In the summer hit the English-irish rapper Liam O’connor is a milestone, when he reached 40 years.
But even if he is statistically half way through life, so he has not the feeling to have approached the panikalderen.
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The so-called mid-life crisis, where you stop and ponder his life and finds out that there’s a lot of work still needed to experience and accomplish, took the rapper, who today is current with the album ‘Ekkokammer’, namely, at an early age.
– I had it already as a 25-year-old, for there I was convinced that I had lived half of my life, says the rapper, who has made a name for themselves under the initials L. O. C. and broke through with songs about the fast life, the booze and the drugs – all of it, which at the time filled for him.
– People get a midlife crisis, because they find out that the money are not voting in their self-image. And then they start to behave stupid, or to do one or another hjernedødt. But there have I already been younger, says the rapper.
He believes that the crisis occurs when people become aware that they one day must die. And even he has not a problem with the to look death in the face.
When you’ve lived on the edge, are you less afraid to look down in the depths.
– I can see on my peers, that there are many who go in a form of denial. But the denial is often about the lack of clarification, he explains.
– I think basically, it’s about to get stabbed his own mortality in his head. And there I am in a way lucky, because I’m one of the weirdos that have sat and looked at the mortality rate in advance, and I have been very fascinated by it and found an ease in the. So, I do not think it affects in the same way, he says.
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three years ago, rapper father for the first time, and it has nevertheless left its traces.
When I got the Constantin, my first thought was that I must be away from here before him. I was so aware that I must take care of him, and I hope I’m here long enough that he can take care of themselves.
– It is to be a father is a reminder that there is a clock that is ticking. But I have stared long at the watch, and for me it has meant that I have been better to cultivate the present moment. It is not enough to live. You also have to have something to live for, say L. O. C.
the Rapper was still a teenager when he entered the Danish music business in the group Alzheimerklinikken. Since he became known as a part of the first group B. A. N. G. E. R. S and ago hiphopkollektivet F. I. P.
In 2001, the appeared he with the solo album ‘Dominologi’ with songs like ‘Absinthe’ and ‘Drink your brain out’, but four years later, he put the alcohol on the shelf.
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today is the feasts of seriousness replaced by parenting.
– It is two years since I’ve been at a bar or a nightclub, and I have no desire, says the rapper, whose new songs, among other things revolve around religion, kønsdebat and the showdown with perfekthedskulturen and the world we have created.
– I would like to paint a samtidsbillede of my generation in the year 2019. I should not do it for the youth, it would be an indictment. It should be about what means something to me, he says.
Therefore his son also inspired him.
– I have found out that I no longer can write songs without writing to my son. So I had to have the song to him out of the system first, and I wrote one, which is actually not on the album.
– Afterwards I wrote the rest of the album, but when I listened it through, I thought that it worked aggressively and bitterly, ” explains the rapper.
Therefore ended in the number ‘Abu Constantin’ (meaning Constantins father, red.), where the rapper sings about how he will do anything to protect her son, yet at the ‘Ekkokammer’.
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– I found out that the song, which really was just a demo, should, for the gave it all makes sense and explains why I have it such that I have it, and where I am today, ” says L. O. C.