Is indeed, according to ig post. Crazy

Prince Shakir album out now. Mavi and Siifu feats, and Siifu produced their track.

Wild. I wish he rhymed this traditionally all the time

Ty for the reminder dude is great

Watched this this morning, super impressive

Akai music makes me feel like this guy

@marcusg yo this dropped, Liv.e and Siifu got a feature each

bylrdby.bandcamp.com/album/b4-fyodor

oh s*** it's that painting from Lot 49

and the Dostoyevsky reference lol

Thanks for the heads up

U educated as hell sir 🤝 good catch!

I'll be honest I came back to that through reverse google lol, it looked familiar tho. Pynchon tha goat, need to get back on that. Only read 49 and Inherent Vice so far but def want to read all his s*** sooner or later.

You know of Richard Farina too? Was best buds with both Pynchon and Dylan. Earl is a big fan. IDLS was initially called Gnossos after the protagonist from his only novel

wait which dostoyevsky reference by who?

“B4 Fyodor” !

oh wow I'm fkn blind

I’m giving Gravity’s Rainbow a re-read now that I know my due dilligence WRT the historic references and people that the characters are based on, excited to “get it” like I did with Lot 49 after reading up on all the MK Ultra / Project Mindfuck stuff it’s built around

Haven’t checked out his novel before, I’ll have to give it a read! Thank ya sir 🤝

Anybody else still waiting on their Keiyaa vinyl?

Yeah

slaps

back on, MIKE being interviewed rn!

mine arrived last week and I don't even live in the USA

Just looked through Alc's credits and Things of Ours actually seems to be the first time he's releasing work with anyone in this scene outside of Earl's work?

This feels almost like a new direction for him tbh, his brand was always more the "street", violent type of rap.

Given that he's been with Earl all last year, who also brought Navy and Sideshow and prolly tons of ppl from this scene in the stu, there's prolly much more to come this year tbh. Apparently "Tha Divide" was recorded in his studio as well. Was Revenge of the Dreamers 4 also filmed in his house?

The Armand Hammer album seems almost like an announcement that he'll focus more on "conscious" and also more vulnerable raps to give beats to this year. Boldy is like a bridge between those two styles so it made sense he was on the EP too.

And last year he had the placements on the Jay Elec and Moor Mother/Woods albums too of course

conversation with these two artist friends of MIKE (Brayan/osito did the WOTW soundcloud cover). They both have pretty unique styles, good s***. I'm not even a big fan of tattoos but those osito tattoos are fire
instagram.com/frankdorrey
instagram.com/osito.nyc

Apparently this was the launch of ife.radio as a "cd-based radio" (whatever that means) co-funded by MIKE? Very in for sure, that first mix was extremely fire. Also found the tracklist on the ife radio insta page
instagram.com/p/COGSEwFDfpa

Also one of them talked about meeting Frank Ocean and being star-struck dunno who said that tho, had trouble remembering which voice was who

Yo wait Black Noi$e is realest photographer ever? this looks cool