To close out the second season of my Instagram-16-bar series, I had the idea to end the year how I started- rapping over Run The Jewels. As a nod to the holiday season I chose "A Christmas Fucking Miracle", the closer off RTJ's 2013 self-titled album. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmzt3cyLS3Z/
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RUMORS OF MY DEMISE HAVE BEEN- sike, nah. You gotta be known for people to spread rumors about you. I had to lead with something hooky. It's nearly 1 a.m. on New Year's Eve as I type this. I think, type, delete and try once more to conjure up the first piece of content on [...]
For anyone wondering what's going on with this "project": I've been mysterious about what it entails but for starters it's a new full-length free album/mixtape/playlist/whatever. I started writing for it at the top of 2015. Mind you, I avoided releasing so much as a song that ENTIRE year. I took a break from it in [...]
Working on Vacation
As someone who generally likes to create, I've always worked on building skills in areas that complement my music. I recently came back from a family vacation in Orlando. I had been before, but this was the first time I really took time to appreciate the moments as they happened instead of reflecting on them [...]
Book Club (aka Doing Research for New Music Instead of Releasing It)
I read the above books last year to help inspire what you'll be hearing from me this yearspring 2017 OOPS. It all started with a course I took my senior year of college titled "Media/Design/Culture". In this course students examined how different forms of commercial media developed from art. Some of the required reading came [...]