Wu-Tang Clan-rapparen Inspectah Deck teamade för tio år sedan upp med Boston-duon 7L & Esoteric för samarbetsprojektet CZARFACE. Debutplattan från 2013 gästades av Ghostface Killah, Cappadonna, Vinnie Paz, Action Bronson och Roc Marciano och fick uppmärksamhet i underjordskretsar. Rebel INS beskrev samarbetet i en intervju med VICE från 2015:
“Czarface is like the Danger Room for the X-Men, I can use all my weapons on there. When I’m in Wu-Tang, I have to come a certain way because we have a certain style of fan, when I’m here doing the Czarface projects, it allows me to actually be an MC, it allows me to actually just spit…I love that. I love when i can just spit freely and just be an MC.”
Han förklarade också gruppnamnet i en intervjun och påpekade att gruppnamnets likhet med kultfilmen “Scarface” inte är en tillfällighet:
“He became a hero even though he wasn’t a hero in the movie. He was so iconic, and we want to be something like that. We want people to look at us and say, ‘This is not just a group,’ that they see us as iconic MCs in the game. We have the face of a czar. I didn’t want to make it about me and he didn’t want to make it about him. Together we were just Czarface, We’re people that you have to respect. We have the look of some importance. That’s Czarface.”
Esoteric utvecklar även att gruppen har en fascination för 90-talets hiphop:
“I think it just comes naturally. If there was any effort involved it would appear contrived. We just put the music out. Every time that we make a record, we’re trying to give the listener something new and not rehash old things. I think it’s just who we are. We’re trying to make a beat that captures this real intense vibe that makes us want to rhyme, that gives us the energy to crush buildings. We’re not setting out to not be 90s, it’s just that this is the music that we love.”
Sedan dess har trion spelat in ett tiotal albumprojekt och ett par EP-projekt. Nu kommer den senaste volymen i samarbetet med skivan “Czartificial Intelligence” som gästas av Logic, NEMS, Kool Keith och Godfather Don. Lyssna nedan!
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