CONCRETE Alabama #5 by CONCRETE Magazine

6-7 ................... Unknown Lyriq 8 ......................... John Hodge 10 ..............J.O. Northside Boss 12 ......... Producer: Ebonie Smith 14 .................... Producer: P.R. 18-19 .......... 5 Star Chick: Penny 20 .....................Cheryl Llewyn 22 ............................ Peoples 24 ........................Whip Game 26 ......................... Spank Lee 27 ...........Visual Artist: Nolan Cash 28-29 ...................... Gritty Boi 30 .......................... Bond Life Editor: Angela Dalton, Sarah Taylor Ad Executives: Rick Bradshaw, Sarah Taylor Photography: Issac Ward Art Director: Rex2-tm Ad Design: Jamal Turner Online Editor: Reis O’Neill Publishing Consultant: Bryan Deese Reps: Coley Roberts, Chandler Hayes, Durell, Bennie, Don, Bebe

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Jeremiah Turner

CONCRETE: What are your names? Unknown Lyric: Jeremiah Turner and Kevin Grayson CONCRETE: Why the name Unknown Lyric? Unknown Lyric: The music is “lyric less” there are no words, so we leave it up to listener to create their own lyrics based on whatever they are feeling. Our music is very emotional, it can be sad it can happy so we leave it up to the listener to input their own lyrics. CONCRETE: Where are you from? Unknown Lyric: Atlanta. CONCRETE: Musical background? Jeremiah: I started out as a visual artist. I was always into art. Music literally fell into my lap. I was on my second art show in Atlanta, it was going really well but something inside of me felt like that wasn’t the direction for me to go in. I went back to the drawing board and somewhere in that drawing board stage I picked up a guitar. Shortly after that I met Kevin and we started doing shows. Self taught as far as the guitar and I’m learning how to play piano as we speak. Kevin: I started when I was eight years old playing the violin. All the orchestra stuff, classically trained, been in the orchestra pit for musicals ballets etc. I went to college and continued to pursue music. Once in college I decided I wanted to do something different with the instrument, not just straight classical. I’ve always been a stand on my own person and different. I didn’t care what other people were playing I just decided I wanted to try this. I realized this was my gift and this is what I was supposed to be doing. CONCRETE: Who is your existing management? Unknown Lyric: Justin Samms with Newland Entertainment. CONCRETE: What do you attribute your quick success to? Jeremiah: I never like to force my beliefs on anyone else, but I know that what we are doing is what God has called us to do. Just to see what we have been able to accomplish in such short time. I know people who have been playing the same instrument as me all of their lives and I have the privilege of being able to say that I have

gone places with Kevin that these people haven’t been able to go. I know this is what we are supposed to be doing. CONCRETE: 2011 Showtime at the Apollo grand prize winners, what was the first performance there like? Unknown Lyric: You get the pep talk in the green room. If you don’t make it just remember the legends that have been booed i.e. Lauryn Hill. They basically told us don’t take it to heart a lot of the greats got booed so if you do don’t end your career. It was really nerve wracking. We are sitting there in the green room thinking about how every one of the greats sat in that same room. They call our name we go out and the sound system messed up so people couldn’t hear the violin, they started booing. They were trying to fix the sound system and right at the point when they were going to call someone else on the stage, it was fixed. We came back out there and we rocked it. I think we had more energy then when we first started. I wasn’t upset when they started booing because I knew they couldn’t hear us. We got a standing ovation. CONCRETE: Have you had any set backs? Unknown Lyric: We have lost many a competition and it has been a very humbling process. It was a true test to see how bad I really wanted this, I (Jeremiah) stepped out on faith and quit my 9-to-5 on the hope and faith that we were going to make it. Slowly but surely finances caught up to me or the lack there of and everything started dwindling down. It got really bad. I was mugged and lost my guitar. It was a true test of faith. Things kept getting worse, and I just stuck with it. Beginning of the summer we packed our bags and went to Huntsville and things just kind of went through the roof. CONCRETE: How did you start playing on Bridge Street? Unknown Lyric: A friend of mine told us to go to this new place called Bridge Street. So we are walking there with our instruments and the lady asked us where we were going to play. We said we didn’t know because we didn’t know what their policy was. She told us that you can’t play on premises unless you go through a process. We were like ‘OK that’s fine.’ She asked to hear what we had, so we played right there on the spot. She was

