Clueso: “Fear is uncomfortable” | THE TIME

THE TIME: How do I actually address you correctly? If I say Thomas, hardly anyone knows who I mean. Your name is Thomas Hübner.

Clueso: My mother also says Thomas.

TIME: Well then.

Clueso: Clueso I am for almost everyone else. My close friends call me Cluesn.

TIME: Is it true that Clueso is a homage to the detective character Inspector Jacques Clouseau from the Pink Panther-row is?

Clueso: That’s so. The admittedly somewhat clumsy inspector fascinated me as a child. When I started rapping, that’s just what my friends called me. The French Clouseau would have been too far-fetched – so it became Clueso.