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CASEY GAME (AKA THE MIGHTY CASEY) IS A RAPPER, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR WHO TENDS TO DELVE IN THE REALM OF POLITICS. HIS RECENT SINGLE "BILLY JACK HAYNES", TELLS A DEBUNKED STORY OF SOME OF THE CONTROVERSIES OF THE DRUG GAME AND THE PROPAGANDA IT USES TO COVER SOME FACTS. I SIT DOWN WITH A FELLOW WRITER AS WE TALK MORE ON HIP HOP AND THE POLITRICKS OF POLITICAL JOURNALISM.

“I'M REALLY HOPING THERE IS A ROOM WHERE HIP HOP CAN MOVE OUTSIDE OF CORPORATE CONTROL SO IT CAN BE THAT POLITICAL VOICE BECAUSE BEFORE WHEN HIP HOP WAS REALLY MAGAZINE AND COLLEGE RADIO-DRIVEN AND THE CORPORATIONS DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. YOU WERE GETTING AWAY WITH THE PUBLIC ENEMY AND BDP AND MESSAGES LIKE "SELF-DESTRUCTION."” -THE MIGHTY CASEY

VALIDATED: WHAT GAVE YOU THE LOVE OF MUSIC AND WHAT WAS THE SONG THAT MADE YOU SAY "THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO DO."

THE MIGHTY CASEY: WHAT GAVE ME A LOVE FOR MUSIC, I THINK IT’S JUST A BEAT AND ENERGY AND OF A KIND OF SOUL IN MUSIC THAT YOU CAN ARTICULATE SOMETHING YOU CAN'T REALLY ARTICULATE. YOU KNOW, THROUGH WRITING OR THROUGH TALKING TO THE ENERGY AND A PASSION IT ALLOWS YOU TO ACCENTUATE EMOTION WHETHER IT BE HAPPINESS OR SADNESS. I THINK THE FIRST SONG THAT MADE ME WANT TO DO IT IS SOMETHING FROM RUN DMC'S “RAISING HELL” ALBUM, "MY ADIDAS". THAT WHOLE ALBUM REALLY KIND OF INSPIRED ME TO WANT TO AT LEAST MAKE RAP MUSIC, LIKE I PLAY THE PIANO OR STUFF BEFORE, BUT RUN DMC... IT COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE BUNCH OF SONGS. IT COULD HAVE BEEN “RAISING HELL”, IT COULD HAVE BEEN "IT'S TRICKY", IT COULD HAVE BEEN "YOU BE ILLIN'". LIKE A NUMBER OF THEM, SO I CAN'T REALLY POINT TO ONE SONG BUT I CAN POINT TO THE ONE ALBUM, AND THAT WAS “RAISING HELL”. THAT WAS THE ALBUM THAT MADE ME REALLY THINK OF WHAT I WANTED TO DO. LIKE WHAT THEY'RE DOING WAS WHAT I WANTED TO DO.

VALIDATED: YEAH, I THINK MY FAVORITE ONE IS "YOU TALK TOO MUCH."

THE MIGHTY CASEY: “HOMEBOY YOU NEVER SHUT UP!" THAT'S A BRILLIANT ONE. THAT AND "YO BE ILLIN", JUST GREAT BECAUSE OF THE HOOKS AND THEY ARE GREAT STORIES TOO. YOU KNOW THEY WERE GREAT STORYTELLERS LIKE SLICK RICK, ANOTHER MC WHO KIND OF INSPIRED ME TO RAP, SO I ALWAYS LIKE THE STORYTELLING.

VALIDATED: AS FAR AS YOUR MUSIC GOES, YOU HAVE SUCH TRACKS LIKE "NO GUNMAN" AND THE LATEST ONE IS "BILLY JACK HAYNES". FIRST OFF, WHAT GAVE YOU THE IDEA FOR "BILLY JACK HAYNES?"

