Our Interview with Indie Hip Hop group, A.Dd+

Sometimes you get lucky and find something you love immediately. It's like the first dozen eggs you open at the grocery store and they're all intact and nothing's trying to hatch. It doesn't happen with every act you peep, but sometimes the attraction is so instant, you're almost afraid of what others might think of you for hearing one song of a group and being ultra gay for it immediately.

I am ultra gay for A.Dd+. I am not ultra gay for trying to type that shit every time I refer to them.

What feels effortless and original might just be a recalibration of a style we've all heard before, but it feels as fresh as a recent ball shave and as comfortable as a pair of new drawls.

A.Dd+ might not be on your radar yet, but I encourage you to whet your whistle with a pair of guys so far untainted by the success they are about to achieve.

SYFFAL: You guys are from Dallas. I once spent 8 hours wandering around Deep Ellum and the greater downtown area by that huge green ball in the sky on really really potent acid. I was 19 years old and the world was my oyster. I can still remember the way the humidity cradled my doodads inside my moist drawls and the taste in my mouth from the hallucinogenics. Have you ever taken a raunchy photo with that big green ball in the sky off in the distance like people do with the Washington Monument? LIKE THAT---->

PARIS: Never took one with the green ball in the background, but there may be a picture floating around the net of my blue balls... you can find it on www.homegrownfreaks.net.

SLIM GRAVY: I was high off some kush last night and all the pizza in the house got ate up.

SYFFAL: Fascinating. So tell the nice people who the two of you are and why you are the talenteds with your mouth raps? Also, please to include what color scarf the two of yous are wearing at this current moment in time?

PARIS: I'm the short one. We are talented because we aim to be talented. We were also born with certain talented molecules in our bodies that make us talented. If we wanted to be shitty we couldn't be because the molecules would be like, "Heyyyyyy, don't do that."

SYFFAL: Seeing as how your brand of Tex-Mex is 77% more exciting than 99% of rap coming out of the United States in 2011, to what prescription medication do you owe your originality? Is there any chance that you guys might be the first rap group to be sponsored by a major pharmaceutical company?

SLIM GRAVY: I would like to think our shit is 88% more exciting than 99% of rap coming out of the United States in 2011. And i would have to blame AstraZeneca located in Malaysia for both of our levels of creativity. 500mg of Faslodex gets you right every time.

PARIS: I just got off the phone with the rep for the company. All systems are a "go". He'll be faxing over the contract later. *cha ching*

SYFFAL: Faslodex is for the treatment of ringworm in camels, is there something you want to tell me? If the two of you were in a cage match to the death with the characters from any animated movie or television series from the past twenty years, who would whip the ever loving shit out of you? Who could you take?

PARIS: I think I'd whoop Batman's ass 'cause without his gadgets he's a straight pussy with a square chin. Wolverine would slaughter me in 3 seconds.

SLIM GRAVY: Daffy Duck would kill me because he got all that built up anger from being Bugs Bunny's bitch for so many years.

SYFFAL: Since we like to consider ourselves behind the times when it comes to mainstream music but ahead of the times when it comes to independent music how fucking hot is Kelly Clarkson? What about Enya? RAWWRR.

PARIS: Never heard of them but yeah Kenya is a great place to vacay. Mombasa South is one of the best resorts I've been to.

SLIM GRAVY: I once saw Kelly Clarkson in concert and boy... that... shit... was... EPIC!!

SYFFAL: Slim, we should totally skype kareoke some Kelly. DEALZ? Let's say the two of you are in a club enjoying a delicious pina colada at the bar putting out the vibe, and from the left you hear shouting behind the velvet rope of the VIP area, a few seconds later you hear shouting behind the velvet rope of the VIP area to your right. On your left is Afro Man and he wants to buy you a bottle. On your right is Ricky Schroeder and he wants to ask you guys to hang out with him so he feels more urban. Who do you choose to hang out with and why?

