The Dirt
Last Updated: May 19, 2006
Psychopathic Records has a distinct wicked sound recognized by Juggalos and fans of ruthless underground music everywhere. Their newest artist embraces that sound, then expands any known boundaries and shatters all previous expectations. The wicked streets of Atlanta blend with the dirty swamps of Newton County in the guise of Boondox, Psychopathic's own Skarcrow.
Hailing from the deep Southern town of Covington, GA, Boondox delivers a unique take on wicked hip hop. As ICP's Violent J recently commented, "What makes Boondox automatically so different from the rest of the Fam, is that he's not just about the blocks, he's about the crops... He's not from the streets but from the fields. Boondox is to music what Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, The Devils Rejects and Wrong Turn are to movies. That back woods, country, crazy, hillbilly shit is straight up scary!"
Before signing with Psychopathic, Boondox spent several years involved with various other rap and rock projects in Georgia, including droppin' several underground mix tapes. His full length Hatchet debut, The Harvest has top-notch production by the one and only Mike E. Clark, who held nothing back on the project. Recorded at both the Fun House studio and the Lotus Pod in Detroit, Boondox tears it up over everything from Southern sounding banjo and harmonica loops to Clark's patented sick-ass drum beats, crisp guitars, and fat bass drops. Clark and Boondox even recruited Tino Grosse from Detroit's legendary Southern Funk band The Howling Diablos to help lay a haunting, heavy riff on the track Outhere. The Harvest album also features guest appearances by labelmates Twiztid, Blaze, AMB and ICP.
The first single is a wicked track about snake handlers called Pray With Snakes. The video, directed by Violent J, was shot on location in Newton County, Georgia and features authentic rural settings from Boondox's upbringing.
The second music video from Boondox and Psychopathic Video is for the song Red Mist and features Twiztid and Blaze. This blood-soaked video shows these Psychopathic artists' love of death, dismemberment, and horror flicks, and their ability to go where only serial killers dare to go.
After The Harvest certified Boondox as a Wicked Shit fixture, he quickly followed it up with the Punkinhed EP.
This EP introduces a mysterious character malicious and malevolent enough to frighten Boondox himself, that campfire tale made real: Punkinhed. What makes him even scarier is that he may be an aspect of Boondox! The only ones who know the truth, know how to keep a secret. They know that loose lips get snagged on rusty pitchforks. The EP also proved that Boondox's southern style still shines over music produced by Seven, Akuma, Fritz the Cat, Polar Bear, and DJ Clay.
Soon after he dropped Punkinhed, Boondox crewed up with the most ruthless gang of thugs rollin through the Dirty D, the Psychopathic Rydas. The Skarcrow proved his street cred by standing out on their legendary underground album, Duk Da Fuk Down. You can see Boondox straight thuggin in the music video for the title track.
While his first few releases were jumpin off of store shelves, Boondox jumped on the road, blazing a trail across the nation. He joined ICP, Twiztid, Blaze, The Kottonmouth Kings, and JCW Wrestling on major national tours, and headlined local shows. He performed for thousands of people and hosted his own signings, seminars and events at The Gathering of the Juggalos
When he wasn't touring, he was appearing on compilations like Psychopathics From Outer Space Part 3, and DJ Clay: Let Em Bleed, The Mixxtape, Volume 1 and Volume 2, any other time he had was spent working on his next album, Krimson Creek.
Boondox dug deep to find the Creek. Deep into the backwoods, deep into his library of musical skills, and deep into his soul. It runs with the blood of his subjects, the pulse of his listeners and the open wounds of his victims. It is pain, it is vitality, it is always rolling and ever growing. It feeds the Skarcrow, but is it a clever metaphor, or a terrifying reality? With Krimson Creek, Boondox presents his realest album yet. It's the most revealing look at his troubled life that rap fans can bear to see. It's a musical mesh of booming bass with banjos, of wicked rap with southern jams. It's filled with instruments, and fuelled by the beats of modern hip-hop, produced by Mike E. Clark, Akuma, Darkonez, Eric Davie, Violent J, Underrated, and Scott Sumner.
Krimson Creek started out as just a red trickle, a painful wound in the Skarcrow's brain. It grew to the pulsing stream of wickedness you can hear on his most devastating album yet. When the album dropped, it became official: there's a river raging red, through the Juggalo Underground, and now flowing across the world! Krimson Creek bum-rushed the Billboard charts, landing at #113 on the Top 200. It bitch-slapped its way to the Independent chart to take lucky number 13. Then it upped the ante, and owned the Heatseeker chart, looking down on the competition from a hard-earned Number One!
With 3 devastating albums, and numerous tours and guest appearances, Boondox has proven that he can stand among the Psychopathic artists, and that he can stand out from all other music. He brings brand new elements to the already devastating Hatchet family stable. Jamie Madrox of Twiztid has called him "Leatherface on the mic." Monoxide has said, "He sounds like a sling blade killer." Muster up some spine, and check him out for yourself! Make it quick, cuz that dark shadow in your backyard might just be him, already takin your measure...