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self-published|date=January 2012unreliable sources|date=January 2012Infobox musical artist|name = Necro|background = solo_singer|image = Necro.JPG|300px|caption =|birth_name = Ron Raphael Braunstein|alias = The Sexorcist|origin = Brooklyn , New York City, New York, U.S.|birth_date = birth date and age|1976|6|7|mf=y|death_date =|genre = Hip hop , rap rock |occupation = Rapping|Rapper , record producer, CEO , film director |years_active = 1990present|label = Psycho+Logical-Records |associated_acts = Injustice (band)|Injustice , Mr. Hyde , Secret Society (band)|Secret Society , nowrap| Non Phixion , Raekwon , Ill Bill , Q-Unique , Kool G Rap , The Godfathers (rap duo)|The Godfathers |website = http://www.necrohiphop.com/ Official Website Ron Raphael Braunstein (born June 7, 1976), better known under his stage-name Necro , is a Jewish-American rapper , Hip hop production|producer , Film director|director and record label owner from Brooklyn , New York. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.14589/title.necro-releases-limited-edition-eight-inch-toy-figurine http://www.discogs.com/label/Psycho%2BLogical-Records Psycho+Logical-Records @ Discogs http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/6/6465/1/ Walking The Thin Line Between Sex And Death With Necro http://www.beneaththestreet.com/80197700532.html Beneath The Street Death Rap: Special Edition He is the owner of Psycho-Logical-Records founded November, 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho%2BLogical-Records He is the brother of fellow rapper Ill Bill . http://www.hiphopug.com/ill-bill.html
Biography
Necro was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in the glenwood_houses|Glenwood Housing Projects , where he lived for eight years from about 6 years old to age 14, when he moved to Canarsie . He is the son of two Israel i expatriates and of Israeli and Romania n ethnicity. http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/6/5839/1/ Necro "The Art of Necro" Interview Necro's father was a Romanian born Israeli combat soldier and his mother an Orthodox baal teshuva|baalat teshuva . http://slumz.boxden.com/f87/new-necro-interview-jew-school-384400/ sputnikmusic New NECRO INTERVIEW from Jew School
He began his musical career at 11, playing guitar in a death metal|death / thrash metal|thrash band named Injustice (band)|Injustice . But in due time, he made a transition from heavy metal music|heavy metal to hip hop music|hip hop . In 1988, he started rapping after being influenced by his older brother, rapper Ill Bill . Necro derived his stage-name from the Slayer song " Hell Awaits|Necrophiliac ". Before that he called himself "Mad Mooney", which was a character from a Clive Barker book. He made his first demo in about 1990 and won a demo battle contest on the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito_Garcνa|Bobbito show on WKCR-FM . In about 1993 Necro started rapping full time and made a demo called "Do The Charles Manson". In '95 he proceeded to rap on the Wildman Steve and DJ Riz show WBAU 90.3FM. http://www.mainlinemusic.com/necro.htm Artist Page: Necro http://raptalk.net/website/content/view/332/54/ RapTalk.net Exclusive Necro Interview!
Stylistic characteristics
Lyrical style
Necro lists Kool G Rap as one of his biggest influences in terms of multi-syllabic rhyme structure and content, as well as LL Cool J , Big Daddy Kane , KRS-One , Rakim and the Geto Boys .Necro 6 Minutes to Die! Necro is also influenced by heavy metal music|heavy metal / death metal lyrics, as well as gangster/horror movies and popular culture. http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/6/6465/1/ http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Five-Underground-Rap-Groups-With-Outrageous-Lyrics/2912555
Death rap
Necro invented the term " Death Rap|death rap " to describe his style of ultraviolent hip hop music|hip hop and to set himself apart from other genre labels created by the media. This sub-genre of rap combines death metal beats with explicit raps about violence, death, the occult, and sex. http://trishvicious.buzznet.com/user/journal/1945881/ Top Death-Rap Artists Trish's Picks http://www.seemagazine.com/article/music/music-feature/its-its-horrible/ It's, it's Horrible Music Feature http://www.metalfanatix.com/interviews/necro.html Necro Necro, Secret Society, Injustice, The Circle of Tyrants
Production
Necro is a self-taught musician and has been playing instruments since the age of ten. He started producing hip hop beats in 1989 by Music loop|looping up records and bought an Ensoniq EPS in 1991. In the following years he produced beats for artists like Non Phixion , Cage (rapper)|Cage , Krist and Missing Linx , who all released independent singles. The first record he produced that received airplay was "No Tomorrow" by Non Phixion in 1996, put out on Searchlight Music/FatBeats Distribution.
