"Git the F#@K off my lawn. _ Clint Eastwood.

This is my Mixing & Mastering Portfolio. Contact email: JacobraHansen@gmail.com

Paul French (aka Strife) is an independent hip-hop artist who used to work out of Olympia, WA. In 2009, he released an album called “Love & Rage” with his hip-hop group, Thought Crime Collective and on April 8th, 2010 he was framed for felony assault on an officer at a protest against police brutality after Oscar Grant was shot.

He served two months in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. When he was released from jail he was subjected to a campaign of harassment, given numerous citations by law enforcement who repeatedly singled him out by name. He was contacted by police 12 times and given five tickets in less than a month under various pretexts which sent him further into debt. 

Despite this repression, he released his first solo album in 2012 entitled “No Honor Among Kings” and traveled the West Coast on a “Peasant Revolt Tour” with Dead Language and Northern Draw.

In late April 2011, Strife discovered through public records requests that he was being spied on by multiple law enforcement agencies and referred as the “white rapper” in e-mail exchanges. 

Later that year, he sued the Olympia Police Department (OPD) for violations of his civil rights and a campaign of profiling, harassment, false arrest and imprisonment. OPD settled out of court to the tune of $10,000 and Strife used this windfall to help record and share his second solo album, "Metamorphosis".

Finally it's been 5 years since Strife's last album so now get ready for the "Equilibrium Mixtape"! Available for FREE download to all those lovers of dope beats and revolutionary fervor!

I'm mostly a photographer, but I make music on the side.

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