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Look, we take our job seriously. We spent two weeks learning and rehearsing this album, and you know, it wasn’t easy figuring out how to play this early ’90s hip hop as a rock band. We had to be clever, and I had to learn the lyrics to an entire fucking rap record. I like rap fine, don’t get me wrong, but man, I am not someone who should ever be rapping. But there we were, 3 p.m. on a side stage in the middle of this bizarre manchild festival in the middle of nowhere, about to launch into “Jump.” The cruel thing about doing Totally Krossed Out is that you have to play the big hit first, and then you have to keep going through all these album tracks no one is going to recognize, but we were contractually obliged to perform. (via The End of the 00s: The Ballad of That Guy From Titus Andronicus (As Told To Matthew Perpetua) | The Awl)

Look, we take our job seriously. We spent two weeks learning and rehearsing this album, and you know, it wasn’t easy figuring out how to play this early ’90s hip hop as a rock band. We had to be clever, and I had to learn the lyrics to an entire fucking rap record. I like rap fine, don’t get me wrong, but man, I am not someone who should ever be rapping. But there we were, 3 p.m. on a side stage in the middle of this bizarre manchild festival in the middle of nowhere, about to launch into “Jump.” The cruel thing about doing Totally Krossed Out is that you have to play the big hit first, and then you have to keep going through all these album tracks no one is going to recognize, but we were contractually obliged to perform. (via The End of the 00s: The Ballad of That Guy From Titus Andronicus (As Told To Matthew Perpetua) | The Awl)

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