The first wave of albums released on Necro's label were entirely produced by Necro himself. This includes the debut solo albums of Non-Phixion members Ill Bill, Sabac Red and Goretex after he already produced 7 songs for Non Phixion's debut album The Future Is Now in 2002.
In 2009, a beat Necro produced in 1997 was used by Raekwon on his album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II for the song "Gihad", which also featured Ghostface Killah .
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Death metal influence
Since the inception of his rap career Necro has been tied to the genre of heavy metal, and more specifically death metal, which has altered his path into hip hop. He has been quoted in interviews citing death metal as a key influence for his rhymes, Chuck Schuldiner 's Death (metal band)|Death in particular. Necro's adoration for death metal is apparent in many of his lyrical themes such as the glorification of violence, the discounting and persecution of Christianity, and a proclivity towards narrating the horrors of war. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/04/metallica_slaye.html http://www.horroryearbook.com/542260/necro-%E2%80%9Cdeath-rap%E2%80%9D-music-review-by-brain-hammer http://www.horroryearbook.com/542260/necro-%E2%80%9Cdeath-rap%E2%80%9D-music-review-by-brain-hammer
Necro has said that he is heavily influenced by '' Kill 'Em All , Reign in Blood , Slowly We Rot , Leprosy (album)|Leprosy , and Master of Puppets '', and he has remarked that those albums take him back to "the '80s when shit was pure".cite web |title=Death-Rapper Necro to Make European Live Debut in London |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |date=27 November 2006 |url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=62868 |accessdate=30 December 2011
Necro is the first rapper to ever rap over a grind blast beat on the track "Suffocated to Death by God's Shadow", with the drums being played by Mike Smith (drummer)|Mike Smith from the band Suffocation (band)|Suffocation . http://www.horroryearbook.com/542260/necro-%E2%80%9Cdeath-rap%E2%80%9D-music-review-by-brain-hammer
Necro also collaborated with Scott Ian of Anthrax (band)|Anthrax and Dave Ellefson of Megadeth , two members of the "Big 4", on the track "Evil Rules".
Necro has also been known to reference heavy metal acts in his rhymes as well. For instance, on "Underground", Necro states he will "penetrate your skull like a riff from Obituary (band)|Obituary 's 'Slowly We Rot'" and quotes Metallica 's " Master of Puppets (song)|Master of Puppets " by saying "Taste me you will see / more is all you need / dedicated to / how I'm killing you". Over the years, Necro has increased his referencing and collaborations with underground metal acts, as evidenced by his 2004 album The Pre-Fix for Death , which features many references and collaborations with heavy metal musicians from Obituary, Hatebreed , Slipknot (band)|Slipknot , and Voivod (band)|Voivod . In addition, Necro created his own supergroup known as The Circle of Tyrants, named after a song by Celtic Frost . The Circle of Tyrants album also contains collaborations with artists from Testament (band)|Testament , Exhumed (band)|Exhumed , and Sepultura as well as song titles named after '80s thrash metal songs such as Slayer 's " South of Heaven " and Metallica's " The Mechanix#The Four Horsemen|The Four Horsemen ". http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/04/metallica_slaye.html
Concepts
