Busdriver

Possessing A Hyper-Literate Intellectual Style Of Rapping Augmented With Dizzying Elocution That Would Tongue-Tie Even The Fiercest Auctioneer Busdriver Is Eclectic And Eccentric Enough To Cite Vocalese Jazz Singer Jon Hendricks As A Primary Influence. Born Regan Farquhar The Los Angeles MC Was Introduced To Hip-Hop Culture Early – His Father Wrote The Screenplay To One Of The Earliest Films Focusing On Hip-Hop Krush Groove. He Began Rapping At Age Nine Releasing His First Record At Age 13 With His Group 4/29 Named After The 1992 L.A. Riots. By The Mid-'90s Busdriver Was A Regular At The Project Blowed Open Mic Where He Would Meet Future Collaborators And Underground Luminaries Like Aceyalone Abstract Rude And Freestyle Fellowship. And Shortly After The Vinyl Did Flow. Busdriver Guested On Upward Of 20 Singles And By 2001 He Could No Longer Be Contained By Guest Spots Releasing His First Full-Length Memoirs Of The Elephant Man 1999 . There Were Just As Many Detractors As Supporters For His Singular Style Which Was So Densely Packed It Made His Chosen Name Seem A Reference For Multiple-Personality Disorder And The Lo-Fi Production Also Left More Listeners Scratching Heads Than Nodding Them. His Next Album This Machine Kills Fashion Tips 2002 Continued In A Similar Manner Before Being Trumped By Better Production And More Focused Rhymes On Temporary Forever The Same Year. Joined By Another West Coast Avant-Garde MC Radioinactive And The Breezy Fractured Pop Of Electronic Producer Daedelus Busdriver Released Yet Another Odd Puzzle Piece In 2003 The Weather. Fear Of A Black Tangent Followed On Mush In 2005. After Moving To Anti-/Epitaph The Rapper Issued RoadKillOvercoat Which Featured Production From Nobody And Boom Bip. His Second Anti- Release Jhelli Beam Appeared In 2009. In 2010 He Put Out A Full-Length Mixtape Of Unreleased Gems And Illegal Remixes Called Computer Cooties. It Was Released As A Free Album. 2010 Saw Bus Toiling Over A New Album That Will Shock Fans And Confuse The Unconverted Into Unwilling Servitude. It Is Called Beaus$Eros And Was Released On February 21 2012 On Fake Four. Beaus$Eros Forgoes The Lightening-Speed Rhyming That Defined His Style In Favor Of A Diverse Off-Kilter Brand Of Pop And Post-Hip-Hop. read less