blown away and put us right in front of PF Changs and put a glass bowl in front of us and it went from there. We have been doing Bridge Street for about two years. CONCRETE: How would you describe your style? Unknown Lyric: Classically trained, so Beethoven, Mozart and the orchestras is my foundation and what I bring to Unknown Lyric. The in depth music theory and opera type stuff (Kevin). It’s a blend of different genres a lot of musicians get locked in to a box. I love Spanish music, jazz, George Benson, and then a little R and B. For me it’s more up beat, it’s more than just hip hop. It’s classical meets groove. CONCRETE: The Unplugged Sessions, what can we expect? Unknown Lyric: Our ﬁrst couple of EPs were more of an acoustic mellower sound of who we are. We both wanted a CD that brings what we have in our minds to life. With this album we were able to add drums and keys, which allowed us to display a more colorful sound and let listeners to get more of an insight of what we really want to do and play.

Kevin Grayson

CONCRETE: Can you tell us about growing up in Detroit? John Hodge: I didn’t have the hardest life in the world, but it was nowhere near easy. I was broke, everything I did was hustling. I did it all without my father, my dad was locked up when I was baby and then came home when I turned fifteen. My Dad was like a god to me, he taught me more from in there than people did out here. My Mom is a stand up chick too, she always made sure I saw him. Every time I went up there we talked and had in depth conversations about history, religion and stuff like that. I grew up watching my mom struggle which led me to do things I shouldn’t have. So, I work my butt off now to make sure when I have kids they don’t have to go through the same things I did. CONCRETE: How did you get your start in music? John Hodge: The first thing I did that is worth talking about is the Who Got Bars? rap contest.I found out that I could rap when I was like fifteen at a party. My homeboy was battle rapping another guy but he got disqualified because he said the N word and you couldn’t curse. I got on the microphone and said, “hello”, people started booing. They turned the beat on and I started going. Everyone went crazy. CONCRETE: What makes you different? John Hodge: I love rap and I will never try to be anything that I’m not or tell you I have something that I don’t. Rap is a hustle, so you have to exaggerate, but I’ll never go to the extreme and try and make you believe that I’m something I’m not. I want to keep it as real as I can without getting arrested (laughs). CONCRETE: You have a new project dropping, Patience and Paperwork what can we expect on that? John Hodge: My first project. Good music, I have happy music, music that girls would like but a little something for everybody not necessarily the kids.The title is two things I hate but are necessary no matter what you are doing legal or illegal.

CONCRETE: What’s your name? J.O.: Jeremy Lacey. CONCRETE: Do you have any local musical influences? J.O.: Lapone. CONCRETE: When was your first time in the studio? J.O.: NRC, No Remorse Clique, they were recording out of their house and he would come over and try to get me in the studio and one day I said I was coming and went. This was around 2010. CONCRETE: In April 2007, you had a life changing event. Can you tell us about that? J.O.: It was jealousy, people I grew up playing in the sand box with were one day cool and then the next day didn’t speak to me. Small things added up and I knew it was someone that I knew. I saw him we had an altercation and a week later I was fighting his friend and he stood on the side of me and shot me five times while I was fighting. After I got shot it made me want to change my life and just put my all into music. Kill them with kindness I was tired of the streets. CONCRETE: Can you tell us about the video for your song “Five Shots”? J.O.: I did the video in the same exact spot where I was shot. CONCRETE: What makes you different from other rappers? J.O.: I had already been in the streets all my life and after I got shot and made it through that my very first project (a music video shot by Jurian Isabelle) won a nationwide music contest that sent my to Hollywood. I also did two magazine covers, and from that it just made me feel like this is meant for me. I’ve only been doing music for a year and a half. CONCRETE: What’s next for you? J.O.: My first mixtape, The Truth Shall Be Told Told. Expect to release the end of September. It’s my life, everyday experiences, no fairy tales and uncut. I’m basically just telling you how it is. CONCRETE: What major event do you have coming up? J.O.: Opening up for Lil Wayne in Portland, Oregon. It will be a lot of exposure for me. CONCRETE: Any shout outs? J.O.: God, Mom, Grandma, Tyrone Matthews, everybody in Huntsville that’s making moves with this music, Rich Kidz Gang, TC, CC, CeCe Simone, Can’t Stop, Ben Frank, YT, M16, Dynomite Kid, Jurian, KO and Keyon.

