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| Raptalk.net Exclusive Interview: Riviera Regime |
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| Written by Dub MD | |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 | |
 Raptalk.net this week chopped it up with Klee Magor, one half of the Psychological Records group "Riviera Regime". Riviera Regime are on the cusp of releasing their brand new studio album "Real Soldierz Ride" a follow up to their successful Cold Blooded LP. Klee Magor sat down with us to speak on what the groups experience so far in their career, his thoughts on Hip Hop and the future and their new album Real Soldierz Ride which is in stores August 19th. Make sure you check out the lead single video from the album entitled "Sacrifical Offer" at the end of the interview.Dub MD: Riviera Regime, What's good? Klee Magor: Chillin, what’s poppin! Dub MD: For those who don't know, could you just give a short review of what you've experienced in your rap career up until now? Klee Magor: Well, basically myself (Klee Magor) and my homie Benny Brahmz recorded our first joint in 1999, in Israel, that's where both our fams is from, that's where we met serving in the military over there shit didn't work out over there due to lack of a scene at the time so we both packed up and moved back to North America, me to Toronto, Benny to Boston and later on he moved again to Chicago. Between 2001 and 2003, I was making beats and sending them over to Benny for him to write to. In 2003 I set up my label and studio Landmine Entertainment in Toronto, he got on a bus over here and we began recording our first album "Thugz Of War", released our first single Dat Murder Shit on 12” vinyl in 2004 with a video for it and later that year we dropped the full length album in stores. Ironically, our album release party for that first album ended with a murder, someone got stabbed in the heart and died on the spot in the club, rest in peace to homie. That shit was crazy, the local media was all over it, po po tried to pin shit on us but obviously we had nothing to do with it, so they had nothing on us but our name gained some notoriety across T.O. cuz of that ordeal. In 2005 we pulled missions driving across the continent selling CD's out the the trunk of my whip, we spent a month in Miami doin that, spent time in NYC doin that and other cities, networked with all types of industry people and later that year we began working on our second album "Cold Blooded" released that record in 2006, around the same time we hooked up with Necro. The next 2 years after that we toured the world with Necro and PLR, as well as other acts like Psycho Realm and Danny Diablo and worked on the new album Real Soldierz Ride droppin on PLR August 19th! Dub MD: Coming from Toronto, what do you think of the music scene in Canada right now? Klee Magor: It could be stronger, the industry over here is struggling, a lot of rappers, singers, DJ’s and musicians are real broke now adays. Dub MD: What do you think of the commercialisation of Hip Hop right now, do you think its showing respect to its pioneers? Klee Magor: Hell naw, there's absolutely no respect what so ever to the pioneers! When I was a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s, I used to go to these hip hop shows, seen Ice-T twice, seen Ice Cube, bought all the hardcore shit, that's when Hip Hop was respected and anyone doin that watered down pop version of it was shitted on by the rest of the hip hop community. Remember the kinda shit Hammer and Vanilla Ice used to get for doin that hip POP nonsense, now days its the norm and artists that do anything short of a dance record get no real appreciation from the masses, basically people are just brainwashed and it seems to be getting worse. Dub MD: Do you have a new album in the works? what's it called? and what can heads out there expect from it? Klee Magor: We set to release our third album "Real Soldierz Ride", the first official release under Psycho+Logical-Records, hitting stores on August 19th 2008 this month! The album is very brutal, very real, and full of bangerz, no fillers, 19 tracks long, 25 including interludes, its some rider music for the thugz to bang out to with some dope features on it from Necro, Danny Diablo aka Lord Ezec, Cynic of Sick Symphonies / Psycho Realm fam, Mr. Hyde, Q-Unique, Ceekay Jones, Nems, H.E.C, Sean Strange and my dawg VK plus the CD comes with a dope bonus DVD for y’all. Dub MD: With this project, what artists & producers are you connecting with this time round? Klee Magor: Well all the artists I just mentioned rap on it, but we got production from myself, Necro, Le Chum, Truescribe and Reyden...also got some real sick live electric guitars on a couple of jointz, the production is real polished. Dub MD: Your also apart of the supergroup "Jewish Gangsterz" with Necro and Lord Ezec, Do you have a new project in the pipeline with them? Klee Magor: Ya right now Necro is cooking up the beats for that project, we probably gonna get started on that one in the coming months but until then u can peep the tune we got called Desperados feat. Necro and Ezec, its on the