You might have answered the next question but there might be some fans who are skeptical of a rap act on the bill.

I went to Mayhem Fest and motherfuckers were coming up to me talking about “I respect the fact that you’re here.” I was like “Are you fucking crazy? I listen to this music too motherfucker!” I know it’s not common for ghetto niggas who come from Blood gangs to listen to metal or rock like that, but I do, so I know what some people are thinking, like “Rap? What the fuck?” But when I hit them with the kind of shit that I do, it’s undeniable. There’s motherfuckers who don’t fuck with rap period and there’s a lot of metalheads who don’t fuck with rap that fuck with Tech N9ne and I’ve heard it so many times over the years ever since we started: “I don’t listen to rap music but your shit is dope.” You listen to rap music then!

Do you think you’re going to be converting some more Technicians at this show?

Every show that I do, whether it be a 2 Chainz show or a Slipknot show, I’m going to always convert people into Technicians, if they’re not already. That’s what my sole purpose here is for. When I do Bonnaroo, that is my job. When I do Rock The Bells or Paid Dues that is my job – to turn these motherfuckers. You don’t turn everybody. Everybody is out there looking at you like “What the fuck?” By the time we get off stage they be like “Huh…that’s some shit.” You know what I mean? That’s my sole purpose, is to turn all these motherfuckers into Technicians. I am diabolic and this is my calling, to make non-believers believe.

Can we expect more festivals and shows like this from you in the future?

Yes. Yes me and Travis and Mark have been talking about it for years and now when I did Musink Festival with Travis Barker, Ross Robinson brought the guy that’s over Coachella and he was like “Why the fuck is he going on this early? He’s a real act!” or something like that. These people are coming to see me. They’re getting a whiff of it. They’re seeing what’s going on in Forbes, they see what’s going on in Billboard. “Fragile” woke a lot of motherfuckers up like “Whoa, God damn! How are they doing this independently?”

Now more than ever we have to show out even more. Imagine the pressure on me for this album because it has to be bigger than Something Else and Something Else had “Believe” on it, “Fragile”, “B.I.T.C.H.”…everything. I got to go even harder because now they’re all waiting for something else after Something Else. So we’ll give them Special Effects because we’ve already let motherfuckers know that we can do music, now it’s time to play with that shit. Effects and shit on the vocals. Just trying to create new things or do things that we wouldn’t normally do in verses and flow patterns and stuff like that. This is the time for us to go as far as we can go with our imagination. Here we go.

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