Queens lyricist Homeboy Sandman returns with a new project, just a few months after his last offering, There In Spirit, a quirky yet dense glimpse into the always-clever rapper's mind.
“I make art perpetually," he told Rock The Bells upon the album's release. “Part of staying nimble is not only finding new sounds to rap on, it’s not only finding new flows to rap through or finding new topics to rap about. It’s also about opening up more — it’s about finding more about me to put out there.”
His new project, I Can't Sell These, is just as the title suggests — full of tracks he couldn't legally sell because he doesn't own the rights to the music.
"I rap because it’s magic not because I can sell it," he writes on his Bandcamp page. "It so happens that lots of times I can sell it and that’s cool and thanks those of y’all who buy it. But when I hear a Paquito D’Rivera song just crying to be rapped over I’m not going to fight the feeling just because I don’t know how to reach out to Paquito to get the clearance. Turns out there’s enough people I don’t know how to reach out to for a mixtape. Thrown in there are a couple of songs produced by folks I do know but still can’t sell because art and money make for strange bedfellows. One is the realest thing in existence and the other is the fakest. That being the case I’m not at all upset at all that I can’t sell these songs. I’m just very happy that you can still listen to them."
The 20-track project is available now.
