Writing By Gino

"In ’95 I was sampling from the radio station. My homie had the little receiver with the antenna on the back and I’d sample from the Jazz station or whatever. Sometimes the reception was bad, so I’d hold the antenna with one hand and use the other hand to press the button to start and stop the sample. You might hear a little buzz in it. But fuck it, it gives it character."- Dibia$e 

“Fans of Carpenter and other composers from the 80s should celebrate the popularity of Netflix’s new series. It will introduce new listeners to great composers from the past while helping with the discovery of new talent within the genre.”

“My dad spent a lot of years in pain mentally. He spent a lot of years angry and miserable. Later in life he became so fun and such a good-hearted, happy person. The worse things got, he always managed to have a positive outlook. Since “Uncommon Valor” was made, my family lost my sister in March. Somehow my father just maintained a positive outlook through everything. So I was trying to be like him with my rhyme.”- RA The Rugged Man  

“Cause ain’t nobody said that nobody could save us. And ain’t no helicopter coming here to raise us. And you can say that we ghetto, and you can say that we thugs, but you can never say we gave up. Raise up.”- ST 2 Lettaz from “Ocean GMIX”

Gino: What separates Dark Forces from other 80s horror anthologies?

Will: What separates it is its literary ambition, which it wears on its sleeve by featuring stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Aickman, and maybe a couple other SF/Fantasy authors known for their prose styling. While I enjoyed some of those works to one degree or another, there is a stodginess about Dark Forces, and a take-me-seriously tone that some horror readers may find a tad off-putting. I level this same charge at Douglas Winter’s Prime Evil from 1988. It really seemed like Dark Forces was presented as a gateway to ’80s horror, a marker, a milestone, a guidepost for where the genre would be headed in that decade. I think it was, but it’s just not my favorite of that era, although “The Mist” remains one of my top favorite King works.