SunbrntEyelidz

milo is a Black American artist, husband and father based in Milwaukee, WI. His latest work Who Told You To Think?!? is a stirring piece of liberation technology hidden in plain sight. There are no answers, only utopian suggestions that often point towards himself. Ourselves. Yourself. When James Baldwin says "the poets are the only people who know the truth about us," I am reminded that milo is one of rap’s last true believers who has been called for such a time as this. To remember who we are, who we were and what can be.

"Me and my niggas are a school of thought"

Who Told You To Think?!? is a 15 track bio myth map of dusty, thick bottomed loops and warmly truncated glitches rooting itself as an initiate in the Black radical tradition. Despite its seeming formalism, milo is most comfortable arresting your expectations of his multiple identities. He wields his particular brand of wry observations and cutting humor over well layered production that is simultaneously thumping yet weightless. A wholly absorbing and intimate affair, there is a sense of wonder drawn from its stillness. Here is a way out. Here is a way in. The records brims with righteous anger, uncompromising joy and the haunting refrain of a man who understands that his politics are personal when he intones, "don’t stop running if you don’t see me ahead."

Joined by a cadre of similarly visioned voices and technicians who understand that what’s understood ain’t gotta be said, the Ruby Yacht Guild has deepened its ranks and expanded its national reach.

Who Told You To Think?!? will be released worldwide on 8/11 via ruby yacht. 
- ELUCID 

pre order at: https://miloraps.bandcamp.com/album/who-told-you-to-think

track produced by Kenny Segal
mixed / mastered by Daddy Kev

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a man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. 
— Jean Genet

milo - magician (suture)

Dog Pile

Desert Boy

I'm wondering why you're looking bored
Is your attention something I can't afford?
I'd cut my wrists, go through any pain
Just tell me what I gotta do or say
To get this right
I wanna get inside

I found myself in an empty space
Instead of letting myself feel displaced
I got excited at a brand new start
And cut the space into the shape of a heart
I filled it up while spending everything
It's not my money, it's my soul I paid
Expend my friend count to next to none
Cos in the end you are the only one
That gets me high
Can't help myself
I'm lost tonight

Wide awake, I'm bored and anxious, can't fall asleep now
Take me to a place where I feel less alone
I don't wanna think about my own deflation
Wake you up instead, you wrap me in your arms

INSIDE

Cracks on my intimate
Relationships unrestored
Choke on regretfulness
Like I'm tryna swallow a sword
Cos all my blunders simply absorb
And add to every one from before

So here we are again
Opposite sides of a closed door
I polish off a fifth
In attempt to not feel no more
Feel like I threw it all away
Was there something I didn't say?
Now I'm overthinking it all
Convinced that everything is my fault

Time is irrelative
While on this lonely road
I have more love to give
Than acquaintances
That it could involve
And yet complaining is
Quite hypocritical
Considering that it is
My initiative mostly
To be alone

TITANIC

Ruckus

All those other boys
Can hang on to their joys
Cos it's only you I need
I hold no further greed
My tightened lips destroy
Our closeness and our poise
I can feel the distancing
And I know that it's on me

Always bottled up
A curse I can't shake off
In which I say the wrong thing
So now I don't say a thing
Intentions never wrong
But I always fuck it up
How come I can't learn to speak
Articulate what I feel and think

And like stars collide
I think of you sometimes
And know that it's alright

All those other girls
Desperations all unfurled
Waiting on a perfect ring
But amounting to nothing
Is not what I perused
When I looked inside of you
Kindred spirits from the start
Felt it even when apart
Realized I needed you
I was broken you were glue
Been this way since 22
Introverted, misconstrued
When you walked out of the door
Splattered teardrops on the floor
A part of me walked out with you
A part of me I never knew

And like stars collide
I think of you sometimes
And know that it's alright

SPEAK

I am totally fucking lost. If you found yourself here than you are too.

SunbrntEyelidz

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