my definitive Nerdcore track, so far.

Beat by A-Plus, off of this album: https://soundcloud.com/hieroglyphics-1/sets/a-plus-think-tank. Vigorous recording/producing work on vocals done by Benjamin Swales. 

Lyrics at blackfriendthewordsmith.wordpress.com

Garden Path

Spitfire track about youthful indiscretion.
Beat/lyrical style after Aesop Rock.

Freshman Year (girlsong one)

Dark, dope, lyrically complex verses. Some funny stuff in the background. The beat's like if Oingo Boingo wrote hip-hop tracks.

Darker Shades

Two fat verses about how much most of government sucks.
An attack against the idea of having to choose between "one or the other," in all walks of life. Probably something about hypocrisy, and a dick joke. 

Beat by local Denver beat genius @FurbieCakes. Thanks for the dope beats and title inspiration. 


Let 'Em Eat Cake

Purely bombastic braggadocio wordsmithing, because even the Blackfriend gets tired of being political...LOT of Jim Carrey references.

beat by Astor Risk, production by my good friend Max Schwartz.

Game, Set, Match!

They aren't selling things to us, they're selling US. We've lost the war for our minds and now they're coming for our Bodies. 

Beat produced by @TKady (Twitter)
Recorded and engineered by Awkward Mike at #KMGLife Studios.

Bodies (Pt. 1)

"I am a patient boy, but everyone's sayin' different things to me." Confessionalist rap / conversationalist hip-hop.

In The Waiting Room

ART: Conversationalist rap: lots of metaphors spit in paragraphs. 
ARTIST:  Blerd, drummer for Denver band To Be Astronauts, improviser, BLM activist, and board game geek.

JM Blackfriend

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