BlabberMouf to release

‘Blabberastic Semantics’ Jan. 28

By James Scogin | January 12, 2022

Born in Maastricht, Netherlands, BlabberMouf became intrigued by hip hop as he grew up watching it on MTV. That love grew to going to hip hop parties, being in the cyphers, and growing a worldwide fanbase online.

“When I went to high school and I met some people, they introduced me to a whole lot of music,” BlabberMouf said. 

The first album he remembers listening to is,”Lifestyles of the Poor and Dangerous,” by Big L. After that, BlabberMouf started listening to artists like the WuTang Clan, eventually performing with them on stage at Make the Hood Look Good Festival in Aarau, Switzerland in 2018. 

As an MC, BlabberMouf has an old-school, boom-bap sound. 

“Coming up when we were coming up, as kids and stuff, that shit was like magic to us,” he said. “Like, how are these beats made?”

Many of his friends started producing their own beats, BlabberMouf said. 

“I was super hungry, you know, and passionate about it,” he said. “I kind of knew what I was doing was right, because it felt right. 

“When you look back, it wasn’t super polished. It’s really rough, which also added to the charm,” 

Finding his sound came with practice and knowing what he was comfortable with. 

“Music, in general, is one of the highest forms of expression there is,” BlabberMouf said. “Hip hop is very complex in the way how it is super diverse. You can do anything with hip hop.”

The music BlabberMouf and his friends were making coming up was “lost” at that moment in time, he said. All they wanted to do was contribute to the boom bap scene. 

During his time in hip hop, BlabberMouf has been a part of a couple different crews: Het Verzet and DaShogunz. But, he considers them to be interwoven.

DaShogunz consists of Propo’88, BlabberMouf, Kick Back, Zudo, Truffel and Corto. 

Het Verzet members are: Ellmatic, Astro, Doop, Dookie, Mad, Vieze Vingerz and Ntan, 

“There is this competitive thing going on of just being the best type of rapper possible in the group,” he said. “That was really good for us, because we were young guys who just really loved the music and that was all we did.” 

Word spread about BlabberMouf and the crew as they were at parties holding cyphers outside. 

“That’s how a whole lot of people got to meet us,” he said. “And then it went from that to, ‘yeah, we’re making an album.” 

That album: “Greatest Shits.”

“The music out received some recognition on an international level,” BlabberMouf said. “In that same year I also dropped my solo debut, ‘From the Top of the Stack,’ with (Propo’88), and then it started to really get real traction as far as shows are concerned.

“We went to Russia with the Het Verzet crew and I went to Greece. From there we never really quit doing the shows.” 

The music industry is a tough one, BlabberMouf said. But if there are people there for a show, he would perform anywhere. 

“As far as promoting shows go, that shit mostly costs money instead of that shit makes money in some cases,” he said.

As an artist it is important to know where your fans are. 

“Those are the places I should go,” BlabberMouf said. 

YouTube has opened the door to a world of fans for Het Verzet, DaShogunz and BlabberMouf. Dance crews, like Burger from Asia have made videos to their music. The “Flabbergasted” music video from his album “From the Top of the Stack,” has over 1.8M views. 

“Our (music) grew super organic (on YouTube), because ‘Flabbergasted’ and stuff, that video took like seven years to reach the 1M view mark,” he said. “But, then it did and boom, another 300,000 views.” 

But, BlabberMouf feels the platform is changing, he said. Even still, fans always support his releases. 

January 28, BlabberMouf and Sneadr are releasing “Blabberastic Semantics,” a project that may be a bit of a “different direction.”

“(This project is) maybe more grimy,” he said. “A fresh take for me, at least.” 

“Blabberastic Semantics” is less premeditated and more “on the spot.” 

“(With earlier music) the way I wrote and recorded (was) really premeditated,” BlabberMouf said. “Every verse that I spit on the mic, I know exactly how I want it, and how I’m gonna spit it.

“Sometimes it took me a while to get to the result that I want, because I’m no longer in the vibe of the song when I wrote it. So, it becomes a real technical type of thing. Sometimes you can maybe even lose the vibe of it, because you become super focused on the details and all of that stuff when you record vocals.

“With the new album, I just made and recorded everything on the spot.”

Gaining experience from work on previous albums helped BlabberMouf develop this project. 

“It was really in the moment type of music making,” he said. “That’s also how I made music in the very beginning when I had no clue what I was doing.”

As an artist, BlabberMouf wants to shine when it comes to performing and putting on shows, he said. 

“I think some of my early successes really came because some of my videos went viral,” BlabberMouf said. “I just try to produce more dope content, and try to develop artistically, and just play around with different sounding music. 

“I think I won’t stray too far from the boom bap, but I will make it more intricate, and work with different producers that have different approaches to music.”

Being inspired while making something new on a consistent basis is what BlabberMouf considers success, he said. 

“The music I make comes from the states, but I would say we put our own European twist to the shit, and we take a lot of influences from hip hop music around the world and incorporate it into what we do,” BlabberMouf said.