An Interview with Jack Parow
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Blog, Music, featured
Jack Parow truly is original, he is in fact the “original donker dodgy afrikaans rapper”. The rest are just “fokken copies.”
He never really thought about a stage name as such, the name Jack Parow came about as he was “drunk, and then Pirates of the Caribbean was on tv and I tuned, fuck Jack Sparrow the pirate of the Caribbean, I’m Jack Parow the pirate of the caravan park…luckily I remembered it the next morning!”
Afrikaans and South African rap are not one of the most listened to genres, with Brasse van die Kaap, Dokte, Waddy Jones and Jitsvinger being the leaders in the industry. Jack’s inspiration as such is “Eminem. He is always king. He is one of my favourite rappers, but I was rapping before he came out, so I’m not like some white kid trying to be Eminem. Waddy [Jones] is a good chommie of mine and we roll the streets together, but I’m straight Afrikaans, they are more English and thus have a different approach to the market, but other artists don’t inspire me, I get inspired by drunk people mostly, the best lines come out of drunken peoples mouths, I also get drunk before I write sometimes, it’s kief. People that also inspire me are zef people, like myself and most of my friends…”
He’s loved rap “since [he] first started listening to music” he continues “you know when you’re younger you buy those NOW and Monster Hits cds and I always smaaked like Dr. Alban and Shaggy and those vibes and then I bought Monster Hits 5 or something, it was like a kief purple one with this heavy green monster on it and there was a track called Doggystyle by a gevaarlike man called Snoop and I was instantly hooked on rap. I was like 11 or 12…ja, that was it, but I never really wanted to be a rapper, I just liked rapping, I studied and still do web design and graphic design, but rap is obviously always been the main thing, I never thought I would be able to do it for a living….”
He started rapping in 2000 “but was just having fun and fucking around, trying to freestyle and stuff” Then he rapped in English for a long time, till “about 2004” it all changed when he “wrote this track in Afrikaans where I was being robbed by a bergie and I was like tuning him kak and so, and it came out so cool that I was like, fokkit, why haven’t I been rapping in Afrikaans all along?”
He is heavily influenced by “drunk people. I love drunken conversations, they are the fokkin best thing ever-also people who are like heavy into cars or systems, they have the best one-liners.”
He started making music “because its fun and I like it when people around me are enjoying themselves, so ja, it’s a lekker way to gooi it.”
When he creates songs he “usually just writes it in my head and then just kinda beatboxes or hums it into my phone and then go to the studio and try my best to recreate it like it is in my brain.”
The new things happening are “work on some secret projects that are gonna be ill as fok and no other rappers are doing, but it’s a secret so you gonna have to wait and see…will probably launch that vibe next year sometime, it’s gonna be kak fancy…”
When he starts doing solo gigs full time-the shows will be “gevaarlik, I’ve just been hitting the laptop vibe for now, but when the album launches it’s gonna be a whole other fokken thing all together. I’m not going to let too much information out…”
He “would like to be next level with boats and brandy sponsors and kief cars and just sit on a throne with a crown and a scepter and a ruby covered chalice and drink brandy and coke all day.”
His favourite thing about performing is “when people are really listening and then I drop something dirty or funny and everyone bugs the fuck out.”
Recording the album was “great fun, its so lekker fucking around in the studio and coming up with new stuff!” His favourite track is Cooler as Ekke.
Cooler as Ekke happens to the single he’s just released. He explains “it’s a track about everyone who think they are so cool, you know the vibe, those guys and girls who look like they stepped right out of one of those Hip magazines and are always like standing in the corner and watching everyone cause if they move to much or maybe dance and something happens, like they slip or maybe dance to the wrong track, they might not be cool anymore.”
As the Afrikaans Super Ster Rapper Jack Parow “hopes to change the fact that everyone is so clicky, I hate that, I party with everyone and everyone is fun in their own way, and people are to heavy involved in their own little circles and never step outside it, That’s why I’m glad my music attracts so many different people, because then they can all get drunk together and gooi die jol rof. I also want like world peace and to feed all the hungry children and stuff…”
If he could have a beer with one Afrikaans Skouspel backtrack pop artists it would be “Robbie Wessels, I just fokkin love his music…dont know what I’d say to him, maybe like, please do a track with me!”
His favourite T.V show is “Oor die Kole on KykNet and Okney Snorkney reruns”. His cd player currently has “Major Lazer – Guns don’t kill people, Lazers do” on rotation. “It’s the fokkin best shit ever.” He would most like to be on the reality show “Boer soek n vrou” His favourite of the many great Afrikaans swear words, starts with a P and ends with an S. Fill in the blanks.
