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When X approached me about getting back into music, I was a little apprehensive... I had been out of commission, so to speak, for over 10 years. The Unreleased Album was a just that - songs that had been in the vault from old sessions, supposedly to fill in for songs I wanted replaced on My First Album, nothing was freshly created.
I was always jotting down lines in my phone, writing on scraps of paper, waking up and rhyming into my phone in the middle of the night ( it's in the blood I guess) but hadn't written a solid 16 or anything in years. Put out a call for beats on fb (Mistah Live, thank you fam) and Aneeway Jones sent me some treats (40 plus beats to choose from, thank you fam). Laced a few verses for King Cesar and the Organik album and felt that vibe coming back. SPITR started being formulated. We dropped Bourbon Street last year and it was received well.
SPITR is an acronym for Smartest Person In The Room. I chose this title because even though I've been compared to a few MCs, I always felt like I stood alone. Skill, creativity and wordplay have been things I stressed from Day 1. Been at this for 30 plus years and I try to come differently each time I get the opportunity to touch a mic and bless a beat. I'm no legend or OG, just a kid from Southside Queens who had a knack for putting words together in rhythmic form. Solo... more
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released January 25, 2019
