Kai Fortyfive - SLUGSMOKE & MIRRORS Deluxe Edition Cassette (LIRR03)
Edition of 25 black and white cassette tapes in clear case, with instrumentals on the b-side and download code included, ships within two business days.
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There are few poetic flourishes among SLUGSMOKE & MIRRORS’ breathing details of New York street life, no glitz, glamor, glory, or even grit, just survival or death. In a place where yesterday’s foreign car could be tomorrow’s only home, futures are built on regrets or not at all. With this in mind, Kai Fortyfive speaks plainly and bares souls.
“SLUGSMOKE is really just a compilation of stories/memories from not only my life but the lives of my friends,” says the rapper/producer from Elmont, New York. “It was type hard to write this album because mentally I had to go back to a lot of shit I’ve been through. It’s tough to recollect on pain and trauma, but I feel like in order to deliver the album the way I needed to, I had to go back and relive those stories. All in all, this is definitely my most important work I’ve ever done and I’m glad people are in tuned for real.”
Call these criminology bars or worse, reality raps, and severely miss the point. There’s little space here for distinguishing between shadows and ghosts, let alone musical classifications. The rhymes are dope, the beats are hard, and Kai Fortyfive does them all. The only guests are family, Lowcaste LXRD$. The only style the painful truth flickering through fogs of war.
“SLUGSMOKE is really just a compilation of stories/memories from not only my life but the lives of my friends,” says the rapper/producer from Elmont, New York. “It was type hard to write this album because mentally I had to go back to a lot of shit I’ve been through. It’s tough to recollect on pain and trauma, but I feel like in order to deliver the album the way I needed to, I had to go back and relive those stories. All in all, this is definitely my most important work I’ve ever done and I’m glad people are in tuned for real.”
Call these criminology bars or worse, reality raps, and severely miss the point. There’s little space here for distinguishing between shadows and ghosts, let alone musical classifications. The rhymes are dope, the beats are hard, and Kai Fortyfive does them all. The only guests are family, Lowcaste LXRD$. The only style the painful truth flickering through fogs of war.
LongIslandRap.Comp Vol. 4 (LIRR02)
LongIslandRap.Comp v4 is the fourth installment in a series of compilations showcasing Long Island hip-hop artists, the first collecting all new or unreleased songs, and the second release on Long Island Rap Records (LIRR02). All proceeds from this compilation (after Bandcamp takes its cut) are being donated to communitysolidarity.org, a nonprofit organization that holds weekly food shares in Hempstead, Huntington, Farmingville, Wyandanch and Bedford-Stuyvesant. According to Community Solidarity, a $1 donation allows the organization to share 32.8 lbs. of vegetarian groceries, and $32 collects enough food to feed one person for an entire year. Purchases include bonus tracks from Theravada, Blaq Kush and Samfl3. Please support the artists, your neighbors and our communities.
