RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.
Because it is June 27th, which is unofficially DJ Screw day, here is a megamix of a bunch of crap off of Screw tapes that I love more just a little bit than all the other crap on DJ Screw tapes. I will still talk a motherfucker's ear off about how Screw was ahead of his time, still so, and a heavily underrated influence not just on hip hop but pop music. So here is:
What is on this: intro/roller skates/crossroads/five minutes of funk/represent the south/recline & shine/sunny dayz/smoke on/world of mine/running the underground/groovin' on a sunday/eazy does it/every year/time/public enemy/posse on broadway/steppin out/loves gonna get you/be thankful.../codeine fiend flow/purple stuff/country rap tune/knockin' pictures off the wall
Thanks to Mark at Optipop, we did second freestyle sonnet video, which will eventually be the full 15 sonnets of a heroic crown. WE GONNA RUN OUT OF COOL PICNIC TABLES. Anyways, building up to the official (lol "official") release of the first two freestyle sonnet books - Shakespeare Greenheart and Nasreddin Shifflett, I set up a Facebook event page, which is not a real event in the sense you all have to physically be there together (though that might be chill, or creepy), so invite yourself.
Video freestyle sonnet Supersize Sonnet #1: My friend and occasional co-conspirator Mark Edwards (Optipop) is doing a one-minute video every day for a year. He did one of me writing a freestyle sonnet on a big piece of posterboard at a picnic table. It makes me self-aware, like perhaps I'm closer to one of those freaky hermit dudes who fills up an apartment with twisted writings than I realized. And yet I'm also that weird capitalist self-aware enough to realize nobody else is aware of me. So I am like an outsider, who is an insider, but still an outsider, but not outside nearly enough. Or something.