theory/practice

Here is a video for Epic and mine’s new single “Sad Rapper Jack,” from the upcoming album Nassau Manor. The video was filmed in Edmonton and features local rap legends Max Prime and Touch. In January, I moved across the western part of the country to settle in Vancouver for a new job. I was… Continue reading Sad Rapper Jack

On Monday night, Hand’Solo Records released the first single of Epic and mine’s upcoming album Nassau Manor. The single is accompanied by a video shot by Epic and edited by me. The single, “Hold It Down,” is an ode to Canadian Prairie hip-hop music, which Epic has been a champion of for over 25 years.… Continue reading Prairie Rap is for the Culture

On April 1st, Andrew Mbaruk and I released a digital album called Reflective Tape. Andrew is one of my favourite rappers. He is criminally underrated though there are reasons for that. His output is inhuman, releasing multiple projects a month. A few days after we put this project to the public, he had already released… Continue reading Reflective Tape Out Now

rob crooks: Time and space are both an integral whole / Like accident and substance, spatiotemporal / Fact is that time and space are the same / Like matter and mind, just taken from an advantage that isolates them / Abstracts and violates / Can’t cross space with duration, or a minute without the world… Continue reading superbad visuals

Sometime near the beginning of the pandemic, Kay reached out to let us know his friend and collaborator Kitz Willman would be moving to Winnipeg. Kitz is a unique case of someone who moved here by choice. He recognized what it took me well into my adulthood to appreciate: that Winnipeg and the land it… Continue reading Gazogene

I released The Empire is in Decline and Growing Weaker by the Day in February of this year. Although that album was only released digitally, four of the nine songs were released on a split 12″ with Epic on Saskatoon Folk Rap Records in Canada and El Gran E Records in the United States only… Continue reading Let’s Talk Exproriation, Redistribution

On the first Friday of November, Bandcamp Friday, Epic and I released our split 12″ Lawson/Time is Not a Circle, It’s a Fire Burning. Epic’s side, Lawson, features songs produced by Maki, The Gumshoe Strut, Aries and me. Two of these songs will be included on Epic’s upcoming full length project entirely produced by me.… Continue reading Time is Not a Cirlce, It’s a Fire Burning

In January, 2022, Iranian President Sayyed Ebrahim Raisi told President of Nicaragua and leader of the Sandinistas, Daniel Ortega, that “the US is in decline and growing weaker by the day.” This simple statement succinctly summed up the ever more apparent shift in global attitude towards the world’s only superpower and its system of exploitation.… Continue reading The Empire is in Decline and Growing Weaker by the Day