Rafael
Vigilantics Q. Thanks for interviewing with us. Tell everyone who you are and what you do. A. I’m Rafael Vigilantics, I’m a writer and a musician. I’ve written songs for other people and children’s books, and my own music of course, articles for magazines etc. Right now I have a new punk project called TombSnakes with our first release on 4/18 with Blank City Records.
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Q. Who motivated you to be the person you are today? A. I think I’ve largely been motivated by my imagination and the wild land I grew up in. It was full of its own stories and ones you had to craft yourself to make sense of it. My mother of course, she’s an amazing artist and folk singer and the adventures of my youth that helped define my sense of what’s important.
Q. Why do they call you “Iggy Pop of Hip Hop” what’s the meaning behind the name? A. I think the Huffington Post said that probably because of style and stage presence and coming at things from a bit of a rawer DIY ethos. I never really meant to get on Hip-Hop tours it just naturally evolved that way because I was making music solo w/ beats and so I got lumped in with a great crew of artists. “Vigilantics” started as a clothing brand actually. I would
