Former member of Strange Music Kutt Calhoun was featured in DX Daily and explained how Tech N9ne represents his hometown of Kansas City. He says initially, the Strange Music leader was the flag-bearer for all things KC, but then the city had a hard time identifying with him.
“I think what kind of start of making it dissolve away, you know when Tech was just being Tech and wanted to do the face paint and wanted to do the red hair and the spikes and stuff,” Calhoun says in an exclusive interview with HipHipDX’s editor-in-chief Justin Hunte. “To where a lot of Kansas city, ’cause Kansas City is generally all street all urban type of Rap and even though people mess with Tech like that, just the same as in the industry, it’s hard to kind of back something that has a imagery of something that’s different.”
The independent rapper continues by saying the city supports Tech N9ne and understands his impact, but is still looking for a more complete representation of the culture.
“KC’s behind Tech, but at the same time, they wanna see more of a distinctive, permanent imagery to represent Kansas City because I live there, man,” says Kutt Calhoun, whose Kutting Loose EP is slated for a July release. “I listened to the streets. I hear everybody. They’re behind him. At the same time, they’re behind him from a distance to where it’s like, you ain’t gonna know just off the top, but if they tell anybody else from out of town, they gonna mention Tech because you ain’t got no choice to because he has done and the label, Strange Music, that I was on, has done more than anybody from Kansas City could do. But at the same time, man, that’s just how it is. The imagery thing plays a major role in it. Tech’s gonna be big whether KC’s 100 percent on the bandwagon or not. He’s still gonna do his thing.”
For additional Kutt Calhoun coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
Very true. Im Kansas City born and raised. Love Tech & happy for him. He was the 1st local artist i ever heard in elementary. Always used to see him and say “this dude is weird” BUT he’d have a bunch of people excited to be around him. So fast forward almost 20yrs and the world knows him. However, if you wanna see Kansas City look at Rich tha Factor, Fat Tone (RIP). We dont do colored hair or talk weird like him. We still salute Tech and he’s from one of the toughest hoods (he ran wit real gangsters) BUT Tech’s music and style is his own. That aint KC. This dude in the article tho, i’d never listen to his music
I believe his style being his own is a greater look, why fit in when you can stand out, but I can see clearly where your coming from.
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Never got why Tech didn’t drop more shit like that joint he had on the Gang Related soundtrack or a lot of the shit he did with QD III. It’s okay to do that wierd shit someetimes like the rapping to a machine gun beat, but a whole album of that shit? GTFOH.