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“12 Days of Trashmas” is a sarcastic, boom-bap holiday diss track that absolutely torches “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Over dusty drums and a menacing bassline, the rapper unloads three verses of pure frustration: turning a one-bedroom into a chaotic zoo, getting assaulted by livestock and bagpipes, and finally clowning the song’s 18th-century drinking-game origins and the debunked “secret Catholic code” myth. It’s Run The Jewels energy meets Christmas rage; funny, unapologetic, and guaranteed to make anyone who’s ever suffered through the original scream “facts” on every bar. Perfect for people who love hip-hop and hate that one song that never ends.

The 12 Days of Trashmas

this is a blend of alternative/experimental hip hop that, on any given song, blends together plenty of elements into hip hop.  also, I tried as mich as possible to keep more of a rhythm based around hip hop style drumming rather than depending on heavy synthesized beats.  I love those in lots of music but for this undertaking I wanted to maintain a balance and not have those heavy beats overpowering everything else and drowning other elements out.  I probably scaled back too much because I wanted to have those beats still mixed. Those beats are mixed into some songs lightly but I feel like I got it more figured out working on my second album, so I look forward to when I share that.  I really admire bands that can keep a base in hip hop but add all sorts of other cool elements that actually add to the music and aren't there just so they can be like 'hey, there was a guitar line here or a trumpet line there' because it seems cool. I really wanted to balance many different elements together without it all getting too diluted. 

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