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Back in 2015, Scott Arceneaux\u00a0Jr. was a common presence at New Orleans post offices. Online, Arceneaux was better known as \u201cScrim\u201d \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
Despite the many successes \u2014 and even more face tattoos \u2014 he\u2019s accrued since those post office days, Scrim still clearly carries that same humble, hardworking mentality. \u201cI remember sitting there and typing up everyone\u2019s merch orders,\u201d the 36-year-old reminisces as he shows me around his first \u201crecording studio\u201d \u2014 really his father\u2019s backyard shed, which Scrim outfitted with cheap speakers and a laptop back in high school. It\u2019s nearly 100 degrees on this June day in suburban Lacombe, La., and the shed\u2019s window AC unit is coughing out cool air as hard as it can, but it seems to make no difference. It\u2019s just that hot.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used to do everything,\u201d Scrim recalls of $uicideboy$\u2019 early days. \u201cEverything!\u201d \u00adinterjects Aristos \u201cRuby Da\u00a0Cherry\u201d Petrou, 35, Scrim\u2019s bold, charismatic cousin and the other half of $uicideboy$. \u201cThe album artwork, designing the merchandise, making the beats \u2014 which we still do \u2014 making the videos, that was all us.\u201d The two often finish each other\u2019s sentences.<\/p>\n
Read the full $uicideboy$ Billboard cover story here.<\/em><\/p>\n If you or anyone you know is in crisis, call 988 or visit the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u2019s\u00a0website for free,<\/a> confidential emotional support and resources 24\/7.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n