No Cliches.. But It's The Thunder From Down Under.. 

Mr. Whiplash touching base with HHO in the Twenty Twelve..

With His Newly Released Track "Gangsta Enough".

Unleashing his lyrical prowess on the States.

Fiery but calculated in his flow, Whiplash..

Methodically attacks each and every track..

Much like a veteran boxer punishes a novice opponent in the ring. Effortless delivery mixed with relentless lyricism is a combination that scores a knockout every time.

Years of nomadic living have given Whiplash a plethora of experience and content for his music. Eking out a living and sleeping everywhere from fields..

To campgrounds to couches to beaches and even on the roof of a café, Whiplash knows what it’s like to come from nothing.

Starting from the bottom he has cultivated an appreciation for the underdog and gives his music a unique perspective. 

He embraces his drifter status and uses music as an outlet to release his pent up feelings about the cold world he’s encountered. 

After a lucky occurrence Whiplash met a high-ranking music representative and was able to record his first song in a professional studio.

This experience led to an obsession with making new music and Whiplash started recording his own songs.

After two short years and over 100 tracks, he was featured in Cosmopolitan and ranked 6 out of 35 up-and-coming artists in the magazine’s “Cool List”.


Tell our readers, where your from.. what's your home-state, country ? I was born in Byron Bay and live in Lennox Head, Ballina in NSW Australia. I lived a lot of places overseas when I was on the road on and off for 7 years.

Where did your stage name originate from ? My nickname since I was a teenager then I took it my own way as an adult.

What is it like for you as an artist day to day typically ? I always listen to rap music in my car, on my mp3 player; computer and I practice my own songs on my mic almost every night. I record early morning when I am working on a new project.

Follow Whiplash:



Exclusive Media
(Link) Gangsta Enough

Other than music what do you do to pay the bills ? I don’t make money from music. I work on call for cash as a laborer; mainly garden maintenance and landscape work for a couple of different employers. I work for a hotel that calls me in for kitchen hand and gardening work. I am on welfare so I get some money being semi-unemployed; to stay on welfare I am studying a full time college course while looking for full time work. My local bank recently offered me a business loan so I am using the money to fund my music career. The last few years I have been using credit cards and I work normal jobs as much as I can to pay the debt back.

What are some of your hobbies and extracurricular activities you enjoy ? I love skateboarding and surfing. I do enjoy studying sometimes; I finished two business courses by correspondence. 

What year did you first become introduced to hip-hop ? Around 1999 but Dr Dre and Eminem in 2001.Snoop Dogg and Tha Dog Pound got me into Hip-Hop mostly in 2002. 

Coming up as an artist what emcee's influenced your music and intrigued you to pick up a mic and hit the booth and stage ? Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 2Pac, D12, 50 Cent, Xzibit, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Lil Wayne and more.

What artists and people in your life enticed you to get into this business? Mostly the United States, HipHop.org, Tha Advocate, Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes, Lil Fats, and Producers: N8 Beats from MakeYourHit.com, Beatsbymarkus.com, Mozart Jones, Rappers: Hotline from Detroit, Khaki Blue from Los Angeles, Premavara, Tha Advocate, basically anyone that did me a deal, gave me a discount, collaborated with me, got me featured, got me on at a show or tried to help my career out.

How would you describe your presence in the studio when your laying down tracks, do you consider yourself versatile when it comes to a wide range of styles, or do you stick to a certain method when it comes to your delivery and execution ? Yeah I consider myself versatile; I just follow the beat and music. My method is listening to a beat for a couple of days then when I record over it I naturally flow with it. I freestyle pretty much every song; not the lyrics but my deliveries. All my lyrics are just picked out of books of lyrics I have already written, some lyrics work and some don’t. It all comes down to my mixing most of the time. When I mix a song together I just pick out my best deliveries, lyrics and hooks to make the song

What Artists, Disc Jockeys, Producers are you currently working with? I recently did a couple of projects (The West Aussie EP, The Down Under Come Up) with beats from beatsbymarkus.com; a producer from San Fran. I recently did a project with Mozart Jones; a producer signed to Interscope. I am working on a project with a producer N8Beats from MakeYourHit.com; lives in Los Angeles. All that will come out early 2012.

If you had the pick of any artist(s) to spit a 16 bar verse on a collaborative track what artist(s) would you choose and why ? Lil Wayne because he has rhymes for days but I would work with a lot of rappers out there; there is so many good rappers.

