Back in 2015, Scott Arceneaux Jr. was a common presence at New Orleans post offices. Online, Arceneaux was better known as “Scrim” — one-half of the emo-rap duo $uicideboy$, which was quickly becoming one of the hottest and most controversial new acts on SoundCloud, with songs about drugs, death and their own misery. But at the post office, he was just Scott, that nice, tattoo-covered guy licking envelopes from opening to closing.
Despite the many successes — and even more face tattoos — he’s accrued since those post office days, Scrim still clearly carries that same humble, hardworking mentality. “I remember sitting there and typing up everyone’s merch orders,” the 36-year-old reminisces as he shows me around his first “recording studio” — really his father’s backyard shed, which Scrim outfitted with cheap speakers and a laptop back in high school. It’s nearly 100 degrees on this June day in suburban Lacombe, La., and the shed’s window AC unit is coughing out cool air as hard as it can, but it seems to make no difference. It’s just that hot.
“We used to do everything,” Scrim recalls of $uicideboy$’ early days. “Everything!” interjects Aristos “Ruby Da Cherry” Petrou, 35, Scrim’s bold, charismatic cousin and the other half of $uicideboy$. “The album artwork, designing the merchandise, making the beats — which we still do — making the videos, that was all us.” The two often finish each other’s sentences.
Read the full $uicideboy$ Billboard cover story here.
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