R.A.P. Ferreira

we say free @frankiejaxnomad til @frankiejaxnomad is free!!!!! the good brother been snatched up by them people, ICE, and is sitting in the belly of the whale. his partner is maintaining his home and their own as well as pets and bills while baraka sits caged somewhere awaiting due process. please go to @frankiejaxnomad page and boot up the gofundme. the plate needs to be passed around and added onto. his life will never ever be the same and we, the people who enjoy this rap music and fellowship around it, need to rally for our own. pray for bro, chant for bro, meditate for bro kiss a loved one for bro, eat a good meal for bro sip somn wit some fire in it for bro, put some smoke in the air for bro. he will prevail and we will help him to do so.

got @soulfolks back up and running out of a beautiful satellite in downtown nashville. opening to the public next week. i'll be helming the shop as an appointment only, consultation this time around. there will be a site to book yr appointment for 30 minute sessions but we can go longer if'n needed. i'm buying, selling and trading vinyl, tapes and any other cultural ephemera i find fascinating. bring your inquiries about love and life, art and music and we will trade ideas while you dig through our esteemed archives and wares. @soulfolks is as important to me as @rubyyachting and i consider them engaged expressions of the same thought process. to be an artist and live with dignity means you have to be an owner/operator. you have to bust your ass. the goal isn't to sell a million records because how would you possibly handle that infrastructure? rarely do i meet a musician who even considers what it means to pack and ship thousands of units when they espouse their grand visions of world fame n riches. success for me has looked different. it's been familiarizing myself with the carcasses of culture the capitalists disgard and reworking and honoring the bones and flesh into spirit whether thats a rap song, a blues show or simply me selling an old ass vinyl back to an old ass person who can't believe "these are still around." then i have won and am in league with the goodness in life. there are less than 30 Black owned record stores in america. it's a time of war and destruction. this is the hill i wage battle from. come check us out and grab a rarity at a reasonable rate. something to stoke the fire inside you. peace!

the superior healing style tour has concluded. the itinerary ended in nashville on the 161st anniversary of the surrender of the confederacy's army of tennessee(the largest surrender of the civil war)((not to be confused with the union's "army of the tennessee")) and the sentiment was echoed appropriately as ruby yacht tinkered with the time-space continuum in drkmttr. getting older is accepting there are things worse than bad days, bad weeks or even bad seasons. bad can stretch on for years. as any sicko can tell you, you can get comfortable in pain. what feels like genuine effort in the present can resemble autopiloted, dissociative busy work. it's hard to call it while being distracted and bombarded. art is a medicine but money can ruin that too. working for a living is often being killed slowly. when you take your deep breaths make sure your belly expands, not the rib cage. evidence of the superior healing style on my face and back. when i seen brother ron he told me i looked taller. my momma said the same. yea, it's a few old grey clouds bursted. had to dip dive and look alive dashing across illinois into iowa and back over for indianapolis. pop quizzes from the Almighty demanded immaculate answers and i didn't skip a line. keeping my liberty in society in tact ! ! ! got to see the man with the drip on his born day and revel in our shared vocabulary of possibility. i will always rep @thegoodyvault . i believe in manny and his cultural center. got to indianapolis on kurt vonnegot time and yet again the kindest young fellow brought every vinyl ive ever made out (which as u see is a library). thank you for honoring the pieces, taking time with them, finding something of merit inside them. thank you. "the queen" was a great read, josh levin is a lyricist of non fiction. linda taylor's story is crying out to be made into a film. i got a list of screenplays i want to write. throw it on the pile. thank you to everyone who popped out on these gatherings and get downs and gigs. thank you for the gifts, the generosity, hospitality, the greens, the motivation, the reciprocated energy. thank you. im in nashville, remembering my dreams. peace R.A.P.

