"The story has a little bit of violence but that's just to tie it all in."Īnd with all the swords around, the musician adds, "it's bound to get a little interesting." Their work ethic is kind of like how I do it on the mic," he says. "With me and music, it's the same way - I just meditate to it. "It's influenced me to try to be the person I want to be."įor T-Shyne, a part of New York City's HOME Team crew, the samurai appeal is in the training and the meditation. "Honestly, as cheesy as it may sound, the ideology behind the samurai about working on your task and foreseeing and anticipating whatever obstacles come your way is kind of the way I would like to draw," Deshong says. I wanted to have the contrast between the mask and the entity inside of it."ĭeshong has had a lifelong fascination for samurai culture and entertainment from the Far East - the movies Shogun and Seven Samurai and Sun Tzu's tome The Art of War are among his favorites. "But at the same time, he's a very serious person. "The mask is a little ridiculous," the artist says. The comic references T-Shyne's own life - the warrior has dreads, just like the rapper - and Deshong, no stranger to samurai stories with his Sons of Fate comic, was inspired to create a dichotomy between the ronin-esque warrior with his enemy clad in a demon-nosed, smiling Oni mask. "When a warrior goes into battle, some days he has to lose, other days he wins, and by doing so it takes growth, it takes time and sometimes it takes patience to build that kind of character and perseverance." It's an internal process when T-Shyne creates an album, Wilson says, and they wanted the comic to reflect that. What he and T-Shyne wanted to craft was the idea that the greatest conflict for anybody is the esoteric battle for one's soul. "It's the journey of the warrior but also at the same time a journey of self-discovery," Wilson says. The warrior drags himself to a temple where a monk nurses him back to health and teaches him that he was beat not due to weakness but because of a distracted mind. The masked villain hands him a crushing defeat and tells the warrior he's to live the rest of his life in shame. Set in feudal Japan, a nameless samurai warrior runs afoul of a man in an Oni mask who had earlier killed the warrior's father. The story is influenced by T-Shyne and artist Jean-Paul Deshong's shared love of Japanese culture, from samurai to Dragon Ball Z. The hip-hop star shows different sides of himself on the new album The SOULution as well as a new comic book of the same name he created for Arch Enemy Entertainment with William Wilson. The rapper T-Shyne's got soul, and it's his samurai warrior who is super bad.
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