Life & Work with BAMbam the Voodoo Chi7d

Today we’d like to introduce you to BAMbam the Voodoo Chi7d.

Hi BAMbam the Voodoo Chi7d, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
The story really all began as far back as I can remember. As a child, my grandmother tells me stories of me being 5 years old on the phone with random friends and family members coming up with lyrics. Over time it just grew into something bigger than that. During my teenage years living in North Carolina, I learned it could be a therapeutic escape. Between counselors, psychiatric stays, medications, and all in between, nothing seemed to work better to ease the mind than just losing myself in music. As morbid as it generally would become.
By the end of highschool, I had moved all over and ended up in Canada. I started taking it more seriously. Investing money into real production and travel. Picking up shows, etc. So after graduating I moved to Windsor, Ontario to be closer to Detroit, where the scene was thriving.
In 2014, I moved back to North Carolina for help from my mom when my first son was born, then shortly after made my way to Pennsylvania, then finally back to Michigan. This state has always been a magnet.
For the vast majority of my career I was involved with groups, but come 2022 I took the path on a much more solo route, and since then things have been blossoming beautifully.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been far from a smooth road for the most part. There has been a lot of good things happen, but it took madness to get to that point. From the majority of family members either not being supportive at all, or to basically black listing me and not even speaking to me. Giving up opportunities for college and a more stable future. More lost sleep than should ever be accounted for. It’s basically living like Batman to be an underground artist. Especially when you’re a Horrorcore artist, because even less people are gonna be about the things I talk about. So day time life is a normal job trying to make ends meet, balanced with being a father, and my youngest son being an absolute Daddy’s boy and attached to my hip. Then being a husband and trying to be there for my wife. All while constantly having dates to meet, things to promote, people blowing me up. It’s a never ending cycle, and I at this point can’t even remember what rested feels like. But it’s truly as they say, no rest for the wicked.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
The umbrella term of what I do would be Horrorcore. I’m a Horrorcore artist, with the main focuses being that of dark arts, occult, murder, and basically all considered blasphemous. My music can be seen as basically a horror movie that you listen to. I’m known for getting crowds to sing along to hooks about cannibalism, and painting out horrid stories in places people see day to day. The perfect example being, my most recent album dropped is titled “The REO Town Ripper”, and tells stories of a serial killer living among these streets in Lansing. Even if you don’t appreciate the darkness, alot of people can connect to the relativity of the areas at least.
My most proud moment has to be the night my crew and I threw an event for two of our biggest fans, Nate and Amanda. We performed an entire ritualistic ceremony where we bonded them to eachother. We had jars, candles, dolls, and all kinds of stuff going on. It was beautiful. Next to that would probably be performing the Gathering of the Juggalos at 2 am under a bright Super Moon, and the shenanigans going on during that set. If you know, you know. But it was insanity.
I think what sets me apart from most other Horrorcore artists is also I’m a huge fan of hip-hop and lyricism. So as much as I want to say outlandish things in all my music, I also strive for intricate flows and rhyme schemes. I need more to my music than just hack and slash, I like to be able to twist my words in a way even the more “normal” people can find something to enjoy about it. And beyond just the music, I do the majority of my own graphics, I’ve thrown shows, I’ve dabbled with beat making and other aspect of production. I record my own music, dabble in video editing. I have always tried to have the ability to do everything I need in house. Although in the past year or so, I’ve been taking some of that work off myself and reaching out to people who are much better, and more knowledgeable in it.

Do you any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
My childhood is really mostly a blur. There was alot of trauma and hardships, and a great majority of it has been blackened out. But it’s all things that bring me to where I am now. Although the flashes of good memories I do have usually involve traveling with my grandparents. I’ve been so many places that I vaguely remember.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bambamthevoodoochi7d/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BAMbamVC
• Twitter: https://x.com/VoodooChi7d
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bambamthevoodoochi7d
• Other: https://bambamthevoodoochi7d.bandcamp.com