From: Rappayamatantra EP
Label: Brainfeeder
Release Date: 03/22/11

Some rappers be killing my mood. I'll listen to shit on the radio or hear a 'hot' new rap album from some dude, and it's like my spirit curls up. The beats may be dope, and the style, but I'm not entirely into the motives or messages of these guys. It's defiantly not 'hate' against any new or old artist that have gained such a high commercial popularity, nor am I directing my energy to compete with such musical acts, I just build my music from a different place spiritually.

Growing up, I was going back and forth from the north side of Chicago, going to art school, to the south side where gang members are young entrepreneurs and positive or healthy choices are met with anger and a deep unending struggle. Yet, being around certain people and having examples such as my father (a jazz composer, pianist, and vegan for over 10 years), exposed me to more holistic paths in life which helped open my mind, body, and spirit to discovering ways of expressing myself.

Rappayamatantra EP is a bridge between the Dxnce EP, and my future LP release entitled Raw Money Raps. Rappayamatantra, as a theme, came to me while I was reading "Be Here Now", a book written By Ram Dass. It totally reaffirmed for me that everyone possesses a divine energy, and through certain practices and principles, anyone can realize and fulfill their own spiritual and creative potential. As a rapper, one challenge that can disrupt that true being, can be to remain relevant and even trendy so that one can be popular and make money.

With this record I didn't want to think too much about commercial appeal or trends, rather the personal struggle to remain honest and balanced for anyone, be them a rapper, a teacher, or a friend. This record is intended to be a direct communication for the humans out there, if you dress fly, or not. Even if you like to play computer games or meditate in the mornings. Be empowered and enlightened through your own light the body possesses, and bump this EP in the whip! Please Cop! Hotep.

- Jeremiah Jae



"When I first heard Jae's 'Dxnce' I laughed a little, because I felt like I had found one of the chosen.

"A sound I've come to know through my own lineage. The sound of the Seeker.

"He's one of those artists on a mission for truth, understanding worlds and seeing beyond space and time through music.

"Jeremiah is one of the most important NEW voices of our ancestry. I believe in this man and will go along with him and whatever the hell he's seeking on this journey."

- Flying Lotus

Jeremiah Jae - $easons

Scallops - Hotel - Bookoo - Bread - Co

Flying Lotus - Post Requisite / Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. Mash Up

"Broadway & Daly" by Low End Theory

Listen to this track and many more at adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Low End Theory - Broadway & Daly

the saboteur's mirror 
produced by BUSDRIVER

new double-album "Electricity is on our Side" by BUSDRIVER
get the album now: busdriver.lnk.to/ElectricityIsOnOurSide

Drawing from memory and community roots, the 10th album from rap innovator BUSDRIVER plays out like an ode to modern folk art via the act’s characteristically warped take on the world’s leading pop music: hiphop. Homespun and bursting with intention, “electricity is on our side” argues that the quintessential underground hiphop album is in fact the high art of the day.// A fluid understanding of electronic musics, jazz, hiphop and creative writing are once again minced into a unique configuration(underground social music) to achieve the aesthetic ends and off-kilter messaging exacted by the legendary BUSDRIVER.

The Sabateur's Mirror is underground hiphop at its most provocative.

electricity is on our side

BUSDRIVER - the Saboteur's Mirror(get "Electricity is on our Side" now)

Collections 01

Jahara

Coves & Caves (for G)

From Renny Wilson's debut release, Sugarglider. Out Jan 22nd, 2013 on Mint Records. 

Renny Wilson - Nobody

Download here and support: https://alteredcrates.bandcamp.com/album/flylo-rock

Underground legend Aesop Rock VS. eclectic super-producer Flying Lotus. The vocab extraordinaire takes his wide array of word delicacies and combines them Flying Lotus' unique blend of experimental jazz, hip-hop, and electronic compositions

All vocals by Aesop Rock & Guests
All productions by Flying Lotus
Mixed and arranged by Altered Crates

Original art by: @paigemellen
https://www.instagram.com/paigemellen/

BUSDRIVER - the Saboteur's Mirror(get "Electricity is on our Side" now)

Temporary Whatever/Busdriverse