TUR Mini Magazine Music Summer Edition | Page 6

Blak Lazarous By:  Veronica Von Life and society is enough to drive any man insane, How can we hear ourselves think under the loudness of this world? Madness. The soul is the only part of a human being that spits 99.9% rounded up truth. Lies, lies, lies are driven into our minds, brainwashing us, and tricking us into losing the true connections with ourselves. How can you survive if you don’t know who you are? Thank God I am enlightened.” —Blak Lazarous MTV music, making beats in the of my favorite artists (still is). How basement, playing around. When would you say he influenced you? I got older, I ran into a couple of cats like, Keith Clizark. He actual- I feel that Tupac was the last artist ly produced for Snoop Dogg and that was a real writer, there was no Tha Dogg Pound. He showed me games. He had a real message with the ropes around the studio, taught a purpose. He was one of the last me as an artist, taught me the game artists that was REAL. It wasn’t just of the music business, and every- thug life. It was the hood in a posithing behind it. I get a lot of my ear- tive way. I looked up to Pac because ly years from Clizark. He taught me he was just deeper. Although I gota lot in the game. ta give a shout out to Snoop Dogg, he was born and raised in east side How did you get started? A lot of the time we tend to mirror Long Beach too, so I gotta shout him who we are influenced by. I found it out for doing it. You know east side I got started when I was about 15, very interesting that you are deep- Long Beach is a rough neighborwith my boys messing around with ly influenced by Tupac, he was one hood, but he showed a young cat California native,