When you think of Kiwi hip hop, you probably think of Scribe or maybe Smashproof. Then there is a man you may not have heard of Tourettes, aka Dominic Hoey.
Tirelessly perfecting his craft, he has not had the time or money for music videos, making a story about him difficult to illustrate.
Nightline took Tourettes to Bodyshots, a successful Auckland business built on transforming average women into sensuous bombshells.
Being good sports, Bodyshots agreed to do a photo shoot while we did our interview.
After checking out the albums and finding a cute dog to include, it was makeup and interview time.
"From writing first song to getting it out was four years," says Tourettes.
"Me and Karl who mixed the album don't drive, so caught the bus, and that honestly, that added a lot of time to it."
I had met his bus buddy Karl earlier, who happens to be the rapping Karl Steven of Supergroove fame.
"Dominic's rhymes are...he's a rapper/poet, so he goes places were commercial rappers won't go," says Steven.
Like all good things, the musical marriage took time.
Tourettes is a weird guy - he ditched a love of Guns N' Roses for Run DMC, and did not let dyslexia get in the way of his natural talent.
"They had a poetry comp at my school when I was 12," he says. "I entered a competition and won, which I was surprised about."
Thirteen years later came his first album, and now his second, titled Who Says You Can't Dance to Misery.
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