Bizarre’s latest sit-down with Kid L covered his new album, Detroit hip hop roots, and the pride of seeing FoulMouth’s beat land on Eminem’s “Antichrist”.
The D12 star has also reflected on his track record of supporting upcoming talent, milestones like topping the Billboard charts with “Devil’s Night” and scoring hits alongside Eminem.
Producer FoulMouth joined the conversation too, fresh off his placement on Eminem’s “The Death of Slim Shady” with the song “Antichrist”. For him, the experience was surreal:
“It was incredible. I couldn’t have been any happier. You’ve seen Eminem’s process. You don’t hear the songs. We know it’s coming, but we don’t even know what the shit sounds like. So, when it hit, to me, that was crazy. I got teared up, man”.
Bizarre remembered the moment just as vividly: “We didn’t know it was going to switch beats. We didn’t know that the transition was going to happen like that. He knew the song was Antichrist. At the end, it was fading out, so he thought he didn’t make it”.
FoulMouth explained how nerve-racking those seconds were:
“Well, ’cause ‘The Dance with the Devil’ part was originally on another track. Here’s things I can talk about. It’s actually half of the hook for the original song that we did. That part, when it shows up on the other beat, it takes 7 to 10 seconds. And I literally stood up and I was like, ‘I didn’t make it. They just did business with me. This is crazy.’ Bro, you know how long that 7 to 10 seconds was, listening to him rap on a beat, completely different tempo? That part, ‘The Dance with the Devil’, was on that track, man. He just sped it up. And that’s genius. That’s producing when you’re not making the beat. That’s incredibly well put together. I would never have thought he was going to start doing that part of that track over that part. It was mind-boggling to me because it was a whole different tempo. But it took a minute, man. I was pretty scared there. That 7 to 10 seconds felt like 5 years, and I didn’t think my track was going to kick in, and my heart sank, and I was like, I’m out. I had a lot of thoughts by then. I thought, ‘My friends are going to call me and they’re going to be like, “Hey, we listened, but we didn’t hear you”. I was already thinking all these things in 7 seconds. And then the beat kicked in and… It’s crazy. It’s like a dream come true. You aspire to get as far as you can, and then you get to the pinnacle of the top three hip hop artists of all time. It’s undebatable. You can’t beat those moments. That’s as good as it gets”.
For Bizarre, helping FoulMouth reach that level was something almost spiritual:
“I felt like that was like a duty for God, an angel or some shit. To take a kid who basically just was in his basement grinding, and for his first ever placement to be Em. I’ve seen him grinding. This dude doesn’t go to bed till 8 in the morning. Every night he’s going through samples”.
It’s not the first time Bizarre has helped artists gain traction. Over the years, he has backed Obie Trice, Yelawolf, King Gordy, and more, often introducing them directly to Eminem. He remembered exactly how it happened with Obie:
“Obie had a buzz in the street already. People kept telling me about him. I hit him up, and he came by my crib when I was living on 7 Mile. He kicked his rap about him being homeless, and I’m like, damn, bro, I got to take you to Marshall. I got to let Marshall hear you. So, I took his demo to Marshall, and the rest is history”.
Now with “HGG5” out and FoulMouth’s “Antichrist” placement bringing him recognition, Bizarre is embracing both his own career and his role as a connector in Detroit’s hip hop scene.
