Bad Guys

Bad Guys

OREC

When I first started working on the mixtape, early 2015, this was the first song that I had the ideas and the vision for. I knew I wanted to build the whole mixtape around this song, I wanted Bad Guys to be the soul of the whole thing.

I remember I had recently watched The Godfather and I was in the middle of playing Mafia II, and I also just remember wondering why every rapper comes out trying to pretend he’s hard and a drug dealer and a killer and all that fake shit, saying “I’m this, I’m that” but it’s all bullshit. Like I’m all for creativity and painting a picture for the audience and fiction and shit, but not when you’re actually trying to trick people into believing you’re something you’re not. The first line I had was “I WANNA BE LIKE them bad guys”, not “I am”. It was important to me that people get that.

It’s important to me that people understand that it’s not an autobiography. I wanted to write from the perspective of someone else, well, from an alternate version of myself technically. So I imagined myself in a parallel universe, where I would have grown up in my Dad’s custody instead of my Mum’s, where I would have been exposed to the life of crime he lead, and just growing up a ‘bad guy’, where this kids biggest ambition in life is to prove himself to the Italian Mob in Lygon St., Melbourne. So Bad Guys tells the story of Joey Orecci, and while focusing on the classic Mafia Age of the 60’s and 70’s in Melbourne, I wanted to paint a picture of how the world may look today in a young man coming up in a life of crime.