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'''Vegeterrorists''' (or Veggiterrorists) was a moniker briefly used by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in the early 90s for an unreleased rap project. The name was listed in the [[Recording_History_-_Page_1#late_1990_Rivers_demos:_aka_.22Finishtum_Productum.22|Weezer Recording History]] alongside a song title called "[[Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos]]". Former [[Weezer]] guitarist [[Jason Cropper]] recalled the project in a | '''Vegeterrorists''' (or '''Veggiterrorists''') was a moniker briefly used by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in the early 90s for an unreleased rap project. The name was listed in the [[Recording_History_-_Page_1#late_1990_Rivers_demos:_aka_.22Finishtum_Productum.22|Weezer Recording History]] alongside a song title called "[[Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos]]". Former [[Weezer]] guitarist [[Jason Cropper]] recalled the project in a 2019 Rolling Stone article.<ref>Hiatt, Brian. "The Strange Birth and Near Death of Weezer." ''Rolling Stone''. 28 August 2019. https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/weezer-blue-album-25th-anniversary-877089/</ref> Said Cropper: | ||
<blockquote>''Cuomo decided he would write [[The 50 Song Project|50 songs]] in a row before allowing himself to form another band or play live again. He moved to Santa Monica, started attending college there, and recorded demo after demo on an eight-track cassette recorder. He wrote only 30 or so songs, but among them were “[[Undone – The Sweater Song]]” and other eventual Weezer tracks. Cropper says that around this time, Cuomo also made an entire, never-released rap album under the name Vegeterrorists – songs about his lifelong vegetarianism in styles akin to Public Enemy and Run-DMC. “Rivers can drop mad beats and spit mad rhymes with the best,” says Cropper. “And if I stayed in the band, we would’ve done records like that years ago.” (The only released evidence of this period is a striking demo of Cuomo covering Ice Cube’s “[[The Bomb]]” like a one-man Rage Against the Machine.)</blockquote> | <blockquote>''Cuomo decided he would write [[The 50 Song Project|50 songs]] in a row before allowing himself to form another band or play live again. He moved to Santa Monica, started attending college there, and recorded demo after demo on an eight-track cassette recorder. He wrote only 30 or so songs, but among them were “[[Undone – The Sweater Song]]” and other eventual Weezer tracks. Cropper says that around this time, Cuomo also made an entire, never-released rap album under the name Vegeterrorists – songs about his lifelong vegetarianism in styles akin to Public Enemy and Run-DMC. “Rivers can drop mad beats and spit mad rhymes with the best,” says Cropper. “And if I stayed in the band, we would’ve done records like that years ago.” (The only released evidence of this period is a striking demo of Cuomo covering Ice Cube’s “[[The Bomb]]” like a one-man Rage Against the Machine.)</blockquote> | ||
In a Facebook Q&A held for members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]] on [[August 2]], [[2020]], [[Karl Koch]] briefly discussed Veggiterrorists, explaining that "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos" was Cuomo's attempt at a vegetarian-themed rap song in the style of Public Enemy (the title being a riff on the Public Enemy song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos]"). Said Koch:<blockquote>"[Rivers had] grown up vegetarian. One of my earliest memories of him was | In a Facebook [[Vault Dive|Q&A]] held for members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]] on [[August 2]], [[2020]], [[Karl Koch]] briefly discussed Veggiterrorists, explaining that "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos" was Cuomo's attempt at a vegetarian-themed rap song in the style of Public Enemy (the title being a riff on the Public Enemy song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos]"). Said Koch:<blockquote>"[Rivers had] grown up vegetarian. One of my earliest memories of him was: he had this VHS tape called ''Diet for a New America''[...] It was a big deal at the time[...]If you were thinking about vegetarianism it definitely converted you at the time[...] He was super into that, he'd watch that tape all the time, and he decided he'd make a band called the Veggiterrorists, and it would be a rap band, and their song would be 'Black Fur and the Hour of Chaos.'"<ref>Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnRhSaDXMs&t=1920s</ref></blockquote> | ||
In [[2020]], as part of an assignment for a web programming course, Cuomo created a wiki titled [[Riverpedia]], which included an entry for a person named [[Roger Marinelli]] (one of Cuomo's roommates at [[Poinsettia Place|Poinsettia Place]] in Los Angeles), who Cuomo described as "his partner in the Vegeterrorists" and, as Cuomo added, "Generally thought to be the better rapper of the two." | In [[2020]], as part of an assignment for a web programming course, Cuomo created a wiki titled [[Riverpedia]], which included an entry for a person named [[Roger Marinelli]] (one of Cuomo's roommates at [[Poinsettia Place|Poinsettia Place]] in Los Angeles), who Cuomo described as "his partner in the Vegeterrorists" and, as Cuomo added, "Generally thought to be the better rapper of the two." | ||
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*"[[The Bomb]]" | *"[[The Bomb]]" | ||
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