You’d never know it to see him on stage, when he’s rhyming with verbal dexterity and making lyrical connections between subjects as disparate as old TV shows, hip-hop culture and a sports jersey some dude in the crowd is wearing. But one of Wilmington’s best-known, longest serving and most prolific rappers is a big introvert.
“Super introverted,” Fuzz Jackson, aka Fuzz Jaxx, said recently at the house and studio off Oleander Drive he shares with his friend and roommate, Wilmington sound engineer Owen Dollar. “But I get such a high from being on stage. I gotta have it. I gotta have that feeling.”
For more than a quarter-century, Jackson’s strong, confident voice, pop-culture-literate rhymes and trademark, rapid-fire delivery have been part of Wilmington’s musical landscape, both as a solo artist and as a lyricist and rapper with one of Wilmington’s most beloved (albeit disbanded) all-time groups, the jazz/hip-hop combo Organix, which drew crowds throughout the 2000s…