Today, Travis Barker released his solo debut, Give The Drummer Some on Interscope Records. The Blink 182 member spoke with Complex.com about his career within Hip Hop, after a career built in Punk and Rock & Roll.
“There’s a lot of pieces to me and if some fans don’t like every piece, that’s okay,” said Barker, who formed Expensive Taste with Paul Wall and Skinhead Rob in the early ’00s. “I got people who were mad when I played the Grammy [Awards] with [Lil] Wayne, Drake, and Eminem. That’s one of the biggest highlights of my life, and they’ll be like, ‘Stop playing this Rap shit!'”
Barker continued that he likes to have musical discussions about Rock with Rap artists, using UGK’s Bun B as an example. Bun appears on two of Travis’ album’s songs. “There’s nothing better than hanging out with Bun B and having him tell me he’s been listening to Radiohead like crazy. I’ve always been a confused kid and I’ve never grown up out of that. I listened to all types of music and no one judged me for it, and if they did, I told them to go fuck themselves.”
Read the full Complex.com Travis Barker interview.
Give The Drummer Some is in stores today.
Do your thing T.B.! Fuck’em up against the wall with crazy glue on their eyes…LMAO…
a lot of hip hop fans od the same thang. they hate on hip hop artists that step outside of the genre…
How in the hell did you misspell do? There is no excuse for that! Even dyslexic people can spell a TWO-LETTER word!
I’m all for someone stepping outside their boundaries, only if they make it sound good and they put their time and effort into it. If it sounds like trash, then I’m not buying.
rock fans are so closed-minded when it comes to any genre of music that doesn’t involve guitars or singing
It goes both ways. I know a ton of people that will only listen to hip hop, and think that their favorite rappers only listens to hip hop.
so you realize you just made a closed-minded statement about fans of multiple genres of music, which you mashed up all together indiscriminately and just labeled as “rock,” right? irony. people are stupid. don’t forget your helmet next time you go out.
EdmontonRDs – that may be true for some, but I’d bet that most hip hop fans enjoy/appreciate soul, funk, or jazz music every once in a while, since our fav genre samples it so much. Just sayin — I’ve hung out with a lot of dudes who are into “underground” punk and alternative rock music who are completely closed-minded when it comes to hip hop, way more than we are of their music
Real shit Travis said fuck you racist bitches hating on rap
Dope album Travis! Dope dope dope!
Already looking forward to your second solo-album!
My favorite tracks are Let’s Go, Devil’s Got A Hold Of Me, Carry It and Raw Shit.
The only tracks that isn’t so good is If You Want To. Lupe’s second verse is weak!
Peace
What the Hell are smoking? Give me some
i listen to everything, except shitty music (like blink 182) and i think what he does is complete shit, it sounds terrible to me, heavy drumming over hip hop beats???? it might work occasionally but a whole album with his name on it? NAWWW ill pass
dude is way OVERRATED, hiphop all on his nuts like he invented the drums
The Game (Ft. Travis Barker) – Dope Boys. That song is hard!
Oh come on man, get off that. This man single handedly put Blink 182 on the map, and guess what…he doesn’t even like their music! It was an opportunity for him to play the drums and make cake.
you mean sell out
No not sellout, thats opportunity. you gotta get in the door before you can start decorating it your way.
Co-sign Hard Dope Boys is dat one!! Trav killed it on tha drums too
NO WHERE does it say anything in that interview about BUN B listening to KID A, stop making shit up, dude was probably listening to hail to the thief or in rainbows,
I don’t know why, but this made me lol
i support dude- he likes what he likes and he’s doing it. and doing it properly from what ive heard and its hard to do this rap/rock genre production wise and networking wise. dudes open minded and is bending genres- thats dope. ill bill shoulda been on it!
HAHA…Fuckin commenters… this is why “fans” dont make music…”Musicians” do…
Yea you right Woody
kiddin me? album is crazy as fuck
Realest thing I’ve ever read!
dude’s keepin’it real, that’s all that matters!!
hahaha rap fans are closed-minded?
whenever a rap album comes out that’s not murdering people, and features any kind of singing on the hooks, it’s labeled “not hip hop.”
whenever a rapper wears skinny jeans, or normal jeans, or anything that deviates from the fashion of a 90’s gangbanger, it’s labeled “not hip hop.” or they’re called gay slurs.
actually, the rap fanbase might be the most hateful fanbase ever towards gay people. the other F word and ‘no homo’ litter every forum. it’s the one thing rap fans and white supremacists have in common – a fanatical, bottomless hatred for gay people. look at how many rappers drop the word f-ggot in their music. how many rock singers do that? or country singers? or pop singers?
rock fans and rap fans are equally closed-minded. and, hilariously, they act like they’re not. yeah, rap fans are so open minded and wise. that’s why they called Kanye’s last CD “not hip hop” and 50% of their vocab is the word ‘f-ggot.’
