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My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My much alluded to full-length project "Language Arts Unit" is out now: a 37.5 minute album, a 104 page book that stands on its own, and a fusion of the two for new literary futures. This is for all the under-exposed masters toiling to supersede any previous bests, who every day take to school those diabetic off the fame that outstretches their real ability. I wrote, performed, produced (7/11 tracks), and mixed this entire album; I painted the cover (with my real hair attached to the self-portait), edited footnotes, enjambed lyrics-as-poems, and formatted the whole paperback book layout... MYSELF (with a little help from my friends @alexanderrrowland, @aissanotaisha, @kenanmassicott, @lxmonbeats, @roswell_sounds, Moziah Clark, Derek Sturman, Will Peil)!
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@passionweiss approached me about two years ago and saw the glimmer of virtuosity, encouraging me through my free-wheeled process making this record for @powrecordings. Since, he has challenged my parents for most ardent believer in Langstónia. Of course, thanks to @serengetidave and @chesterwatson for their featured voices and Dave Cooley for mastering the whole record. Find it everywhere, as directly as you want to get it (in person/on Bandcamp/Bigcartel) or mediated by algorithms (Spotify and the like)— link in bio! Tell a goddamn friend.
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Swipe left to find details on the release show I'm headlining at @thevirgilbar on March 12th and some demystifying answers I provided for @grownuprap's exclusive Bandcamp premiere of the record yesterday. Photos: @sarita.katerina

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

My 20th project Pale Black Negative is released into the world today! I made this record as proof I could create songs that were beautiful to me. I hope they are to you, too.

Still, for obvious reasons, I question the weight that these 11 tracks could possibly bear on our horizon of vicious power structures and uprisings across country, continent, circumference of the planet.

What’s the point of a work of personal mastery released on one’s own label, terms, and timing? What’s the poetry of this moment, given this record is my most personal, least explicitly political work yet? Why is it that I’ve said to myself, I’d be at peace if it were my last album?

This is not to solicit grandiosity or feign humility in some antonym. This album almost never came out. I toiled for years between other projects, writing the first songs in 2021. I’ve released five projects since that inception point, mostly rapping about the world outside myself in sociological, theoretical, and pop cultural terms. Largely, Pale Black Negative is the opposite of that, at once a more interior testimony of softness and candor, while also being my multi-instrumentalist and singer’s attempt at genre abolition.

The album was actually completed in early 2023, but for 18 months features ghosted, my 2012 Mac running the Logic 9 sessions kept crashing, and @passionweiss, for all his best efforts, couldn’t convince any indie labels these songs were worth the efforts of their coked up employees raising our bicoastal rent. Even smaller labels ran by friends passed on it categorically.

When I realized I would be rather alone in my releasing of the album (like my writing, producing, and mixing of it), my friend @steeltippeddove matched my nervous ask for a vinyl release on @fusedarrow with an unequivocal yes. Other friends also came through when I needed them the most: @jon.gk w/ strings on track 1, @funkylips w/ trombone on track 11, @lp93music w/ guitar on 6 different tracks, and @open_mike_eagle, @andrew.mbaruk, @likemaddladd, and @hymnalpoetics w/ their feature verses.

While there is much more to say, especially in the shadow of our times, I have to let the music speak for itself, if it ever will.

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Grapefruit Radio is out today

Behold the cover art I hand painted for the record

It's available everywhere you can timeshare music and for download at my Bandcamp, alongside copies of the 85 page paperback book for purchase

The first truly collaborative solo album I've made, I must thank all the producers who contributed their beats and the features who helped me rap at my highest level yet

@sspinitch @opal_kenobi @fatboi_sharif @nahhphet @whose.music @ktownodd @rael_1ne @bravewun @frankiejaxnomad @jouquinfox @dotdev_ @bigflowers.wrld wrld @_._._._tron @landsbizzareadventure

Going back to the wheelhouse as a rap soloist, amid my continued genre exploration, these 11 tracks show me in renewed focus, in rhyme, prosody, and breath control

Because if I may, not many people are fucking with our mastery of the form

Thanks to @powrecordings on the release with @blkmarketpoetry manning the publishing of the newest bit of literature

@daddykev on the master

Things be in the bio where they be bio-ing

Check it!

__________
Art pictured above:

"Grapefruit Radio (Wooden Tile)"
2022
acrylic, epoxy resin on wood
12" x 12"

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained rapper Baraka Njenga AKA Frankie Jax No Mad, without warrants or officer identification. He currently remains detained indefinitely in Tacoma, Washington awaiting hearing. Today on POW, Frankie’s friend Rhys Langston (@rhyslangston) pens a letter after speaking to him - detailing the abduction, the horrors of ICE, and Frankie’s invaluable contributions to both the LA and Portland music scenes.

