Hip Hop's Chef Bac Cooks Up New Music with Almost Famous Dudes

Having created a name for himself in pursuing his passion for music and with the awareness of realizing a growing music audience by way of the World Wide Web, young hip hop artist Chef Bac has taken to accumulating underground buzz for his inventive sound and blunt tales of the world of today. Having stepped out of the darkness to show the hip hop world his skills and natural gifts for rhyming, Chef (nee Ryan Bacon) has been busy for the past two years, creating story narratives over exploratory production with high site counts for MySpace with inventive hits like "Iguana Tales", "Funk Recital" and The Levitation Nation's "80s Necklace".

With finishing touches being made to his upcoming album Almost Famous Dudes, Chef took to the time to share his thoughts on his persona, his life, his music career and the pursuit of personal happiness.

(The below interview is a fusion of two separate interviews that occurred on October 7 and October 10, 2007.)

Sandy Dover:So, your recording name is Chef Bac and you're an up and coming rapper--what should the public know about Chef Bac? What do you want your audience to get from you?

Chef Bac: I want my audience to gain something that can uplift their spirits through what I relate with, whether it's through emotions or the particular beat I've produced, the public should know that they have another hip hop head on their hands who [has] decided to follow wherever his hopes of layin' something ill will take 'em.

SD: A lot of what I hear sounds to be super-eclectic and synth-based, so much so that if The Neptunes weren't already known for their exploratory production, your music could be described as "weird"-How would you describe your sound?

CB: My sound reflects what I've known as good music, but at the same time, it's like black licorice, because it's not for everybody. It's more of an acquired taste.

SD: What do you want people to grasp when they listen to your music?

CB: I want them to realize that I'm blowin' smoke on these bumble bees buzzin' in my ear, with all that wackness I ain't tryin' to hear.

SD: Would you say that your sound has changed throughout the process of recording in the past few years?