Jacoby Shaddix

I'm like, do I want to be known as Dick my whole life?

My original name, my birth name, Jacoby Dakota Shaddix, is way cooler than Kobe Dick.

I was like, I got to go back to the OG name.

But yeah, I'm a little all over the place.

But yeah, Kobe Dick was my name back in the day.

Mr. Dick if you're nasty, Dr. Dick if you're sick.

I wanted to be like a cross between like Wu-Tang, you know, Method.

I wanted to be a cross between like Method Man and Chino from the Deftones.

Those were like two of my favorite and totally like polar opposite types of artists.

But I just had this really like eclectic, diverse love of music.

And, uh, I just, I was off to the races, you know, like once I had that mic in my hand and, you know, we started playing shows in front of people and we played all the backyard parties, you know what I mean?

We play, we put on parties.

Oh, absolutely.

I think that it's like, those are the moments, the proving grounds, I think for real artists, like if you can thug it out through those rugged moments, right.

Where I remember like when you were saying like playing in front of five people, I remember being in Denver, Colorado at this place called the lion's den.

And we played in front of seven people and two of them were the bartenders.

Yeah.

I remember playing in like Tucson, Arizona and we showed up and we're handing out our demo tapes and then we start playing and people start throwing our demo tapes back at us, like at our faces.

And I'm like, fuck you.

So we had all those moments where it was just like,