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Gotta go
She’s on my mind
Big ole globe
@odmongrel

These are the prophetic words of Dasan Broadnax, AKA O.D. Mongrel, a supremely talented and visionary poet and writer of many things who felt and witnessed in his 26 short years of physical life what most of us could only hope to imagine. He felt love. He felt peace. He felt pain. He felt joy and pleasure. He felt bottomless possibilities. And he felt and saw himself, his fully free self.

Persona is a posthumous musical experience by O.D. Mongrel. We had to piece together this project from notes and files due to his unexpected passing.  He kept a journal with instructions, as if he knew he wouldn’t be the one to finish this project. This is what O.D. Mongrel was working on before he passed. 

Dasan adopted the moniker O.D. Mongrel as a display of pride for his African-American and Afro-Latino roots. Mongrel was a foul description of Black folks, because the definition is an undefinable dog. Flipping words the way his two communities have done forever, Dasan sat in a space outside of perceived normalcy. He would claim Mongrel for himself, make it mean something—something new, different, and so so dope. 

Him, a kid raised on hip-hop and salsa as well as gospel and soul. Him, a proud man-child in his own private promised land raised by his Puerto Rican mother and his Black father, just like Jean-Michel Basquiat, another dreamer without a pause, another product of multiple cultures.

Because Dasan and his alias, O.D. Mongrel, believed in dreams. That is why Dasan landed on creating electronic music because it allowed him those visions, that freedom. There were no rules, no boundaries. He could hear an organic sound and turn it into art.  Literally, footsteps, a bird chirping, or a bubbling stream. 

Without question, it is the spirit of O.D. Mongrel, our beloved Dasan, who is presenting this musical experience to you as a gift—a spirit that remains alive and is still writing and creating and soaring and questioning, like everywhere:


“When Now vs. Now asked me to describe my music I told them it was Proto-Apocalypse Post-Rap. I make all of my own beats, I like to sing, I like to rap and I like to write as well as spoken word—poetry and stuff like that. I’m informed by many genres, I like soul and ballads from Motown and Benton Wood; but also dancehall. I was a music kid, because of my mom, I grew up around a lot of music. My favorite artists growing up were Eminem and 50Cent. I’m heavily informed by rap but also heavily informed by rock, electro, and also, you know, soul. I think I do a lot of different things and sometimes I don’t like to be categorized as only doing rap. You can listen to the first AC/DC album and hear Bon Scott, he has these cadences and flows that sound like he could be rapping. So is it really rap what I am doing? You know sometimes it is like rap but other times is more melodic and futuristic beats. And I really like the idea of post-rap. But ultimately when you listen to it you make your own decision of what it’s really like.” 

—Dasan Broadnax, AKA O.D. Mongrel

Forgive Me For My Empty Breaths

Beat Brek Outro

Shin Acapela

Conscious Rappers

Mace Decibel

Experiment 132

Ashes To Ashes

Beat Brek Middle Interlude

Gotta go
She’s on my mind
Big ole globe
@odmongrel

These are the prophetic words of Dasan Broadnax, AKA O.D. Mongrel, a supremely talented and visionary poet and writer of many things who felt and witnessed in his 26 short years of physical life what most of us could only hope to imagine. He felt love. He felt peace. He felt pain. He felt joy and pleasure. He felt bottomless possibilities. And he felt and saw himself, his fully free self.

Persona is a posthumous musical experience by O.D. Mongrel. We had to piece together this project from notes and files due to his unexpected passing.  He kept a journal with instructions, as if he knew he wouldn’t be the one to finish this project. This is what O.D. Mongrel was working on before he passed. 

“When Now vs. Now asked me to describe my music I told them it was Proto-Apocalypse Post-Rap. I make all of my own beats, I like to sing, I like to rap and I like to write as well as spoken word—poetry and stuff like that. I’m informed by many genres, I like soul and ballads from Motown and Benton Wood; but also dancehall. I was a music kid, because of my mom, I grew up around a lot of music. My favorite artists growing up were Eminem and 50Cent. I’m heavily informed by rap but also heavily informed by rock, electro, and also, you know, soul. I think I do a lot of different things and sometimes I don’t like to be categorized as only doing rap. You can listen to the first AC/DC album and hear Bon Scott, he has these cadences and flows that sound like he could be rapping. So is it really rap what I am doing? You know sometimes it is like rap but other times is more melodic and futuristic beats. And I really like the idea of post-rap. But ultimately when you listen to it you make your own decision of what it’s really like.” 