Necro is known for releasing conceptual songs. Songs have tackled topics like the Manson murders ("Creepy Crawl)" http://www.mortalgore.com/content/necro-creepy-crawl-official-music-video-manson-family "Cockroaches", http://www.lyricsbay.com/cockroaches_lyrics-necro.html "Scalpel", http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Scalpel-lyrics-Necro/490FA24B192F05CA48256C13000B265F "The 12 King Pimp Commandments", http://www.lyrics007.com/Necro%20Lyrics/12%20King%20Pimp%20Commandments%20Lyrics.html "Dead Body Disposal", http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/dead-body-disposal-lyrics-necro/e5e2b407b11402fa48256c13000b4f90 "The Human Traffic King", http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.3970/title.necro-the-human-traffic-king-white-slavery-pt2 "White Slavery", http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/White-Slavery-lyrics-Necro/7116821E45AB047E48256E16002B3AEE "I Need Drugs", http://www.metrolyrics.com/i-need-drugs-lyrics-necro.html "Food For Thought", "S.T.D.", picking up women ("86 Measures of Game"), cannibalism ("Human Consumption"), suicide ("You Did It"), bondage and sex games ("EdgePlay"), watersports and micturation ("Piss"), life as a pimp ("Out the Pocket"), a revenge tale ("Some Get Back"), and war narratives ("First Blood").
Necro is a devoted fan of the 1983 film Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface . http://necroofficial.blogspot.com/2011/12/yo-necro-whats-your-favourite-scene-in.html Necro sampled the main character from Scarface , Tony Montana , in "Cockroaches". Necro has also rapped, "I live scarface scenes" in "Gory Days", http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Gory-Days-lyrics-Necro/442621E36A0533B748256C13000B21B5 and rapped Montana's infamous quote, "you fuck with me you fucking with the best", http://www.metrolyrics.com/asbestos-lyrics-necro.html whilst sampling the quote simultaneously in "asBESTos". Necro also took the title from " Scarface (Push It to the Limit)|Push It to the Limit " which appeared in the film's soundtrack and used the title for his own song "Push it to the Limit". Al Pacino 's work besides Scarface plays a recurrent theme throughout Necro's work. Necro's new collaboration with Kool G Rap is called The Godfathers (Kool G Rap & Necro)|The Godfathers as is the movie The Godfather that made a star of Al Pacino. In "asBESTos", Necro raps, "I'm completely rehabilitated, reinvigorated, reassimilated" http://www.lyricsbox.com/necro-lyrics-asbestos-c7nv9b7.html which is taken directly from an Al Pacino quote in '' Carlito's Way ''. http://www.quotefully.com/movie/Carlito%27s+Way/8/ Al Pacino's influence is also present in Necro's acting. Necro performed a scene from Heat (1995 film)|Heat which stars Pacino in the Manhattan Monologue Slam. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=89YzqnnrSNc
Injustice
Injustice (band)|Injustice was Necro's first death metal band, formed in 1986, before he was a teenager, playing guitar. With this band, alongside his brother Bill, he played live shows with bands such as Napalm Death , Sepultura and Obituary at the Brooklyn club L'Amours . Injustice recorded two demos before splitting up in 1990 due to not securing a label contract. http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/necro/death-rap.htm Necro Death Rap Review Stylus Magazine http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm? newsid=29155 An Interview with Death-Rapper Necro http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/Injustice/6428/ Tartarean Desire Injustice Death Metal band from USA
Psycho+Logical-Records
Necro founded the independent record label Psycho+Logical-Records in November 1999. In seven years, Psycho+Logical-Records has released over 23 albums.
