DETROIT, Mich. — “For all my ladies ‘round this world, this anthem’s for you.”
The first line of this new single “Girls Everywhere” from The Infamous Crackhead, aka Damian Wheeler, and the Law Breakers’ new album “World Domination” says it all when it comes to Wheeler’s respect for the women in his life.
“It came up out of an idea that I have a deep respect for ladies all over the world of all origins, all kinds, creeds, colors and music has kind of gone off the rails a little bit in the last few years,” Crackhead said. “I’m a music lover by heart, a DJ for over 20-plus years, but sometimes music has gotten a little bit rambunctious, a little degrading. Some things you can leave behind closed doors, it doesn’t have to be all out there, your sexual escapades don’t have to be in a song, that’s how I look at it. We can all talk about out fantasies but some things are going a little overboard. You can still have fun with the music but just make it your own style.”
“Girls Everywhere” is part of two albums released in the last few weeks by Infamous Crackhead and the Law Breakers.
A charged, jazzy hip hop party track about women and Crackhead’s love and respect for them, “Girls Everywhere” is the featured release from the “World Domination” album.
Crackhead said “World Domination has some conscience and some street tracks that have different things.”
The other album, “Ground Zero,” is what Infamous Crackhead calls “an album of growth, a mix of stuff that makes you think about things.”
“Girls Everywhere” is what Crackhead calls “a good party-loving song.”
“It’s something you can ride to and play at a beach, play at a house party,” he said. “Something you can dance to, play around your kids, play it anywhere. It’s a good fun-loving song that has a high-energy beat. It has some high-energy that you don’t have in music anymore. You’ve got this melodic low-bearing music now that people just stand around and look like zombies. This is something you can get up and tap your feet with.”
Crackhead said he grew up in a musical family, with a Reverend for a grandfather.
“My mom was around Aretha and them,” he said. “My oldest siblings, they had a band for a while and they did a lot of traveling. They had a lot of groups come by, my brother took me to a lot of places where music was all around me, so I got into it. I went to school and took up music, an associates of performing arts. I played keyboards, I did performing arts for two years before I left and went into the service.”
After a three year stint in the Marine Corps, Crackhead came home and earned a degree in broadcasting from Wayne County Community College and started his music career as a DJ.
That’s when he got involved with a group called the Speakers of the House.
“I really wasn’t a rapper at first, I was a DJ and the hype guy,” he said. “The group used to be 14 members strong, but through living the life on the streets and the hustle a lot of the guys passed on and the last two remaining members of the group started teaching me how to rap and I started transitioning into it and then when those guys passed on, I kind of inherited the group.”
The two surviving original members of Speaker of the House gave him his rap name, Infamous Crackhead, not because of any kind of drug problem.
“They gave me that name because I used to be the hype guy,” Crackhead said. “I used to be so hyped up because I was DJing and then I'd do some rap dancing so they said man, you are running around like a damn crackhead. I was like, you know? I’m gonna keep that name. Watch me use that name dog. Everybody says that’s a cool moniker.”
Crackhead said his goal with “Girls Everywhere” and the other songs on the two albums is to take rap to a different place.
“I just want the world to know that I’m here and I’m going to be here for a minute to give y’all something different,” he said. “Something you can grasp on to, something you can evolve with me with. Let’s grow together, let’s break the normal pattern of what these program music directors have been giving y’all. Let’s go back to when music was free.”
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