Hip Hop for demons… MC Haleek Maul‘s collaborative release with production duo Supreme Cuts is finally released. It’s dark, it’s haunting, it’s ghostly but man it’s good. Keep an eye on Haleek Maul because he’s only going to get bigger, even in 5 months WIB has been tracking him – and maybe this has introduced you to the dope production of Supreme Cuts too.

There’s a cool interview with Mike Perry, one half of Supreme Cuts, with spin magazine. Read the whole thing here, but here’s some quotes:

“About a year ago, me and Austin were on our first tour up the East Coast. We were on this mega-bus for eight hours and we got an e-mail from a rapper going by the name KIDGNS [Kid Genius]. It was one of those names without any vowels, and we had so many people hitting us up for beats right then that we were skeptical. But I guess Austin gave him his number, because I was taking a nap and he wakes me up, throws the phone in my ear and there’s this kid freestyling for God knows how long. It was Haleek.

We’d actually been approached by Mishka that same day to put out a Supreme Cuts record but we already had Whispers on deck. Originally, this was supposed to be us highlighting a bunch of different rappers, but we wanted to do this instead. It was nice to break away from all original tracks to do rap production, plus Haleek has a very precise vision of what he wants, which you can tell listening to ‘M00N’ with the King Crimson sample and ‘Hoverboard’ uses a Brian Eno song. but a lot of it is us being tongue-in-cheek. We wanted to have fun with it, and to show other dimensions of Haleek’s personality. When we first started talking to him we didn’t realize he was so young. He was already talking a lot more intelligently about music than a lot of adults that I know. I’m really proud of what he’s accomplished.”

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