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Stereotypes

This week I had the privilege of asking a few questions of Drok from Berwyn Illinois' Stereotypes. I thought I was going to get the inside scoop about the group's aesthetic and how they feel about hip-hop at the moment. It turns out I was reading far too much into the name and the style. As it turns out, the Stypes "just make what we feel like making," and the results are hot. Check out the Tock Remix below.





Why Stereotypes? Why that name? I see it written as Stypes pretty often, does that mean thoughts of changing the moniker?

A: There really ain’t a deep meaning to it, just the type of music you put in your stereo, & stereotypes takes too long to write, stypes is a lot quicker.

The Spindle appears in a lot of your group photography, what did it mean to you as a symbol / monument?

A: The spindle 1st of all was a creative ass piece of art, and beyond that, to me it was a symbol of home, & I love it

Aside from dedicating a song to it, how does your hometown of Berwyn figure into the music?

A: When you live somewhere it becomes part of you, it helps mold you to who you are, & I think we’re pretty happy with who we are, a lot of people want to be from somewhere else, even if it’s only 15 miles away, I think you might as hell embrace where you’re at & where you’re from

A lot of shit talking goes on, particularly on the internet, about the future of hiphop and whether or not groups making golden era style rap are helping the genre. Do you guys consider yourself old school revivalists? How does the Stype sound fit into hiphop in 08-09?

A: old school revivalists? I don’t see us as that, we just make what we feel like making, hip hop is hip hop, if you were born in 67 or 97, don’t matter if you got 20s or a CTA pass, that’s what’s so great about hip hop, from one end to the other, it covers it all for everybody, you ain’t gotta like it all, but it’s there & what you don’t care about somebody might, either way, it’s all hip hop

I know you all had a track released in Japan, but I wasn't able to find any more info than that. How did that go down?

A: Incise, an amazing producer, who’s worked with Guilty Simpson & Sean Price to name a couple, signed a deal for a compilation album on Japan based Goon Trax records, he asked if we could write something for it, & we did, & I must say, we are proud as hell to be part of this album, it’s one of the best complete hip hop albums I’ve heard in a long time, especially for a compilation album, it’s beautiful it’s for sale here... http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2751847

Shout outs? plugs? When's the album dropping etc...?

A: We are finishing up our 1st complete album right now, it should be all finished before spring, aside from that we keep our shows posted on our myspace, www.myspace.com/berwynstype as for shout out, there’s to many people out there to name any of them, yous know who you are, Do Dat.