Within the late ’90s, a rap weirdo who known as himself doseone got here out of nowhere — or, extra precisely, Nampa, Idaho — with a scattered, frantic, fully authentic fashion. His circulation gave the impression of fast-talk patter from an outdated gangster film, and his technical wizardry and indirect imagery helped set the stage for just a few many years of underground rap.
In 1997, doseone famously freestyle-battled Eminem at Scribble Jam. After that, he helped discovered the Anticon Collective, and he performed a vital function in teams like cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, and Refined, a few of which didn’t make something that could possibly be acknowledged as rap music. He’s been a driving drive in tasks like 13 & God, the team-up between Themselves and the Notwist, and Nevermen, his supergroup trio with Mike Patton and Tunde Adebimpe. At this time, doseone’s received a brand new album that brings him right into a realm of underground rap that he in all probability helped encourage.
The brand new doseone album All Portrait, No Refrain is a full-length team-up with the skronky New York producer Metal Tipped Dove, a veteran in his personal proper. Metal Tipped Dove is a part of the scene surrounding billy woods’ label Backwoodz Studioz; he received along with Fatboi Sharif and Fats Tony to launch the album Mind Sweet just a few months in the past. All Portrait, No Refrain took place particularly as a result of Doseone loves the music popping out on Backwoodz and since he reached out to Metal Tipped Dove.
On All Portrait, No Refrain, Metal Tipped Dove offers a set of spacious, clanking beats that give doseone room to push his voice in a bunch of various instructions. Friends embody billy woods, Open Mike Eagle, Fatboi Sharif, Antipop Consortium’s M.Sayyid, and Freestyle Fellowship legend Mykah 9, a few of whom modify their very own types to match up with what doseone does. Should you’re able to go deep right into a deep rap-nerd vortex, this can be a actual journey. On the album’s Bandcamp description, doseone has this to say:
I’ve been impressed by Backwoodz for some time, in some ways, however probably the most potent being all these distinct pens. September 2023, I had heard a virtually performed model of ShrapKnel’s newest report, and one thing snapped in me. Listening to that completely hungry, impressed rapping turned my energy again on. For me, being impressed warrants telling those that are inspiring you, so [once I heard Decay] I reached out and despatched Fatboi Sharif and dove some form phrases about that report. The remainder is historical past…
I’m probably not a options man, however to align with and join with those that encourage me, I known as in some lovely people I had by no means labored with however all the time meant to: Open Mike Eagle, M.Sayyid, billy woods, Fatboi Sharif, and Myka 9 join eras, artists, and types of unconventional rap I maintain extremely expensive.
Stream All Portrait, No Refrain beneath.
All Portrait, No Refrain is out now on Backwoodz Studioz.