Chicago, i love you. forever and always. no place in the world like ya hometown, the spirits that escort you in every alley and street whisper all the childhood teasin' names you forgot. it's bookstores here i can't walk passed without sobbing. it's corners here where rap revealed itself to me like a late night dirty flasher in a peacoat and i stood, stuck and staring, soaking up all the obscenity with thirst. there's coffee shops and diners here where i planned every step of my life meticulously and those schemes are still rolled up under my sleeve. when i dropped out of college and moved back to the city, i got my first apartment with 30 days of rap money. you couldn't tell me shit. we dreamed of this. niggas bop hard where i'm from and it's a special fellowship to be a rhymer here. thank you gentry for the years of inspiration and guidance and for never stepping in wackness. it is one of my greatest honors to be a representative of the particular way we do rap in this blessed and glorious city.

SUPERIOR HEALING STYLE ON DISPLAY TONIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS AT THE CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER I AM A CULTURE WAR PATRIOT THESE HALLOWED HALLS ARE QUITE SPECIAL THIS EVE I ADD MY YAWP TO THE BEVY PEACEPEACEPEACEPEACEPEACE POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

detroit, that mighty jewel in the midwest rust belt. what a city, a poet's town. a rolling riddle with U turn ciphers. there are people who will never experience the Real in a place like this or baltimore or memphis and we pity those people, the ones who will never understand how culture moves. i give thanks to this joyful epicenter of much Blackness and groove! the love here is felt deeply. reunited wit the fine minds of passalacqua. my first time in michigan was about 14 years ago and i kicked raps wit passalacqua then just as we did now. fellowshipping with genuine articles of MCing is always soul restoring!! thank you gents! sold out the moondog cafe... what could be said for this tabernacle? it is a holy place for wandering soulfolks. the apple pie is delicious. the kindness freeflowing and the soundsystem banging. thank you for allowing me to hold palaver wit yall. big ups to the feller who acquired ten (10!) copies of THE NIGHT GREEN SIDE OF IT on wax, too. height keech pulled up on us too and i gotta shout out the homie for the words he put on me. thank you g. taking a day to drive slow to minneapolis. tomorrow i'm at the cedar cultural center. let me know if i should do a country blues set and forego the rapping or if it's proper to bomb atomically. after that i'm in chicago, indianapolis and cashville. come find me. dates and tickets at soulfolks.org

taking my medicine show up to detroit. playing the moon dog tomorrow with passalacqua n fred. then im off to the cedar cultural center in minneapolis. heard they got spider john guitar on the wall, i'll take a gander. next on the itinerary, i plan to bop to the city of my origin, the windy one, and get real busy up to that subterranean over in wicker park. at this point imma dip into my trove and get the kids all somn real nice. my daughters asked for dresses. the boys wanted video games. iight nuff said. im makin my way out to davenport iowa at that raccoon motel gon see sean, been some years, might show him how i get down on the 6 string now. like a javelin in flight i will directly zoom to indianapolis and play the greatest garage gig there is at the hoosier dome. ambling back down below the mason dixon i will find myself back home, for a delightful gig in the city i live, cashville tennessee to close out this fulfilling tour of the united states during a time of utmost peril and mystery. my kinda beat. dates and tickets at soulfolks.org flicks from last night's demonstration at ace of cups in columbus ohio, courtesy @spicolitattoos

... back to this game that i never left! the superior healing style carried me through philadelphia at our old haunt the kung fu neck tie. @thezoedixon had us guffawing and styles galored. brother mike brought me to a breakfast speakeasy that folded turkey bacon silk kerchiefs. a beautiful thing. hadnt spit nuthin in jersey in a good few years, got to @prototypepaterson and was deeply moved. what that crew is working on is some of the most inspired shit ive seen in a long time and im ready to get back on the ball with my own grand ambitions. thank you for the immaculate hospitality and conversation, friends. peace to @chaiscustom for the technicolor neokufi. kept it pushin down to dc and got poetical in the ping pong pizzeria called comet. @melansoulflower 's set joined on stage by @princesssiran was a master class, thank you for sharing yr gifts with us. avoiding tolls and highways at all costs, my magic is turning a 5 hour drive into 9. taking my time to see it and smell it all. cloaked in soulfolks cologne zooming through amish country now, see you tomorrow at ace of cups in columbus ohio. i am now joined in the minivan by a particularly mysterious and lowkey traveler courtesy @melissas_flippin_art . the company is appreciated. i'm outside dissing frinky little mc's and getting giggly with the locals. on tour for some time yet coming to detroit, chicago, minneapolis and more, dates and tickets at soulfolks.org CIAO, R.A.P.

