Jake One & Freeway’s Stimulus Packaging
Change you can believe in. Minneapolis’ indie rap behemoth Rhymesayers Entertainment went in with the packaging on the upcoming Jake One and Freeway album The Stimulus Package, due February 16. Designed by the one and only Brent Rollins- not only “the best graphic artist working in hiphop”, but an alumnus of the greatest group of minds to ever offer commentary on hiphop, the ego trip crew (the “arrogant voice of musical truth").
The album comes like a hustler’s knot: oversized Jake and Free “dollars"(check those stunnas on Jake!), a cd “wallet” to stuff em in, a slick download card for the instrumentals, and of course the CD itself. RSE has been stepping up their packaging game noticeably in the last couple years, making their physical albums far more collectible than an impersonal p2p download with no track names or art.
Also in RSE news- this shit happened:
At a show in Jackson Hole, Wyoming- Brother Ali, RSE’s manic street preacher, was joined on beatbox accompaniment by Justin Timberlake- which is almost like if Lupe Fiasco was joined onstage by R.Kelly at a show in Gary, Indiana. I just pray a breathy, impassioned “Where’s The Love” Pt.2 isn’t in the fucking cards.
That said, if you find yourself in the Minneapolis area February 9th, you should hit Rhymesayers’ A Benefit For Haiti at the iconic First Ave, hosted by Atmosphere’s Slug, featuring performances from Ali (and who knows?), Freeway and Jake One, Sage Francis, I Self Devine, Sims, Toki Wright, BK One, B. Dolan, Muja Messiah, Kevin Beacham, and DJ King Otto (who you’ll remember is partly responsible for the Charles Mudede’s #2 all-time Seattle rap album, Silent Lambs Project‘s Soul Liquor).

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