Like the flimsy plywood façades of its sprawling movie sets, Los Angeles’ glitz and glamour conceals a bullet-pocked reality of violence, gangs, dirt and danger. “If you bumped into someone in the street,” Jorel ‘J Dog’ Decker recounts from his childhood spent in the City Of Angels’ seedy underworld, “chances were you’d get a gun pulled on you.” It was this city – not the airbrushed picture postcard image in so many people’s heads – he stresses, that spawned Hollywood Undead.“My single mother sold jewellery door to door. She was robbed at gunpoint several times and she’d get caught up in drive-by shootings.” The rap-rockers’ mercurial mainman sifts through his memories with a mixture of steely frankness and regret. Every balmy night was punctuated by gunfire, every sidewalk littered w...
HOTEL KALIFORNIA
1.Chaos 2.World War Me 3.Ruin My Life 4.Hourglass 5.Go to War 6.Alone at the Top 7.Wild in These Streets 8.Dangerous 9.Lion Eyes 10.Trap God 11.Happy When I Die 12.Reclaim 13.City of the Dead 14.Alright
