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Seasons 3:45 ░░ 02. Ups & Downs 2:40 ░░ 03. Shooting Stars 2:32 ░░ 04. Notice 3:03 ░░ 05. Overwhelmed 3:33 ░░ 06. Kyukei 2:17 ░░ 07. Passion 2:55 ░░ 08. Hypnosis 3:19 ░░ 09. N.G.D. 2:58 ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ╔═══════════════╗ ░░ ║ N O T E S ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░ ╚═══════════════╝▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░ ░░ K.A.A.N. Is The Answer To All Of Your Rap Desires. ░░ ░░ K.A.A.N. stands for Knowledge Above All Nonsense. ░░ ░░ Hordes of twenty-somethings living in their parents' house dream of ░░ becoming rap superstars. What sets Brandon Perry, aka K.A.A.N., apart: ░░ he's really good. Jezebel's Jia Tolentino has described the Maryland ░░ rapper's "technical virtuosity," likening Perry to Kendrick Lamar and ░░ calling his best moments "so directly vulnerable and commanding that they ░░ feel channeled." ░░ ░░ In the 10 months since, Perry has only gotten crisper. If you don't ░░ believe me, check out his take on the Eminem original "Rap God rmx." ░░ ░░ Did you catch that? Neither did I, the first fifty times I listened, but ░░ that's just fine. It's one of those magical stretches that combines ░░ everything that makes good rap so fun to listen to: rhythm and rhyme, ░░ wordplay and style, storytelling and signifying, to borrow criteria from ░░ Adam Bradley's "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop." ░░ ░░ Perry's lyrics get serious, taking up issues like mental health, ░░ politics, history, and religion, but he's also a master of super goofy, ░░ intensely satisfying posturing. Try not to smile as you watch the video ░░ for "Kaancepts," where he bops around in a Georgetown jersey spewing a ░░ series of math puns that culminate in "I haven't even touched on the ░░ square roots of my averages, the 3.14 pi divided with savages." ░░ Musically, he plays with a range of styles, rapping over Mozart's ░░ Lacrymosa in "Work" and sampling "Hotel California" in "The Eagles." ░░ ░░ His website talks about hip hop being a voice for the voiceless, so I ░░ asked Perry who he's trying to represent. "There are a sect of kids that ░░ are not feeling trap rap and they're not feeling drinking cough syrup and ░░ getting high, popping a Xan and getting high," he says. "I feel like ░░ there's a lot of introspective, artistic kids...So I kind of want to ░░ speak to those kids that have talents and abilities, [but] they're just ░░ too insecure and too self-conscious to actually act on those things." ░░ ░░ Take "Antidope," a song about reinventing oneself. It's Perry's twist on ░░ Travis Scott's blow-up single "Antidote." Compare the opening lyrics of ░░ the original ("Don't you open up that window/Don't you let out that ░░ antidote/Poppin' pills is all we know/In the hills is all we know,") to ░░ Perry's version: "Lately I haven't been sleeping. I'm terrified that I'm ░░ falling off. I've been secluded, ashamed that I lost it. Forgiving myself ░░ is a daunting task. Now I'm revising the vision. Slow down the rhythm, ░░ it's easy to listen." ░░ ░░ I asked Perry what role racial identity plays in his music. "I'm ░░ obviously a younger black man," he says, "so that stuff is definitely in ░░ the back of my mind....All that stuff we're seeing nowadays with police ░░ brutality and racism and bigotry that we've always seen in this country, ░░ it's always in the back of your mind...I feel like if you're born black ░░ it's kind of like it comes with the territory. You've gotta know what's ░░ going on around you and what situations you're in. But in terms of me ░░ writing, I don't feel like I speak for anyone. I don't speak for young ░░ black men or black people. I speak for myself." ░░ ░░ In "Real," Perry reflects about how some of those instances of racism and ░░ brutality affect his own mentality, as well as how he sees members of his ░░ community responding. He wraps up the last verse with this kicker: "You ░░ act like this brutality has not happened for ages. There ain't no turning ░░ of pages, instead I'm setting the scene. Out in Texas they'll f------ ░░ murder you for traffic infractions, violating your civil liberties and ░░ all of your rights. If you don't understand the law then you could call ░░ it a night. Getting harassed and on your ass and then they taking your ░░ life. But this reality is feeling very nightmare-like. I said it's all ░░ the same thing from Sandra to Rodney King." ░░ ░░ Perry's fan base isn't huge yet, but his supporters are ride or die. It's ░░ not unusual to see someone share their cell number on one of his ░░ Soundcloud tracks, and his Twitter followers can get a tad heady ("SLEEP ░░ ON @KAANLIFEMUSIC AT UR OWN RISK!!! #GOAT"), but their passion does a ░░ pretty good job of summing up what makes a K.A.A.N. track feel special: ░░ ░░ "My wish: @KAANLIFEMUSIC hits me with that follow but I'm afraid my phone ░░ will roast from all the heat he throws" ░░ ░░ - Leah Donnella, npr ░░ ░░ Produced, Mixed & Mastered by ORBT. ░░ ░░█ ░░███ ░█ ░░░░██ █▓█ ████░ ░░░░░██ y o o v e e y o o █████ █████ ░░░░░░██ g o t t h e ▒████░ ██▒▒██ ░░░░░░░█ ░ ██▓██ ▓█▒██ ░░░░░░░█ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ████ ▒▓███ ▒███ ░░░░░░░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ █░█ █░█ ░███████ ████░ ░███ ░░░░░░░█ ░███░███░█ █░███░███ █████████▒ █████ ██ ░░░░░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░░░█ ██████████████ █████ █ ░░░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ██████████████████ ████▓ ░░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ████████████████████▒ ░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ▓██████▒▒▒▒███████░ ░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ▓█████▒███████████ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ █████▒▒░████████ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ██▓██▒██▓███▒ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░░░█ ██████████ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░███░█ ░███ ▒███████ /─────────────────────────\ ░░░██ ███ ░| shouts 2 all the groups |░ ░░░░██ ████ ░| putting out |░ ░░░░░██ █████ ░| quality music |░ ░░░░░░███ ████▒ \─────────────────────────/ ░░░░░░░▓▓█████████████▒ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