Exposed Vocals just sat down with underground hip-hop artists Mystah Spaulding and Grim Singmuf
Mystah Spaulding and Grim Singmuf have emerged from the underground with an army of talent! Cesspool Asylum is a collection of artist who live all across the united states who have come together to create and share each others sounds. They currently have artists in Massachusetts, California, and Oregon. With 2 separate Headquarters, one in Attleboro, Massachusetts and the other in Weed California, the Cesspool Asylum is digging deep roots on both coasts!
Exposed Vocals: Tell us about “Cesspool Asylum” and what you represent.
M.S.: The Cesspool Asylum Artist Collective is a musical partnership between various artists for making music in the interest of bettering the current hip hop scene. We are in our essence a band of creators who to this point in life went almost completely unnoticed and have had enough and are ready to shine nice and bright! I can’t speak for others, but I know that the cesspool saved my life and really helped me out in some dark times and I personally hope that the artists contained herein also help in that manner.
G.S.: We are a collective of artist dedicated to the music, though most of us are some breed of HIP HOP we strive to go beyond genre. Founded in 2018 by Mystah Spaulding and Myself, We are a collection of artist who live all across the united states who have come together to create and share each others sounds. The tunes you find within our collective that are not HIP HOP are primarily Acoustic from our artist “Tone Dizzy” or some electro styles from our artist “Malachi Christ”
Exposed Vocals: Who Do You Sound Like?
M.S.: you can’t really pin down any certain type of sound, primarily because the styles are so vast within the cesspool mainly due to the fact of our individual influencers are so widespread. Give y’all a for instance, if you read my bio on our website, cesspoolasylumac.com you’ll find that I’m personally influenced by acts like ICP,TWIZTID, LYRIKAL SNUFF PRODUCTIONZ (LSP) and many other underground independent acts, I also like to incorporate real life stuff in my rhymes, much like Eminem, N.W.A., The Game, 50 Cent, Vinnie Paz, and Immortal Technique and of course the Wu Tang Clan.
G.S.: My personal sound is just that. I sound like me. Its been hard for me to think up a “Target Audience” as I rarely make it a point to “target” anyone in my music. Most the time I create my own instrumentals from scratch, write my own lyrics, record myself, ETC. So its purley me, my life, my experience, and all that… I never seek out “type beats” or alter my vocals to sound like anyone else. I feel like all our artists have this magick to create, to tap into their own creative process and develop something that is brand new that is a reflection of their soul.
Exposed Vocals: Tell me about your involvement with Earworm Entertainment. How did you get involved with them, and when did you come into the picture?
M.S.: I was a recording artist on Earworm prior to Grim and I creating the Cesspool, I initially got involved with them at a Twiztid show in Worcester, MA this is just after my departure with a local label called XR7 Wrekordz. I’ve always looked up to Canna CDK as like an older brother, so when the opportunity presented itself to pitch myself to EWE, I was on it like flies on shit. Shortly after, I did a few shows that EWE set up and in no time, I was the newest member of the Earworm Family. Ready at a moment’s notice to shred the Mic and “Spread the infection”.
G.S.: I live in a small mountain town in northern California, there are not many people who create HIP HOP in Siskiyou county, so I look to the interwebs for collaboration. Ive made some great music this way. I found “Earworm Entertainment” while diligently searching for HIP HOP artists in the New England area where I was raised. I sent out various Emails to connect with Canna CDK, who owns and operates EWE, to no avail. Eventually I reached out to his other artists, and found I knew this dude “King Kudda”. We discussed working and created a tune called “out tha gutta”. During the same time I was also speaking to M. Spaulding and we not only created a track together (gumdrops) but decided to combine efforts and create our team that we are developing now. Since then we have a couple collabos with Canna CDK of EWE, Im looking forward to creating a brotherhood between our collectives.
Exposed Vocals: Do you collaborate with others? What is that process like?
M.S.: We do indeed! As a matter of fact, that’s one of the principals we founded the Cesspool Asylum on. For the love of the music and the betterment of the lower level, or up-and-coming musical Artist. As for the process, I’ll leave that to my brother Grim.
G.S.: Yes! it is at our very core! I don’t care much for social media, But I’ve found it to be a valuable tool in finding collaborations. I personally like to find rappers that have the ability to record but do not, yet, have the skills to create an instrumental. You get alot of modern day poets who seek a musical background to compliment their words. Many of these poets will go grab a beat off youtube, or maybe if they respect the craft they will go lease a beat off a producer. Typically, Almost always they are recording themselves to an already mixed and mastered beat so their vocals never sink into the beat, instead they sit on top of the beat… Or worse below the beat. We give the oppertunity for these poets to have a unique piece of music they can be properly mixed into, then I remix that 1-4 times and distribute it as a single worldwide.
Exposed Vocals: How did you meet?
M.S.: We met initially when Grim hit me up looking to do a collab, which I agreed to, birthing our first collaborative project, “Gumdrops”.
G.S.: Seeking and searching New England artists I found EWE and our love for collaboration brought M. Spaulding and I together to spawn “Gumdrops”, the track that birthed Cesspool Asylum. We actually never met in a physical format, but that is about to change. Alot is gonna change…
Exposed Vocals: Who do you see yourself collaborating with in the future?
M.S.: Some artists I’d love to collab with include Tech N9ne, Stevie Stone, SCUM, Claas, And Lex The Hex Master.
G.S.: The underdogs, the unheard of, as well as those yet to be found! For real though, I want to build with the artists we currently have in our collective in person. Im looking forward to cutting an EP with Canna CDK. I also hope for more international collaboration. We will see what the future holds.
Exposed Vocals: What is your most valued material possession?
M.S.: My Most Valued material possession in all honesty are the ID tags that I was issued while serving in the United States Army. I wear them everywhere while doing everything. Fun fact, I also keep my old wedding band from my first marriage on them as well.
G.S.: This physical body, it enables me to create. I love creation. Big ups to my parents for not aborting me, even if they don’t care about each other. I was up there in the spirit realm, all stuck in Samsara, watching them copulate, my soul picked them. Im grateful for this experience we call life.
Exposed Vocals: What is the first album you ever owned? How did you acquire it?
M.S.: first album I ever owned was a Louis Armstrong CD, which I asked my mom for as a birthday gift when I was about 5 or 6 years old.
G.S.: My Aunt Lori bought me The Beatles: “Abbey Road” and The Grateful Dead: “Skeletons from the Closet” and “American Beauty” for a X-mas, and later on gifted me her entire vinyl collection. I was always sorrounded by music. First album I fell in love with was Jimi Hendrix: “Axis: Bold as Love”.
Exposed Vocals: What was the last gift you gave someone?
M.S.: The last gift that I gave to someone was my first full length album, “No Trespassing” which was a gift to my younger brother for his 20th Birthday
G.S.: I gifted a Kombucha Scoby and some Cannabis oil to a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Exposed Vocals: Who do you credit in your hometown for supporting hip hop in its Genesis?
M.S.: I credit local venue owners, mostly Mr. Patterson from Patterson Creations in Attleboro.
G.S.: Hands down, DJ Buck and The Magical Four! Im a Rhode Island native, we were always HIP HOP’s underdog. The Magical Four was Rhode Island’s first rap group and the first to press vinyl in the 401! DJ Buck was also Rhode Islands go-to producer in the 80’s and 90’s, He is now a radio DJ for “Hot 93.7” in New England.
Here are the links:
http://cesspoolasylumac.com/
https://cesspoolasylum.bandcamp.com/