CONCRETE: What’s your name? Ebonie: Ebonie Smith. CONCRETE: Where you from? Ebonie: Memphis, TN. CONCRETE: Can you tell us about Gender Amplified? When did you start, and what is it? Ebonie: Gender Amplified is a project that I initiated in 2007. It was geared toward looking at the issue of women in production, technology, and the music industry as to why they weren’t visible. I started producing records in 2006 and had an opportunity to go to Africa and learn music production over the course of five to six months. When I came back I developed a project studio of my own. I noticed there was an issue with my attempt to learn the craft. It became difficult to navigate relationships between men and women in the studio. CONCRETE: Has there been a visible progression since you began Gender Amplified? Ebonie: There are much more women these days doin it. The accessibility of technology has helped out a great deal. You have to have more people in place to say to these women, we recognize your movement and what you have is viable and that there is a market for your music. Think about all the women empowerment songs that are produced and written by men. We can speak for ourselves, produce our own records and tell our own stories. CONCRETE: What’s next for you and Gender Amplified? Ebonie: Gender Amplified Music Festival. It’s scheduled for Fall 2013 and aims to celebrate women in commercial music production work and their stories. The event is going to bring women from around the US together for a free day long fest in New York City, to discuss the state of women in music production. We will brainstorm ways to increase their visibility to make music. The event will also feature live performances, workshops, panels, and tutorials in specific types of softwares. I received a grant from The New York Foundation of the Arts to develop it, as well as, have another partner Barnard College.

Jackie Chain - Bruce Lean 4 out of 5

We already know Jackie Chain street buzz is serious and with songs like “Picture Perfect”, “Parked Outside”, “Johnny Depp”, “Numbers” and “26 Inches”. I already know how his future is going to play out. A check with several zeroes in it. He is different, and that in itself is marketable. So it’s a win-win, and I’m impressed. ccccC

Eugeneius Neutron - Million Dollar Dreams

Million Dollar Dreams by Eugeneius Neutron is the perfect blend of dope storytelling and well thought out rhyme schemes. The album starts out with words from one of my personal favorite thinkers/activist Mumia Abu Jamal who breaks down America’s failure to care for its underprivileged. The album immediately goes into his early dreams of making it in the game. Many rappers talk about similar subjects but Eugeneius sets himself apart from the pack with clever lines like ‘Had more Bills that Mr Gates, even gave Steve a Job.’ This album is full of songs that bump in the trunk while still holding on to the kind of punch lines that make hip-hop classics. This album properly uses samples as in the the Michael Jackson inspired “Heartbreak Hotel” and “I Need A Dollar” but doesn’t overwhelm the listener with throwbacks of the past and has a host of bumping Southern inspired original tracks. Overall I give this project a well deserved 5 stars. ccccc

SoLo Stunna - Ambiverted

Ah a Southern rock-rap album! This album is winning just in the strength of being different. I really enjoyed songs like “Loud”, “Huntsville Rocka” and “Off My Chest”. I’m sure he has been talking to a few labels with an album like this. The album has a lot of heart and soul in it. “Roses” is also a strong cut as well. There is nothing I can say that needs to be changed. My reason for 3 stars is because the rock-rap concept is not widely accepted in this region. That might make this a hard sell, but this is a nice album. cccCC

Lyrics Depot - Chapter 1

This mix CD is a good introduction to establish who they are. Songs like “Ain’t A Thang”, “Crazy”, “My City” and “Premonition” are really strong. I think the recording quality is something that could be worked on, but I can feel the effort in their music. Keep grinding guys you are on your way. cCCCC

