Intro

People who don’t know me, or my music, wonder why people call me Crazed. To quote my friend Joycee “No, ye see, it’s a past tense name. He was Crazed, but he isn’t anymore. He’s grand now”. I’ll probably do a post eventually outlining my friends so you’ll know who I’m on about. I’ll write that down, actually. Anyway, enough tangents. Here’s the craic with my name.

The Craic

This goes back years. Back in 2009, in school, I loved writing. I loved/love writing, hence the blog. The problem was, I always found writing short stories fairly pointless if nobody wanted to read them. I then decided to start writing poetry. I thought having a book of poems would be better as found it wasn’t too time consuming and had a better chance of getting published. Turns out, poetry isn’t time consuming at all if you’re bad at it.

In Art class during TY, we got to make and bind our own books. After I made mine, I looked at the blank cover and pages and decided it was the perfect opportunity to make my book of poems. As I started writing in pencil on the first page, the poetry just wasn’t flowing out of me. After several attempts at writing the first stanza, I got bored and wrote a parody of Eminem’s song ‘Drug Ballad’. I called it ‘Lucozade Ballad’.

Back then, Eminem was a huge influence on me. It was around the time he’d just dropped Relapse, which is still one of my favorite albums. After this, I just wrote Horror core mostly. I remember one that wasn’t too bad. I called it ‘My Mind’. It was about getting a train through my mind, passing stuff like ‘a mountain of cake’ and ‘Lucozade lake’. Eventually the song gets dark and there’s zombies in it. I still have the book at home somewhere. If this blog gets anywhere I’ll post it up.

I started using the name Crazed as my ‘rap name’. I remember sitting in my room trying to think of a name. I looked at names of people in WWE and thought ‘Daniel Extreme’. I then looked at names on my CD collection. The name ‘Disturbed’ caught my eye. Mainly because a name like that suited my lyrics well. The name ‘Crazed’ then popped into my head. I thought it was perfect! I changed my Facebook name to ‘Daniel Crazed Clark’ and within a week people in school started calling me Crazed for the craic.

I was never shy about my lyrics. Thinking back, I was way too open about them. In my lyric book I wrote a song about shooting up my school and went around showing everyone. People thought it was funny, but looking back I actually said some awful thing about people. I even scribbled out a couple names on it because I re read it with a more mature mind.

Once I filled up that book with lyrics, I thought that was it. I’ll never write another song again. As the days went on, I kept getting ideas and the itch to write more so I bought an A4 pad and started filling it with songs. I think after 5 or 6 A4 pads, I started writing on my laptop because I fractured my wrist punching a wall cause I was.. well.. Crazed. I eventually started writing over beats on Youtube. The next step was to record my songs.

Conclusion

There’s more to this story but I’ll call it here. Make it a bit of a series! I suppose the reason I started this whole ‘Crazed’ thing many years ago, was the same reason I’m starting this blog. I need to write. It’s also why I think this blog thing will work. The idea of writing poems or songs made me cringe but I fought that cringey feeling and just did it. I became a whole new person out of it. Maybe this blog will have the same effect. I’m just going with the knowledge that whenever I write something, it either makes someone fall in love with me or want to bring me to court.

G’luck!