I’m going to let it all hang out and get kind of nutty, you know. It’s a little bit out there, the first single is crazy it’s got this heavy drum knot with electric sound over it.”

What was your coming out process like?
I came out to my mother when I was 18. I had a fight with my brother about me being gay. I went to my mom, woke her up *laughs*. I told her my brother said he would basically disown me if I was gay and I was like well I’m gay. She was really cool and I stopped being angry. *laughs* Once I told her, I didn’t tell anybody for a while. Then once I moved out the L.A. I told all my friends and then all my cousins first. Then I got tired of saying the words so I just let word spread. *laughs* My one regret is that I’ve never said the words to my father. I’m not afraid to tell nobody, you know what I mean if he asked me then it would come out easy as pie. I’d be like yeah. But to bring it up and try to talk to him when we already have strained communication as it is not easy. And I must say since I’m older I don’t have as much of a need for people to know. You know, when you’re younger it’s like “I need to come out, everybody needs to know so I can feel better and ladidadida...” But when you get older and you pay your own bills and you got your own life you don’t really give a shit. I don’t hide anything but telling people isn’t an emergency.

Are you still coming to Atlanta in May?
Hopefully, I’m trying come for Atlanta Pride with In The Life Atlanta. I won’t be coming with Mondo Homo in May. I really want to come to Atlanta! I’m definitely trying to do as many shows as possible. I am close to finalizing a show in Jersey.

So when is the mixtape coming out?
It’s coming in March.

What’s the one thing that you want the world to know about you as an artist?
I’m not a just gay rapper, I’m an artist more than anything, I’m basically sharing my human experience and that’s what really matters.

I love this guy!
-chase.


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