Slipknot’s Sid Wilson has launched his own label, Vomit Face Records, and shared its first single from Lil Bushwick, ‘Take It Back’.
The label will be the home to a diverse array of artists, including Wilson himself, J57, DEAD X HEDS, Rome Fortune, Ricardo Grimm and Mars Black, and its first release will be the self-titled album by Houston rapper Lil Bushwick on October 31 (pre-order here).
The album’s lead single ‘Take It Back’ is out now, and it features previously unreleased vocals from the rapper’s father Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys, who passed away in 2019. The track is also produced by DJ Lethal (House Of Pain, Limp Bizkit).
The track is a raw, unflinching ‘90s rap-inspired bruiser, with a clattering drumbeat and a serrated guitar riff underpinning both generations of Bushwicks. Listen here:
Wilson said: “Bushwick Bill and I had made a promise to each other to make an album. After several roadblocks in scheduling, Bill sadly, and unfortunately, passed away due to illness most were unaware of.
“In meeting his son and discovering that he too was a music artist, I made a promise to the spirit of the great Bushwick, that I would fulfill our pact by producing an album for his son.”
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“We did just that, and through the help of a dear friend DJ Lethal, we were able to add an unreleased track of Bill’s, and I’m proud to say, we made the impossible possible for this iconic hip-hop lineage of father and son.”
Lil Bushwick added: “Being able to collaborate with my pops six years after his passing brings me a different type of joy. Hearing his voice again speaking life and expressing himself just as I remembered takes me back to the simpler times. I know he’d be proud of how I approached each verse my own way. He was always big on being yourself and I’ll forever be that. Long live Chuckwick 4L.“
Speaking about his aims for the new label, Wilson has said: “Vomit Face Records is about tearing down the walls. This is for the artists who don’t fit in and never wanted to. It’s rebels in motion that unapologetically stand out. It’s to celebrate imperfection, people making real art out of the mess in a world that rewards fake. It’s where the sound, hard work and spirit collide and no one can tell you how to look or feel.”
“Real art isn’t pretty, it should stir something slightly uncomfortable and break down those walls to create something new inside of you. It’s a place for the misfits to have a voice and a place to make their own.”
Elsewhere, Wilson proposed to Kelly Osbourne backstage at the final Black Sabbath gig in Birmingham in July. As he was about to pop the question, Ozzy Osbourne interjected: “Fuck off! You’re not marrying my daughter.” The couple began dating in January 2022, and welcomed a son, Sidney a year later.
In August last year, Wilson was hospitalised due to “serious burns” to his face and arms following a bonfire accident that “melted” his face from the “nose all the way down”.
The new Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande recently revealed that the band are working on new music. “We are cooking, we are doing some new music, for sure,” he said.
The band have yet to release any new material since 2022’s ‘The End So Far’, though they teased a new song ‘Long May You Die’, recorded shortly after Casagrande joined in early 2024. Nothing has come out of that tease so far.
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