Touring
Necro has been performing live since the age of 11. In 2007, Necro played the Download Festival at Donnington. Some of the groups he has opened for include Run DMC , Beatnuts , Sepultura , Kool Keith , Napalm Death & Biohazard (band)|Biohazard . He has headlined sold-out shows in all of NYC's mid-sized venues such as Brownie's, Wetlands, The Knitting Factory & SOB's. During the summer of 2009, Necro was a featured artist on the Rock the Bells tour appearing in Toronto, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. http://guerillaunion.com/rockthebells/includes/acts.html Rock The Bells Tour Featured Acts
Controversy
Sounds of the Underground
In 2007 Necro toured with Sounds of the Underground. On July 25, 2007, he decided to leave the Sounds of the Underground tour. Necro commented, "I decided to leave the tour collectively with my manager and booking agent (both tour organizers) because we felt the tour's demographic was not receiving hip hop well. I was facing hostile, disrespectful crowds and was returning the same energy back ten-fold by being more aggressive than them. It was making a lot of people in the tour crew nervous and there was concern someone might get hurt (NOT ME). It was also being suggested that maybe I tone down my live show and not antagonize the already antagonistic crowd. I couldn't roll with that as it's not my style. I was holding back enough as it is but there is a line. All the bands on the tour loved us and everyone behind the scenes knew we displayed major heart and never once got fazed by the hostility. We finished every show with middle fingers up and a big fuck you to the crowd.I will make one thing clear for the haters: we NEVER got booed OFF the stage. Not once. Yes a ton of emo kids booed us at every show, but we had a twenty-five minute set every night and we stayed on stage for every minute of it, and we represented. Every show had at least 100 to 200 NECRO fans in the pit tearing it up, and our meet and greets were incredible& #33; It's just a shame these little kids are so closed-minded. The majority of the hate was coming from mop top emo sixteen-year olds who have no clue who the originators of metal are, and didn't respect my 'rest in peace' chant to metal legends (Dime, Cliff, Chuck, Piggy, Sob). As far as the tour organizers and I are concerned, you are my peoples so it's all love and I'm thankful for the opportunity to prove I can murder it in the worst of situations. This actually did a lot for me and is just one move in many my team will make to blow NECRO up". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=77552 'Death' Rapper NECRO Leaves SOUNDS OF THE UDNERGROUND Tour
Riot at Vancouver show
On Saturday March 21, 2009 Necro had an appearance scheduled at a Vancouver, Canada nightclub (Richards on Richards). When promoters announced that the show was canceled at the last minute, fans became violent and chaos broke out. People began to throw bottles, chairs and tables at the venue's DJ (DJ Sage of the Vancouver hip hop radio show Urban Renewal Project). http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/rapper-necros-no-show-sparks-concert-riot_1098668 Rapper Necro's No-Show Sparks Concert Riot
Perth incident
On June 5, 2009, Necro was fined $3000 after fracturing the cheekbone of a man who provoked him in a Perth, Australia street. Necro pleaded guilty to the assault. He was arrested at his hotel later that day, forcing the cancellation of his show at Perth's Hyde Park Hotel. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25593225-29277,00.html News.com.au June 5, 2009
Ani Difranco
On May 18, 2010, Necro released his latest album, entitled DIE! On July 17, 2010 Necro revealed (through his website's forum) that he is being sued by Ani Difranco due to sampling her song "Used to You" for the track "The Asshole Anthem". iTunes and Amazon subsequently removed the album from their stores, and Necro has confirmed he is in the process of re-releasing the album without this track included. http://www.necrohiphop.com/forum/ubbthreads.php? ubb=showflat& Number=144889#Post144889
Discography
Main|Necro discography
Studio Releases
1997: Get On Your Knees (EP)|Get On Your Knees EP
1998: Necro (EP)|Cockroaches EP
2000: I Need Drugs
2001: Gory Days
2003: Brutality (Part.1)
2004: The Pre-Fix for Death
2005: The Sexorcist
2007: Death Rap
2010: DIE!