THE MIGHTY CASEY: WELL ASIDE FROM BEING A MUSIC ARTIST, I'M ALSO A JOURNALIST. I WROTE A BOOK ON INSIDE THE CIA TAKEOVER IN JAMAICA. SO NOW I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE CIA SELLING COCAINE, GOING UP TO HIGH PEOPLE LIKE BILL CLINTON, GEORGE BUSH AND OLIVER NORTH, AND YOU KNOW IT WAS A LOT DEEPER THAN I KIND OF THOUGHT IT WAS. SO NOT ONLY DID I LEARN ABOUT JAMAICA, BUT I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE CIA, AND I FOLLOW A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO WOULD RESEARCH STUFF LIKE THE JFK ASSASSINATION, THE MLK ASSASSINATION, IRAN CONTRA, COCAINE WHICH YOU CAN KIND OF SEE A LITTLE BIT IN THE SHOW, “SNOWFALL”. SO I WAS RESEARCHING A LOT OF THAT AND THEN I HEARD THE STORY ABOUT AN OLD WRESTLER BY THE NAME OF “BILLY JACK HAYNES”, WHO CAME OUT AND ACCUSED THE CLINTONS OF ORCHESTRATING A HIT ON TWO LITTLE KIDS BECAUSE THEY WITNESSED A COCAINE JOB OR SOMETHING. AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO SAY IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CRAZIEST STUFF IN THE WORLD... "THE CLINTONS SELLING COCAINE? OH, THAT'S A CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORY." BUT SEE HOW I DID SO MUCH RESEARCH FOR MY BOOK THAT KIND OF BACKED UP WITH BILLY JACK HAYNES WAS SAYING. I WAS LIKE "WOW." AND I GUESS YOU KNOW FROM BEING A JOURNALIST WHERE I CAN ARTICULATE MYSELF, I COULD DO IT BY WRITING A BOOK OR WRITING AN ARTICLE, BUT ALSO I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DON'T GET THEIR INSPIRATION TO GO OUT AND READ BOOKS AND ARTICLES. THEY MIGHT JUST GET A LOT OF THIS STUFF FROM MUSIC, TV, ETC, SO I FIGURED A WAY TO KIND OF GET THE STORY OUT THERE RIGHT. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHER INTERVIEWS AND STORIES ABOUT IT. I WILL WAIT TO GET THE STORY OUT THERE, ALSO IT'S REALLY AN EXCITING FUN STORY, KIND OF LIKE THE TEKASHI TRIAL. IT WAS JUST ALL SORTS OF INTRIGUE AND BACKSTABBING AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO IT WAS JUST AN EXCITING, INTERESTING STORY THAT I BELIEVE IS TRUE AND I FEEL LIKE ALSO WE DID A LOT OF COKE RAP, RIGHT? SO I LOVE "COKE RAP" LIKE WESTSIDE GUNN & CONWAY, RICK ROSS. THERE'S SOME EXCITEMENT LIKE AGAIN, TEKASHI. THERE'S SOME EXCITEMENT ABOUT CRIMINALS AND DRUG DEALING THAT GIVES SONGS ENERGY, BUT I'M NOT A DRUG DEALER. I CAN'T REALLY MAKE SONGS LIKE THAT AND HAVE IT RING TRUE, BUT I KNOW A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE DRUG DEALERS, SO I FIGURED I CAME AT IT FROM BILL CLINTON'S PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE I THINK IN RAP CULTURE AND EVEN MEDIA CULTURE, WHETHER IT BE YOU KNOW “NARCOS” OR “PAID IN FULL”, WE'RE ALWAYS SEEING IN THE FACES, DRUG DEALERS OF COLOR RIGHT. WE'RE SEEING LIKE PABLO ESCOBAR, WE'RE SEEING ALL THESE LEGENDARY DRUG DEALERS WHO YOU KNOW GOT THEIR WEIGHT UP IN THE COCAINE ERA, AND WE SEE THE FACE