Real Soldierz Ride album. Dub MD: Both of you were soldiers in the Israeli infantry "Golani Brigade", Does going through that experience have an influence on the type of music you make? Klee Magor: Most definitely has!! If u have ever seen someone get their head blown clean off by a bullet or seen people get blown up to lil bits by a landmine, it will affect your psychi for sure. We were both already very militant minded and hardcore in our hearts to actually leave our homes and go over there to fight a war. I mean truth is i was dodging the heat over here in T.O. at the time and that was like a ticket outta that mess but after going through all that, its changed us in a way where you can't ever really be completely normal again, some people think we were crazy for joining the Golani Brigade, even our commanders thought we were nuts like why you here, you lived in America and u came over here to join this shit but I take that inner pain and angst and i flip it into music, cuz at the end of the day I could give a fuck about politics, and war is a miserable thing, believe me when i say it but the music Riviera Regime makes is like the equivalent to a battlefield, full of drama, action, chaos and emotion. Dub MD: You released an album last year called "Cold Blooded", For those who haven't heard it yet can you tell us a little about the concept? Klee Magor: We made that album during that time after our album release party where dude got murdered, a lot of negative vibes were floating around us at the time, a lot of weird shit happening, drama, 5-0 on our backs, the hood behind us showing love. I was being followed by a demonic force, believe it or not but its true. I had a demon trying to posses my soul during that time, I can't really explain it but it was real at least in my mind it was. Anyways, it was the face of a man i killed in Israel trying to taunt me and trip me out, very fucked up shit, so that album Cold Blooded was the end result of that whole period in our lives. Dub MD: Your signed to Necro and Psychological Records, How did that situation come about for you? Klee Magor: We hit Necro up after I heard his tune dead body disposal, my homeboy Juan showed me the track and was like yo peep this next Jewish rapper from New York, he also rap that hardcore brutal shit, y’all should do a track with him or something so I peeped it, liked it, peepded some more of Necro online and boom ended up contacting him about doing a collabo joint. What ended up happening was we became friends, and since then we been doin nothing but building with him and now we officially on his label PLR. Dub MD: What do you think is your most defining and unique characteristic that sets you apart from every other group out there? Klee Magor: Authenticity, We real man, we wont rap about something we haven't done or seen first hand. You can ask around in my hood where I'm from Finch West very notorious hood in Toronto, niggaz will tell you about RR, I've saved my homiez lives a few times when the chips were down. Been shot at here on the street over a parking spot at my boys building, we really living this hard life we rap about but at the same time we stay on the humble cuz we tryna excel beyond that and the army experience is just another factor of how real shit is, you can't make this shit up, one day someone is gonna make a movie about it. Dub MD: For your fans who haven't seen you perform yet, are you planning on going on tour anytime soon? Klee Magor: We doin a show in NYC at the Irving Plaza with Necro, Ill Bill and the whole PLR camp on the 23rd of August. I’ll be with Necro in Europe on his tour for the month of October. After that we should be doing a whole tour to support the album. Dub MD: What is on tap for Riviera Regime for the rest of 2008 and beyond? Klee Magor: Non stop grinding this new album Real Soldierz Ride, touring, lacing new jointz, working on new projects, tryna get this paper! Dub MD: Do you have anything to say to the fans? anything you wanna get off your chest? any shout outs? Klee Magor: Go out and cop that new Riviera Regime album Real Soldierz Ride! Shit is gangsta, trust me when i say it, it'll make u wanna get outta bed and start your day off hard, if you lazy and you don't feel like goin to the gym, just pump that album and you gonna wanna start pushing heavy weights! When you in ya whip and you need some shit to speed too, this is the album. Its one of them type albums, the kind of record you put on and just let play from beginning til end while you blaze up, non stop bangerz, plus the DVD is bangin. 5 videos, live show footage, some raw scenes, plus a whole bonus compilation album comprising tracks from both previous albums Thugz Of War and Cold Blooded, so really you be getting 2 full length albums and a DVD for the price of one, that's some value right there. Shouts out to everyone, especially to the fans that support!
Check out the new video for their new single Sacrificial Offer, click the link below to view: Riviera Regime - Sacrifical Offer (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXirKS4dpZI&fmt=18 Comments (0)
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