Interview with Bass Nacho (posted on (06/29/05)

If you gave Bass Nacho 10 eggs, he would put them in
ten different baskets. Do you get the analogy?

Now, if you watch enough TV, read enough self-help books or listen to a lot of
reggae music, you probably know that there are two types of people in this world:
People who talk about the dream, and people who live the dream.

Nacho on the Nacho:

"Everyday when I look around me I see people living the dream, but on the same
count I see a lot of people who just talk. However when I see real cats doing real
shit it reminds me of the dream, and dreams are compatible with real life, if you
work hard enough you can be who you want to be.

"I grew up in Miami and Jamaica, and there is a few things about Bass Nacho
you all need to understand:

"First of all, I'm not a rastaman, I don't claim rasta, I claim "the son of a rastaman".
So, I grew up on the road, watching my father perform at reggae parties, to be honest
it's pretty much all I can remember of my childhood, the god damn dread running up
and down stage with non-stop energy and perfect breathing control. My father really
set the tone for what it means to be a performer in my eyes.

"My father is my biggest musical influence, him and that girl from The Cranberries,
oh yeah and a few weird Spanish singers and producers you wouldn't have heard of
even if I mentioned their names.

"I just gotta remind everybody that I am really a teddy bear, as you can tell by the
Cranberries and the ladies, plus the fact I only really watch the Cartoon Network,
is that a dead giveaway or what?

"Music was always around me and it was only natural I would make my own, I don't
know how many of you out there know this, but I can play guitar, keys and drums.

"Since I was in Miami it was only natural I would get up on a hip-hop tip, my first
real group was Kings of Kings Music with my brother Sugga Caine and the family.
We did a lot of southern crunk music with people like Dirtbag, Cool One and Dre,
cats who have made it big time now, but we all started out on this little ghetto
youth gangster rap vibe, at the time I was doing a lot of personal bodyguard work
and door security at clubs.

"I wouldn't have gotten turned onto jungle if it wasn't for Dre The Emperor.
At the time Dre was a pretty well known Hip-Hop and Jungle Drum and Bass DJ
in Miami. I gotta big up Dre, PIMP!! Players Into Making Profit. The man gave
me this little jungle tape that had Navigator, Skibba and Det on it... Well
you know what, I just fell in love with that style of rapping and there was
something about the little reggae feel the beats had... This was something I
wanted to do.

"To be honest I have always been a secret raver. I used to finish work at the
club, grab a couple of nice ladies and go hit the raves and just dance, dance
dance!!! I love techno, I love house and I love Jungle, I am a hyper dude and
having fun is totally me.

"Shouts to all my intergalactic ladies, and shouts to my three headed bitches
I keep under the stairs, I can't make love to them, but I feed them and they
protect me in times of danger, hold on, can I make another shout out to the
ladies!!!!

"Jungle Drum and Bass is a combination of all the music's I like plus, rapping
and singing and getting hype on top, I love it!!

"I have lived in New York for the last three years and been a Jungle Drum
and Bass MC for the same length of time... Miami is a beautiful place, and
that's exactly why I had to leave it. The place is perfect, everybody is
loaded, the ladies are beautiful, always sunny...NO ONE GETS ANYTHING DONE

"They just want to party there, no one wants to make some real moves. In Miami
I mostly hung out with the children of famous people and funnily enough in
New York it's the same. However New York is very business oriented, up here
I have a tight circle of homies who aren't content to rest on their parents'
reputations, these are real niggaz who are ready to put their shoulders to
the wheel and make their own names on their own terms.

"I had to make the move, you know the move you hear about on TV. It was either
Los Angeles or New York City and I chose NYC as the place I would go to. The city
in which I shall make or break myself..."

Since arriving in New York City, Bass Nacho has appeared on five jungle
vinyls (two on his own label Blacklist), released two Junglevibes.tv DVD
documentaries, as well as holding down a three year residency at Konkrete
Jungle and regular out-of-town and overseas tours.

"Right now my focus is mending things. I see a lot of disconnection between
the realms right now, the way I see it we have Ragga, Jungle/Drum and Bass,
The Underground, TV, UK, America and things just aren't gelling properly.

"There is a big hole in the fabric of things and I want to seal it shut and tie
everything together the way it should be so we can be family. I want to see the
UK and everywhere else getting on. I want to see jungle and raga work together
and we should all have our tracks on television soundtracks, over ground and
underground merging together as one.

"A lot of you out there don't know this, but my family connects are very deep
and I am bringing them to the table, using them to help advance and push this
culture and music to the next level. We got a lot coming up, collaborations
with Ray Keith, Knowledge and Wisdom, MC Navigator. The jungle volcano is
about to erupt, right now we are underground fucking with the fire and the
lava, fucking with the fire and the plates, but that's all going to change
soon, very soon...

"New tracks with Stada, Blacklist 003, my brother Sugga Caine from Kings of Kings
music, B.G from Cash Money Records, new artists are coming to the jungle fold,
artists you never would have expected to hear in this genre. I'm doing some hype
Spanish sounds, plenty of reggae with Liondub, Terry Ganzie, Fragga Ranks. Expect
to see material from me dropping on labels out of Canada, the United States,
Europe, New Zealand and more...

"The circle is close to complete, the family is finally getting tight and has
stepped up onto a real business level, everybody is down to work and no one
is trying to sleep around with anyone else who sits at the table...

"Jungle music has brought me some great times, I've been fortunate enough to
take part in some amazing performances and events. The big highlight recently
was doing the MC Convention in London at SE1 Club, Konkrete Jungle was always
incredible when I was resident there, playing in LA with Reid Speed was another
special moment for me.

"I just love it when you look out and see that sea of happy faces smiling and
singing along, especially the people with their eyes shut, just grooving,
just focusing on the music and itsvibe and feeling.You know I have multiple
personalities and I gotta let them all out in the music, they all need their
time on stage, if I don't keep them happy they'll start fighting and gang up
on me. Peter Pan, Dr Hook, Captain Hook, Jekyll, Hyde, Darkside, Nacho, Jerry...

"Oh damn, I almost forgot...
My favorite jungle parties are the big naked jungle parties that happen in
my bedroom, me and 14 ladies, sometimes 16.. It's hard, life is ruff, but I
gotta practice and be on form every time...

"Can I make another shout out to the ladies, and I have to shout out my father,
once he was performing with Inner Circle and he got me up on stage and I did
a song with him - that was pretty cool!!!

"Oh yeah, can I mention that I love all races of women and see beauty in them
all, but I don't try to sleep with every women I meet anymore, cause everything
has a natural lifespan and I don't want to wear my penis out too fast..."

Bass Nacho would like to send some props out to the following people:
Human?, Lukie, Father, Brother, Chubbi D, Cowboy Ranger, Jr. Dangerous,
Shabba, Paul Ibiza, Knowledge & Wisdom, Ray Keith, Nicky Blackmarket,
RCola, Liondub, Don Daka, Navigator, Million Dan, Demolition Man,
Pepperelli, Taktik, Stada, The Alien and Monkey, Alfredo and Family,
People-link.org, Survivalnyc.org, Dead Prez, BG, Terry Ganzie,
Johnny Osbourne, Fragga Ranks, Sotto Bless, and all my ex-bitches
and my future ladies.

Interview by Martyn "Souljah Sensi" Pepperell


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