by NARCEL X

“I take shits when I do interviews,” says 30-year-old Ron Braunstein, known to y’all as Necro, as the toilet flushes away. Dropping shit has never been a faux pas for the king of death rap (no diss, Esham!). Album after album, New York’s Necro vividly paints the darkest thoughts over the dopest beats. His release The Pre-fix to Death promises “beautiful music for you to die to.” Last time he stepped into our Sin City, he was shooting a porno. He’s back for the first time on stage, headlining his own Psycho+Logical Records’ Drugs, Gory Death & Sex tour.

Mirror: You’ve been quoted as saying, “Death is intriguing because it is the unknown element of life.” Can you elaborate?

Necro: People die all the time. Your family, in wars, in the hospital—I find it a little humorous that people are so amazed by it when it’s talked about, like it’s a big fucking deal. We’ll all face the reality at some point. I’ve had near-death experiences, living in New York, growing up in the projects, fighting people weapon to weapon, almost overdosing. I got my head smashed open getting hit by a car at three years old! He hit me and peeled. Death is death—it’s the equivalent to life, just the other side.

M: Which do you prefer? Sex or violence?

N: I think I need both. You have pizza, you want Coke with it. Drink your water, you want your grilled chicken with it. Women are the most attractive thing to me on the planet, but there is something very attractive about brutality. There’s magnetism to both sides.

M: When did you last fight, have sex and make music?

N: I almost beat the shit out of this lady in my mother’s building yesterday for being disrespectful. I was contemplating hitting her with my new blackjack. Last time I had sex was in Vancouver, the last show of the tour—really good sex too. I don’t really just get with groupies. Usually I kick it with girls, get to know them a bit, and whatever happens happens, you know? As for the studio, I don’t even remember specifically. I think the last thing I did was for a project called Jewish Gangstas‚ recording a track called “Desperados.”

M: What’s a bigger rush, being a cunning linguist or a calculating businessman?

N: The entrepreneur battles the artist. One side is pulling to write a rhyme. The other side is looking to push the track and make more money, reach more fans. To make an album and know that it reached 10 people will kill you. Being unable to channel your art can kill you too.

M: Now, what about that to the rush of sex?

N: Ohhhh, music is my first wife. But with sex, if you don’t get that outlet, you’ll kill somebody.

M: Will Necro ever get married on record on some Ice-T and Coco shit?

N: It should definitely have to be on that Ice-T tip. The mutual relationship thing—they probably do freaky shit with each other, he can run and get a bitch involved and they can riiiiiide. I mean, little nooks and crannies like that. It all depends—you need the right woman.

With Mr. Hyde, Riviera Regime and B.M.C. at les Saints tonight, Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., $26.50

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