Watch D-Sisive in conversation above, near the "Odd Couple" of the tree world in Toronto.
Prolific, award-winning Toronto MC D-Sisive is calling it a day with his final album, Jonestown 3: The Dream is Over, which is streaming here until Nov. 26.
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“It’s not like retiring but it just feels right that D-Sisive is finished, it’s done,” Derek Christoff says of the moniker he’s had since he was 15 years old. “My fans deserve a proper ending and, of all the material I’ve put out in the past five years, they've resonated most with the Jonestown series. It’s funny to me because it’s the most morbid and fantasy[-like] of all my releases.”
D-Sisive has expressed a similar sentiment before, once when he was adamant about retiring his name and going by Derek from Northcliffe instead. He ended up persevering and kept writing and recording songs, and all seemed well. Something seems more definitive about his decision here, though. This time, it’s personal.
“When it comes to the D-Sisive part of me, I’ve said everything there is to be said,” he explains. “I’m 32 years old and I don’t really want to be 40 with a rap name. My goal is to explore and do other things. I may never put out another record again or I might make something completely different and, if that’s the case, it’s not really a D-Sisive record.”
As far as Jonestown 3 goes, D-Sisive says fans can expect to hear him take his sardonic, witty aesthetic to a whole other level.
“This is a weird thing to say, but this is the darkest music I’ve made,” he chuckles. “I kind of sound defeated on it. Not in a ‘I don’t care’ way. Muneshine, who produced it, and I put a lot of work into it. We’re in risk-taking mode on this one. It’s definitely different, the flows are different and there’s cool samples. But yeah, the whole Jonestown thing is really dark.”
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