PARIS: Who the Fuck is Ricky Schroeder? Afro Man wins by default since I didn't have to Google him to figure out who he was. Emphasis on "was".

SLIM GRAVY: What Paris said... because i got high.

SYFFAL: You don't know Ricky Schroeder? You aren't white and in your thirties? Apppfffft. Well, how fucking awesome would it be to have a choo choo train in your crib? Is this on your list of goals?

PARIS: Hahahaah he said "choo cho train". That shit is like saying "booty" to describe some tender cushion for the pushin' you saw coming out of Wal-mart. "Damn did u see that girl's big ol' booty?"

SLIM GRAVY: I always wanted a Ninja Turtle choo choo train. I had all the figures and boats and shit.

SYFFAL: So Paris is afraid of saying choo choo and Slim is, again, fucking awesome. Speaking of this list of goals, what are your top three goals you think you'll accomplish in the next few years and do any of them have to do with riding a camel bareback?

PARIS: 1. I hope to sit in the studio and create a song with Big Boi AND Andre3000 before I'm 27 years old!! 2. I wanna get my driver's license back before September 2012. 3. I wanna go on tour.

SLIM GRAVY: 1. I wanna have a phone that stays on for longer than 4 months and isn't 5 years old. 2. I wanna witness/record one of those salvia trip out videos 3. I wanna go on tour.

SYFFAL: Between the two of you, which racial stereotype do you fulfill:
Watermelon is delicious.- SLIM
Newports are refreshing.- SLIM
Beekeeping is a rewarding hobby. - SLIM

A.Dd+: Slim, Slim, Slim.

SYFFAL: Seven of my last eight experiences with rappers discussing their diets ended poorly. I discovered that all of my favorite rappers ate like crap. What do you guys do to ensure you won't 1.) become fatties, 2.) not be able to see your penises in the very near future or 3.) die in the next 3-5 years?

PARIS: I watch P90X infomercials and dream of doing that while eating late night pizza.

SLIM GRAVY: I eat Hot Cheetos everyday religiously. I will never gain weight.

SYFFAL: My Mexican friends smell like dryer sheets, my Romanian friends smell like oxygen and my Puerto Rican friends smell confused. In your professional opinion, what do most white people smell like? Is hot dog water an accurate assessment? Do tell.

PARIS: It's a mixture between week old hot dog water (Oscar Meyer to be exact), a dash of vanilla extract and banana peppers.

SLIM GRAVY: A mixture of summer breeze air freshener and the hoody the Zodiac Killer used to wear.

SYFFAL: What is next for A.Dd+? Have you considered a more confusing jumble of letters and symbols? What about (_)(_)===> ???

PARIS: Music, music, a little gymnastics and finger painting and more music.

SYFFAL: Calling your music a breath of fresh air might be a bit feminine, but I'll be honest, I just devoured a 4 pound burrito and it was fucking delicious. I could eat burritos forever and be okay with it. If you had to eat only one thing for the rest of your life what would it be and what would you name it if you got sick of calling it what it was? I would call my burritos "Jeff". What's for dinner? "Jeff." 'AGAIN?' "Sigh."

PARIS: I think i could eat Fruity Pebbles every single day for every meal and i would call it suicide.
(Me: Damn I'm hungry. Slim: What you gon' eat? Me: I guess I'll attempt suicide again.)

SLIM GRAVY: My favorite thing to eat is beats.

PARIS: That was a lame ass answer.

SLIM GRAVY: Ok, I guess I could eat corn smut and call it XXX... I have my reasons.

SYFFAL: All jokes aside, I'm a fan of you guys and I wish you a shit ton of luck in the next few years. If addiction, temptation and XBox Live don't kill you first, I'm positive you'll be extremely successful. That being said, which one a ya'll wanna wrestle first?

PARIS: *Points to Slim*

SYFFAL: Shirts or skins?

SLIM GRAVY: However you want it.

SYFFAL: LET THE SIN BEGIN!

Go check out the two free albums by these talented jagbags at: http://divehiflylo.com/