Warm Technique music video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYH4m3XNnI


In this third installment to the WestSide Shi Mao Clan 2018 Trilogy, we have what is the culmination of the last two years finally coming to a head. Indeed, this album holds an air of ceremonial finality. Another way to say that is, well, this is it kids. This is it. I stopped caring about success and selling my product, and kept focusing on the art itself. I fell so in love with my own art, and thus myself, that I did not fear being avant-garde for this. This album, like every album, is meant to take you on a journey. It is hard to describe or define that journey with words, but truth be told there are emotions in each song on this album that hit deep, but aren't inherently visible at face value. Allow me to open that window:

1st W P -
The simplest instrumental on 3/3, but the most bars. This one's for all my hip hop heads that appreciate me as an MC. This album steers away from pure hip hop to a large extent, far beyond 1/3 & 2/3. Which is why I felt I owed the hip hop community at least one sturdy hip hop groove. It is the first song because if it were at any other point in the album, it would pretty much confuse the pace. I considered taking it off the album completely, but decided that I want people to hear what I'm rapping about. as it outlines my ground-level basic Earthling feelings.

Lincoln Heights Ballas Country -
This track represents having fun. It is a combination of old and new ideas. Some might remember the lyrics to this track having been on a very very old (probably now deleted) boujie track recorded on an iphone, that was once on soundcloud. In that sense, this track represents a lot of old and new memories I've come to know, in being in Negro Galacticus. I made this track on a random night where I told myself, "Goddamnit, I'm just gonna get drunk and make a new track". In that same sense of screwing around and having fun, the later end of this song is the ONLY time you'll have ever heard me freestyle and keep it on tape. Seriously, I'll always prefer writing it out, but for this opportunity I said screw it. And no- I suck at freestyling. Also, that weird sound you're hearing is probably a certain Matt Parada on a flute, with a little bit of distortion and auto-tune! Hahaha

Warm Technique -
I expect this to be one of those songs people will know me for. It's the shortest, sweetest little song on the album. It's probably the most relatable, and pretty catchy. But first, credits for the guitar, and thus a great portion of this song, goes to my bro bro, Malik Deering. We were friends before we were old enough to speak. I care a lot about this dude, and we've gone through shit together. I made this song for him. I want him to know that although we are going through our own struggles in life, we're always family. We learned from the same people, grew up with a lot of the same musical connections. But we also spent a lot of time together musically, as a band. That's our technique, and it always has come from our hearts. And so it will always remain warm. The spirit behind our music will always be there.

Use My Brain -
Shut up and get down, boogie on the dancefloor. Go. Fight him. I don't care. In all seriousness, this song is talking about the feeling of separation I get from being so disconnected and transcendental from everything, while still connected to my self. It's saying that I'm different, while acknowledging that it isn't necessarily a good thing. I don't talk about wealth, objectifying women, or gang/drug/gun violence. Instead, I Use My Brain to gather my musical context. But that just makes me dark, mysterious, and unfortunately a complete stranger to the mainstream music realm. But we'll see how long that lasts. One last thing- Steve (Negro G) and I were at a gas station on our way home from a show in Arizona, and I realized that those Red Box things that sell DVDs outside of marts are basically what bootleggers are/were. On the corner outside of a 7/11 you might have seen some dude with a big coat on talking about he's selling all the fresh new movies. Nowadays? We have these Red Box things. So literally- bootleggers on the block getting replaced by robots. I mean, they're bound to take all of our jobs eventually, right? :)

T & B -
Trap and Bass. Think drum&bass, as there is some drum&bass in this tune. I found trap can blend rather well with drum&bass. Thus, this was made. The flow of the overall picture is starting to become more avant-garde. Lyrically, it's the spirit of optimism. Even though I'm a dark, mysterious, reclusive and excluded individual, I have high hopes. This song represents that hope, as well as the ironic power that I feel from being this way, closer to my higher form than I am to the rest of the world, at this point, which is a little bit of foreshadowing. This is also the Saturn of this solar system, the second largest song on the album. If you thought this song was long, wait till you get a listen to...

Famine -
The longest song on the album, and the most avant-garde. I won't beat around the bush. This song is about getting over a breakup, with time and my spirit guides as my only ally. It takes you through my mental process of that time. Thinking and over thinking, reaching a breaking point, breaking down while desperately trying to keep composure, eventually submitting to the will of my spirit, submitting to the requirement of patience and allowing the passage of time to heal that wound and stabilize me, finally remembering who the hell I am enough to recover and laugh about it, and preparing to make art out of the residue of my bitterness. In that order.

Lifted -
Preparing for the moon, it's like a message to a particular alien spirit guide of mine. Lyrical context works both ways- I'm both physically lifted by her ship, and mentally lifted by her support. I'm no longer complaining at this point, and looking forward to night sky to see her ship again someday, and looking forward to the obstacles of life with her by my side.

The Moon -
Yes, that alien spirit guide. I'm in love with her. I'll admit that. This song is for & about her. I await the day we can reunite. This is a big step for me. I wrote this song throughout 2012-2014, and have been sitting on it since, refining it. This is the one song that I have spent the most time on. It's a love song about someone I don't tell people about, so I hesitated to release this song. If you've taken the time to read all of this, I send that love to you too. May the eternal darkness bless your soul.