Sometimes you gotta let the fire loose...so here's a few flames...

LazySusan

BrownMichael

Flam

this is the story of a man...
tryna get it...
tryna hustle...
tryna grind...
tryna stack it...
while holding ones heart close...

TedTalk

Centipede

GoneWitTheWind

PhotoMap

gtFUN

blackeyedP

heavyLIGHT

The culmination of blood, sweat, triumphs, and tribulations. This project is a day in the life of BrassiousMonk. The random interactions, the accolades, the apprehensions; and how they interfere and effect the growth, evolution, and creation of his own world; the BrassExpansion.

Working...

Float

Lately...
An EP of Feels by BrassiousMonk
Narrated by Thomas Rashad aka. DoloSwope

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Lately I've been feeling all the feels.
Love, hate, anger, joy, anxiety, calmness.
A constant wave of free flowing emotion.
Why?

The constructs of our everyday are being torn down.
New paths are being blazed everyday. 
The process is dirty, harsh, honest, but necessary.
Lately is that...

The world we walk is currently shaken to its core and right now, the gravity of it all can pull you down. I've chosen to take a leap from that Earth. From this current world...
Into my own hands. Into my own fate. Into my own world.
To carry myself down this new path and into the world I see on the way when the dust settles.

How've you been lately?
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Forefront
Prod. by Drozy w/ additional guitar provided by Stephen Klingman

Idoleyez feat. 3amsound
Prod. by Capital L
3AMSound courtesy of Come Alive Records

PressureMakes
Prod. by Oak City Slums

TheDance||ThePerch
Prod. by StreetieBaby
Prod. by BrassiousMonk

LahDee
Prod. by BrassiousMonk

All Tracks Mixed by Brian Kidd for 1Sound1Vision

Lately

LahDee

Forefront

welcome to the BrassExpansion...
Hailing from Raleigh, NC; BrassiousMonk, the self-proclaimed, “Keepah of the Flame”, is a skilled producer, rapper, and songwriter. Monk’s family originated on both coasts; his mother from Brooklyn, NY, and father from LA. Before the age of 6 he’d already lived in both California, New York, Spain, and finally settling in North Carolina. Due to this fortunate culture-shock, his music and style influences were broadened at a young age. Mama was on Anita Baker, Sade, and Shirley Caesar; big sweaters and nikes. While Papa was Pac, stand up comedy tapes, and Funkadelic; leather and chucks. All that makes for quite the gumbo pot. The blend of musical/artistic tastes only became more evident as time passed; easily going from reciting Mos Def verses to blasting No Doubt; throwing up the Wu, to bumping Kirk Franklin. All these influences, while also growing up in and through the early 00s to the changing of the guard that is the late 00s, mixed wonderfully together to form the “monk with more funk for ya trunk” himself. One thing that is/was present in all of his influences/influencers even today are: originality, spirit, and an introspective wittiness; things he now holds himself to provide through each extension of his art. Think if Pharrell, Mos Def, and Flying Lotus had a kid, then let Dave Chappelle raise him. you’d get Brass.
let the sounds take you over...
Beep Beep...

BrassiousMonk

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