About

SIC ILL is the pseudonym of singer-rapper Demetrius Jackson who gained noteworthy buzz online for his surreal animated YouTube music videos. He is signed by Sacramento rapper "First Degree The D.E." to Fahrenheit Records.

Online History

On January 27, 2013, Jackson uploaded his parody of "Darth Vader" based on the antagonist character from the movie Star Wars by George Lucas (shown below). On February 11, 2013, he uploaded a rap song titled “The Walking Dead” a mix of visuals based on the television series "The Walking Dead", "Resident Evil" and "Call of Duty: Zombies Mode" (shown below, right).

On March 2, 2013, SIC ILL uploaded a video titled “Fast N Hot,” in which he parodies hamburger franchsise McDonald's (shown below, left). On May 4, 2013, he uploaded a similar-style video titled “Aladdin” (shown below, right).

On March 23, 2014, SIC ILL posted a cover of Sonic The Hedgehog's fourth level "Labyrinth Zone Act 1" (shown below, left). In the following three months, the video accumulated upwards of 100,000 views and 2,000 comments. Jackson's video was then promoted by World Star Hip Hop which gained over 45,000 views within one month. On March 25, 2015, the SIC ILL YouTube channel uploaded a music video for the song “Spring Yard Zone,” in which a striped shirt Jackson is shown with images of badniks from Sonic The Hedgehog (shown below, right).

Labyrinth Zone Act 1

The music video for SIC ILL's track “Labyrinth Zone Act 1,” in which he is shown singing about a woman in a variety of scenes was picked up by news aggregators and youtube reactors including "Jinx" (shown below). The following week after upload, Gawker Media video game website Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-rap-need-i-say-more-1553748312) wrote a piece on it: "Labyrinth Zone Act 1 is just…fascinating. It's like baffling outsider art about Sonic the Hedgehog. It's no Unknown From M.E., but just let it sit with you, in all its strangeness."

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