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Few Villain collaborators have accomplished as much as indie-rap vet Kurious.
He’s a laid-back, spiritual presence in Doomsday ’s “?”; a stoned antiwar voice in “Smokin’ That Shit,” off Black Bastards from the pre-Villainy group KMD; and an impossibly smooth co-star for the booming “Fastlane,” from the King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader album. The Puerto Rican and Cuban Manhattanite arrived too early to the party; later in the decade, interest in Fat Joe, Big Pun, and Beatnuts records rose concurrent to a Latin-pop boom correctively acknowledging the contributions of communities that were always in the picture. Full of thoughtful, playful lyricism served over quixotic sample loops by New York beat-maker Mono En Stereo, Majician is a worthy addition to the Metalface galaxy and a great excuse to run questions by Kurious that I’ve held off on since pitching him on an interview when we first met.
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