Photography by Jerome Shaw of Photos By Rome (Left to Right: D, K.I., Ony)

Photography Direction by R. Middleton

Meet the Oxymorrons the young music Gurus that claim Clasher Music as their genre of choice and truly dare to be different. These guys carry a very strong positive energy with them and you can tell by the way that they work together just in everyday casual convorsation that that they are unstopable. They have recently made some great accomplishments. You will get to know them in two parts. You are now viewing A day in the Oxymorrons part one.

Rae: Well what are all of your names and what are you individually known to contribute to the group?

Well I’m K.I. I’m a Lyricist and a vocalist as well in the group. I’m D aka drill sergeant ,  I’m a  lyricist/Vocalist and I hand most of the business for the Oxy’s. I’m Ony and I rap, produce and sing for the Oxymorrons.

Rae: How did you guys meet?

KI: Well this is my big brother (D). Its funny cause I met Ony at a local skate spot actually prom night I was on a party cruise and he happens to be on the same cruise vocal, we didn’t know each other then and I got up on the stage and rocked at the cruise. Then one day we were skating at a local skate spot called the Triangle and he happened to walk past me and he said “Hey I remember you” and we became skateboard friends for years and just started hanging out and he tells me “I do music” and I said “Really?” and we teamed up doing music. As for my brother he was always in music. He was in a group called Chemistry and they were doing their thing and me and Ony were doing our thing with our group. Mutual differences split chemistry apart and joined forces with us and now we’re just the Oxymorrons.

Rae: What made you guys decide to collaborate as a group.

D: K.I and Ony were doing their thing but I was in my previous group called Chemistry and things were rolling. I wasn’t home that much so when they started doing music they kind of started on their own but it was actually really good. I liked hearing their music when I was back and fourth from being on tour and recording in Atlanta for a while. We (Chemistry) had a song with Juelz Santana called ” Get Down” produced by Frankie P and we were pushing the single and getting ready to release the video, but after the mutual differences happened with Chemistry, hearing KI & Ony”s stuff, knowing where I wanted to go in music and also hearing lots of people say “Why won’t you do music with your brother?” Which was always being brought to our attention growing up. Collabing with them became an idea. Since I liked their stuff and they decided that it was a good idea, we collaborated.

Rae: I notice that your rappers but your style is very different from the every day type of commercial rap. What made you choose your genre and what is the exact name of your genre?

Ony: Well it started with a concept called Klasher music. That entails a combination of any type of music that you like, there’s no restriction. We like most genres of music. To us there’s just good or bad music so we like to experiment, we like to try any style out and blend genres while rapping, sing or doing both on a record. That’s what Klasher music is all about.

KI: Its sort of like a lifestyle really because even the way that we dress and we act. Were proud of the people that we are. Were kids from Jamaica, Queens that like skateboarding? You know, what I mean? Like were very different.

D: And must I say its not skateboarding in the sense of skateboarding now. I mean these dudes have been skateboarding since 2003. Not because its cool now, because its what they like to do. KI broke his leg skateboarding and he still skates till this day. We’ve always been deemed as the weird dudes from the hood skateboarding.

KI: We were raised listening to different kinds of music like when I was growing up me and D listened to groups ranging from Nirvana to M.O.P from Lionel Richie to Frank Sinatra. There is really no bondery to what type of music we will listen to.

D: I personally happen to love Billy Joel; I say that on the record. And will aways say that on the record. I love that dude Billy Joel – Uptown Girl happens to be 1 of my top ten favorite songs .

KI: Lenny Kravitz is my dude too

Rae: Who were some of your favorite artist and entertainers growing up?

Ony: Number one for me is Prince he’s the man.

D: There was so many people that I liked growing up. I would say Mike (Jackson) but that’s too Cliché right now and I’m not Cliché. I listen to a lot of music there’s various artist. Like as far as Hip-Hop there are dudes like the Da Bush Babees who don’t get a lot of credit for their music. I like Queen I have aways know all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody, all of that type of music in one molded me to be the type of artist I am.

Rae: How do you think listening to them contributed to your sound?

Ony: Besides life music influences you as well but we listen to so many things and we study bits and pieces of everything to make our sound.

KI: Like imagine all of your favorite artist combined into one song and that’s how it is when we go to make a track.

