![]() I had given up on pretty much everything. “The fuckin’ worst of the worst,” he says, his jovial, piss-taking patois briefly going hard. The best of ’em.”Īround age 18, Williams tried heroin and quickly spiraled into intravenous addiction. Basically, I was cleaning up beer cans for a little money to get into shows and hang out with my friends. Sometimes the hardcore community probably felt like my babysitter, so I’m sorry for that. But it’s also true that I needed somewhere to go every night, and the hardcore community became my home. I kind of fucked off school and everything else really hard. I didn’t pave myself the best road either. I mean, I’m not one that’s gonna dog my parents or point fingers or anything. “Kicked out of every house I’d ever lived in. That innate rebelliousness naturally led Williams to the Dallas hardcore scene. “Truth is, I ran a whole lot of fuckin’ miles.” “Got to be basically wherever I showed up at school-even in those rare cases where I hadn’t fucked up-everybody would shout, ‘Hood!” Williams tells Decibel. Soon, to save time, Coach shortened it to “Neighborhood.” Then “Hood.” “Yo, hit the neighborhood,” Coach would shout-Williams’ cue to run the mile loop of the adjacent housing block and an attempt at restorative justice that never quite took. Others, she’d outsource her retribution by popping out to the sports field to snitch about the infraction du jour. Some days, she’d pull his desk right up until it faced hers, makeshift panopticon style. In fact, the etymology of the sobriquet stretches back nearly 20 years to a high school classroom ruled by a teacher who had no love in her heart for the class clown with a laissez-faire attitude toward homework and attendance. But Williams isn’t from the apostrophe-lowercase-“h” hood. ![]() You might assume Ryan Williams got the nickname “Hood” as a wild-ass white boy coming up on the wrong side of the tracks. Ten years into its boundary-obliterating, expectation smashing run, Power Trip’s voltage is higher-and deadlier-than ever Decibel will have one of our own in our November issue, but until then, we’d like to share the cover story of our long sold-out February 2019 issue. The volume of tributes in recent days for fallen Power Trip frontman Riley Gale have been nearly as unprecedented as the emotions many of them have conveyed.
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