We’ve been feeling a bit of separation anxiety from Dirty Heads, after a kickass Summer run of exclusive green-screen interviews about their new album Sound of Change (grab it on iTunes) and specialty topics from each band member. Jared shared his love/hate relationship with Xbox One, while Jon went down the beers & brews rabbit hole and Duddy B got a serious case of the munchies. Now they’re back with two new lyric videos, premiering exclusively on CraveOnline.
“Burn Slow” leads the pair of clips today, featuring the world’s most successful independent rapper, Tech N9ne. “Duddy came on and he destroyed it and I was like ‘Oh my god, my verse isn’t even good enough,’ vocalist Dirty J recalls. “And then we got Tech N9ne on it and then he destroyed both of us and I was like ‘Fuck. Now I have to rewrite my whole verse.’ But everybody liked it. Duddy and Tech just destroyed that song.”
As for the intention behind the track, “It’s just a fun hip hop song,” he explains. “That’s it. That’s the bottom line. This is the thing with Tech N9ne, he’s insane…he’s a beast. We wanted to get people that we respect as lyricists, not only as hip hop artists or musicians, but we’re lyric guys. We really care about lyrics and we really care about looking into things like that and how you piece them and how you put them together and your metaphors and your punch lines – and he’s just so money with that. We were absolutely honored.”
Check out the lyric video for “Burn Slow” below, exclusively on Crave:
Next we have “Medusa,” also from Sound of Change. When asked about the track, Duddy chimed in on the value of letting go of the need to overthink the depth of meaning in a song: “That’s probably one of my favorite tracks on the album. I love doing tracks like that where it’s just not really about anything. Just a fun track, nothing serious, and you can kind of just talk shit a little bit and have some funny punch lines in the rap. We worked with this producer Supa Dups. It was the first time we worked with him and it was a lot of fun. We just got in the studio and had a great time with that. Yeah….that one’s a banger, a favorite for sure.”
Now check out the lyric video premiere for “Medusa”:
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Catch Dirty Heads on tour at the dates below (tickets and VIP packages available here)
DATE CITY/STATE VENUE
October 10 Ventura, CA Majestic Ventura Theater w/Rome
October 11 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern w/Rome
October 13 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst w/Rome
October 14 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades w/Rome
October 16 Chico, CA Senator Theatre w/Rome
October 17 Crystal Bay, NV Crystal Bay Club Crown Room w/Rome
October 20 Calgary, AB Flames Central w/Rome
October 21 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room w/Rome
October 23 Winnipeg, MB Union Sound Hall w/Rome
October 25 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre w/Rome
October 26 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium w/Rome
October 27 Bloomington, IN The Bluebird w/Rome
October 29 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre w/Rome
October 31 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom w/Rome
November 3 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel w/Rome
November 4 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place w/Rome
November 5 New York, NY Best Buy Theater w/Rome
November 7 Norfolk, VA The NorVa w/Rome
November 8 Richmond, VA The National
November 9 Washington, DC 9:30 Club w/Rome
November 11 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre w/Rome
November 12 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel w/Rome
November 13 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse w/Rome
November 14 Jacksonville, FL Mavericks at The Landing w/Rome
November 16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room w/Rome
November 19 Glasgow, UK King Tuts
November 20 Manchester, UK Night & Day Café
November 21 Southampton, UK Joiners
November 22 Paris, France Les Etoiles
November 23 Zurich, Switzerland Eldorado
November 25 Berlin, Germany Bi Nuu
November 26 Cologne, Germany Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
November 28 London, UK Barfly
November 29 Coventry, UK Kasbah
November 30 Birmingham, UK Academy 3
