He would explore abandoned buildings in his neighborhood with his friend Brian Dennis, trying to catch a ghost on film. Born Aaron Yates, Tech never met his father, and his mother suffered from both epilepsy and lupus. What matters is the fact that a prominent MC was open enough to share something about an issue that's taboo in hip-hop. Though the last name is omitted for legal reasons, Tech's rhyme scheme makes it easy enough for friends, family, and associates to derive who his assaulter was. From Something Else's seventh song, 'I Am Not a Saint': The Kansas City, Missouri, rapper has been active for more than two decades, but this is the first time he's publicly acknowledged being assaulted. Tech opened up about being sexually assaulted in the seventh grade on his most recent album, Something Else, his 13th studio LP, which was released Tuesday through his Strange Music imprint. And now we know that he was also a victim of sexual assault.

This 'Shroud' carries all of that, and it's directed back at the evil for being evil.Tech N9ne is known as a lot of different things: a critically-acclaimed hip-hop artist, a live performer with a cult following, the head of an independent record label. This blackened substance is all of that anger and madness. It was taking the evilness of everybody and throwing it back on the evil.

Then, I was pulling all of the madness with the police and things on the East Coast, Ferguson, and all of the events I was talking about in 'Aw Yeah' going in Syria and Benghazi. 'It was all the sadness and anger from that. 'The song was taking all of the anger, sadness, and me feeling like mom was cheated throughout her life because she was sick for the entire duration-yet she still remained the spiritual being she is,' he continued. Now, it's a full blackened shroud over me after my angel left.' It was all over my head on the Boiling Point EP. It was the tarlike substance coming from my eye on the Seepage EP. I would call it the tar coming from my hands on K.O.D. He told Artist Direct: 'After mom passed, this darkened shroud hit me. Tech N9ne was in a dark place for a long time after the death of his mother, and this song reflects his sadness at his loss.

Tech n9ne song for his mom