my man this is tight lets work? follow back n peep my tape

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Secrets

Artwork: Ana Beraru


inconceivable is often misconstrued as impossible
open up your optical to avoid all the obstacles
i got soul inside my vocal box and i could go
24 hours in a row off of a single flow
warm blooded the room flooded with love 
it's every where and everything you need to be above it
i got it, breathing deeper living in the pocket 
karma coming back for the fact that you never lost it 
my thought is, if you think it you can do it
yes in and of itself i got rhythm like a fluid
go do it, gotta do it, keep it movin'
can't you see philanthropy handsomely in my movement?
move it, push it to the limit you can do it
don't let anybody tell you that you're stupid
erase negativity slowly making improvements
if any one can do it, best believe it's you kid

i say, my ways been getting better every day
i believe in the powers that be however and whatever it may 
i'm okay, everything's good right now, everything's gonna be okay

unbelievable how a single day can change the meaning to
any thing you truly ponder on meaningful spiritual
i've been thinking different since reading into the visuals
of which present themselves eloquently through feelings
pivotal movements alter my axis putting me on track
it's an  utterly  fantastical radical dope fact 
that my spirit is in tact creative river on a raft
motion of  the ocean locomotive on the path
it's amazing, that one single day can really change me
think one way and it shall be if it was meant
ways back always been an overthin king
but i let it out with my sing-sing swing
i can see it now when we step into the spring 
now give em a breather, let the kid do his thing

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art: lugosis

burrito naps

mentality.

pook.

jacobinah

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Released by @grifotapes. Art by zomkashwak (instagram.com/zomkashwak/)

About
I named the album 'Otaku' to poke fun at myself and my love for anime/Japan. It also falls in line with Lofi Hip Hop's obsession with the anime aesthetic. I always joke with my friends that I'm a step away from getting a body pillow. I also wanted to explore the stigma behind it and question its definition. I don't think people should judge each other so harshly.

The album is inspired by many things: Anime (Mob Psycho 100, Re:zero, Cowboy Bebop, Golden Time, Durarara!!, Seven Deadly Sins, Neon Genesis Evangelion), TV shows (Freaks & Geeks, Stranger Things), certain genres like future (Quickly, Quickly, Lido), lofi hiphop (Knxwledge, sleepy eyes, O.S.L., ohbliv, bsd.u, SwuM, wuntwo, mt. marcy, Josh Hey, Beat Haus, Paxico Records, Stones Throw, dil withers, a.bee,), Funk/soul (Sade, Milton Wright, George Duke, Prince Phillip Mitchell), Jazz (John Klemmer, Shigeo Sekito, Larry Willis, John Coltrane), 80s/90s rap (Eazy E, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, AZ, De La Soul), 80s acid house (Phil Fearon & the Galaxy), and 90s/2000s R&B (Xscape, Musiq Soulchild, Lalah Hathaway, Alicia Keys, Silk).

Certain rappers (Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kanye West, Earl Sweatshirt, Max B, Skepta/BBK, Lord Apex), certain albums (Blonde by Frank Ocean, Freetown Sound by Blood Orange, JEFFERY by No My Name Is Jeffery, P3 by PARTYNEXTDOOR), food channels and respective foodies/chefs (Munchies, Matty Matheson, Eddie Huang, Sean Evans, First We Feast's Hot Ones, Gordon Ramsay, Morimoto's 'Momosan' on Lex), and other things like Akai, reel to reel machines (Akai 1720w), cassette culture, Roy Woods, Rihanna, Rick Rubin, Sven Libaek, Zen Buddhism, and a lot of other things that inspired me in one way or another. The album art is done by zomkashwak (instagram.com/zomkashwak) and is inspired by a past muse..


I took the summer off to study beatmaking and this is the culmination of that effort. I would watch videos for seven hours a day every day of the week. I probably watched upwards of 300 hours of video tutorials from legends like Matt Weiss and Echo Soundworks. I also read the Art of Mixing by David Gibson. I dedicate this album to my family who continues to support and love me unconditionally — more than I deserve. Thanks to everyone who helped make this album, especially dylAn for getting the interlude in on time and ISBA for providing dope background vocals. Big thanks to Jux Chemist for the art direction/helping me find the aesthetic of the album. Thanks to the Grifo Tapes family for putting me on, sponsoring my broke ass, and for being patient with me haha. Thanks to Inner Ocean Records for pressing the tapes and big up to zomkashwak for providing the trill album art. Finally, thank you to the fans. You guys telling me you vibe with my songs is the reason I do this <3

Love —

Bee

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