Bruse Wane Interview

Check out our exclusive interview with Bruse Wane. We discuss his upcoming album, Darth Wane, which drops September 22nd, the making of his hit record, Venom and much more so check it out.

All right, we’re here with Bruce Wane, how’s it going, man?

Everything is good, brother, thanks for tapping in with me.

Absolutely, absolutely. All right, you just recently announced you at least released the artwork and track list to your new Darth Wane album, first album in six years. Tell me a little bit about the album and how it came together for you.

Yeah, like you said, it’s the first album in six years. The Darth Wane concept, of course, you know, that’s involved in like the whole Star Wars glazed over and stuff like that as far as Darth Vader. And the inspiration for that is because I actually began recording the album during the pandemic.

I had been around in 2020 and just like, I’ve always had albums where I kept like, you know, even a palette of music, you know, some street music, some darker music. And the way I was feeling, you know, I had lost a few family members during the pandemic as well. I just was treading on the dark side of things as far as my mood and my attitude.

And that’s how I came up with the whole concept. The album was supposed to just be just, you know, drenched in darkness as far as just darker lyrics and concepts and stuff like that. And that’s actually the way it started.

But, you know, at the end, just like, you know, Vader, I came back to light.

Okay, absolutely. And I also see here you have a track called Paradigm Shift featuring Kool Keith, man, underground and mainstream legend in the hip hop scene. Tell me what was like recording and doing Paradigm Shift with Kool Keith.

Oh, yeah, man. That’s my man, Keith. Me and Keith are pretty cool.

Met him years ago, actually went to a few concerts with him, went to the premiere of a movie that he was in, The Art Of Rap, that was directed by Ice-T. We had a mutual friend, and he basically introduced me to Keith, and that’s what had those things take place. We worked out the same studio, Actual studio is closed right now, but we worked out the same studio in the Bronx.

So the engineer and slash the owner, he heard the record, because I worked with him, and he’s like, yo, could Keith sound dope on this? I knew that Keith worked out there. So we got together, Keith loved the record, he loved the production, so I stopped at Capitol, he’s the one that produced it.

This is actually a remix. There was the original version that was released just myself, that did pretty well also. So that’s pretty much how that came about.

We worked out the same studio, and the producers, I was sound good on this together, but like I said, we already had the relationship. Yeah, so that’s pretty much how that came about.

Okay, absolutely. And do you have any singles set or videos set to drop from the project? I know it drops on the 22nd.

Yeah, actually, Sith Lord, that we will release that ahead of it. But as far as the video for that, that may come in the future. I actually was shooting a video for the track entitled Take No Mess, that’s actually going to be happening on the 28th of September.

So we’re just getting that together, and we’re probably going to shoot a few more videos for songs off the project because I believe they deserve it. So people will be getting visuals to accompany the music.

Okay. All right, we’re now nine months into 2025. A lot of projects, a lot of things been happening in hip hop here for the year 2025.

Just what’s your thoughts on the state of hip hop in 2025 and maybe some of your favorite albums or singles that have dropped so far this year that you’re listening to?

So man, I’m gonna keep it real. I’m not listening to nothing.

Okay.

I’ve been keeping it real. But no, but I watch the land state. I do watch the land state and I see a lot of people said 2024 was a good year as well.

But I think 2025 is going to be as good and even better, especially my thing coming out as well. I know Ghost dropped the album. I heard a few songs off there.

You know what I mean? But besides that, I’m not going to lie, sometimes I’m in a bubble. You know, because they’re the artist slash label, independent label owner, and so many hats that I wear.

You know what I mean? Sometimes it’s like hard to keep your full pulse on everything that’s happening. As far as like all the albums that’s being dropped, you know what I mean?

And projects. But I’ll do something. Right now, like the last thing on my radar was really on that Supreme Clientele 2.

Okay. Absolutely. All right.

Do you have any upcoming shows or tour dates coming up for you to let people know about?

Yeah, man. I’m glad you asked that. I’m currently on the Venom Tour.

I actually was celebrating a 10-year anniversary this year of my track, Venom, which featured myself, Sean Price and Chris Rivers, and you know, famously known for featuring actually Sean Price, the last verse on that. So celebrating a 10-year anniversary with the tour. And you know, you’ve been dealing with me for a long time.

So you probably got the original.

Yes, I did.

And you’ve been supporting me for a minute, and it’s highly appreciated. But yeah, it’s the 10-year anniversary, so actually, yes, I am on a tour for that. We’ve had a couple of locales already.

My next show up is the 25th. I will be in Toronto, and we will be doing the album release out there in Toronto as well. And we just locked in November 7th, I believe, out there in South Carolina, to Pembroke.

So, but before that, man, after a while, the alternatives were growing, you know what I mean? But I had a few dates before that already. Probably gonna have maybe another four more dates before the year is out.

But we really released the audio for that. It was great, you know what I mean? It was a great response to it.

The infinity mix, I believe he probably featured that because a lot of times, he put up, you know, he showed support. So, but yeah, that’s what’s going on as far as the I Believe party, as far as the tour. And, you know, big things are going on, DeMarcus.

Big things are going on.

Absolutely. You bring up that track, Venom, that’s one of my favorite tracks from you over the years. Just, what was it like working with Chris Rivers and also working with Sean Price?

