The world knows Tom Green for his comedic abilities and now Green is setting out to prove that he also has skills with a microphone with a new untitled rap album.
Green was a founding member of Canadian rap group Organized Rhyme and dropped an album with the group titled Stiffenin Against The Wall in 1992.
The album produced “Check The O.R.," which earned the group a Juno nomination.
"It is time for me as an artist, and a human being, to dig deep down into my soul and be completely honest," Green reflected. "For the past several years I have grappled with a hidden truth. Now, it is finally my time to be honest. It is time for me to be honest with the public, with my friends, with my family, and most importantly, with myself. I am a rapper."
In previous interviews, Green stated that he started rhyming in high school. That soon progressed into production.
"I actually got into, like, making beats and stuff," Green explained to Canadian magazine Chart Attack in a 1999 interview. "Summer jobs I’d, like, save up and buy a keyboard and a sampler. It became this great outlet for doing wacky, wacked-out sh*t on stage. I was doing stand-up at the time too, but this was another outlet, where I could go up and rap, and I’d do it on a fairly regular basis, opening for punk bands around Ottawa. We’d go down, and go on before them, chucking bread into the audience, and throwing weird sh*t around. It was all sort of for fun, and then we kinda got alright at doing it. So we came down here to New York City for a couple of months when I was 17, and worked with a producer down here. Then it sort of became kind of serious, and we got a record deal. It started as a fun thing, but it actually wasn’t that fun anymore by the time it got to the record deal stage."
Green's new album will drop on Sony BMG Music Canada and will be produced entirely by Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers. Simpson has also produced tracks for The Beastie Boys, Biz Markie and others.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)
http://jane-finch.com/files/organizedrhyme/or3_small.jpg
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm not sure how he feels about it know, knowing who one of those losers were, but I'm sure he sold the album almost immediately afterwards. (Actually, come to think of it, maybe he stiffed us on it and never bought it.)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Running Very Quickly Away From The Aftermath (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Re: MC Tom Green - Then again, I actually liked Brian Green's album (yeah, the 90210 guy).
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)
We shouldn't hold Dust Brothers in our local trophy case. They are producers. This is the point.
Personally, I wonder if Tom Green is attempting some Andy Kaufman type humore with this, which I can't say will achieve a previously set bar of success...although, many feel Tom Green is funny.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)
David Hasslehoff and Ice-T working on album together
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
This one, I mean.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 May 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)