 —Dasan Broadnax, AKA O.D. Mongrel

Experiment 78

Composition 61

World Is Corroding

Guitar Idea 7

3.0.1. Ruff Mix

Idea 7 ii

045 ii

MONGTAPE VOL.1

Eeking my Soul

TRIPTACULAR !

BASE WHATS MINE

about?

HEAD*NOD

REPTILIAN BRAIN FART

Headmaster is in reality an experiment. It is me using my premature knowledge about mixing, mastering, and space design. Originally there was no Headmaster. I had plans to release a collection of singles all with different materials surrounding them. This realized itself in Doys and Alchemy. In preparing to release the next two singles I decided to put them all together into a small project. I added an intro, spoken word piece, and space design. Quickly I realized I had undertaken another full project which I feel I was not prepared for. I say this project is an experiment because considering subsequent knowledge I realize there is a lot I would have done differently and that some portions were not actualized effectively. My hope is that this project can be enjoyed for the ideas it puts forth; albeit they are raw, undefined and at some times cringeworthy. Headmaster is a step and I’m hoping, with new power to deliver focused, cutting edge, and relatable material. Thank you.

—Dasan

Honestly...

Alchemy

Base Mind

It’s that it’s a rogue mindset
It’s a wrong mind, yet
Is he gon’ die yet?

It’s a known mindset
It’s a known mind, yet
And I don’t mind it

It’s a known mindset
Here’s a new mind death
Case you couldn't find it

And once again I push the ground
Sound surround
Pulling at your skull, to blame himself
I pull it open to see if I can poke around inside 
A bullet opens and whines enslaved
   his fool grows
In this irrational mindframe 
Abusing the brain flow 
  and then oozing the same show 
You see it, seethe it out
And let me eat around the sacred grounds
This creatures down
Its egregious how you get it now
I’ll preach it out

It’s that its a rogue mindset
It’s a wrong mind, yet
It’s a rogue mindset
Just to remind ya dog
It’s a rogue mindset
Just to remind ya dog

Ya know
You know

Old School Wrath

Genesis

Long Gun !

Z09v4ref3

reanimation,
hittin' the pavement flagrant
really i'm impatient 
pacing on different formulations
money through the door thats getting lost 'bout as fast as I can take it
politicians mutating, out seating confirmations
well
y'all cant compete with the obese
niggas on the street, the police, is all for lease
land on my feet
low key
locked up in the screen, the machine is all on me
got a couple 16s that are raw meat
no peace with disease sitting on me
still watching the street real ornery 
one wrong step and it's bleeding on me

break it down now

it's burning to the ground
or birthing, starting to crown
turn the dial 
surfing static in the sound
getting played, paving placation
i'm saying
press some luck in the mayhem 
making sense, tongues to catch when I weigh in
on the fence, don't know what's on it's way in
magic, we all meet the same end
niggas dont know, i don't get it
world revolves 'till its finished
skip the line and cut the ribbon
sneaking signs in the crossed lines
minds turning like the exorcist 
i'm pulling up, i'm on some extra shit
on my way up breath in existence 
selfish to mention it 
rolling off in the coffin
this brothers looking like, they lost it 
niggas don't know i'm involved in
churn the mind 'till it softens 
moving urban with soft serve 
lines blurred and the crossed words 
it's absurd 'till you fall for it 


Written by Dasan Broadnax
Produced by Dasan Broadnax
Mixed and Mastered by Paul Falcone and Dasan Broadnax

reanimation

I am rectifying this setlist for all of those who watched my a2b2 setlist and did not get to experience the full power of this audio. My internet going out was not very strong I'm guessing that is why the sound was getting messed up. Enjoy. Special thanks to all of those at a2b2. The planners, organizers, and artists. Everyone who has helped me along this process. Ren Leguisamo and Andre Betts for streaming with me.

Setlist:

Experiment 101
Womb 9
Reanimation
z02


When I feel the heartache I sleep more 
My heads a ball of lead 
Collapsing in circuit 
Sleepy 
With the sun and a new way to spiral out 
Tied to a dream like an anvil 
Having a fit to be alive

O.D. Mongrel A2B2 Set

The unknown has always been the primordial slime of the imagination

O.D. Mongrel

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