May 21, 2015 http://www.complex.com/music/2015/05/is-charles-hamilton-ready-for-a-comeback This is a truly fascinating article to me. An in-depth summary of Charles Hamilton's career up to this point followed by a David Bowie-level interview with Charles that is, no joke, one of the most engaging, honest, and straight up confusing interviews I've ever read. What is it like to be an artist so talented/so underappreciated/so held back by your craziness that, in some twisted Catch-22, the medicine you take to correct said craziness robs you of some unknowable energy or backwards joie de vivre that your audience never knew you had until you lost it, and the record label that pulls you out of poverty and mental instability, the one that was offering to do what you always wanted (make you remembered for your musicianship) eschews your artistic side and puts you on the path to mainstream pop star success? How does it feel to admit to the biggest rap publication in America that your work now isn't going to be as daring or exciting as what you used to do? These are tough questions for any normal, average-intelligence human to answer. For a man like Charles, whose monthly Haladol injections seem to have turned him from a eccentric madman laughed to the gutters by his colleagues into a solemn genius unstuck from the world and the constraints of conventional thought ala Dr. Manhattan, it's more than a challenge. It's a peek into the mind of a man who doesn't think the way we do. That's rare. Check it out.
May 22, 2015 Very nice read. I remember really liking his music when he came out but losing interest with the amount that he was releasing bc it became increasingly hard to take it all in. Not to mention his behavior made it hard to take him serious. I'm really glad he seems happy and in a good place.
