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Hey look, Chris Holmes was in a band called W.A.S.P., so…<\/h3>\nHey look, Chris Holmes was in a band called W.A.S.P., so…<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
In an interview with the metal website Riff Metal Mag<\/a>, Chris Holmes, a former member of the 80s metal band W.A.S.P., says he left America and will never return because hip hop and black culture ruined opportunities for heavy metal to flourish.<\/p>\n “Well, unless you’re the opposite of me \u2014 a hip-hop artist or a rapper \u2014 you won’t sell in America anymore,\u201d he said in the videotaped interview during Hellfest 2014 last month in Clisson, France. \u201cThere’s no rock magazines anymore. The black culture has really\u2026 The black culture has taken hip hop to white\u2026 The white culture and all the kids act like that; they wear their pants down. I think it’s\u2026 I’m not 100 percent sure, but I when they go to school and they listen to hard rock, it’s called ‘pussy music.’ [They are told] ‘You need to listen to gangster rap.’ I think that’s what it is.”<\/p>\n Earlier in the interview, Holmes, 56, said that he sold all of his belongings in his native California and relocated to Cannes, France. “I left in February, L.A., I left \u2014 gone,\u201d he said. \u201cI don’t plan on going back. I’m gone. I ain’t going back to America\u2026 At all. I left. Gone, History. I sold everything I had there. I left my dog there. I’m gonna send for him.”<\/p>\n This was not the first time that Holmes has ranted against hip hop and the way it changed the musical landscape. In an interview with a Russian metal site, he was even more offensive in his rant against the music, and in particular whites who adopt the culture. \u201cYeah, it sucks!\u201d he said to Headbanger.ru<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s so called nigger music. I\u2019ll say that word, I don\u2019t care if niggers are in the room or not to get my opinion, that\u2019s the way it is. Rap is just starting to hit Europe, and it kind of makes me sick, because I don\u2019t like it when kids act like niggers.\u201d<\/p>\n Holmes joined W.A.S.P. In 1982 and played with them until 1990, only to return in 1996, performing with them until 2001. Once married to metal guitarist Lita Ford, he is best known for his scene in Penelope Spheeris’s documentary The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years<\/em>, where he sat in a pool drinking vodka while his mother sat poolside.<\/p>\n Chris Holmes Interview<\/h2>\n