Minneapolis spitter P.O.S. has laid low on the solo releases since he kicked the shit out of 2012 with We Don’t Even Live Here, but as evidenced from last year’s Doomtree release, the man known to family as Stef Alexander has done anything but kicked back. His new track “Sleepdrone/Supersposition” is a roaring banger of a comeback jam, clocking in at nearly nine minutes and rallying Lizzo, Astronautalis, Allan Kingdom and Bikini Kill punk icon Kathleen Hannah to add potency.
The Rhymesayers alum, with a fresh kidney and a renewed vigor, also brings along his son Jacob (now 16), who makes his recording debut on the song under the moniker Hard R and holds his own. The track’s timing is no joke, marking the two-year anniversary of P.O.S.’s kidney transplant.
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“I tried to write a note to everyone that came out and supported when my kindey couldn’t clean up my poisonous blood,” he confesses. “But I just stared at the page / And when I wrote it I felt nothing but the numbing of cliché.”
He jettisoned the depression rap and pushed for progress, brought some friends along for a state-of-all track and turned out a killer that touches on everything from his post-transplant fight back to normalcy to the current police war on black America.
Check it out.
