About “Hey Motherfucker”
For the second single and title track from Proteus and Black Art Ninja’s upcoming new collab album, Hey Motherfucker, producer BAN builds the beat around a metal-style garage-punk Volca bassline with squealing electrolobotomy synths in the background, rebirth and Volca drums, and catchy backing vocals by the Black Art Ninja Choir (Peachy Tickles, Misty Beavers and Jimmy ‘Poppa’ Noodles) on the hook. It makes for a weird but catchy tune. Lyrically, the single is raunchy and risqué, pushing the boundaries of good taste as you might expect with a song called “Hey Motherfucker”. Proteus presents hentai hip hop in all its glory, loading the lyrics with sex and violence – and plenty of anime references! Should you prefer something safer, you would best digest “Hey Motherfunker”, the radio edit that is both much cleaner and shorter – and lyrically rearranged. And if you want to go more extreme, you would want to explore “Hey Motherfucker (THINK Reimagine)” on which producer THINK includes a longer vocal cut that increases the crass quotient, the length of the song, and also assaults our eardrums with an extra layer of guitars added throughout. Pick your poison level on this maxi-single and jump into the deranged world of Proteus and Black Art Ninja.
Written and performed by Proteus
Produced by Black Art Ninja
Background vocals by Black Art Ninja Choir
About Proteus
Aaron Campbell could have been a doctor and having sex with lots of beautiful women, but instead he found drugs, drink, and hip hop. Between the ages of 15 to 18, he did acid on a nearly daily basis and listened to hip hop. It made him a little crazy in a lot of ways. After the drugs, it was drinking beer and freestyling. And collecting sounds he wanted to one day pair with his raps. No computer, no gear, and no mic yet, he would drink all night by himself with his head in the speaker, dreaming of becoming some kind of weirdo-alien IDM neo-Junglist hyper-rave meta-rapper. It was the birth of Proteus, who has since released a solid collection of singles, EPs and albums with a variety of producers that include ISEEDEATH, FFF, Skerror, LFO Demon, Black Art Ninja, and a long list of others. Over a backdrop of heavy electronic production, Proteus delivers a dense barrage of b-boy braggadocio with references to nerd-culture, black magic, and hip hop. Recommended for fans of Kool Keith, Necro, and Czarface.
About Black Art Ninja
Little is known about The Black Art Ninja (BAN). Their individual identities are shrouded in mystery, although Enghis von Sharklor serves as their mouthpiece. And BAN serves as the Underground Hip Hop Division of the larger Colematics Federation working mainly with Dr. Igor Amokian, Black Saturn, Phillip Tombs, and Proteus, as well as Colematics video maker Henri Touret, Broken Off Monkey Arm, Eagleclaw Ghost of Fulci, Gemini Lounge Orchestra, and other fringe groups at Colematics. Black Art Ninja are influenced by and interested in anything and everything within the visual or aural arts. They have had many netlabel and video releases with the previously listed artists, but their debut was providing beats to the first Colematics release by Gemini Lounge Orchestra, the gangster epic Two Y
