Pinhead

It’s your girl ladychelle, and I am on the line with Pinhead, ok first off imma ask what kinda name is that?

If you’ve ever seen the horror movie hellraiser? You know they got the main character and his name is pinhead he has all the pins sticking all out his face, head, all over his everywhere. So I got the name from that movie.

How does pinhead relate to you exactly?

Basically, I was on Old National road and I had my hair sticking up all over my head, with that hairstyle we would section off into squares and we would take bobby pins and flatten them out. You know at the end of the bobby pins they got like the little rubber tip or whatever, so we would flatten them out, stick it into the section of my hair that I put into squares like little afro puffs, stick that down in the center of the first rubber band and then add rubber bands and we would do like blue, green, red, yellow, neon, green, pink, and basically, I would say that my hair, all the colors, were all the different nationalities and all the people in the world, so my hair represented the world, and I did music for the world. So a lady hit the curve and went on up the street, then she turned around she came back and we were on Old National at the McDonald’s and all the employees came outside, and they were looking at my head and they were laughing and I used to wear this bandana to where it would cover like basically my forehead and sitting kinda low, so the only way could see in front of me, I would kinda have to hold my head up and I was basically mimicking pinhead from the movie. So the lady pulled up and she was like “oh my god, I thought I saw a peacock, and I hit the curb, and I almost had an accident.” So we all started laughing and she says “you know what, you remind me of the guy in this scary movie with all the pins in his face.” And didn’t know what she was talking about, so I looked it up. At that time I think I was calling myself Caliente Don Juan, which means hot lover and I was like you know what, I like this pinhead name so you know started writing stuff from the movie like

I’m ripping brains with hooks and chain | crashing skulls | walking down dark halls blowing out candles | breaking glasses | Kicking up off niggas asses | turning boxes | flipping dimensions so you know I went on some ole hell raiser shit. So I started calling my dancers and my entourage the Hellrazors, but I didn’t spell it like the movie, the movie was “hellraiser” so I spelled it Hellrazor and came out with a clothing line called “Razor Gear” and I took a double-sided blade and put razor on the top and “gear” on the bottom. It just all came together

In regards to your brand, how does all that translate into your music?

I started college for Business Administration and I got really sick from being in the military and basically, I’m a 100% disabled veteran so I wasn’t able to go to school because of PTSD, and like I would have bad dreams and at night, and I didn’t really know what was going on. So, I wasn’t able to go to school, I just rented a lot of books for marketing, so I just studied marketing my whole life, that’s my whole thing, I’m like a marketing guru. So my thing is I looked at myself like a business, I carry myself like a business, and I market myself as a business. So like clothing lines, keychains, anything that I could put my logo or my name on. I got a logo as an artist Pinhead, then I got a logo for

my label Paper Brings Satisfaction. Slogan “In Faith, Hope, Love, And God We Trust” because without God, there’s nothing. So I put God first cause, at one time I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t walk for 5 years. I’ve been hit by 4 cars, I’ve been in 4 car accidents, which wasn’t my fault. And it just took me a while to figure it out, every time I got hit, I was basically doing something street-wise that I shouldn’t be doing, and it just took 4 car accidents for me to figure it out. But you know when God wants you, no matter what you doing He’s going to get you to get right, He’s gonna whoop you till you come over into the light. Now you seen me perform, you wouldn’t know I have three canes to walk with and a wheel chair, and I don’t need any of it. Medically my spine is messed up, so what I was doing on stage I’m not supposed to be able to do. So that’s God all day long.

With having gone through so much and surviving so many obstacles and now getting a new lease on life and feeling like God is calling you to a higher purpose, what would you say that purpose is?

My purpose is to uplift people and to show love. Love is God and God is love. I’m able to talk to people and go places that a traditional pastor wouldn’t go. Cause when they see that white pastor collar, they running, they ain’t tryna hear what you’re talking about, but me? I got tattoos, grill, and they feel comfortable. I’m just able to do some things, Godly things.

Where can people follow you and follow the journey and get more of these positive messages that you are sharing with the world?

Basically, just go to my IG @pinhead_atl and just go up into my bio and in most cases, there is a link up there that you click on and it’ll take you to my manager, and everything that I got going on. Shout-out to Johnnie Cabbell, he has been helping me, he has been helping me and doing things for me. That’s Lightskinkeysha’s manager and Shawty Lo’s old manager, he’s been helping me as well, kinda helps me out.