Splendor & Misery

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Splendor & Misery cover art

The experimental rap trio crafts a brilliant, Afrofuturist science-fiction concept album detailing a slave uprising aboard an interstellar cargo ship. Daveed Diggs delivers staggeringly complex, rapid-fire lyricism over William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes' abrasive, suffocating electronic noise production. The record’s narrative ambition and world-building earned it a prestigious nomination for the Hugo Award.

Genres

  • Industrial Hip Hop
  • Abstract Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. Long Way Away (Intro)
  2. The Breach
  3. All Black
  4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle)
  5. Wake Up
  6. Long Way Away
  7. Interlude 02 (Numbers)
  8. True Believer
  9. Long Way Away - Instrumental
  10. Air 'Em Out
  11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle)
  12. Break the Glass
  13. Story 5
  14. Baby Don't Sleep
  15. A Better Place