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Necro

Ron Braunstein, born June 7, 1976, better known as Necro, is a Jewish American emcee, record producer, business owner, actor, and director from Brooklyn, New York. He is the owner & CEO of Psycho+Logical-Records which has been in business almost ten years. Necro invented his own genre of hip hop music called, Death rap. Necro is known all over the world for rapping ultra violent and extreme lyrics, as well as pornographic lyrics. Many of his songs are considered to be hugely sexist and others are often regarded as sick or disturbing. His brother Ill Bill is also a rapper and producer.

Biography

Recent events

After eight years of managing his work through his independent label Psycho+Logical-Records, Necro signed a deal with Austrian-American independent distributor Koch Records, through which he released his fifth studio album, Death Rap, on September 11, 2007. Necro and Koch hope that Necro's signing with the label will help to promote Koch and the music industry's distribution of indie hip-hop music, and further extend Necro's name. Necro appeared in a rare interview for the Breakdown TV on Onloq.com recently to discuss this new album, his fans, and his unique style.

Ventures

Necro as a producer

Main article: Necro production discography

Braunstein is also active as a producer of rap records. Besides being the producer of his own albums, Braunstein has also produced Goretex's The Art of Dying, two songs from Ill Bill's Howie Made Me Do it and all songs from What's Wrong with Bill?, Mr. Hyde's Barn of the Naked Dead and Rare Demos and Freestyles Volume 1 and Sabac's Sabacolypse: A Change Gon' Come. In addition, Braunstein has produced and appeared on several songs by other famous rappers, such as Cage's "Radiohead" and "Agent Orange", Exlib's "Feed Your Head" and "Prying the Lid", Missin' Linx's "M.I.A." and "What it Is", Non Phixion's "Legacy", "5 Boros", "I Shot Reagan", "89.9 Freestyle 1", "The Freshfest", "Criminal" and "Refuse to Lose" and Q-Unique's "The Set Up", "The Ugly Place", "Canarsie Artie's Revenge", "Father's Day" and "Psychological Warfare". Braunstein has also produced both self-titled debut albums by hip hop supergroups Secret Society and The Circle of Tyrants, both of which he is a member; the former which has yet to be released however. In addition, Mr. Hyde has revealed that Braunstein has produced his upcoming EP as well.

Controversy

He was recently touring with the Sounds of the Underground 2007 tour. His performances were apparently met with hostility from the metal audiences on the tour. Necro decided to leave the Sounds of the Underground tour 2007. Despite this poor audience reception to his music, Necro has admitted that he was not once "booed offstage" specifically (although he did end his performance early in Worcester, Massachusetts), and that he played through his 25-minute sets regardless of the crowd's hostility, which was not directed towards him at all as he has responded by stating: "I will make one thing clear for the haters: we NEVER got booed OFF the stage. Not once. Yes a ton of emo kids booed us at every show, but we had a twenty-five minute set every night and we stayed on stage for every minute of it, and we represented. Every show had at least 100 to 200 NECRO fans in the pit tearing it up, and our meet and greets were incredible! It's just a shame these little kids are so closed-minded. The majority of the hate was coming from mop top emo sixteen-year olds who have no clue who the originators of metal are, and didn't respect my 'rest in peace' chant to metal legends (Dime, Cliff, Chuck, Piggy, Sob). As far as the tour organizers and I are concerned, you are my peoples so it's all love and I'm thankful for the opportunity to prove I can murder it in the worst of situations. This actually did a lot for me and is just one move in many my team will make to blow NECRO up."

Acting

As of December 2008, Necro under his real name, Ron Braunstein started to pursue acting. He is currently a student at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute learning from teacher/legendary actor Paul Calderon. In the short time Necro has been acting he landed three roles(as serial killer Timothy Krajcir, a detective and construction worker) on the soon to be aired crime show, "Personal Justice", airing on the ID channel. He also landed the lead role in a NYFA student film titled, "Triumph Of The Kill", playing a serial killer. To warm up his skills, Necro even did 2 Manhatten Monologue Slams performing a scene from the movie, "Heat".

Touring

In the last 2 and a half years, Necro has headlined live shows all over the world, from New York to Los Angeles, from Australia to Russia. He has become a very ambitious touring artist with a demand for his brutal high energy show year round. Necro will appear live at Rock The Bells 2009, the biggest real hip hop tour in the United States currently.

Discography

Main article: Necro discography

Filmography

References

  1. Miles Bennett. Necro Calls On Metal Friends For New Album, Death Rap, reported by BallerStatus July 17 2007. Last accessed August 5 2007
  2. Ronnie Gamble. Indie Rapper Necro Inks Deal With Koch Records For Next Album, reported by BallerStatus July 25 2007. Last accessed August 5 2007
  3. Necro Interview on The Breakdown TV
  4. Blabbermouth.net. 'Death' Rapper NECRO Leaves SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND Tour, reported by Blabbermouth.net July 25 2007. Last accessed August 5 2007

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