INTERVIEW WITH Psychward Druggies on the BEREADYFORTHEMOMENT PODCAST

It took a mad scientist to make it happen. After working with a talented collection of artists and producers, the mysterious figure known as Dr. Csalohcin had an idea. The Southern California-based jack-of-all-musical-trades would combine all the talent around him, form a group and launch them through music, movies and comic books. 

Yet this would be no normal group. It would be called Psych Ward Druggies and would have a specific mission. “He explained the concept to us,” says Golden Boy, one of the nine members of the crew. “That the world is a psych ward and we’re all drugged up by our society.” 

“I was drawn to the fact that it was different, that it was a positive message,” adds Sir Ryan Anthony. “At first when I heard the name Psych Ward Druggies, I was kind of thrown off by it because it was so left-field. But when Dr. Csalohcin got in-depth with it, how the world was a crazy place and how everybody’s addicted to something, I was like, ‘OK. This is some other stuff.’ I was drawn to the positive messages that he said we could bring to the world.” 

Psych Ward Druggies is rounded out by Strikes (rapper), Hero (rapper-guitarist), Ryan Bowers (rapper-skateboarder), Golden Boy (rapper), Kehlani (singer), Don Druggie (drummer-rapper) and P Blanco Deville (DJ-producer). The group formed in early 2013 and, at the behest of Dr. Csalohcin, began working on its debut mixtape, Religious Prescription. The title ties in the name of the group and its musical mission. 

“The world is a crazy-ass place and everybody has something, a prescription or medicine that gets them through whatever they may be going through,” Ryan Bowers says. “For us, it’s music. For other people, it may be drugs.”