The Devil, Harbinger
Sometime in June, I received a call from a guy saved in my phone as White Boy D. We’d met once about three years prior. He used to manage Pill during the “Trap Going Ham” era, prior to the Pink City rapper’s brief tenure as an MMG attache. After that, D began managing Problem of Duct Tape Entertainment. Like 99 percent of all manager-rapper relationships, things didn’t work out. I know very little about White Boy D and that hasn’t changed. Some people are mysterious by design and some by necessity. He’s probably a little bit of both, but it makes sense when you meet him. You will probably not meet him. I sense that he’s the sort of person who has long exceeded the number of people that he cares to know.
He called me in June out of the the blue to tell me about a project that he couldn’t quite explain. It was an art project, a rap album, a multi-media assault weapon, a way to attack corruption and banality. He didn’t know how to describe it and I still don’t. He calls himself The Devil now, but I still haven’t changed his name in my phone. A few weeks later, he sent over Harbinger. It’s a mixtape that he partially produced and entirely curated. It features Future, Alley Boy and 808 Mafia. It knocks hard and arrives with a couple short films. You can watch them on his website. They are terrifying and real and make you question the utility of even bothering to throw those words around. The videos are fast and cancerous blurs of violence and addiction. The music is heavy and bludgeoning. There are six parts to the project: Love, Drugs, ??????, Violence, Betrayal, Rage. It’s Bosch crossed with Bunuel and baseheads. East Atlanta as Apocalypse Now.
He has a new movie out too. He sent it to me a few weeks ago, but I haven’t watched it. Not because I’m scared, but because I know that the images will become ineradicable from my memory. By the time I die, I imagine that I’ll have forgotten almost everything from 2013. This memory will probably be among the last to go.
Source:
http://www.thefader.com/2013/12/11/cool-peoples-picks-21-musicians-tastemakers-and-weirdos-chose-their-favorite-music-of-2013/