Fresh from the coffers of the Estate, available are limited edition Digipak CDs of Rhys Langston's first full-length, Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous.
Includes 12-page full color booklet of handwritten lyrics with four additional portraits taken by Parker Day.
The album digitally releases on September 1st, but orders of the CD will be shipped out one week early, to reward the early adopters.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$10USDor more
lyrics
undermining overthinking all the time
you know it’s through
(you know it)
lenses bifocal bifurcated
yours who is signed true
(yo, we signed true).
email game on fleek dependency
for decorum rule
(for decorum),
was finna complete my sentence,
fragments they will have to do
(they will have to).
application not submitted,
rejection in time is due
(it’s due).
haven’t updated resume or worked in a year or two
(in a year or two).
Linkedin profile twice a day notifies me of openings too
(they got openings?),
glaze of the eyes, hover the color,
of socialized media blue.
thousand likes, fickle social proof
(with the social proof);
facebook algorithm, indie rap truth.
mofucka I was Jesus of Los Feliz
before the sun gave you my noose,
was in my Black Temple collecting Illidan’s loot.
360 flips and hot cheeto fry chips,
skin tone comp corner grill,
and the park echoed across the way,
coming college grad culture fill.
raised them pitchforks before the move to Hollywood and Leimert
away from vegan breadcrumbs,
and non-fat free
white guilt trip rule of thumb.
performativity of onion bagels
along 125th,
acclimatizing yiddish politics at
upper west side dinner party trysts.
hair became becoming artifact
intact with tact,
outstretched pallid fingers
desiring to touch that “safe black.”
(don’t touch it, don’t touch it,
naw, naw)
birthing them same nervous poems
midnight oil turned to rap
(yeah we turned to rap),
gave way to conjunctive musings
of possibilities following that,
outrage made introspection
sans social media blast,
searching for the face to match
upon the Google gene pool map
(Google gene)
’til I returned home and saw that:
undermining overthinking all the time
you know it’s through
(you know it)
lenses bifocal bifurcated
yours who is signed true
(yo we signed true).
email game on fleek dependency
for decorum rule
(for decorum),
finna complete my sentence,
fragments they will have to do
(they will have to).
the definition of idiosyncratic; a beautiful, raw odyssey through depersonalization and free association against the canon and toward a new one Rhys Langston