STFU WITH YOUR HOMO FAGGOT ASS.
your definitely exagerrating. chill the fuck out
mr. truth = closet fag.
lmao ^ all of you who replyed fell into his trap.
But i can agree with you to a certain extent. People relate rappers who wear skinny jeans or whatever to what they hear on the radio because the people who get radio plays wear skinny jeans … Personally i dont like skinny jeans one bit. But people are gunna do what other people are doing .. so keep wearing those grape smugglers and pray to the lord you’ll have a decent sperm count when your 30.
Black people invited Rock N Roll & Hip-Hop so those fans are dumb asses!!!!!
blacks created music period.
yes indeed you should be so happy with yourself man, since your black maybe you could also take some of the credit, try to get a piece of those royalties even. Pat yourself on the back sonny
LMAO ^ i like this guy
I listen to pretty much only hip-hop/rap, but every now and then I gotta play me some Bohemian Rhapsody.
HAHA nice
Bun B listening to radio head, yeah that is refreshing to hear. As far as music goes you shouldn’t feel like you have to listen to this or that. Listen to what attracts your attention or makes you happy or that coincides with what your feeling. Can’t hate on someone for preference with music as far as I’m concerned. Me personally I don’t like to overwhelm myself with any specific type of music. I switch it up. Music is derived from many different things, A good rapper’s work doesn’t come from rap influence alone. Maybe Bun B got his energy listening to classical music or blues.
True words.
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T.I. feat. UGK – Money On The Dresser
[ http://soundcloud.com/hunke/t-i-feat-ugk-money-on-the ]
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2Pac feat. Warren G & Method Man – Moments In Time
[ http://soundcloud.com/hunke/moments-in-time-feat-warren-g ]
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Asheru feat. 7L & Esoteric – Just Think
[ http://soundcloud.com/hunke/just-think-feat-7l-esoteric ]
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Slim Thug feat. Kanye West & Bun B – In The Streets
[ http://soundcloud.com/hunke/slim-thug-feat-kanye-west-bun ]
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If you ask me, Travis is better off working solo. Dude was the most talented member of Blink-182, a band that i can’t stand.
Too bad there’s still close-minded folks out there…. “Give The Drummer Some” is hot as fuck!
you guys act like hes doing something special or creative when any fucking drummer in the world could do what he does, and a lot of them could do it better… if only they had been in a plane crash and were tatted up with a mohawk
So if any fuckin drummer in the world could do what he does, why haven’t they done this already? So yea, he is doing something special and creative cause nobody’s done it like this before. Stop hatin on a mans project just because you don’t like him, or the way he looks… or because there are ‘better drummers then he’. You come across like quite an ignorant dude. So shut it and listen to the album.
I agree, this dude is sooo overrated in the Hip Hop game. Wow he drums along to Hip Hop songs. I’ve been doing that since the 2nd grade to Run-DMC’s “It’s Like That & Sucka MCs”.
@geatarick
you obviously ain’t no fucking good if you been ‘doing that since 2nd grade’ and still ain’t got shit to show for it.
geatarick you obviously ain’t no fucking good if you been ‘doing that since 2nd grade’ and still ain’t got shit to show for it.
plus he ain’t drumming to existing songs like yo unoriginal ass.
In my younger years, I was a lot more insular and parochial when it came to music, and mainly listened to hip-hop. People are mercurial though, and I have a dozen genres on my iPod. One of the factors that lead me to listen to music out side of rap was the TV show Beavis and Butt-head. The show about two metal-heads, affected me, if only by osmosis and gave me an appreciation for alternative music. Nevermind was always in my Walkman, and I’ve since progressed to even heavier rock music like Cannibal Corpse. Outside of rap and rock, I listen to a multitude of genres from country to drum & bass and reggae to Asian devotional music. Bein’ a B-Boy, I have an appreciation for jazz and other forms of black music that have seeped into hip-hop, and I love checkin’ out the original breaks. Bein’ black and street, I have a predilection for hip-hop, but classical music is the one type of music that leaves people incredulous when I tell them I like it. Those two disparate art forms are diametrically opposed to one another, but I like the unadulterated nature that both scenes adhere to.
damn homie must read the dictionary errynight or he speakin a different language? must go hard with the books
insular? parochial? mercurial? predilection? incredulous?
Sorry for the verbosity dude, yeah I do read a lot of books, but my field of work is manual labour, not literature, and hip-hop DX is the only place where I get to express my intellectual prowess. I hope readin’ my blogs isn’t too exasperatin’ and is instead an edifyin’ experience where you can feel like you’re learnin’ something.