Thread for all things centred around the rap artist OBIJUAN / BUSH DOCTOR / OBEAH MAN

2017 projects:

• Greece
• Sicily

• Wilton House (inserttapes.bandcamp.com/album/wilton-house)

2018 projects:

• Bahama Palm - Obijuan x Revenxnt (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/bahama-palm-ep)
• from the east blue, to the all blue - Obijuan x dylantheinfamous
• Full Court Rappin - Obijuan x FatB

2019 projects:

• velentine zigolo - Obijuan x TooNorth
• bush mechanic - Obijuan x Don.Carrera (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/bush-mechanic)
• konoha - Obijuan x Philanthrope
• The King’s Wishes - Obijuan x GRiMM Doza (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/the-kings-wishes)
• december

2020 projects:

• Dravidi Palace - Obijuan x Revenxnt (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/dravidi-palace)
• OBELiSK - Obijuan x Dööf (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/obelisk)
• languid.oceans - Obijuan x looms (open.spotify.com/album/2FfQ5tetQqhlCT0KYmt2mO?si=Kgc4zNONRUSMNNV1JtkXHA)
• ESG Vol. 1 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/esg-vol-1)
• Paradice Island - Obijuan x Dweeb (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/paradice-island)
• ODYSSEA - Obijuan x dylantheinfamous (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/odysseia)
• DEUS ANIMI - Obijuan x dylantheinfamous (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/deus-animi)

2021 projects:

• Dresden Jeweller - Obijuan x Giallo Point (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/dresden-jeweler)
• SAXRED GIN - Obijuan x Philanthrope (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/saxred-gin)
• ESG Vol. 2 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/esg-vol-2-raw-uncut)

2022 projects:

• HELVITI - Obijuan x dylantheinfamous (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/helviti)
• SLANG CASINO - Obijuan x Yungmorpheus (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/slang-casino)
• MYSTERY MERXHANT - Obijuan x Giallo Point (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/mystery-merxhant)
• METHUSELAH - Obijuan x Poi$on 陽 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/methuselah)
• BLAXK TUESDAY (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/blaxk-tuesday)
• XYBERPHUNK: 2033 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/xyberphunk-2033-prototype)
• GUANAHANI (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/guanahani)

2023 projects:

• BIMINI ROAD - Obijuan x NoFace (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/bimini-road-raw-unxut)
• MANGROVE MAXE - Obijuan x Wino Willy (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/mangrove-maze)
• XODEX GIGAS - Obijuan x Argov (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/xodex-gigas)
• WAVONOMIXX - Obijuan x HooksArthur (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/wavonomixx?from=com-lr)
• XAONABO (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/xaonabo-raw-unxut)
• PINKY RING PARLIAMENT - Obijuan x Rahieme Supreme (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/pinky-ring-parliament)
• BABYLON GARDEN - Obijuan x Wino Willy (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/babylon-garden)
• APOXALYPSO (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/apoxalypso-raw-unxut)
• CA$H4GOLD - Obijuan x Yungmorpheus (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/ca-h4gold)

2024 projects:

• ESG VOL. 3 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/esg-vol-3-raw-unxut)

Singles:

• MONEY TREE (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/track/money-tree)
• DON KRIEG - Obijuan x Philanthrope x Wu Two (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/track/don-krieg)
• EAGLE FEATHERS (open.spotify.com/album/5Z4QtGxG2D0VfFOKBgM2vo?si=mzau_jNKRd6Nu1XUMYC_6A)
• ANOTHER VOYAGE - Cise Greeny x Obijuan (youtu.be/FctKsxhrHRE)
• BARXCLAYS - Obijuan x Lord Apex (youtu.be/Mrv3mev6MXw)
• ISLAND BOYZ - Obijuan x PAPO2oo4 (obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/track/island-boyz)
• DANCEHALL (open.spotify.com/album/1Qj10EJxEG3nvi3qBwgpAv?si=I6rToCcxRQGKb3aVIX09TA)

TBA:

• VEUVE$TAIN$ ??/??/??
• languid.oceans 2 ??/??/??

SLANG CASINO might easily be his best work yet: full album length, excellent dub/funk production by Yungmorpheus, Obijuan at his best with flows/lyrics, leaning into Bahaman culture with the skits, etc. It really feels like a standout and differentiates itself from a lot of other underground stuff by leaning into a different sound than just a dusty,
Griseldaesque boom bap sound.

Review:

"Slang Casino is the collaborative pairing of Obijuan’s raps and the production of Yungmorpheus, two staples in the underground Renaissance who have been making a name for themselves over the past years. This project sees the two finally meeting for an entire album, a project celebrating the Bahamian and Jamaican cultures which each artist hails from, with pulsing dub beats, reggae rhythms, and lyrics and interludes centred around the British colonies of the West Indies, and their place in both modern music and the modern world. This postcolonial vision lives throughout the project, as both rapper and producer aim to delve into their respective cultures and challenge any dominating or controlling of the islands they call home. As it’s title indicates, the album is centred around “slang”, and is laced with a whole lot of it, as any great rap record should be. For Obijuan, slang drives the album, it’s tracks are slang, his lyrics are slang, and this abundance of a language unique to Obi and his culture opens up into the unique and vivid experience of Slang Casino.