2012: Murder Murder Kill Kill EP
Compilations
2001: Rare Demos and Freestyles Volume 1
2001: Rare Demos & Freestyles Vol. 2
2003: Necro Presents: Brutality Pt. 1
2003: Street Villains Mix CD: Vol. 1
2003: Rare Demos & Freestyles Vol. 3
2005: Street Villains Mix CD: Vol. 2
Collaborations
2005: The Circle of Tyrants
2012: The Godfathers (Kool G Rap & Necro)|The Godfathers (with Kool G Rap )
Tours
London Tour (2007)
Australian/New Zealand Tour (2009)
Happy Daze Tour (2010)
The DIE& #33; Tour (2010)
Festival Appearances
Download Festival (2007)
Hove Festival (2009)
Rock the Bells (2009)
Hip Hop Kemp (2010)
Paid Dues (2010)
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2010
The Super
Dt. Sardusky
Film debut
2010
sortname
Dt. Falconetti
Directing and Necro Films
Necro went to Brooklyn College for film for two years where he had access to film making equipment. His movie 187 Reasonz Y had an anti-cop theme with a police officer getting shot in the head at the end of the film. The film department was repulsed by Necro's visions and he received no support from them.
Necro's film company has already released three direct-to-video features ( 187 Reasonz Y , The Devil Made Me Do It and the I Need Drugs music video, all of which have received acclaim in publications such as The Source and Vibe magazine.
Acting
Necro has been taking classes on acting and honing his skills in the acting department. In May 2009, he premiered in a short video-film titled, Triumph Of The Kill acting the role of a serial killer clown. The short film was premiered on YouTube and MySpace . http://mvremix.com/urban_blogs/2008/12/01/necro-interview-the-sexorcist/ Necro Interview: The SexorcistYouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=R2--1HOBNno Triumph of The Kill by Bryan Andre, starring Ron Braunstein AKA NecroMyspace Video http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=vids.individual& videoid=56726309& searchid=169a18d6-9d15-4887-9017-1cd9733c84de Triumph of The Kill by AmHi Productions
Music videos
Solo videos
2000: I Need Drugs (song)|I Need Drugs (from I Need Drugs )
2003: White Slavery feat. Ill Bill (from Brutality Part 1 )
2005: The Prefix For Death (from The Prefix For Death )
2007: Mutilate the Beat (from Death Rap )
2008: '' Who's Your Daddy (from The Sexorcist )
2008: I Wanna Fuck (from The Sexorcist )
2009: The Human Traffic King (White Slavery Part 2) (from DIE! )
2011: Creepy Crawl (from Death Rap )
2011: DIE! (from DIE! )
2011: The Kink Panther (from DIE! )
2011: '' Sorcerer Of Death's Construction (from DIE! )
2011: No Concern (from Murder Murder Kill Kill EP )
Non-solo videos
2004: Chasing the Dragon Ill Bill feat. Necro (from ''What's Wrong With Bill? )
2004: The Crazies (music video)|The Crazies Mr. Hyde feat. Ill Bill , Goretex and Necro (from Barn of the Naked Dead )
2007: Mechanix Danny Diablo feat. Necro, Prince Metropolitan and Skinhead Rob
Other projects
1996: 187 Reasonz Y (a short film directed by Necro & starring Chris Stanger)
1998: The Devil Made Me Do It (a short film directed by Necro & starring Gene Milman)
2003: Sexy Sluts: Been There, Done That (a pornographic DVD directed by Necro hosted by Jerry Butler (pornographic actor)|Jerry Butler and starring Lanny Barbie , Uncle Howie and others)
2009: Triumph of the Kill (a short film directed by Bryan Andre starring Necro)
2009: Personal Justice , a new crime re-enactment show airing on Investigation Discovery during the summer of 2009 (late July to early August). Necro will be in 3 upcoming episodes in 3 different roles.update after|2009|08|31
2010: The Super Necro plays a crooked cop towards the end of the film.
See also
Necro production discography
Ill Bill
References
Reflist
External links
Wikiquote
http://www.necrohiphop.com/ Official website
http://web.archive.org/web/*/ http://necrohiphop.com Official website archive
http://www.myspace.com/necro Official MySpace
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p298142/biography|pure_url=yes Necro at Allmusic
IMDB name|id=1238459|name=Necro
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