ugsmag.com interview...

new interview with me up at ugsmag.com. click below to read it. thanks jon.

Fritz Tha Cat (aka Ryan Somers) is probably better known as the rap editor for Vice magazine when underground rap was really fashionable. His start in music journalism came with his super low-budget magazine In Search of Divine Styler that began as a collection of photocopied pages stapled together. Although the magazine only had 8 issues, it proved to be somewhat of a phenomenon spawning a number of other counter-culture rap magazines. An anthology of the magazine was published earlier this year and is available through MudScout. In addition to music journalism, he’s also a rapper with a new album and a group he formed with long time friend RecordFace called Ok Cobra. The album covers an array of topics from girls, boobies, atheism, heartbreak and drugs. Normally, I don’t like conducting interviews without meeting the person first, but after missing his book launch in April, I had to “meet” this fellow some how. As a result, I conducted this interview from Edmonton using an instant messenger application while Fritz Le Chat downed a bunch of beers in London, Ontario...