The first single and final culmination of the album is ‘GUAPANESE’, a play-on-words combining the notions of language and money into the description of Obi and Morph’s slang as its own linguistic tongue. The soundscape of the entire project truly culminates in the dubby sounds of deep bass, echoing guitar and a voice beneath that fray singing “I’m hanging on to my sanity…”. Obijuan himself is the first atop this dub, rapping “Pour the oolong / need a moulin / fold the tape like a futon”, where the rhymes of his slang drive the verse and decides where his tongue will be taken, as the slang so decisively decides all on this album. This rhyme scheme soon meets a moment in a narrative, “speak secret tongues / met the grim reaper once” as a story of secret slang and coming close to death develops before being lost to the stream-of-slang once again. This stream is not absent minded or messy, it is highly conscious and decisive in how to approach the art of rapping. Yungmorpheus leaps right onto where Obi finishes, rapping “split the gamma rays / s*** different now the grammar pays”, in a similarly stream-of-slang approach where the ‘grammar’ of rapping is at the forefront of an emcee’s style. This stream continues; “twist the grab a leaf / only signing for a lot of cheese / spit the guapanese”, where weed, money and raps are all slangified in the language of the song’s title. The dub then continues to beat into the culminating moments of the project.

Overall, this album is an ode to slang and the cultures it emerges from. A slang-centred project which sees both Obijuan and Yungmorpheus reach their creative peak. The themes are consistent, the beats stick to dub soundscape at the album’s core, and Obi’s raps are the best he has ever written. The project is linguistically diverse with Bahamian Creole and Obi’s own language repertoire at the forefront of the emerging emcee’s singular style. The project delivers on its promised title; the listener wins big at the casino every time with this album as slang pours out from the machines time and time again. Anyone who is interested in the linguistic complexity of rap music, and how new terms and phrases greet listeners of hip hop at such a rapid rate, should definitely listen to Obijuan and Yungmorpheus’ Slang Casino."

Liked his feature on BLK RMBRNDT’s Stairmaster album. Gotta check out Slang Casino.

Obijuan lives in Iceland?

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obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/blaxk-tuesday?from=fanpub_fnb

Named after an important event in The Bahamas’ political history and its fight against colonialism, would recommend reading a bit into it, this article was good: thenassauguardian.com/the-authority-belongs-to-the-people-2

Having listened to the album itself, it’s a very interesting mix of boom bap beats and interludes of island music - makes several references to the Black Tuesday event itself with a track named after the ‘Speaker’s Mace’, etc. I really like Obijuan tackling these concept-oriented projects, feels like he’s doing it more and more, and better every time.

Gotta get into his discog

Would recommend SLANG CASINO as his most cohesive and impressive work, and SAXRED GIN as a much smaller but concise project — these two projects are probably Obijuan at his best, and are easy to find on streaming

Seen december get hype from other people too, a lot different to some of his other stuff, much more low-key/lofi — and more difficult to find these days

Oh thank bro appreciate. I'm familiar with him somewhat after him linking with YUNGMORPHEUS wasn't sure what direction to go in in to his discog.

This is a dope collab I never knew I needed - would love to see some more work/maybe even a full tape between Obijuan and Apex

Wonder if it will be on the next Obijuan x dylantheinfamous tape he’s been teasing?

@op

New EP OUT

obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/xyberphunk-2033-prototype

I got to check this out, this taps into my Bahamian side.

Damn I’m interested to see what Obijuan’s own production is gonna sound like, he tackles other’s beats so well, definitely got an ear for them

EDIT: had a listen and these beats are really good, no drop off from his usual producers whatsoever - Obi can lay some really good loops

BRIMSTONE is phenomenal, the sampling next level from Obi

obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/guanahani

New album GUANAHANI just dropped — fully prod by dylantheinfamous, 21 tracks long (so easily his longest project yet), and the opportunity to order vinyl already

obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/bimini-road-raw-unxut

First project of the year, new Obi x NoFace joint

Obijuan and al.divino collab is just as cool as it sounds, very trippy beat and as I would expect and the divino verse is equally trippy. Also really enjoying the soul flip on Rake N Sxrape as well as the grimy horns on Tomb Builder. Nice little project to hold fans over, seems like Obi’s been considering it as a 10 min extension to GUANAHANI more than anything.

obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/mangrove-maze

Obi and Wino Willy dropped for February

i got check bout of these to be honest

Just discovered dude, wasn't expecting a KTT thread tho llol

obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/album/xodex-gigas

March joint with Argov is out

Really enjoyed this project, very interesting theme of the ‘codex gigas’, a medieval illuminated book which seems an apt metaphor for Obi’s ancient raps. Also apparently this book is infamous for its huge illustration of the devil. I really like when he goes for the medieval aesthetic, like ‘Eagle Feathers’ or ‘ODYSSEA’, seems to fit his music very well prolly cos of that ancient sound. Argov’s beats are really good, with ‘Feet of Bronze’ as a definite standout.

Dude is nice