Now, it's important to remember your roots. So at this point I've got to give big ups to: God, the other MCs in 13FSS, the boys at the Noble Street house who give us a venue and encouragement, Sean and Burning Fight Records which hosts this site, my men Adam and Morgan who were in YT Conspiracy back in the day, Method Mayonnaise and Jewpac Kippur, the rest of my friends who enjoy my rhymes, my job which gives me the spare time to write raps, Jay Stile of StileProject who gave me a link, and to all the real hip-hop artists who are out on the streets keeping it real every day.
Also, I'd like to deny a rumor that has been going around a lot lately. All of the members of the 13 Fairies from the South Side are heterosexual. So to all the ladies who thought we were gay: there's nothing stopping you now. Come and get us.
Well, this is pretty much the definitive Imperial YT resource. Actually, it's probably the only Imperial YT resource. Anyway, the Imperial YT story starts a little something like this...
My first little couplet that I ever came up with was "I come to Africa and supplant the people/I am white and I am evil." Meanwhile, I was reading the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson which features a character named YT whose name is misunderstood to be "whitey." Immediately this got some wheels turning. So I decided base my name on my race and the indignity that Africa suffered under imperialism. Viola.
The first Imperial YT song is a little ditty (still incomplete) known as "The Black Supervillain" and was born as MC Meat and I sat idle at a show where the band we came to see canceled. Suddenly, the idea of an angry black man on a rampage against crackers everywhere leapt into our brains and the English dropped faster than a whore's nightgown. "The Black Supervillain" languished for several years despite the fact that it was the only song in my repertoire. I would trot it out at shows where my friends were playing or perform it amongst a group of buddies (or in a tour bus in front of my history teacher), but it never got off the ground.
However, I began to take the idea a bit more seriously as I started my freshman year of college. Eventually it all solidified as my friends began coming up with rap personas. The first was Enforger who earned this name simply because he looks like a German forger. What does a German forger look like? Well, a small guy with glasses and delicate fingers. This kid looks like he just finished etching a printing plate for making counterfeit Deutschemarks. The next was Judge Penis. This name seemed obvious as Judge Penis talks more about sex than Russ Meyer. Others include Ol' Dirty Existentialist and DJ Smegma.
After that, we needed a name for our hip-hop group. We had always referred to ourselves as the 13 Fairies which came from an episode of Real Sex where these naked women who were up in trees started reciting this erotic poetry. Takes all kinds I guess. But we also wanted to convey that we were O.G. Hard-core thugs. So we settled upon The 13 Fairies from the South Side (13FSS).
As of now the line-up consists of Enforger, Judge Penis, MC Meat, and myself. But we're a fluid group, so the number of MC's present at any show is bound to fluctuate.
Lastly, I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss what YT and 13FSS are all about. Are we serious? Can white people even be taken seriously as MCs?
Well, being white, I'm not really in a position to answer that latter question, but as to the former...well, I still don't know. Yes, many of our raps our set up to be humorous, but I feel that we deal with some fairly serious subject matter at times and we simply approach a lot of these topics with humor. Many MCs look at modern life and make serious and lyrically brilliant commentary (e.g. Mos Def), but this is something 13FSS is not exactly set up to do.
First of all, we're white. And while we're all for being color-blind in regards to race, being white does give us an advantage in life regardless that we feel that said advantage shouldn't exist. We don't experience people locking their car doors when they see us or cops pulling us over just because of our skin color. We can't know what it feels like to endure unwarranted trials just because of our race. In lieu of that fact, I feel that it's inappropriate for us to remark on the matter of racial bias except in the way we perceive it. So when I'm sitting around and I hear some cracker tell a racist joke, then it pisses me off and I pen a song about murdering honkeys. But let me state for the record that it was/is never my intention to appear so presumptuous as to think that I've ever known what it's like to be the victim of racism.
Moreover, we aren't the best MCs out there (by any means). So why should we bore you with profoundly political raps and whatnot when you can hear the same thing done much better? Sure, practice makes perfect, but it's not entertaining for y'all. So, we practice getting better on our own time and drop the funky English when y'all are around. We may not have the best flow in the world, but we like to think our raps will make you laugh.
So that's what we're all about. I like to think that we are a "serious" group in that we're serious about MCing and we're serious about making songs that will make you laugh and occasionally deal with important subject matter (albeit in a humorous way). So enjoy the show!