" Stuck in the Mud" is a seven-minute aerial view of his desires and fears, all swarming together: "H**s, dreamers - stuck in the mud / Look at what the reaper got - stuck in the mud / Range, Bimmers - stuck in the mud." The track pauses for a few seconds midway, then the beat switches, featured artist SZA disappears and Rashad uses the last half of the song to point to where his old balancing act - "Pop a Xanny, make your problems go away" - failed. Most of the songs function as piecemeal explanations for his absence - a revelation about a new daughter here, a confession about depression there.
He nimbly weaves his way through the lead single, "Free Lunch," taking care to remind us that he knows where he came from: The refrain "In my hood we call it buck" is a shout-out to the late Pimp C of trailblazing Texas duo UGK. From there, Rashad eases his way back into the depths of the South, where trunk-rattling bass and exaggerated drawls roam free.
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The first track of The Sun's Tirade, "where u at?", is a recording of TDE co-president Dave Free questioning him about his whereabouts since the first album. Now, Rashad is finally laying it out for the world to see - the very same world he wanted so desperately to connect with two years ago. And I couldn't figure out a way to talk about it until after I pushed a lot of that s*** behind me." "I can't talk about it without sounding like I f*** with it. "Like, I couldn't really make an outright negative, celebrating-negativity song," Rashad said. During our conversation, he explained his choice to weather that struggle in silence, rather than put his pain on wax.
SZA and Lance Skiiiwalker, both vocalists, round out the roster.) Addiction brought consequences: Rashad was almost dropped from TDE three times, and wound up in the hospital for damage to his stomach lining. (In addition to Rashad and Q, TDE also houses the biggest and baddest rapper on the planet, Kendrick Lamar, and the rest of the unofficial "Black Hippy" crew, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul. In the lead-up to the album, Rashad revealed he had become addicted to alcohol and Xanax pills while on tour with labelmate ScHoolboy Q in 2014. The Record Black Hippy: A New Hip-Hop Recipe With A Familiar Sound On The Sun's Tirade, released earlier this month, Rashad is addressing grown-man issues: a second child, flat-out addiction, isolation, stagnancy and reckless irresponsibility in the face of already-compounded responsibilities.
We're more than two years removed from that version of Rashad, the very new father who - despite having moved to Los Angeles to join forces with one of hip-hop's most powerful and visible labels, Top Dawg Entertainment - was still processing the life he had led as a mischievous kid in the South: late-night escapades with the homies, coping with a broken home, chasing girls, chasing highs. He was beyond eager to talk to the world. His delivery there, and throughout Cilvia Demo, was impassioned and sharp, almost frantic at times.
I also heard rare, acidic levels of honesty pouring from tracks like " Banana," a measured, tense journey through a past of childhood disappointment and a present of self-destruction and debauchery. His debut album, Cilvia Demo, dropped in January 2014, and back then I heard an urgent young man from Chattanooga, Tenn., on the hunt for validation through his art. Like most of his fans, I wanted to know where he had been and what to expect from his latest work, The Sun's Tirade. I met Isaiah Rashad late this summer, during a stop on the manic press run that comes with the release of a new album. His new album, The Sun's Tirade, is out now. Isaiah Rashad greets fans outside a signing in downtown Los Angeles this fall.
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