Review Fix Exclusive: rocco, Talks ‘Grey Theory’ And More

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Rocco, who discusses their new single, “grey theory,” as well as their creative process and goals for 2022.

Review Fix: What events in your life and in society inspired “grey theory”?

r,: man… all of it… allen iverson… reebok commercials… going to africa as a kid… seeing columbine on the news… being around guns throughout childhood and then seeing a gun in someone’s hand at a studio in the inner city in a totally different energy … studying hip hop… noticing the difference between white and black cultures, but not understanding it.. doing dmt, integrating it… studying melanin , watching spike lee movies… meeting kanye… 2020 as a whole… protests , looting , marches, violence, peace, chaos… all of it. 

Review Fix: Listening to you, it’s obvious there’s a ton of different moving parts. Frank Ocean, Kanye, Incubus, and Kid Cudi Are all there. But who else inspires you musically?

r,: justin vernon.. my dad.. lupe fiasco… prince… pharrell.., ryan leslie… david bowie… freddie mercury… jay z … bob dylan … bjork… kid rock… metallica…  enya … marshall mathers.. limp bizkit… the beatles… frederic chopin… papa roach really affected me young… luiz bonfa… tegan and sara. ive been touched and inspired by everything that i’ve ever interacted with… whether consciously or unconsciously … some more than others. 

Review Fix: Away from music, who are your biggest role models?

r,: bruce lee, michael jordan, sadhguru , my dad , steve jobs… lots of people who embodied their highest possibilities … kobe… kanye…people who lean in to whats needed and they become what’s needed,… they become the change they wanted to see… 

Review Fix: What are your goals in music?

r,:  allow the Light to move through me and utilize me to my fullest potential possible… i don’t just want “as many ears to hear my music as possible”… i’d rather have a super profound life altering affect on a smaller group than a less potent effect on many… like, i’ve seen soldiers with their limbs blown off from war tell my dad his music is what they listened to as the helicopter lowered into a battle zone… like how kid cudi and kanye and kurt cobain used their music as a vessel to communicate important culturally relevant issues and ideas that had a deep profound spiritual impact on certain souls… i’d like that… i’d like to look into many eyes with tears dripping out that actually Heard me.. you know?…. i hope my songs never play in the background at a party where nobody notices… if it does play at a party like that… i want to be the song playing that the kid in the corner with social anxiety hears and it makes them emotional so they leave the party and go home and start journaling about how they need to change and how they’re life needs to change.. and then 10 or 15 years later they tell me that was a pivitoal moment in their awakening journey cuz then they googled me and that song and then they got into self realization and raja kriya yoga… 

Review Fix: How do you think “grey theory” gets you there?

r,: i think i’ve been “on the fence” like the song says for a long time… and since “non duality” has become more and more real to me… i realize i dont actually belong on one side or the other… i belong in the in between… because The Creator of All That Is made me like i am because i’m a translator… it’s my job to hang out in the discomfort and integrate the moving peices… so that i can assist both sides in understanding each other… 

one time, i was shown that one of my primary functions in this incarnation is to “remedy disconnect”… and i sense grey theory is my best attempt at that so far… 

Review Fix: Who needs this song in their life? Why?

r,: idk.. maybe nobody… maybe everybody… thats not for me to say.. hopefully theres someone at spotify and they hear it and they’ve experienced the same unconscious racial, religious, cultural dogma disconnects as i have.. and they get inspired to put this song on some poppin playlists.. hopefully it gets to the kids who feel stuck and judge the fact that they don’t identify with their cultures dogma, or their family lineage’s disposition… i trust that it’ll get to the ears, hearts, and minds that its meant to… the ones who are ready to stop living in the black and white of dualistic polarities and shift their attention to a more subtle realm of possibilities where integration, fusion, and synthesis allow for paradoxes , contradictions, contrast, and the full spectrum of possibilities without making them wrong… 

Review Fix: What’s next?

r,: – keep going… climbing.. sharing.. putting it out… i feel like by the time it gets to this stage, my job is done… my real job is to obey Spirit’s guidance and create inspiring art… the rest is out of my hands… thank God theres a super ultra mega devoted team of jedi around now so i’m not all on my own when it comes to the promo stuff.. ..ha,,, but i suppose that aspect of the situation is whats happening now. 

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

r,: – fast for 5 days and dont interface with the matrix and watch what happens. – study dr. sebi

Review Fix: Where can people find out more about you? 

r,: – everything is on instagram , @roccomoon 

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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