I’VE DONE ALL SORTS OF WEIRD SHIT when I was drunk with the old dong of mine,” says rapper Charlie Scene. In fact, his band, Hollywood Undead, has an entire song about it, the booger-flicking rap-rock anthem
“Everywhere I Go.” “I’ve done that pizza-box trick before, where you put your little dick inside of a pizza box and then you ask someone if they want a slice. I did that in front of my girlfriend and her sister. She got so mad at me.”
Raised on professional man-children Axl Rose and Snoop Dogg, masked screamo-crunk (see sidebar, page 64) mutants Hollywood Undead give off the vibe of an endless party. When Revolver caught up with them for this interview, the six-man crew (Charlie Scene, J-Dog, Da Kurlzz, Deuce, Funny Man, and Johnny 3 Tears) had spent the last few hours roving around the streets of London, where they were on tour, making their best attempts at British accents (“Cheers, mate!”) and puking out of the side of moving taxi cabs. Somewhere along the line, they had vodka removed from their tour rider because anything harder than beer leaves them too messed up to perform. Their nearly 500,000 MySpace friends may love ’em for the insightful ways they break down tragic love and Hollywood desperation in songs like “My Black Dahlia,” but also because they’re still the type
These six longtime friends, all born and raised in LA, have been muddling around in local bands together since they were teenagers, many of them cycling through the ranks of a System of a Down-hued band called 3 Tears. Hollywood Undead were started one day in 2005 when, on a lark, Deuce produced his first hip-hop track on his laptop. J-Dog rode the subway over to record lyrics, and they posted it to the internet that night—a song that became a MySpace hit almost immediately. “Tom from MySpace thought we were cheating because our numbers were so high,” says J-Dog. “He almost deleted our page.” That track, “The Kids,” was a mash-up of seemingly unrelated Los Angeles symbols aimed at everyone from
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