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SELLING AIR

TOAST UP

CHURCH

NEVER BE

BLADE RUNNERS

SLUMPED

LUV2LUV

HURT ME

TOLD YALL

POP OUT

GIG MODE

CROWS

A re-release of my first ever project. I can't find the original album art, but someone asked for it and thought, since a new album is coming, I might as well make this old one available. the growth is cool to see.

I don't think this is the original tracklisting either, but I can't remember what it was. All the same, please enjoy. I think the original release date was some time in 2012 or 2013. I used bandcamp. I remember taking it down. Wish I hadn't though. anyone else out there who's thinking of purging, don't. Just put it on private. This art is our memory, among other things. 

Yee. bless

The Reign VS. The S(u)n

Normal Sins

New Recording 264 - i had a panic attack today; god is change

Just listen, love, and share.

Ya'll are royalty. 

The Art of Making Love

This is for everyone and anyone who understand that love, not money, makes the world go 'round. Listen, love, and please do share. Thank you family. 

Wanna Be Loved

Young Life Remix Ft. Saba & Jean Deaux

HEADSPACE

College is supposed to be many things. College was supposed to be one of the final sanctuaries of the young black adult. 

The sanctuary has been defiled. Where are we to go now?

Released because I felt compelled. Because I made this before it got this bad. These lives lost are real. Not just numbers. RIP to the Young King who lost his life this morning. Quick healing to those who are hanging on by a thread. 

I think the greats look down on us and cry, that's why the art is what it is. 

Pray for peace. Be a blessing. Not a burden. 

Pray for Wiley. It's on fire. 

Pray Blacks can end Self-Extermination.

Just pray. And I mean that. 

The Grim

Was vibing with my sis Simmi. This what we came up with. A lot of it is off the head, a lot of it is written, all of it is honest, and I hope people can appreciate that. Much love!

Pedagogy of the Depressed (Ft. Simmi)

Yell Pretty

Phoenix

PHX ft. Archduke (Prod. by Jxxbx)

6 Flags

6 Flags ft. MFnMelo (Prod. by Squeak)

TL;DR - I might never release music again, let alone make it. 

I’m tired, in a desperate way, a pale way. This project is what it is, not what it could have been. It’s the shadow of a vision I grew too impatient and enflamed to manifest in flesh. The word became shadow. 

Yell Pretty means I can’t sing, but then singing is just yelling pretty, and I can do that.  It was also me drawing strength from my favorite yellers: Nina Simone, James Brown, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, etc. You know, just having raw soul and emotion. Yell Pretty means use what you have. Yell Pretty also presents the juxtaposition brought on by extreme paranoia and anxiety. I think we’ve all dealt with that. We live in a beautiful world, but often times my voice wouldn’t reflect it. Conversely, we live in a chilling world, and on the right day, listening to the right person Yell Pretty, you’d think it was utopia. 

If you helped me at all on this, in whatever the way, thank you. 

If you came to the listening party, thank you. Forgive me for putting out a project that isn’t what I promised. There was more, but I couldn’t bring it all together.  

Some of my closest friends know me to have a strange dilemma. I’ll share it with you now. I’ve never been able to discern if the roadblocks I’ve encountered while pursing my dream of being an artist are a test, or a sign. A test to see how bad you want it, or a sign to abandon the road you’re on, because it’s not for you. 

From the beginning I perceived everything as a test. I’m not studious, but intellect doesn’t depend solely on study habits. I’ve been passing tests since the beginning, since I lived a 3 hour public transit trip away from the poetry slam but hustled my way there anyway. Since senior year recording with Kritta in the garage. Since releasing song after song. Since paying for studio time with money from rap competitions I’d win. Since working for McDonalds. Since sneaking on trains to get to shows. Since having no dedicated producers or musicians to work with. Since moving to Chicago with $700 and a bag of self published books in 2012. Since community college class after class, all the way to graduating with my Bachelors Degree on a full ride. Since recording songs on garage band in my bath tub using apple headphones and a high thread count comforter to sound treat the space. I been seeing everything as tests. Thinking I’m passing. 

But I think, now, that creating this project has been a sign. This fall I’ll go to graduate school, I’ll write, I’ll travel. I won’t make music. 

If I’m given a sign that I should be, it will be a welcomed one. 

#peace. #YellPretty

Antioch

Antioch ft. Archduke (Prod. by UrbanNerdBeats)

Humble Pi

Humble Pi (Prod. by Who Is This Guy)

Sway In The Morning

Sway In The Morning (Prod. by Austin Fig)

Production: daedaePIVOT, Saba, Benjamin Earl Turner
Guitar: Sasha Kashperko
Mix: Jezreel, Studio A

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Lake Erie

A four song EP, FUCK is an inspired meta-narrative modeled after the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Each song is meant to emit irreverence, apathy, and animalistic impulse. Still, in all the ways his music sounds amoral, Turner’s FUCK is more accurately characterized by its deft performance of balance, its exciting musical pursuit of striking harmony between self-awareness and self-sabotage, between hedonism and asceticism.

*** TRACKLIST***
1. TRUTH SERUM
2. JA RULE
3. M'BAKU SHIT Ft. DAVEED DIGGS
4. APATHY HAPPY Ft. RAFAEL STATIN

Executive Producer: @BenjaminEarlTurner
Production: @mindofasante, @lpldpstr, @beforeizaiah, @sabapivot, @daedaepivot, 
Engineer: @Jezreel at @traxsiders

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JA RULE

An ode to the Bay.


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YADADA

Yadada

"We do, because we must. If we must not, we do not."

Producer: @beforeizaiah
Engineer: @beforeizaiah
Cover Art: @wehadnoidea

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Had To

TRACK 8 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @daedaePivot, @sabapivot, & @mindofasante
Written by: Benjamin Earl Turner
Mixed & Mastered by: @Jezreels at @Traxsiders
Cover art by: @christiandklong

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Bad Nature

NINE / Y2K

TRACK 5 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @daedaePivot & @letm0de
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IGNORANTS

TRACK 6 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

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BAD NATURE

TRACK 7 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

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FREE.99

TRACK 9 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @beforeizaiah & Daoud Anthony
Written by: Benjamin Earl Turner
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a dude making things. multi hyphenate, hyphy hippy shit.

Benjamin Earl Turner

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