Perry Porter - Bobby Ro$$

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: CCM07LP
Barcode: 0843563123010
Release Date: 11 Feb 2022
Genre: Hip Hop

"Bobby Ro$$" is the debut full-length from Perry Porter. It's a vibe-heavy hustle through the landscape of art, blackness, and self-love. Porter inhabits the alter ego of Bobby Ro$$, a trap music avatar of the much-beloved PBS painter, rapping alongside a who's who of the top up and coming music producers from the Northwest. The album also incorporates snippets of interviews with cultural luminaries such as Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kerry James Marshall, and Maya Angelou into a narrative lattice, with Porter painting himself into the canon of black art. The Seattle Times describes the album’s many opposing moods, from "annihilating a trap beat on a breathless five-alarm banger (“Sink or Swim”) to cooling down with beatific cuts like album closer “Watercolor”... Porter does equally beautiful things with 808s and acrylics." Indeed, in addition to rapping and music, Perry Porter is also an acclaimed visual artist. His dreamlike watercolor portraits and lush murals have been shown in art galleries across the nation. His music has appeared in several major video game releases, including Cyberpunk 2077 and EA Sports UFC 2. His early self-released solo mixtapes met almost universal acclaim.

TRACKLIST: 1. The Joy of Painting 2. Surf 3. Cruise Control 4. PRW Freestyle 5. Bust That 6. Shake Shack (feat. Blake Anthony) 7. Tempo 8. Sink or Swim 9. Nothing New 10. Shark Fin (feat. Romaro Franceswa) 11. Birth of A Black Star (feat. Fox Desmond) 12. Twenty-Grand (feat. Jarv Dee) 13. Watercolor