![]() ![]() You mentioned there's an application and a screening process earlier, can you take me through a couple sample questions? VICE magazine is cool and I was a little worried you guys were going to poke fun at us-which would suck for the guys. I didn't even know that many people knew about it yet because it's pretty underground and at a starting point. You're actually the first person that wanted to interview me about it. Have you received any criticism from starting this movement? ![]() I'm all about second chances for normal stuff-if somebody says the f word or whatever in an e-mail no problem they get a second chance-but I won't tolerate racial slurs and things of that nature. There were a couple of racial slurs against another member and they took a of it. What did they do that you had to revoke their membership? I'll refund those people their $100 and say: “Sorry, you can't be a part of our family with that attitude.” There's 2000 of us already, so there's bound to be a couple bad apples. There have been a couple of bumps in the road but I guess that's just going to happen. There was like 40 at the Toronto show and what a great group of guys they were! Just nice, good people. I'm seeing maybe 20 Battle Axe Warriors, 30 Battle Axe Warriors at every show. I had meetings in some major cities like in Edmonton and met with 20 Battle Axe Warriors, in Calgary close to 30, and Winnipeg 14 of us went out for lunch. So now it's at the point where I get home I'm moving into a bigger place to set up an office so I can start spending half my day on business and do my music at night I feel like every night we do a show I got like four or five guys coming up to me saying that they applied and haven't heard back. I have over 5,000 more applications pending and we're averaging 60-80 applications a day right now. We're just shy of 2,000 and we started about 16 months ago. The whole thing is I made my bed and I have to sleep in it, but at the same time I gotta be the one to change the sheets. They didn't put that down as the actual reason but it was quite obvious to me that it was the reason. After I got out of the holding cell for ten hours at customs, they showed me pictures from the internet and asked me if I was a member of the motorcycle club. Is that because of your prior affiliation with the Hells Angels? It also got number 12 rap album in America and I'm not even allowed in there. We're back on tour, my first solo album came out which debuted as the number three album in the country, I was nominated for a Juno again… Plus our new album just came out three weeks ago. So in 2010 I got sober and I've been sober since. It was a rough patch in my life, but I'm over two and half years sober now and life is awesome. So from 2006-2010 I lost over three million dollars to my addiction and lost all my property and my worth… everything. I eventually got hooked on Percocets and that turned into a very bad Oxycontin addiction. ![]() I immersed myself in the party scene-going to strip clubs and mansion parties. It wasn't a good thing for a guy like me to do. I had Battle Axe Records and Swollen Members going and we decided to take time off after doing 200 shows a year for five, six years in a row. I needed some growing up to do and unfortunately during 2001-2006 I was a real workaholic. But those are the two groups of people I was hanging out with. So I want to make sure I'm not saying that bikers are gangsters. I was hanging around with-and I don't want people to think it's the same thing-bikers and gangsters. What kind of negativity were you glorifying? ![]()
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