SoundClick artist: Crusher - Crusher is one of the founding fathers of a faction of Juggalos known as Dead Men. We are like the J

I, as leader of the Dead Men, see myself as a completely unique type of artist. Although I stick with my own style of the wicked sh*** I jump between many styles. Nu-Metal, gangsta, hardcore, horrorcore, spoken word, rock, comedic rock and rap, freestyling, Darkflo (songs like Unstoppable and I Am The Dark), and a couple others. If you'd like to see more of MY material including videos, check out this link
http://www.youtube.com/user/CRUSH3Rdlux

My two other Dead Men champions are Ya Boy Timmy, and Juggalo Trent aka T-Homicide. Here are some links to their channels including our Dead Men official channel...

Dead Men Official Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDeadMenChannel

Timmy
http://www.youtube.com/user/hepneri

T-Homicide
http://www.youtube.com/user/juggalotrent

Also, one of my closest friends that I've never met, Trevor hall. This man came through for me when the entire planet left me for dead with a broken ego. He made quite a few beats for me including the amazing Shadowwalker track. Here is a link to his channel, and you might want to check out some of his other website, he does great internet work.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Idkfawin32

That about sums up who we are.

Why this name?

My name was given to me by my sensai during a trainign match. I took Karate when I was younger and while training for my blackbelt I was sent against 3 blackbelts as an intense excercise. I roundhoused the first opponent and quickly crouched and hit the next with an uppercut as I stood up into him. I never noticed that I had knocked the first person out, and the second stumbled back and fell to the floor. Because of the type of person I am I immediately apologized. My sensai smacked me and said "Don't apologize! HE should apologize for letting a smaller person with a lower belt knock off his feet!" He said "I couldn't help it...when he hit me....uhh....it felt like I was being crushed..." From that point on I was known throughout the cherryhill region as Sempai Dave "Crusher" Farrell for being both powerful and honorable. That is where the name originated.

Do you play live?

I play live performances when-ever and where-ever I can. I can't say I enjoy the performing part, but talking with fans makes EVERYTHING worth it.
Now, one 'special moment' was during the Moorsetown show. I was standing on top of an old rusted pickup truck and jumping around. The truck couldn't take to much more so I decided to hop off. At the end of a verse, I jumped onto the door which broke off and I never stopped my flow. The crowd thought it was all planned out, little did they know, I was busting up a car I didn't own and the door broke by accident.

How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?

Holy shit, yes. The industry has its ups and downs from digital downloads. I really don't see a need to explain, for if you're here ya probably like the idea of NOT having to go out and buy shit.

Would you sign a record contract with a major label?

Well, It all depends. A label contacted me once, and thought I was stupid enough to accept only 9% of the total income from my music...if a label takes notice that I am NOT some sheep for them to just add to their flock, then yes I'll sign with one.

Band History:

When I was younger I was very VERY skilled with poetry. During my first year of high school I noticed that rap was similar, and I was good at that too. I Made a few tracks by recording myself drumming on a desk and making noises on my cell phone, and then would play that "beat" as I rapped into a generic ass $5 mic that you get with your computer unit. I slapped it ont a cd and people were willing to pay up to $20 for it, and then come back for more. I knew I was doing SOMETHING right. My father didn't live with me and my mother and my mother was like a bi-polar watch dog when it came to helping me. Our conversations usually went like this...
Dave: "I...I wanna get into music"
Mother: "Wow, that sounds cool! What kind?"
Dave: "Its not really important, mom."
Mother: "Tell me, cmon."
Dave: "Its eh....ehh... rap.."
Mother: "F***ing no you are NOT! that f***in rap sh*** and their (yiba yea yea f***in bi***es im black and im gangster eh eh eh)"

That was often how it played out until she started to notice that my friends who didn't even like rap were backing me and saying I was good. She finally met a Talent Agent who she befriended. One day she said "Pack your little rap music sh*** up, you're meeting a talent agent." I was blown the f*** away. I asked her if she was serious and upon seeing how excited I was she replied in a happy sarcastic tone "Yep, that way someone can finally tell ya you arent eminem and you might as well give up and move the f*** on." hahah...she had no idea what she got herself into there...

Upon meeting the agent, she listened to a song of mine and began laughing and looking into the hallways. She went silent, looked at me, laughed again and started checking the halls again. She asked me "Who helped you make this?" I stared back and sincerely told her, no one did...she went silent, looked at my mother and said "This is a joke right? I mean...this is really good...there is no way he even wrote all this by himself...did he?" At this point my mother's grin of sucess washed off her face.
Her eyes popped and she looked at me and told her "Yeah...he...he made everything there."
She was even more amazed and looked me up and down. She went on for a moment about how hard it was to believe that I had written, let alone performed such works. I'll admit, its hard to think that a chubby white boy can flow like a rampaging river, but it happened. She said to my mother, "I think he could be the next eminem even.." and the look of shock was priceless. Finally, POINT ONE FOR ME! But no...I was wrong....
My mother simply said "I always knew he was talented, but I never imagined he was THIS GOOD!" That was one of the most painful things to sit and watch...my dignity was being trampled inside, but I said nothing. Either way, I pushed on.
Later I progressed, still being punished for liking that "rap shit" and so on. I started college and had made a new homie that played a particularly important role in my upcoming, my fam Brian who I met through my agent Sheila. He helped me stay in the game and not just submit like I always did to what my mother commanded. I stayed true to what I saw for myself, and it has continued building, even now. But during my college years, I hit a point where my shitty equipment wasn't enough, I had very little support, and almost no resources. Thats when I met Trevor Hall.
My man Trev gave me my first professional beats (shaddowwalker being the first one) and I could never explain how grateful I am. I still talk and work with him and do koRn covers with him, but if he hadn't appeared when he did, I may have given up. He gave me strength when mine was depleted. We continued to work together and I got better and better at my craft.
Soon I hit another wall...Trevor was buckled down with work, my equipment STILL wasn't sufficient, and my family life was in absolute chaos on a public level now. I learned about how to use the schools Garage Band (although they were against me using it for the real reason I was using it) so I had to quickly and quietly create synths and drum beats. I taught myself everything I could about the program. I eventually rendered a track with EVERY drum tap on it and emailed it to myself. I have been using that ever since. But this was not enough, I still had a difficult time creating the music without any guidance on how to perfect the use of this equipment, and then....I was 'done' school. Now I had no help, and no equipment able to make a professional sound. That is when I met Timmy and Trent.
At this point I met a couple guys who loved my music. Each of them asked to collaborate with me and I was always down for sh*** like that, so I agreed. Me and Timmy made a couple really good songs (the Undeath, and Undetered Killer which you can find on Timmy's youtube channel) and thats when I got the idea to put all three of us together! Why the hell not? So I proposed the idea and a name, and soon after we recorded a song called Necropolis...our

Your influences?

Most people will be slightly confused here but....Insane Clown Posse and Eminem are the biggest, followed by KoRn. Yeah, you read that correctly, both "feminem" and the "insane clown pussies" are my biggest influences.
In total, I am a huge fan of both horrorcore and nu-metal.

Favorite spot?

Tipton's Pond...right near the intersection of River Rd and Cove Rd in Pennsauken

Equipment used:

Sony Sound Forge 9.0 $30
Sony ACID Music Studio 5.0 $35
LogoTech Headset Mic $50
Makin haters look stupid... priceless

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