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<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 [[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:{{Karlify|"[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.'"|Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive<ref>Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #2 https:// | 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:{{Karlify|"[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.'"|Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive<ref>[[Weezer Fan Club]] [[Vault Dive]] #2 https://archive.org/details/wfc-vault-dive-2</ref>}} | ||