CONCRETE: Why the name PR? PR: My seventh grade friend Rachel really liked Puerto Ricans and she found out I was Puerto Rican and dubbed me PR. It stuck with me to this day. As I grew up it switched up to P and then Breeze changed it up a third time to R (Ahrruh) but it initially started with an obsessive female lol. CONCRETE: How did you get started in hip-hop production? PR: I would have never gotten into hip hop if I hadn’t met Lucas Breeze. I wanted him on one of my projects which was a pop punk type project. He was telling me I was too good at producing and needed to try something new. I started writing things revolving around what he would naturally rap over. I felt the power behind it. With the strong bass line and beat I easily fell in love with hip hop. CONCRETE: Can you tell us about your company Foretell Future Productions? PR: It started as a production company. The name Foretell derived from a group I was trying to start. Other than the name being catchy I like futuristic sounds. The word “swagg” you won’t hear thirty or forty years from now. Music needs to be timeless and that’s my goal. CONCRETE: What software do you use? PR: Favorite is Reason. I also use Fruity Loops and Ableton Live. I use a few more but they are mainly for plug ins. CONCRETE: How would you describe your unique sound? PR: I’m very mathematical. It doesn’t matter what another person can do because once I’ve heard it I put it into numbers. It’s nothing anyone hasn’t done hundreds of years ago. You can hear hip-hop today in Beethoven’s music and Mozart. Music is strictly math and if you can figure that out you can do pretty much anything, but everyone has their own style. CONCRETE: How do you define success in the industry? PR: If I define success then I define a climax in my mind. If I don’t define success then I feel like I can achieve anything and I’ll keep working harder. There is no success there is just getting better.

CONCRETE: Where you from? Cheryl: Athens, East Limestone area. CONCRETE: Why the switch from country music? Cheryl: I sang country from the time I was 14 to 19. Then I kinda fell off the map with music for a while, up until recently when I started playing the guitar and singing again. I decided country is not really where my heart is. The reason I did it was because it was so highly accepted in the area I was in and everybody loved country music. My favorite is classicrock and I love Dubstep. CONCRETE: Do you write music? Cheryl: I actually have written a few things. The stuff I did with Trill Bass I did quite a bit of writing on, as well as, the work I did with Xane. CONCRETE: Can you tell us about winning 2005 Alabama Idol? Cheryl: I won in 2005, right before I graduated high school. Tried out for it and I ended up winning. My prize was a trip to Hollywood to see the ﬁnale of American Idol. So I was in the audience when Carrie Underwood won. I tried out for American Idol in 2006 and didn’t make it. We were in line for 13 hours and they only picked 35 people out of 12,000. CONCRETE: What drives you? Cheryl: Just being able to do music. Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life, whether I make a lot of money or no money.If I make a lot of money I would like to go to other countries and help people that need it. CONCRETE: What’s next? Cheryl: I’ve been practicing guitar for over ﬁve months. I really want to get some more musical equipment, like keyboards and an electronic drum set. I really just want to start making lots of music. I would love to produce and learn some programs and do electronic music and Dubstep.

CONCRETE: Can you describe your musical beginnings? Peoples: Ridgecrest Elementary. My third grade teacher would give us writing assignments that I got in trouble for not doing. I was too busy writing all the words and definitions out of the dictionary. One day she picked up my notebook to see what I was writing and I started performing for recess. CONCRETE: What makes you unique? Peoples: I stand out because people see words, but it’s about rudiments. I rap on rudiments, I don’t just rap because the beat feels good. I pick a rudiment whether it’s a triplet, an eighth note, sixteenth note and it depends on how fast you go back and forth, my Dad taught me that. CONCRETE: What is your label affiliation? Peoples: It originally was called All In Entertainment then I reached out to my partner TalkALot. Three or four years ago I decided to start All In and I got together with TalkALot and told him I needed his help because I didn’t have a studio and he did. He wanted me to join his label In Your Ear Ent, we put it together and now it’s All In Your Ear Entertainment. We even have an app on the Android market called In Your Ear E.N.T. Right now we have me, TalkALot who is my chief engineer, another artist Yung Bama, Supa P, Taz, and Pac Man. CONCRETE: What was the first music you dropped that you felt was quality music? Peoples: “Old Rhymes New Beats” I literally picked up my whole library of 40 to 50 composition books and started tearing them down making them into songs. Then I would burn them up and throw them away. Trying to start something new, a lot of people will have rhymes they have written and just forget about them. What’s crazy is I wrote a lot of it when I was younger and it is still relevant. CONCRETE: What’s up next for you? Peoples: Just finished up Gin and Lemon Juice mixtape, F. Opinions dropping that in a few weeks. I’ll keep dropping mixtapes until I get an official barcode, then I’ll release an album. All in Your Ear Ent Presents: Lyrics Depot Depot, it is a collab mixtape with the artists in the label. CONCRETE: Anything else? Peoples: Thank you to Concrete Alabama for the opportunity.