Tell us about your most recently released project and your current project that's in the works, when is it set for release and what agencies are you choosing for promotion and distribution? Whiplash and Hotline – The Down Under Come Up, Whiplash & Mozart, Whiplash featuring Tha Advocate – Bad In Me, Whiplash & Khaki Blue - The West Aussie EP – Mixtape, all these are set for release January and February 2012. All of these releases are done with CD Baby so the distribution is worldwide. As far as promotion goes I will put certain songs out with Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes USA.

What one reason would your fan base express that separates you from the normal mainstream recording artist ? I would say my singing alongside my rap separates me from the rest because my two voices blend together well yet sound completely different to each other.

What was your most recent gig / show, what shows do you currently have lined up ? I haven’t had a show for a while and I have no shows lined up. I am hoping to line up shows with fellow rappers Hotline from Detroit, Tha Advocate from New Jersey and Khaki Blue from Los Angeles. I am rapping every day and I always stay ready for the next show that comes up. I am fucking keen to get up on a big stage again and rip the shit out of it, I miss that. The last decent show I did was in Lanzarote, Canary Islands and I had my own spot on a big stage with smoke, lights and that was the shit I did and wanna do again.

What's currently in your iPod / Android / Mp3 Player play list ? Digital Dynasty 18 Hosted by Cashis and the new music I have been working on.

What’s your formula when you come up with the concepts for your tracks, when you hit the studio do you record your material off the top or do you use notes as a reference ? I have paper books of lyrics that I write throughout the year so when I get beats I will go through that book looking for lyrics to use over the music. Sometimes I will sit down with the beat and write the lyrics fresh to the music. When I record it is mostly improvised. These days I try to get the song together more than I use to; I actually freestyle a lot before constructing a song to get a feel for where I fit rhythmically. I love freestyling around a new beat live with my mic; I can hear what sounds good or not straight away.

Where do you see yourself and your career in the industry in the next 5 years ? Hopefully a good position, I would love to be up there with the best without selling out. I feel I want to be respected yet not compromising my music to get on the radio or TV. I feel if I continue to do this I will improve every year and in 5 years from now I would be a lot better as far as skill, confidence and experience. So only up and out from here. I really want to make it as a rapper because I love doing this music more than anything. I feel like it is place I fit in and belong because I can just say whatever I want in a song, people don’t judge me as much (except for some stupid haters) even when I am saying fuck the world the real people understand it and feel like me. I am pissed off until I make it good. I am sick of the struggle, sick of working my ass off and not getting ahead, this white way of life is driving me crazy.

Where do you see the industry in 5 years ? Rap is so mainstream now I see it being part of the culture worldwide (well it already is), well at least clean raps are accepted everywhere now. I still feel that the best explicit raps are being shoved aside and hidden from the public eye so I hope that all comes out and eventually explicit raps are all over TV and radio. Sometimes I feel like who are these stations trying to fool? They are blocking out swear words and playing clean songs just because they are not swearing.

I see the industry growing but hopefully getting more hard core again. It needs to go back to the roots again and not be about selling ringtones. It is like I hate all the top 20 TV songs, they have no swearing, no sick hip hop beats, no hard core rappers, I hope the industry gets its hands dirty again with some raw spitting rappers publicly. I think Eminem and Lil Wayne have successfully continued raw songs like that commercially, we just need more artists and songs like that. Fuck this changing lyric for shows, TV or radio; at least in Australia on Triple J radio they play rap songs with the swearing which I see is a movement. If people don’t want to hear swearing fucking turn it off and listen to ABC of some shit.


If you had to choose one track that will have HipHop.Org readers hooked, which track would it be ? A song coming out with Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes called ‘Gangsta Enough’, because it is a new song for 2012. I am always looking for something new to do and that was it for now.

Do you have any final words, shout outs, etc for our community..? Shout out to all my friends on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. Shout out to my collabs in 2011 and 2012; homies like Hotline, Tha Advocate, Khaki Blue and Premavara. Shout out to Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes for doing me deals, I couldn’t afford all of these promotions without discounts. Shout out to my family and recent producers beatsbymarkus.com, N8 Beats and Mozart Jones. Thanks to Digital Dynasty Mixtapes Series for slotting me in all of 2011. Thanks to HipHopLead.com for featuring interviews and reviews. A final thanks to HipHop.org for featuring your man Whiplash.

www.WhiplashMusic.com

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed