About this album

early 2023 kev asked if i wanted to go to japan with him and i was like absolutely. he had mentioned we would be playing some gigs as he expanded his weekly LA beat night, scenario, to international heights.

we get to tokyo and we kick it with fumitake tamura aka bun. that first night it was crucial we stay up as late as possible despite fatigue so we could adapt quickly to being on a different time. i loved this idea. we stalked the night, bun and kev graciously putting me onto much game.

we continued on this way for a few days. we got ill on stages, we dug for records, we ate like bon vivants, we took every measure of train available, hopped cabs, hoofed it, we kept belly laughing. i simply stayed open and kept soaking up game. there are adults our age who have dedicated their whole lives to torture and murder. our fellowship felt magical insofar as we have only created moving works of art in an effort to illustrate the oneness of experience beneath all identity.

i have been a fan of bun for going on ten years. we collaborated about 5 years ago on some work at the geffen contemporary MOCA for our friend, genius poet, harmony holiday. we were connecting hank dumas' works to beats and spittin them proper.

to finally connect with tamura in person, in his country, because of music as well as our mutual friend and colleague, kev, was such an overwhelmingly positive experience. it made my mind surge to think of the years it took to get to this point.

i wanted to make a work with bun that highlights the trust of the rapper / producer relationship. tamura's compositions pushed me like nothing yet has, his conception of what my sound could be left me needing to actualize it. i followed blindly and excitedly. we worked with diligence through the year.

this album more than any other i've made encapsulates my vision of rap music. it is free. it is international. it is beloved. it is sharp and silly. it presents one way and participates another. it flexes and is flexible. there is study and there is the mystical. slices and crumbs. it's something my whole family listened to and enjoyed first.
thank you for working with me bun.

i asked kenny to mix it because he can always hear what i hope to be. and he knows what ruby yacht is on a molecular level. that's the essence of love, to see something as it wants to be seen. thank you for mixing this record ken.

as always, kev slid on the master and as always he did a lot more than that. his guidance the last decade has been invaluable to my development as an artist, as an entrepreneur and as a person. thank you for bringing me to japan with you and for believing in the ruby yacht kev.

our collaborators are all brilliant. self jupiter was the first person i could hear on it with me. i knew i needed to tap the poetic depths with the og and check back in since ornette's swan song. to keep it ruby yachting, as i tend to do, i had to get sha ray on the mid-2000s, direct to dvd, Blackcentric, martial arts movie beat and it paid off. my nigga is a falcon. eldon aka ras buckets pulled up with somn nyabinghi and prayed on the whole world before he tucked us in. hprizm has been a guiding star for my work since the formation of ruby yacht. (big ups hemlock for putting me on). i think the entire crux of this project is in the hprizm verse on begonias

"my pops sat me down
said, son
be a 1 of 1. i painted abstract after that"

there were no cuts. every song written is presented.

the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap.

me? i love life.

-RF
2024

credits
releases January 26, 2024

executive produced by R.A.P. Ferreira
produced by Fumitake Tamura
recorded by Scallops Hotel
mixed by Kenny Segal
mastering by Daddy Kev
art by art by Gabriella Rodriguez (tissueandfruit)

recorded at Soulfolks Records & Tapes
Cashville, Tennessee
from spring to fall of 2023

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on tour last year he was talking about fumitake's beats and the one song he performed off it was insanely hard

hereing color, green is a beautiful song name

coming up next

@mods sticky!!

Yeah his pen is scary sharp on this, loving this

47 Rockets Taped To My Chair (For Dr. Refaat Alareer)

that song sounds dusty and futuristic at the same time

must be the drums and the simplicity of his "bang bang" making it sound dusty

love it

just to have an official out now post:

afrolab9000.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-fist-to-make-contact-when-we-dap

1. humble vessel
2. 47 rockets taped to my chair (for dr. refaat alareer)
3. hereing color, green
4. culture war patriots (feat. Self Jupiter)
5. mr. susan type slapper (feat. ELDON)
6. medicinal hymnal #77
7. Jes' Grew in Osaka
8. begonias (feat. Hprizm)
9. elite mind flayer judo
10. bending corners (sittin sidewayz revisited)
11. the words of the poem (feat. sha ray)
12. soulfolks signal

he rhymed for his life on Begonias

daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/rap-ferreira-fumitake-tamura-first-fist-to-make-contact-review

Yup had me rapt, incredible music

stingleylawyerfund.betterworld.org/campaigns/reunite-miel-stingley-ferreira

his ex is accusing him of abuse smdh

instagram.com/hipcatscience/reel/C92OK6ygL-k

two days ago we had court for the domestic violence order of protection mekah stingley filed against me. i filmed this yesterday. the entire case was dismissed. the court has commanded ms. stingley to pay all of my attorney fees within 28 days or she will be arrested. she claimed to have 42 pieces of "material evidence" online, that was a lie. her sole witness, her mother, did not go to court to testify, ms. stingley crowdfunded money for an attorney and did not get one. more details are in the video. i have sole custody of my daughter. i have a restraining order against her mother. if you helped endanger my daughter and destroyed her privacy posting her name and face via this scammer's fundraiser, take that down now. if you are a journalist who posted that, you need to print a retraction and an apology now. if you are a musician who used my life and some allegations with absolutely no proof to virtue signal to your audience, you disgust me. i am a real father who does everything in his power to protect and provide for his children. this is the only job i have had in my adult life and i would like to get back to it now. throughout this process, my family and friends have held me down and i am the image of gratitude to them. my heart is with real victims and i pray for the sick mind that would lie about anything of this magnitude. peace.

Outstanding Understanding

You knew 10 days in advance

afrolab9000.bandcamp.com/album/outstanding-understanding-2

rory has mentioned the album title before iirc

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great listen so far...shame what he was put through earlier this year

Great album