Peace,
Employee
Posts Tagged ‘sole’
“Ten Minutes Into The Future” (Awol One, Sole, Factor and Cheschi – VIDEO)
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Sole’s Post-Anticon Adventures
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
If you’re like me you’ve endured a grueling past few months with Sole’s departure from Anticon looming as an ever-present rain cloud. Fret no more! Let’s find out what this firebrand has been doing:
man.
alot of things have been coming together in a very natural and great way lately. over the past year i’ve been putting together an album to accompany this book ravi zupa and i have been working on called “the pyre.” its basically an epic poem. the project started when we were working on the video for “stupid things implode on themselves…” ravi had been making these anarcho-mythical images that he wanted me to write a creation myth to. i failed miserably at all my attempts and gave up on the project. this prompted a few years of obsession with the form of epic poem & myth. i went on to read a ton of myths and mythology books over the subsequent years. when i moved to denver, ravi approached me about it again and i felt ready. the result is a 70 page illustrated book with this epic poem about civilization running through it, told in the form of myth. i created an album to go with it, it was supposed to be a spoken word record with some ambient noise (but listenable) but ended up being something entirely different. this should be available for purchase by the end of july.
Sole is a member of the Tea Party?
Friday, May 14th, 2010I guess this is what happens after being disowned by Anticon. Duke’s backyard looks like a disco for animal corpses.
Peace,
Employee
The 2009 Register Vol.7: iCon the Mic King
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
When Employee asked me to write one of these I was at a loss for what to talk about…as I often am when people ask me to tell them stories about where I go and what I do. It’s kind of a problem I have where I’m not as mindful of my accomplishments as I should be because I’m always trying to get to the next thing. I also hate qualifying. I’m the dude that’ll tell a hot bird my dayjob is picking up animal dookie at the petting zoo. However skimming through the writings of the other guys (except MB…I totally skipped that philabuster) made me get more perspective on my year. Then I wrote it and it was dumb long and I had a nightmare where I was pelted with “didn’t read” emoticons.
Sole: You Broke My Mother Fucking Heart
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Intuition: “Damnit… sole is playing at low end theory tonight and i totally had a ‘hi employee’ sign made to take a picture with him but he politely refused. i swear to christ on a cross. i told him that he should just be a sport and laugh at himself just this once but he wasn’t having it. such is life.”
Intuition is my message board friend. Since I exist only on and see the world exclusively through the internet, I am forced to rely on random dispatches and cables regarding situations surrounding myself. And he had nothing to do with this post so please don’t throw tainted broccoli at him if you two ever cross paths. I will be deleting all digital copies of your music. This is in addition to allocating all physical copies of your music (irrespective of eBay value) to the garbage can department. To you, your Crocs, your prima donna revolution, I bid adieu.
To the rest of you kind folk, register at the PhilaFlava Forums and participate in the madness.
Peace,
Employee
I asked Slug some questions about Deep Puddle Dynamics
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
A hardscrabble investigative internet journalist can never be afraid to ask the painful questions. Put forth the challenging inquiries. Stare into the face of the cold truth. Get the answers. Let the dominoes fall as they should. Slug shines a spotlight on what happened with and the mechanics of the legendary quartet Deep Puddle Dynamics in this hard-hitting, in-depth interview.
Employee: DPD is widely regarded as a groundbreaking collaboration of the early internet rap gawdz. Was recording it awkward on any level or did it flow seamlessly in the studio?
Slug: i lost a close family member during the recording sessions. so i had to leave for 2 days during our 10 day session.
i wouldn’t say awkward, but we didn’t know what we were doing.
we had a lot of fun.
Employee: Post-DPD you started to noticeably distance yourself from Anticon as a whole. I’m not asking you to burn bridges or critically blast anyone. But why the effort to separate yourself from the Anticon collective?
Slug: dudes were younger than me, so it was hard to agree with a lot of the strong opinions that were floating around.
then, when i released godlovesugly and a few of those dudes started calling me a “sell out” for that record, i knew that for better or worse, i wasn’t on the same page when it came to making music.
it wasn’t so much that i was trying to separate myself from the collective, but i didn’t want to be part of the artmob mentality that i thought i was seeing from them.
however nowadays, i do consider how youth played a role, and i no longer have those issues with any of those dudes
Employee: You once remarked you’d participate in a DPD sequel if Sage Francis replaced Sole. Why?
