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Eat 5:37 ░░ 02. Things Have Changed 2:50 ░░ 03. 100 Percent (Feat. Gift Of Gab & Shateish) 4:10 ░░ 04. Space Interlude (Feat. Darian Renee) 2:12 ░░ 05. Worth It (Feat. Wldmnd & Brian Blythe) 3:41 ░░ 06. Survive The Road 3:35 ░░ 07. Fake 3:12 ░░ 08. Alive 4:02 ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ╔═══════════════╗ ░░ ║ N O T E S ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░ ╚═══════════════╝▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░ ░░ In the beginning, Landon Wordswell was a warrior. ░░ ░░ His rhymes were weapons, and whenever he stepped into the arena of combat ░░ to battle-rap his opponents, he had one mission: to destroy them with ░░ barbs, insults and braggadocio. It got to the point where the West Coast ░░ hip-hop artist, who comes to KnoxvilleÆs Old City for a show next week at ░░ The Pilot Light, knew little more than conquest, he told The Daily Times ░░ this week. ░░ ░░ ôAll I was doing was battle-rapping; even when I was making a song, I was ░░ rapping against these invisible rappers,ö Wordswell said. ôOne day I ░░ ended up turning the television on, and (hip-hop artist) Common was ░░ talking. They said, æWhat makes you want to talk about the things you ░░ talk about?Æ And he said, æI can talk about all the things that all the ░░ other rappers are talking about, or I can talk about battling a person ░░ and breaking that person down, or I can make something thatÆs going to ░░ last for a while and change someoneÆs life or change someoneÆs ░░ perspective.Æ ░░ ░░ ôI started thinking about what I was doing. A thousand years down the ░░ line, if someone digs down in the dirt and finds my tapes, can they get a ░░ feel for what we were going through at the time? ThatÆs when I decided I ░░ didnÆt want to do that anymore. I wanted to do something more important, ░░ to try and get into the heart of it a little more ù where to put the ░░ proper hooks and bridges, where to let the beat breathe at. ThatÆs when I ░░ decided to become more of a songwriter than a battle rapper, or a rapper ░░ at all.ö ░░ ░░ And so Wordswell began a period of transformation thatÆs led him toward ░░ the light of socially conscious and personally vulnerable hip-hop. ░░ ThereÆs still the confidence thatÆs almost a prerequisite for the genre ù ░░ heÆs not afraid to brag about rhyming circles around other rappers ù but ░░ thereÆs also a yin and yang of tenderness and ferocity that comes from ░░ the heart of a man who sees himself, his history and his community ░░ through new eyes.ôI started hanging out with people a lot more,ö he said. ░░ ôBy nature, IÆm an introvert for sure, 100 percent, so when I started ░░ touring, I started meeting more people and getting out of my shell. I ░░ would have these conversations with people, and they were getting me high ░░ off of the energy. I would talk to people for a very long time, for hours ░░ at a time, and then I would take these topics. How did it feel? How does ░░ it relate to people, to me and my family? And every time, I would sit ░░ down with a beat and let it play for hours, thinking about these things ░░ that were on my mind, and then IÆd start writing.ö ░░ ░░ His first album, ôThe Mourning After Pill,ö landed on a list of the Top ░░ 20 most downloaded albums of March 2013 on Bandcamp; even earlier, while ░░ rapping under the stage name Youngs, he had put an album titled ôRevenge ░░ of the Soulö in the No. 2 position on the Japanese hip-hop charts. HeÆs ░░ struck up a friendship with Gift of Gab of the hip-hop duo Blackalicious, ░░ and heÆs continued to cultivate a crew of like-minded peers throughout ░░ the country, including Mr. Ill and Earl Grae of East TennesseeÆs hip-hop ░░ community. ░░ ░░ His most recent release, 2016Æs ôPrayer and Whiskey,ö is his most ░░ personal body of work to date, much of it stemming from a crisis of ░░ conscience surrounding fatherhood and relationships, he said. ░░ ░░ ôI was about to quit rapping at that point. I was pretty much done,ö he ░░ said. ôI got to a crossroads where I was like, æIÆve got a son now; maybe ░░ I need to go back to work and be home more.Æ I was living in two ░░ different places ù in San Francisco and Eugene, Ore. ù and going back and ░░ forth was depleting time away from my son. My girlfriend lived in San ░░ Francisco and my son in Oregon, and I was touring a lot, going to see my ░░ son when I got done and flying out to see her once in a while.ôIt was ░░ just a thing where I was ready to make a totally different move in my ░░ life. I didnÆt want to keep drinking until I passed out, and some friends ░░ in Oregon told me, æMan, youÆve just gotta meditate.Æ IÆm not really that ░░ religious, to be honest, but I started doing it a lot, and I considered ░░ it a prayer session.ö ░░ ░░ He was also writing, letting the things on his heart flow from there to ░░ fingers to page, and in the creation of ôPrayer and Whiskey,ö he evolved ░░ beyond the artist grappling with those spiritual crises in the songs ░░ themselves. It was a therapeutic process, he said, and on the other side ░░ of it, it felt like something of a rebirth. HeÆs continued to work ever ░░ since, and these days heÆs using his art to address topics and issues on ░░ the outside, he added. ░░ ░░ ôI just wrote a song IÆll release the day the tour starts, and it pretty ░░ much talks about all of it ù my son, where I am with him, his mom, ░░ politics, the way I feel about the whole racial stir thatÆs happening ░░ right now,ö Wordswell said. ôThese are the things IÆm wrestling with, and ░░ every time I put pen to paper, itÆs a lot more political now. 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