Jack Parow is never one to shy from controversy but also just wants things “like world peace and to feed all the hungry children and stuff” as well as simple things in life like, “boats and brandy sponsors and kief cars and a scepter and a ruby covered chalice and just sit on a throne with a crown …”
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where’s the MP3?!
The “Cooler as Ekke” by Jack Parrow sounds like a rip off of the DJ Ossewa song “Jy dink jy’s cool”
dj ossewa is foking kak
Too bad this gent doesn’t have any moral fibre…
jy dink jy’s cooler as hy, douchebag
Define “moral fibre”. Is that the stuff that keeps people so… regular? Jack sure isn’t, so I suppose you might be right.
Sjoe bra! wil jy he ek moet j mond met seep uit spoel? jyt gehoor jack parrow isi pirate vani karrevaan park ! niemand maak zef wees so kief soos hy doen nie…so back die fok off…
Ou , Jys di vkn sh#t.. Moet neti K#K praat van brackenfell ni..
brackenfell RULES
yes, nog n man(vrou?) van brackenfell!…
ag tog jy dink jys cooler as hy!!!
Jack parow weti wies DJ ossewa nie ek okkie bly net stil as jy niks weti se dan niks!!!
WTF , jys dom tjom
Jack parow is die shit en hy hou afrikaans se naam hoog. So die van jul wat kak wil praat moet ma stil bly want hy is cooler as julle. Jack parow is op mk en jul wens net jul was op tv. Jack parow jy maak die jol vol!
Jy is redig f’in dom… Jack Parow is ‘n poepol en doen niks vir Afrikaans nie. Wat hy en anders (soos byvoorbeeld “die antwoord”) wel doen is om die wereld to wys net hoe dom en “common” blanke Suid Afrikaners is.
dis kak funny, maar ek onthou ‘n band – CY COWBOYS – wat al drie albums uit het – die eerste in 2003 – weird ne – hoe ouens soos parow en poes waddy , bandwagons jump – geen suur druiwe net vokken facts bra
en die parow naam asshole – is van die statue KAPTEIN parow in PAROW
jack – hou op tos praat – en tell it like it is – mense kyk vi jou – my bra
ek het di music video gesien vdag!! dis kak funny!! ek moes jo net google vandag!!! maar ek stem saam moet neti brackenfell sleg maaki! xxx
hey my blom
jyt smaak en ek dink ook bracken kook
Jirre, mense relax!! Fok, weet julle nie die bra lewe soos ‘n straatmeid nie? Brackenfell is kak. dis ‘n feit.
woop woop
as jy nie saam stem nie. . . lek MeidP03S.
Kinders
Jack stick uit bra en hou aan wysmaak.
Awe!
Julle prove net die berk doen iets reg, want cause why…hy’t kla’ HAATERS!
I just watched the music video for ‘cooler as ekke’ and have to say that it’s pretty cool, dik beats & duidelike lyrics.
oh my god what a laugh, are people so highly strung that they comment some of this stuff?
“jack parow in jou moeder se huisie” — this guy is classic. he gets my “best south african ever award” at the moment….
JP sing hierdie song vir sy MA.. as sy maaitjies in skool hom nie so hard gePK het nie sou hy nog dit kon sing ook.
“Get hooked on Afrikaans bad boy rapper Jack Parow and watch endless repeats of his “Cooler as Ekke”, an anthem that cuts to the heart of what it feels like when someone thinks they are cooler than you. Jack Parow is the voice of everyman against people called Chaz who have great hair and can wear pink button down shirts and loafers with no socks. Okay it’s broader than that. Jack Parow is the voice of anyone who comes from the East Rand.” To read more go to http://todoinjoburg.co.za/?p=716
Jack Parrow se lyrics is diep –
mense wat hom judge, gaan lees Die vraagstuk. Julle wat hom judge en sleg se, verstaan nie die dieper meaning agter sy lyrics nie.
EK stem saam, hou op uptight wees, julle is die rede hoekom mense so geldgierig is, net die BESTE en duurste wil he, en nie met basic’s meer tevrede kan wees nie.
Uit.
JP – Jy is cooler as ekke.
Jack parrow is po#s woes!!!say whatefuck, mean whatefuck, do whatefuck,who cares.jack jy mol’it my ou!kak jas en wild,smakit ryme met n borrel ini park!keep up the good work.mak of jy malis en kak op alis!
I think this guy is brilliant. Excellent Job.
This Country needs guys like this to cheer everyone up. Fuck all you prudes and killjoys…!!!
Jack Parow is die grootste klomp kak wat ek al my lewe gehoor het . Mense in ander lande moet dink ons darm rerig dom poese , want net ons kan sulkke kak uidink so Jack jy is fucked up en geen Rol Model vir Suid Afrika nie so go fuck yourself