"People can say I'm
negative but I'm tongue in cheek, and I'm not promotin all this crack sellin rap."
This from 26 year old Cambridge, Massachusetts, native Mighty Casey, who's current
single, "White Girls" is getting major airplay on late night video shows.
Casey take a lot of pride in his work, and although people who've only heard "White
Girls" and "Liquor Land" might think of Casey as purely a Weird Al of rap, Casey
will tell you otherwise. "I do a lot of parody and satire, but I can do party
joints, and battle joints. I like to vary my concepts a little." Casey notes his
next single will be a combination of things, saying " 'Black Rappin School' is
humorous, but it definitely got a message to it."
Of all his songs he
knows "White Girls" is the most eye, and ear, opening. An ode to white women done
to the beat of the Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five classic "White Lines,"
"White Girls" sparks a lot of conversation. "'White Girls' is probably my most
controversial (song)," notes Casey, who came up with the concept while having
a conversation about Hip-Hop and humor.
"I was with my producer and we
were talkin about Hip-Hop parody, and I was talkin about 'I Need Drugs' by Necro
(which parodies LL Cool J's 'I Need Love')." The first verse of "White Girls"
was inspired by Positive K, while the second was more inspired by Biggie.
The song was originally released in the summer of 2001, and the video was shot
two years ago, but required a year of editing, hence the long wait. Waiting is
something Casey's had to put up with for a while. "I just got my first EP ready,
it's like four years in the making." He plans to release it before spring, no
matter what the circumstances.
The EP will be a culmination, of sorts,
for Casey, who's been rapping in the Cambridge area for a dozen years now. "When
I was just real young all the camp counselors would play rap music on the bus,
and at an all black summer camp it was all around. At age 14 I started kickin
rhymes around the neighborhood." It was that neighborhood that would hook Casey
up with his first paying gig, as Casey explains "Cambridge had a summer program
where they'd bring together artists and paid six dollars an hour to train and
rap all around Cambridge." From that point forward, Casey knew he wanted to entertain.
With "White Girls" set to blow up, vinyl distribution from Landspeed,
and an EP set to be released this spring, expect to be hearing the name Mighty
Casey in the near future.
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