A Gofundme for Frankie Jax No Mad: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

Article: https://www.powmag.net/p/frankie-jax-no-mad-west-coast-rapper-ice-detention-arrest

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

One of my best friends in the whole world (speaking contintentally and beyond) was the subject of a targeted ICE attack and is now being detained. While we await details on his processing and transfer, we are obviously dealing with the absurd reality of the life he made in Portland (and LA for that matter) now having the peculiarity of a Baraka-sized hole in it.

So this GoFundMe is for several things: to help his partner Bailey take care of his cat Nusu, house, and bills; to secure legal help in the face of ICE's seeming impunity; to help get him safely back home.

I've contributed and so should you, whether you know the man or not. I feel hollowed out after a previous week of elation: feeling the joy of travelling abroad and performing internationally (now ironically), and then immediately announcing a tour through the Pacific Northwest, where I hoped @frankiejaxnomad would open for a few of our dates.

I know we will see each other again, whether that's me catching a flight to Nairobi or elsewhere-- but this sucks.

I would hope a silver-lining to this manifestation of this country's fascist tentacles would be that we now mobilize for this cause and beyond, understanding, as I wrote in my piece for the LA Review of Books:

"Everyone would have to take things personally, whether or not they wanted to, whether or not harm touched them today or tomorrow or the next day."

Just in: for the first time, 'Stalin Bollywood' arrives on vinyl!

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of my landmark release of noise, invective, and rap-art-rock-punk fusion, @blkmarketpoetry has pressed up a limited quantity of records for you good people of the general public

Available now for purchase via link in biomesophere

¡Cop while supplies last!

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

Touching down back in LA last night from my syllabic sojourn with @open_mike_eagle, I smelled the roses for a moment outside my apartment. Then, I pressed play once more on my traveling rapman schemes:

That is to say, @fatboi_sharif, @ickyreels, and I will be hitting the road this summer, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.

Dates are as follows:

6/29/26 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
6/30/26 - Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club
7/1/26 - Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker
7/2/26 - Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge
7/3/26 - Portland, OR - Swan Dive
7/4/26 - Eugene, OR - Blairallay

As this is my first tour booked with my guy Joe from Northstar Artists, I'm feeling like a real professional music person out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.

Oh yes, flyer done by me— in fact in an airport terminal on my phone, if you can believe it.

🎶: Fatboi Sharif & @roper_williams — "L.A. Nights" feat. Rhys Langston

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

LAngstónia, the Estate of the Lord Chocolate Davis, and @blkmarketpoetry, following a Brooklyn show for the ages, now find ourselves forward-moving, rolling through the expanses of Canada

Thus we are performing our word weaving internationally for the first time, starting tonight in Montréal and following suit tomorrow in Toronto

Praises due to @open_mike_eagle for having de boi and to @cadenceweapon for also lending his national talents

Swipe for details if you are also within striking distance of our imminent word volleys

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Next week I put vulcanized words to the road once more with the magnanimous and storied champ of earnest raps @open_mike_eagle

We're starting in Brooklyn, and making our way up into Canadia, landing back in the Midwest

If you're proximal to one of the stops, consider coming and cop a ticket, for they are close to selling out in a few locations

More announcements soon...

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Hoy en día, esta noche yeah we rocking at @townhousevenice with some Midwest compatriots @bravewun, @silas_short , @blackgoogle

Attend if you are in need of wig splitting (we're still working on the atoms)

🎶: "In the Suburbs of Babylon" (prod. randal bravery) from Grapefruit Radio

Dropped in 2019, this (sold out) double cassette combined two 10 minute EPs released that year:

Master Fader on Speed Dial, produced by kató, put out March 1, 2019

and

The T.C. Wash Suite, produced by LXMONGRAB, made live October 7, 2019

Watch above for tales about the making of these two projects, the first I released on @powrecordings

From recording Master Fader in a span of 24 hours to having Anthony Fantano share the 10 minute visual for T.C. Wash, there is much to be gleaned from the nuggets we share above

Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous released September 1st, 2017

What I thought was my magnum opus was just a fun reworking of 2010s pop trap music embedded with literary gusto; but it got me on the radar of @passionweiss and led to my signing with @powrecordings

From annoying @kennysegal enough to have him mix it, to getting on @daddykev 's radar by having him master it, this project has some mythos though; don't get it twisted

🎶: "Obligatory Techno-Orientalism" , track 3 on the album