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Skam Dust performing at The Boone Avenue in The Bronx

Skam Dust performing at The Boone Avenue in The Bronx with Dj SEV ONE on the one & two’s with friends SABIO , WEN COD , SKEME , Pop Master Fabel & many special artists have joined us to enjoy our 50 years of HipHop & over 60 years Graffiti . It was a peaceful & beautiful summer gathering with NYC Legends.

 

 

SKAM DUST, South Africa Tour Report & Music Update….

Skam Dust Tour report by our friends at The Wild Styles:

The Wild Styles – What’s up Skam, I’am happy to see you back in one piece..
Skam Dust – Thanks!

We been watching your Instagram & we couldn’t get enough, this wasn’t your average tour, I’ve seen you went on Safari..
Yes it wasn’t your average tour I kept it jumping for 14 days, I did just about everything; 3 days in the safari, recording sessions, playing shows, shot a music video & I even got married .

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Skam Dust Japan Tour Report & Music Update

We recently spoke with Skam about last month’s Skam Dust Japan Tour:

“This years SKAM FEST was more exciting for us cause we added 2 more cities, Osaka & Kagoshima.
We were up & down & all over Japan having a great time. We took a Bullet Train from Tokyo to Osaka then in a few days back on a bullet train heading south to Kagoshima. Then I flew back to “Have A Good Time” (store/gallery) in Tokyo via jet plane. We did travel a lot but managed to stay in both Osaka & Kagoshima for 2 days each. And we spent in total about 5 days in Tokyo.

SKAM FEST was fire, people can expect a hardcore rap show with live hardcore bands performing & we added tattoo’s & graffiti works from the one & only MQ, MKUE did a great job DJing, everyone was excited to see him, fans lined up for a MQ tattoo..
In short this was a traveling mutant circus on acid!!

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Far East Conference W/Skam DMS

Check out this interview Frank 151 did with Skam Dust!

Skam, Skamdust, JapanThis came in handy in Kagoshima ’cause when we arrived there early morning, the volcano erupted and the fallout of ash covered the streets like a light snowfall.”

No doubt about it, Japan is a magical place. One man particularly attuned to its gentle charms is hardcore rocker SKAM DUST, long-time Frank friend and part of our notoriously rare DMS Chapter (he told us recently on Twitter he’s been hustling copies for $65!). He toured Japan last year not long after the devastating earthquake and tsunami combination that shook Japan to its foundations. I hit him with an email about sharing his memories of that tour and we talked on the phone from his adopted home of Florida a couple of days later. Here he tells me about navigating the noble country as a hardcore rocker in a post-apocalyptic landscape one year on.

Interview Erika Jarvis

Hardcore’s pretty big in Japan?

It’s not even that they like it: they love it. They’re crazy about it. Everybody is crazy about hiphop; that kinda makes sense. But it takes a special person to sit down and listen to hardcore music. I never seen anything like it.

Was that your first trip out to Japan? 

Yeah, I went with Sub-Zero. I used to have a band called Son of Skam, which was really Sub-Zero [laughs]. And I’ve got the Skam Dust thing going on on the side. So I was doing two shows a day over there: I was doing Son of Skam, opening up for Sub Zero, and then 3:45 in the morning I’m playing Skam Dust.

How did you maintain the stamina for 16 cities in 14 days?

First of all, you got to eat right. Sleeping—you couldn’t really sleep. Realistically, I slept two hours a day. I was eating some of the good stuff. You want to take in the culture, but you don’t want to get too creative and then all of a sudden something [goes] wrong and then you’re done for the whole tour. So you gotta be very careful what you eat. I was sticking to soup. I found that was what I really enjoyed over there. It was hot, good for your throat–’cause I’m screaming every night–and all the hot spices is pretty much what I was eating. And bananas. And a lot of sake.

That sounds like a diet plan. Did you lose any weight? 

Yeah, I think I lost almost ten pounds!



This was not long after the earthquake and tsunami, right?

I think that happened like two months before we got there. We were at one point, like 60 miles [within the disaster zone], but the show that was the closest I didn’t even go to because some shit happened. I played a great show, we played in Shibuya. Really lively place. It’s like Times Square, 30 million people everywhere. And we were at an afterparty and then another afterparty, and somewhere around there, I got into a cab and left my luggage on the street! When I woke up, I knew something was wrong: “Something feels weird here…” I’m getting ready to go on the tour bus to go to the last show which was Hamamatsu, and then I’m like, “Where the fuck is my luggage?!” Let me tell you something: They found my luggage, whoever, and not even one dollar, not even a penny was missing. No merch, nothing. I think it was meant to be, ’cause MQ, he goes, “Hey, I was talking to my friends out here in Japan. You don’t want to do that last show.” And I was like, “Why?” And he was like, “Well, that last show is 80 miles from the radiation.” So I was thinking, maybe it was meant to be. Maybe I lost my luggage so I don’t go to the radiation zone, you know what I mean?

Did you get a chance to talk to your Japanese friends about the situation?

At the time when it all happened, I called my friend up and said, “Are you OK? Your family’s OK?” And he goes to me, “Richie, my family’s OK but my country’s dead.” I was like, Wow. It broke my heart.

Right. And could you sense that something terrible had happened as well?

Everybody had masks. Everybody. In the South, most people wear that shit. But when you start going North to Tokyo, you’re looking at maybe everyone wearing one too, which is not so normal. Like there’s not one person not wearing one.

Did you wear one?

Oh yeah. I had to. I was screaming every night, I don’t know what the fuck is in the air. I was using like three a day. The whole crew was wearing them. If they’re doing it, we should do it too.

Is there anything else you wanted to tell me about your trip to Japan?

Let me just say this: those people are very noble. The whole society is quality people. People are quality, good people and they really have a lot of respect. They’re the best, man, when it comes to respect.And last but not least, I went to Hiroshima. We dropped a fucking bomb over there, as you know. Of course it’s two, three generations later, but no one over there’s got no animosity. “Red carpet, Skam’s here. Give that guy the whole red carpet.” I gave a speech over there, I said: “I love you guys, I love my country. It’s a shame we killed each other once upon a time, but now we’re eating and drinking together.”

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Skam Dust Japan tour 2011

Skam Dust of Chapter 33 curators DMS is bringing the “bolt of terror” to Japan with Son of Skam and Sub Zero. He got his start when he was touring with the infamous Skarhead in the mid ’90s and is a partner in crime with Lord Ezec. Skam Dust grew up in Corona with Hoya from Madball and was always in trouble.

11/18 (Fri)OSAKA @Club ALIVE
11/19(Sat)HIROSHIMA @MUGEN5610
11/20(Sun)FUKUOKA @KIETH FLACK
11/21(Mon)KAGOSHIMA @Cave
11/22(Tue)OITA @COPPER RAVENS
11/23(Wed)NAGOYA @TIGHT ROPE
11/24(Thu)SHINJUKU @MARZ
11/25(Fri)ATSUGI @Thunder Snake
11/26(Sat)KASIHWA @Drunkard’s Stadium
11/27(Sun)SHIBUYA @ASIA
11/28(Mon)HAMAMATSU @Mescalin Drive