The court jester dvd label4/11/2023 ![]() ![]() D-Sisive has started a blog to document the creative process of his next album at.“There are a bunch of creeps running a marathon.” One hundred percent truthful? He’s running with creeps? “Yes,” he laughs. I don’t exaggerate anything and I don’t hold anything back… I’m just grateful that I stumbled upon that style of writing because that’s what has separated me from the rest of the Canadian hip-hop scene.”ĭ-Sisive’s new album, Run With The Creeps, is out in November. “Everything that I talk about in my songs is 100 percent truthful. Then once I started doing it, it was non-stop. “I just dove into the more personal side of writing, which was weird for me at first because I always felt that nobody would want to hear my story. “From there, I wrote ‘Knee Caps,’” says the twice-Juno-nominated rapper. Listening to the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, he wrote the first verse to his song “Brian Wilson,” which would appear on his eventual comeback, The B.O.O.K. His inspiration was restored one night after he returned to live in the Oakwood neighbourhood where he had grown up. “I feel like I had to go through what I went through in order to evolve into the person and the songwriter I am now.” “When he died? I didn’t have anyone,” says D-Sisive. When his mother died, he was able to stay creative because he had his father to keep everything together. I had no interest in writing songs between trips to hospitals or drunken fights. I was the only person taking care of him. “It used to be beer only it became hard liquor, no eating. “It started when my father’s drinking took a turn for the worse,” he says. Then his life took a tragic turn, leading to a seven-year creative drought. I was more interested in making people laugh or trying odd theatrics… Looking back now, I think it was the result of having nothing to say.” “ saw potential through the plush mascot costumes, but that’s who I was then. “I was the court jester at the time,” says D-Sisive, whose real name is Derek Christoff. He was signed to EMI Music Publishing Canada back then and landed on the cover of Toronto weekly Now magazine, which named him 2001’s Best Unsigned Artist. That’s going back almost a decade before the man who won SOCAN’s 2009 Echo Songwriting Prize (along with co-writer Muneshine) started writing more seriously and poignantly, on such releases as 2008’s The B.O.O.K. His shows included the chicken bit, a Colonel Sanders costume and a Remy Shand impersonator. There was a time when Toronto rapper D-Sisive felt people would want to hear goofy rhymes about sodomizing chickens more than about deeply personal issues, like the loss of his mother. ![]()
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