Prozak has been a mainstay at Tech N9ne’s Strange Music for the last few years and released numerous projects to positive reception from fans.
Sitting down recently with HipHopDX News Editor Soren Baker, the rapper explained where the title for his latest work, Black Ink, came from.
“The title Black Ink came from a lot of things actually but essentially I was watching a documentary and there was a gentleman talking about the moment of death and he had actually passed away for five minutes and he described it as black ink being poured into his eyes,” he said via a segment of today’s (October 8) DX Daily. “He used the analogy, like right now if you were to close your eyes it’s dark but you still see some light and he said when he passed away there was nothing but black ink, just pure blackness. That just stuck with me… To me black ink is everything.”
Prozak also talked about why he incorporates a lot of dark subject matter in both the lyrics he records and the beats he uses.
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“It’s just a morbid sense of being human,” he said. “I remember being a little kid and watching Night of the Living Dead. I snuck up and watched it when I wasn’t supposed to. I couldn’t figure out what are these zombie things. Why are they coming out of the ground and it was explained to me that when you die you get buried and [I asked] ‘Well you don’t die unless you get killed, right?’ And they’re like no, everybody dies. I was five/six years old trying to understand that and that just kind of triggered this.”
Watch the full DX Daily below:
