A Few Words With Lee Scott

Lee Scott isn't exactly what one could call the average lyricist in the game these days, being a bit stranger than most. Dark lyrics, dark beats, he's not really all there. Nonetheless, he's a respectable old fellow. To coincide with the release of his new album Cactusowlmoongoat, with one of the greatest album covers of the past ten years, I had him into the non-existent studio for a chat. I'll post links below for all the media covered, or most of it anywho.

What's the script. Introduce yourself to our listeners who don't know you.

Hi listeners who don’t know me, my name is Lee Scott I am a 74 year old rapper from Las Vegas and I represent sweg.  

Who would you consider is your main influence?

Sean Michaels and Jesus (my cat).

Morriachi and Illinformed seem to fit your style well. Would you have a favourite producer to work with?

Depends to be honest, all the producers I work with are extremely talented. I can’t say I have a “favourite” just because I like to switch it up a lot. Sumgii definitely gets a shout out though!

Do you prefer rapping or producing? I presume rapping at this point, but has it always been like this?

For years people just didn’t make them slow cold saggin beats I wanted to rap to so I was just making them myself. I've pretty much always fucked about with beats though, I was always trying to make my own original shit. I enjoy both, right now as I don’t have all the equipment I would like I have mostly just been leaving the beats to other people. I enjoy both though. I love the whole art form.

Do you have a decent recipe for pasta sauce?

Nah I don’t. Only thing I know how to cook is Scouse.

Why did you release the beats album without rapping over it?

Most of them beats were just taken from albums I've released, with the odd exclusive. Just thought people might want some of the instrumentals. Sorry.

Boom Bap 2014 looked insane. What was it like?

It was good man, I’m not really some festival guy to be honest but yea I enjoyed it. Boom Bap is always really boss to perform at. Lots of fans and you definitely appreciate the love! It’s getting better every time too, especially in terms of the line up. CAS and people like that are definitely good editions. Getting Ghostface and them is obviously mad sweg too. Shouts to Ivan and the squad.

CactusOwlMoonGoat – love the album cover, where the fuck did the name come from?

It came from the stars one night whilst I was trying to catch a barn owl with a ball of string and a dart. No shit.

How you find Dike as a producer? I always think he's more of a lyricist, but his beats seem to be popping up everywhere these days.

Well, I see him in a different light, obviously he’s a fuckin rapper and shit and a very talented performer but I've got to know him a lot more through the production. I honestly think as a producer he’s one of the absolute best. His shit is all vinyl based and usually that seems to go hand in hand with these mega purist guys who refuse to think outside the box but that’s not the case with Dike at all, he’s got a wide variety of influences and can flip mad styles. The album he has produced for me is different to other shit you've heard from him, it’s some absolute butter. Crazy steez! His next solo album is going to be fucked up too! Shout outs to Dike!!

Where the fudge you get your lyrics from?

My fudging brain and everything that goes on outside of it that it registers whether consciously or sub consciously. Shout outs my brain! Ok, really I got an elite team of Manatee ghost writers.

What's your favourite type of tea?

Just your regular Dave from the worky site type tea with 2 sugars, only with Lactofree milk, making it absolutely not your regular Dave from the worky site type tea but almost, sorta, maybe. Probably not. Love me. Sweg.

Fave bevvy?

Too many you know, right now I’m drinking a lot of Guiness Foreign Extra but I like a lot of different shit. I live in Blackburn at the moment and Oranjeboom is like a quid a can so that get’s laced too.

Ellesse, ellesse means what exactly? And what inspired ending with this track considering it's a different producer? It works well.

Ellesse is a clothing brand that was big in the 90’s. The track is a play on the Versace song by Drake. This is like the working class English version of the Versace song. The producer is Reklews who is one of the heads of Blah. He runs a lot of shit behind the scenes now and has been putting in work for time and has made some of the best beats on Blah and in this country as far as rap music goes. The beat is insane, mad original style. I ended the album with that joint just because it felt right. I end most of my shows on that joint too, so it made sense to me. A lot of the choices are just based entirely on feeling.

Craig Mack is sick. Where did the lady in the video come from? What's the inspiration for the video. It's like the Blair Witch Project!

I have no idea to be honest, she just sort of appeared. It’s inspired by them low budget old exploitation horror films from like the 70’s. It should of been 100 times more gross but we was on a time limit due to extremely busy schedules, we done it all ourselves with an early 90’s VHS camera.

I feel you personify the 90's house scene with your style. Explain.

As far as fashion and all that, that’s the shit we used buzz off back in the day. Bucket hats and tracksuits, Helly Hansen, ellesse and all that.

What season of TOWIE (The Only Way Is Essex) are you on at the moment?

I only got a TV 3 weeks ago but I’ll make sure to catch up with it in HD, it sounds profound.

Do you partake in the consumption of marijuana, or just take Oxys?

Nah I don’t do either.

Lemons?

Yeah, go ed.

Where do you get ideas for your videos from? They look like terrible acid trips! Yes He Did is fairly encapsulating in this sense. 

All sorts of places man, I don’t know, the cosmos? The part of my brain in which ideas are created? I bought a full British woodland camo tracksuit with the idea of filming in the woods and then the kiddas from Broken Antenna done the rest.

Tunnel Deep has got to be your most memorable and catchy tune, if that. What's with the burning (hopefully) goat in the vid?

Whoever you thought the Greatest Of All Time was, is now burnt. Making way for the cult.

You've come a long way since Wrong Bootleg Demo EP (2006). Can you take us through your inspirations, ideas, etc of the album? Also, what is the Wrong House?

Everything is inspirational to me. Just life in general, whatever I’m doing, everything inspires me. A lot of the shit is just tangents that grow and grow, it’s art, I don’t know how to explain this type of thing to be honest with you. The Wrong House was an old place I had in Tuebrook, Liverpool, it was a wonderful place full of junk. 20 computers, a shit ton of music equipment, all sorts of madness and gadgets. Telly’s stacked on top of Telly’s. It got burnt down though, R.I.P The Wrong House!!

If you could take the form of any type of fish, which and why?

Well, I mean, I’d take the form of a Great White Shark obviously just cause it’s fuckin dead ‘ard. You’d be mad to be any other fish really init?

Do you like cats?

Yes. Cats are Gods.

You're approaching the Irish scene and doing a show in Limerick in the near future. Of all the venues in all the places in all the world, why Limerick?

Ask all the other promoters who work with all the other venues in all the other places in the world. The team from Limerick are the only people who approached us.

Anything else?

No.

Script.

Scott is hitting up Dolans of Limerick on the 15th of November. For a tenner in, you couldn't ignore it. For anyone interested;
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=68473e34b8f1f3dc600ce2844d0a5689&t=2057308768

Bandcamp links: 

Cactusowlmoongoat:
    http://blahrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cactusowlmoongoat

Stupid Poignant Sh!t:
    http://leescott.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-poignant-sh-t