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CONCRETE: What’s your given name? Spank Lee: Don Leatherwood. CONCRETE: Where are you from? Spank Lee: Mobile, Alabama. CONCRETE: What was it like growing up in Mobile? Spank Lee: I grew up in a small community called Prichard. It’s wild and hood pretty much what I rap about. A lot of drug dealings and shootings happen there. CONCRETE: How did you get your musical start? Spank Lee: It was at Alabama A and M when I met Bookie in 2005. We would freestyle a lot. We met DJ Skoot and recorded my first song in his dorm. I actually started taking it serious a year ago and put out my first mixtape, Live from the Clouds. CONCRETE: What’s your favorite track on Live From the Clouds? Spank Lee: “Kush Music” I did a lot of venting on it. I talked about life and when I was in school. CONCRETE: What’s the concept for the “Count this Money” video? Spank Lee: My partner Lil Nardy came up with the concept he shoots all our videos. CONCRETE: What’s your affiliation with BMB? Spank Lee: It stands for Big Money Boys. It started in 2007 I just became a part of BMB in 2009. It’s five artist; me, Bookie, BJ, Lil Nardy, and Gutta Mane.

CONCRETE: What are you listening to these days? Spank Lee: Starlito, I listen to him a lot. CONCRETE: What makes you different? Spank Lee: My rap style. You never know how I am going to come on a track. I don’t sound the same on every song. I try to be creative with my selection and the way I put it out there and tell stories. CONCRETE: Is the song “Cold World” a true story or embellished? Spank Lee: No comment. If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question about that song I would be rich. CONCRETE: Any future collaboration plans? Spank Lee: I’m really big on producers so mainly Drama Boy. DJ Scream, I hope to have host the next Tax Free 2 mixtape. CONCRETE: Have you had any set backs? Spank Lee: I have a pending case. I’m currently on probation and will get off in January. My probation ofﬁcer knows I do music and works with me because he believes in me. CONCRETE: What’s next for you? Spank Lee: New mixtape dropping in September with Bookie called the Wright Brothers We are also shooting a video for “Cold World” and have Tax Free 2 coming out next February. CONCRETE: What’s the concept behind Tax Free Lee mixtape? Spank Lee: If you get illegal money without paying taxes that’s “tax free” and pretty much how we came up. I mean who wants to pay taxes? (laughs) You have to pay them eventually though. CONCRETE: What’s the signiﬁcance of the porch in your Tax Free documentary? Spank Lee: That’s on Elm Street in Prichard where I grew up. Walking outside and seeing everything from drug dealing and gang banging it was wild. It made me want to get out of there and use it as motivation. I go in the studio and go hard to make the world feel it, so we can get up out of here. CONCRETE: Advice to others? Spank Lee: Don’t give up. You will go through hate and people talking down to you, just prove them wrong. You can’t tell me that I can’t do something. As long as I’m breathing I can do it.

CONCRETE: What life like for you growing up? GRITTY BOI: I left Chicago when I was five after my mom and dad split, then I moved here to Huntsville. I got into trouble here then had to move to Dallas, Texas where I got into more trouble. CONCRETE: How was it being in a single parent household? GRITTY BOI: It was tough, but we made it. I love my moms! She is real though, and she puts it out there. I ain’t no mommas boy though. CONCRETE: Has that played a role in your success? GRITTY BOI: Absolutely, I rap about what I’ve been through and seen. It actually helps me to get it out like that. CONCRETE: Was it tough being the new kid at different schools? Did you ever get into fights? GRITTY BOI: Yeah, there were some little kids looking up to me and one day after school some dude in my grade was picking on my little homie, pushing him and stuff so I walked over and said fight someone you own size. So he did and I hit him. CONCRETE: Any repercussions? GRITTY BOI: I broke his nose and went to jail. I also got expelled, but they let me come back. My homies that were going to come to court in my defense got in a car wreck and died on the way there. CONCRETE: Was that hard for you to deal with? GRITTY BOI: Yeah, but also inspired me to share my story and help prepare the youth for the real world. CONCRETE: What do you want audiences to “hear” when they listen to Gritty Boi? GRITTY BOI: With what the world is going through right now, I am just trying to entertain what people want to hear and then bring them in and teach them and educate them on life. CONCRETE: Some critics have said you sound like Jeezy? Is this a good thing? GRITTY BOI: I like him but honestly when I first started rapping I didn’t like the way I sounded. I used to scream. But yeah, it’s a compliment to me especially when some folks