the east coast run been a blur so far. piloting a minivan called odyssey and leaving the moon roof open. got up to @eatdailyop and had some of that world famous black booty maple pie. wowiewow wow. slid through the glorious bread n butter diner in boyleston. my portuguese brother chef chris is doing heavenly things in there, his hot sauce is superb. please get some. up in portland we convened next door to the arts college as im want to do. SPACE has been one of the most gracious and loving venues to me throughout my journey and they still are. thank you friends. cousin harry pulled up on me at the gig. you see sartorialism runs in my tribe. caught up wit my momma and my lil sis at @marcys_diner . ❤️🖤💚 the greatest muffins in the world. maybe next tour will be in effort to assemble writings on the remaining delicious diners and buffets of this country. i realized my attraction to these places early and its persistence is because these are the last portals to my world. while the video rentals, the arcades, the malls, the internet cafes and whatnot all close... the buffet and the diner cling on. just like me. i'm clinging on. bout to go full klingon wit this blues shit too. for now the rap show is at a pinnacle. i'm well oiled. i rap better than anyone you have seen. i promise. and im doing it wit no money and a deep laugh. come see me. i'm at kung fu necktie tonite down in that phillydelphia. cant wait to see brother mike, ask how cheesemongerin been goin. peace RF

keep goin my west coast ramble comes to its conclusion tonight in denver, colorado at the marquis theater. east coast roam begins tuesday. dates & tickets at soulfolks.org

"when you under the underground" (c) geti king enterprises last train i remember is the surfliner to san diego. mr. lara pulled up and read from his own collection of spellbooks. some dear old friends from high school theater times rendezvous'd as well. grateful for the true day ones coming through, the spiritual goblet stays full off these humble reminders. once the sand gets plentiful enough you got to hop the bus. there are crucial details that my honor insists on omitting. got to @trillphx and collapsed to my knees at the temple gates. what a wondrous place if you love hip hop how we do. the kind gardeners @recordsareforever & trill gifted me this glorious toy crate of my records, up to date i might add. pigeon john keeps moving the crowd with skill. got to abq and held a deacons only meeting. spent a whole day walking around and collecting these for you. wrote a lot in a few parks. haggled for a scoop of ice cream. sat next to a man playing saxophone in old town square long enough to hear him have to start getting free with it. i'm talking about walking for miles. i see why marcher arrant be on this. at this clock my day count for push ups is passed 100. i finished the book i brought. would recommend "the vapors" by david hill. historical recount of hot springs, arkansas a city once rivaling las vegas for illicit activity of all kind. bill clinton makes a cameo as a boy that explains his entire trajectory. shout out dane harris. scry the beans and instant noodles, parse the favors and disgard the rest, don't even give it a name. tonight at @whatsleftrecords tomorrow at @marquisden going home to break for Easter and then the campaign to obtain resumes out in northampton, ma. dates and tickets for all these and more at soulfolks.org forever, RF

you come to california and do the little run around. we move slow down south. out west it's a medium tempo. no one ever appears to be in a rush but they ain't takin it easy either. the patron saint of the hustle wizely surmised, "it's a marathon." and when you see those long dusty califas roads you can understand how a young hustler might come to such eloquent information. my lungs feel massive and strong. when we fill balloons on birthdays i always get the biggest swell off a single breath. it's one of the few pieces of proof i have that i do my job consistently and well. my lungs feel massive and strong. oakland was a poet circle. we opened the portal and ushered through whatever wanted to be heard. the ivy room is an old school weirdo haven and i have to recommend it to you should you be in the area. my first time at gold diggers in LA, felt like the mos eisley cantina for dutch graphic design enthusiasts. not a bad spot at all. painted pitch black inside and out. i can dig it. went down the street for an horchata latte and a slice of cake. you got to put a credit card on file to use the green room cos someone you don't know trashed the place before. that's what's up. the air crackles with possibility. i write to the rhythm. the quest continues dates and tickets at soulfolks.org tonight we at @thebansheebarsd and i am bringing a very special guest out amicably yours, RF