Slug: i don’t remember saying that, but if i did, it wasn’t serious.
it was probably just a dumb jab at sole. i used to be mad at him.
i offer humble apologies for that.
truthfully, sage should have replaced me.
Employee: Where do you rank the DPD album in the Slug discography?
Slug: just another record. like the rest of the crap i’ve participated in.
i don’t really revisit any of my shit, unless i’m gonna perform it live.
Employee: Did you receive any backlash from friends of yours for the album itself?
Slug: nope. most of my friends didn’t listen to our type of shit.
Employee: Knowing what you know now, would you take part in it today if the opportunity arose?
Slug: wouldn’t work. i’ve become quite the control freak since those days.
The End.
Peace,
Employee
Future Primitive Radio: Anticon
Monday, December 7th, 2009
From 2002, featuring Dose, Sole, Telephone Jim Jesus, Jel, Bomarr Monk, Odd Nosdam, Passage, Sage Francis, Alias and Why?
Anticon Future Primitive Radio Session
Peace,
Employee
SHOUT: Sole Forum
Sole – “Nuclear Winter” (Mixtape)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Revolutionary when comfortable….
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Sole is unleashing his Nuclear Winter mixtape on the public in a couple of days. However, he’s taken the unusual step of both censoring himself and revising the hook to his interpretation of Jeezy’s “My President.” Why? A handful of bloggers and message boarders decried the track’s original hook and its perceived message. Vaginal artistic resolve and political correctness for the sake of political correctness aren’t suitable partners for someone whose staked his claim as a harbinger of truth and a beacon of rap defiance. You can listen to/download the new version here and peep the lyrically lyrical revisions here.
I thought you were da baddest poet.
Peace,
Employee
Is Sole a racist (white-on-white crime)?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Sole’s rendition of Young Jeezy’s “My President” continues to stir controversy among the thin-skinned legions he caters to. Whining from the limp-wristers and rebellious vegans is expected. But now even Sole is confused:
“im gonna say… “my president is black, and thats cool and shit…
but i wont call you president till you show me your birth certificate….”
. gotta wait for my mother in law to leave so i can record it though!
and for the record, this is not a parody.
its less of a parody actually, then the version of “this land is my land” they sing in elementary schools. (… the socialist messages are taken out of the woodie guthrie version). in the mainstream world, everyone is reworking each others’ tracks, kind of covering them, but adding their two cents and making it a new song. its in the folk tradition, a song is passed down, improved, changed, adapted to fit the times…. so why does it make it parody when i do it? is calling my shit a parody…. is that like… reverse-reverse-reverse racism? black hole racism? white dwarf racism? is it kneejerk-faux-libertarian-collegeboy-selfhate-backtalk? what is the meaning of life?”
Ummmm……..WTF? It’s a parody. Then it’s not. Then it is. Then it’s kind of a parody, but not really. Then he reverts to being the perennially misunderstood, tragic indie artist.
Not long after that we stumble across another heaping serving of Sole’s inverted political message fuckery:
“its a hiphop mixtape, its not a parody, you do know what hip-hop is right? you should look up “detournment,” a situationist tool for changing the meaning of something and giving it a new message. thats exactly what i had in mind with this shit, i cant wait till you hear “turn my swag on.”
white guilt is some 90s shit.
and no im not a birther, that was a joke.
im not dumbstruck, im dissappointed with how boring/literal/kneejerk some people are.
if i was black, wearing a scarf, making the same music sole had, yall wouldn’t say its a parody. so who is showing their white on white racism here?”
As I’ve said in the past, Sole is a firebrand in his own right and doesn’t strike me as a dumb mother fucker. But shouldn’t you be clearer about your purpose and intent than Gucci Mane’s diamond collection when you’re dropping material bound to incite?
Are white rappers allowed to criticize and/or mock the commander-in-chief? Is today’s white rapper at a disadvantage “solely” due to melanin deficiency?
Chuck D lights a candle and cries.
Peace,
Employee