I mean, you always work with some, always work with top tier lyricists on all of your projects. But what was it like kind of the creative process with that song, Venom?

It was great, you know what I mean? It was great. And sometimes it just things that happen, you could say about Faith or about Chance, because I wanted to work with Chris, we’re actually from the state neighborhood in the Bronx.

But, you know, I don’t really frequent the neighborhood, like I used to. And my brother had bumped into Chris, you know, and he said, yo, my brother, you know, he wants to work with you, brother, little brother. And, you know, we linked up, we made it happen.

“That was dope. You know, as far as Price, we already had a relationship, because I previously worked with him on the Track Beast side. You know, so there was already a relationship there.

And I actually already had Chris on the record, and I was considering, I think it was Keith Murray, Keith Murray and a few other people I was considering. And I’ve worked with Keith before as well. I was considering putting him on the track.

And I said, let me call Sean. I’m gonna get a real skinny though, Demarcus.

All right.

I was hesitant. Sean was supposed to make it to the video shoot for Beast Inside, and he didn’t. So I was kind of pissed at him.

I was like, yo, but then we spoke, and he told me what happened. It was something really personal going on at the time. And so I forgave him.

I was like, yeah, so good, because like I said, we had mutual respect, and I already had a relationship with Dutdown Records, with Buckshot, Noah, the people over there. So when I called them, I was like, yo, I got this record for Chris, you know? And he’s like, I was thinking about putting you on it.

He’s like, no, Bruce, don’t fuck with me. Excuse me for cursing. He’s like, yo, come on, man.

He’s like, I apologize a thousand times already for missing that video shoot, you know what I mean? So he was actually on his way to the studio the very night I called him. And I said, so it’s like, he said, yo, matter of fact, I knocked that out tonight, and I sent it over to him early.

It was early. My phone rings like three in the morning. It’s done.

I’m like, first of all, you’re calling me three in the morning. You know what I mean? So he told me it was done.

I listened to it. It was dope. You know what I’m saying?

And before he actually did the verse, he asked me, is there anyone else on the record? And I told him. I said, Chris was on it.

And he kind of paused a little bit. I just feel like, ah, shit. Because Chris Rivers is a beast.

Absolutely.

So I guess he was like, ah, he made sure to come right, as he always does. And my greatest, one of my greatest, you know, things that I regret is that you never had a chance to have a finished product. You never had a chance to have a finished product because it gets passed and so close to the recorded.

You know what I mean? But yeah, but it was great working with him. And we would talk all the time.

We would discuss things because, you know, he wanted to start, you know, start moving around together, doing shows and stuff like that together. So that was dope, man. It was definitely something, you know, that I’ll always carry with me as far as, like, that process and the individual he was.

Chris Rivers, too. Chris is dope. You know what I mean?

We had a great time behind the scenes, the video shoot and stuff like that. I brought him out to one of my shows. We performed it together, you know, after showing up at the whatever.

So that relationship is still there. I went on to do more records with him as well. So yeah, man, that was dope, man.

And that record still gets a great response at my shows. That’s like, of course, that’s a staple. That’s a staple in my set.

So it’s actually one of my favorites to perform.

Absolutely, man. Rest in peace to Sean Price, one of the all time greats.

All right. Do you have, what’s your website information, social media, everything for people looking to check out your music and see what you got going on?

Over here, the real Bruse Wane, and that’s spelled the real B-R-U-S-E-W-A-N-E, Wayne, and they can also just Bruse Wane, that’s on Instagram, Bruse Wane on X, Bruse Wane on Facebook. I’m not really good to TikTok and all that, you know? I pretty much Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and of course, my main website, brusewane.com.

Anybody wants to Google me, they can Google me. All information will pop up, you know? See ya.

Okay.

Also, I’d like to shout out to some of the producers, too, on the project, if that’s not a problem.

Sure, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, I’d like to shout out my man, Capital. He actually produced the original Paradigm Shift, and he produced this one with the Toolkey phone. He’s also going to add a UK version with Blade.

He’s a legend over there in the UK, so we’re going to probably have a UK version as well. We’ll be adding Blade to that. And The Dagobah System, he produced that as well.

Shouts out to 5 9 Music. They produced a few of the tracks. It also shouts out to Lord Ron.

He produced The DeLorean. Those that don’t know Lord Ron, Lord Ron is an affiliate of DJ Premier and the Gang Star Foundation, and he’s dope, you know what I mean? I worked with him a few times.

So anyone that’s looking for some dope music, and I think the album’s going to satisfy that as far as just keeping the type of hip-hop I do, and a lot of people still out there like and revere that the girlfriend album, that’s going to satisfy it.

Okay. Absolutely. All right.

Well, that’s all the questions I have for you. Appreciate you getting down for the interview. Is there any last words or shout-outs you want to get out there to the people?

What was that?

I said, is there any last words or shout-outs you want to get out there to the people?

Yeah, man. September 22nd. September 22nd.

The Alfred album comes out, man, on all platforms. Not all platforms, because, you know, it won’t be on Spotify. I don’t like their payment model.

So it will go to every platform, including brusewane.com, but it won’t be on Spotify, so don’t look for it on there. You know what I mean? Shouts out to Surge.

Shouts out to my man, 1da845. And once again, shouts out to Cool T for hopping on the record. And it’s gonna be, yeah man, things are gonna be dope.

All right.

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