R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: “elite mind flayer judo”

A mellow, slightly swerved delivery in the art rap space. It’s R.A.P Ferreira, outta Nashville. Shades of Digable Planets on our highlighted track “elite mind flayer judo.” Of course, it was always the ensemble work that you loved between the DP trio. The album the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap is a collab with Fumitake Tamura, who’s listed as producer but is he handling DJ work on this as well? Tamura has a bunch of releases under his own name (you can stream it on I-Tunes) so maybe he contributed in a number of ways. Also, Kenny Segal mixed. It all adds up to a chill, sunny afternoon of art-damaged beats for your brain.
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