D: And each of them added the flavor that they want to that one song. Everybody has their own interpretation but when it’s all meshed together it sounds good.

KI: I know me growing up I listened to Sum 41. I liked a lot of rock but my favorite rapper is Slick Rick. I used to love listening to him. Like I listen to Lenny Kravitz but I do listen to 50 cent.

D: If you go to a playlist on my Ipod I skip from Andre 3000 to a band called the Bad Rabbits…

Rae: I recently heard about the Bad Rabbits

D: Those are our homies.  Check out their album Stick Up Kids its Dope.. But you will also find Chester French, Coldplay, Gym Class Heroes, Kanye, Hov, Lauryn Hill, Lupe, Foxy Shazam, Kenna, and Paramore – I love Paramore and Pharrell on my ipod.. The music just jumps around it depends on what mood I’m in.  If I’m in a relaxed rock kind of mood and I want to feel inspired I listen to Paramore a lot. In my opinion Hayley Williams is the best female rock vocalists that I’ve heard now a days – hands down.

Ony: Me personally I’m more of an old-school cat. I listen to a lot of Jazz. You know one of my favorite musicians is Charles Mingus, Stevie Wonder and different array of old school music. I listen to new music now mainly just to stay in touch with what’s going on now. Like my favorite kind of music is from old school.

Rae: Who are some of the artist that we can currently find on you guy’s IPods?

K.I.: One of the artists on my IPods is Sublime, Kenna, Pharrell, and Radio Head

D: One of the new people that really get me is Mr. Hudson. He’s not exploding the way that he should and his music is crazy.

K.I.: Even as far as hip-hop goes I like Drake and a dude named J.Cole

Rae: I’ve never heard of him

D: He’s on the come-up. He’s on Roc Nation – Hov’s Label. Its funny how people don’t like or respect the southern music. They’d say oh southern music is trash. I respect it because I spent time down there and southern artist like Soulja Boy – people might bash him but that’s their lifestyle. Music is a reflection of life so they’re not fronting. That’s what they do everyday. When you go to a southern party its more fun than an NYC party cause it’s not about ego’s everybody’s out there having a good time and that’s why their music comes out like that. And I can respect that rather than respect some dude that’s not a thug at all talking thug stuff. And I also love Lupe shout out to Lupe.

Rae: What was it like opening up for Lupe Fiasco and how did that opportunity come about?

D: Well the opportunity came at my old college where pretty much my old group Chemistry started so they knew were basically on our A game musically. An the opportunity came, my dude murph called and I pretty much jumped on the situation. They sent out the contracts and other paperwork and we just got it done. I was told they have to send the music to lupe. If he likes it then he’ll let you open-up, if he doesn’t then your not opening up. Come to find out he’s really selective with who he wants opening up for him.

K.I: Basically we got the crowd ready for him to come out.

D: We had Darnell with us because we had a track called “Supreme” with him. It was fun we got to meet Lupe, we got to chill with him a bit backstage. We got to speak to his hype man for a minute, but they really liked our stuff. He doesn’t usually come out and watch people perform but we were told he came out and watched. That was a great show.

Rae: Are you guys currently signed?

K.I: Currently signed? No, we’re our own micro-machine

D: We’ve got a couple of things in the works. People have their eye on us right now. We have one management company we want to work with that’s pretty much watching. People want to see what were gonna do, really what were capable of. Obviously their intrigued, they wouldn’t deal with us if they weren’t. They help with what ever they can.

Rae: And you guys are not like everyone else so just keep doing what your doing.

K.I: And you know why were not like everyone else? Because were just being us.

D: No one’s like everyone else, no one should be like everyone else.

K.I: .Don’t get me wrong I listen to all of these different artists and I take what I hear but I take everything and just form it into my own style. That’s what you have to do. A lot of artist they just copy. Cookie Cutter

D: Exactly and that’s just not right. If everybody looked alike then how would this world really be? Really think about it, we’d be a world of robots.

Rae: Have you been working on any albums, songs or mixtapes that you’ve recently released or will be releasing soon?

Ony: we released Better Then McDonalds and a mix-tape called “Grass on The Field – Play Ball”  Right now we are working on a cd called Two Tone Denim. This one well be great!!! And will also so be for FREE 99 like the last one

Rae: Just keep putting them out there.

TO BE CONTINUED…