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-{{Featured article headline|[[Kerrang! article - April 27, 2002]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Vegeterrorists]]}}
-[[Image:Kerrang-april2002-weezer01.jpg|150px|right|link=Kerrang! article - April 27, 2002]]
+'''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 [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/weezer-blue-album-25th-anniversary-877089/ 2019 Rolling Stone article]. 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>
-The following is an excerpt from a ''Kerrang!'' interview with [[Rivers Cuomo]].
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-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Do you consider yourself a normal person?}}
-{{Rivers|I consider myself a normal person in extraordinary, abnormal circumstances. I think if anyone were in my position they would end up acting like I do.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Why did you pull that little rock star trip today?}}
-{{Rivers|There’s incidents like that all the time.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|I think you’ve been childish, a bit "toys out of the pram". Do you know what I mean?}}
-{{Rivers|I think so (laughs). Well, I try to give myself complete license to do whatever I want at any time regardless of how it affects other people and … I think the benefits I gain artistically from living like that outweigh the costs of, um, all the problems that I have with society.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Meaning?}}
-{{Rivers|Everyone hating me.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|What kind of person does that make you?}}
-{{Rivers|Selfish…immature.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|And you’re alright with that?}}
-{{Rivers|Yeah, I’ve tried all different kinds of ways of living and I’ve discovered that this is the most conducive to creativity, acting on whim regardless of consequences.}}
-{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|With no consideration for other people?}}
-{{Rivers|No. Occasionally, I’ll have pangs of conscience but I try to overcome them. To me that’s a small price to pay.}}
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