aren’t keeping it real. You can be a snitch now and get away with it. I don’t want my kids listening to a liar. It’s like a disrespectful thing, you’re teaching some kids falsities. I think every rapper should tell their story, like a lesson or guide for the youth. CONCRETE: What’s your view on today’s Hip-Hop industry? GRITTY BOI: All the rappers I like now are breeds of Tu-Pac. Most of the stuff now when I listen to it, I don’t hear the dope shit Pac was talking about, like struggling and then making it. CONCRETE: What do you have coming up? GRITTY BOI: I have a new mix tape called W.I.N. I’m about to drop. I got Alley Boy on there C.C. Mista Fla. from 100% Entertainment, I have good beats and some good features. CONCRETE: What does W.I.N. mean? GRITTY BOI: Its called W.I.N., which means, “win” as well as War Is Necessary Necessary. It’s like everyday you wake up and its war and everyday just getting up out of bed when you’re tired and working all day, its war, I’m ready though now. I’m ready to go to war with the industry and my inner self. I’m going to war “Gritty Boi”, there is no holding back this time, and I got stuff to get off my chest. I got things I’ve overcome and I’m ready to WIN. CONCRETE: What is your message in W.I.N.? GRITTY BOI: I am trying to influence the youth and show them that there are ways to make money and stay out of trouble. Our trouble is their hustle. If we don’t get in trouble then they have no hustle. Then we can change the system and the kids will see how to be successful with out breaking the law. Really it is more mature and delvers a confidant message on success and struggle and how to overcome and achieve. CONCRETE: What’s next for Gritty Boi? GRITTY BOI: Well I am working on Gritty Wear, a clothing line with Gritty Boi and Gritty Gurl clothing. Basically shirts, hoodies, hats, a full line that I plan on using the profits to put back into the community and back into the kids.

I guess there is something in the air cuz this call was CRAZY! Me: Bonding! Her: Yes I’m in quite a jam here, I have a $10,000 bond & I need to get out. Me: What’s your charge? Her: It’s a Domestic Assault Charge. Me: On who? Her: My next door neighbor. Me: Oh Ok well who is your Co-Signer? Her: See thats the thing I don’t have no co-signer. I don’t have anybody in this world. All I have is Jesus. Jesus is my co-signer! (At this point, I know she is CRAZY and we have NOTHING to discuss, but it was a slow day, so I wanted to ride this one out.) – (Crickets) Me: Now when you say Jesus, do you mean like ‘My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Or do mean a Jesus that only you know like a family friend? Her: I mean da LAWD! He is my Rock and My Salvation, The Calm Of the Storm ,The Lilly In The Valley My GOD! Me: I see. Well I don’t know if that co-signer will work. I mean do you think Jesus will co-sign on a Domestic Assault Charge? I mean you broke one of the 10 Commandments I think its the one that says THOU SHALT NOT BEAT THY NEIGHBOR. Her: Look you don’t know my struggle and God will deliver! Me: Ok well what is Jesus phone number so I can see if He will come & co-sign for you. Her: (Yelling) BOY JESUS AINT GOT NO PHONE!!! YOU NEED TO PRAY TO JESUS RIGHT NOW TO GET ME OUT OF THIS !!! Me: OK I will do that, BUT before I do that I need to ask you something else. Her: What is it? Me: Does JESUS have the $1037 to get you bonded out? Her: My GOD is a RICH GOD. You need not worry about your payment. Those riches are in HEAVEN Me: (I’m ready 2 wrap this up.) OK just so I understand everything, you want me to get you out of jail with JESUS as your co-signer, pray to the Lord to come ﬁll out paperwork and NOT worry about the money because your riches are in HEAVEN? Her: YES. Me: Forgive Me Father for what I’m about 2 do... (ANNNND 3,2,1...CLICK)