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| [Mac Lethal w/ F. Stokes & Conchance] [Monday, 9 p.m.] [ Waiting Room, Omaha] [$10] |
Mac Lethal has had his share of time with independent hip-hop label Rhymesayers.
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'I have nothing but respect for them,' said the Kansas City hip-hop artist.
His first album '11:11' was released with the label. After leaving, Mac re-released the album his own way on his own label, Black Clover Records.
Any hard feelings in the past, Mac still keeps relations with Rhymesayers artists like Slug of Atmosphere and Brother Ali, especially with the passing of the label's Eyedea.
Michael 'Eyedea' Larson was found dead in his apartment Oct. 16 at the age of 28. His death was recently ruled as an accidental drug overdose with the direct cause of death being opiate toxicity, according to the Ramsay County medical examiner's office of the Twin Cities area.
With the passing of his mother a few years ago, death is all too familiar with Mac. The experience is also a topic of interest on his upcoming album 'Irish Goodbye,' expected out on Black Clover this spring.
Don't be misled by Mac having but one album out. He actually has quite the plethora of music with six volumes of 'The Love Potion Series' and other mixtapes.
Mac will be in Omaha at the Waiting Room on Monday night with Chicago artist F. Stokes and local artist Conchance.
I was able to catch up with Mac while on tour to discuss details of the new album.
When is 'Irish Goodbye' going to be out for the masses?
I would like to have it out maybe like February or March. I'm gonna get off of this tour Dec. 13 and I want to spend the rest of the year, which is only gonna be two weeks, and a lot of January — actually, I'd say April, because I'll spend a lot of January putting the finishing touches on it, finishing it and mixing it. So I'd like it to be out by April, but I might do like another mixtape or side project before it comes out.
Would you say you put your blood, sweat and tears into this new album?
Absolutely. If there was ever an album or a piece of music that I've scrutinized and focused all of my energy on, it'd be this one. A lot of the music I've come out with is just songs that I wanted to release or put out there to make a little money or whatever, but this is something that — you know I have songs that I've been holding onto for over a year, over a year and a half, that I really want to present to people. So yeah, this is definitely the one that is my blood, sweat and tears, everything, for sure.
How do you differentiate music meant for an album versus music for mixtapes or like 'The Love Potion Series?' Is it a matter of buckling down and saying 'Alright, time for an album now' or what?
Well, I think that the songs I've put on 'The Love Potions' are like songs that I liked, or it was me trying a new idea or trying a sound to see if I liked the way it sounded or trying a style and putting it out there and just saying, 'Here, check this out,' you know. It's not really necessarily meant to feel like a cohesive album. 'The Love Potions' aren't meant to play from song one to the end of the album all the way through and feel like a narrative or a story or a cohesive piece of music. It's just, it's what it is, it's a collection. But an album is a vision, it's a concept, it's an idea, I set a goal creatively that I wanna reach, it's way more personal, I take the songs way more serious. I spend time on them, maybe re-record them a few times, really, really put a lot of energy into making them as good as possible.
So you were saying with 'Irish Goodbye,' it comes from a certain part of your life, what part exactly does it come from?
An Irish goodbye, it basically means you like — it's kind of a bar terminology, but it can be applicable to anything — it's when you leave without telling anyone goodbye. It's like you sneak out of the bar, you don't wanna go around and tell 20, 30 people 'bye' and you'll see them later and spend an hour wishing everybody well, you sneak out the back door and don't really tell anybody you're leaving. They're all drunks, they're not going to remember anyway. So it's a metaphor for, you know, there's just a lot of loss in my life over the past couple of years.
What roles do you take at the label outside of being an artist?
Lately I've been focused on the vision, the art, the looks, the way that our artists perform. I just kind focus on the music and the entertainment element of it. And then Jeremy Willis is the guy behind the scenes, he's a non-artist. He controls the marketing and the business relationships that we have and that element. I'm pretty much focused on me and then the way that our artists are received and refining and refining and refining the creative vision and what we project artistically.
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Unexpectedly, though, with the help of resources like Tumblr and Youtube, the rapper recently came back under the light, thanks to some crazy video showing him rapping while cooking pancakes, which became a global buzz on the Internet. Surprisingly, Mac Lethal even made it to the French TV. By then, we realized that David McCleary Sheldon – his real name – never called it quits with rap music. As many of his colleagues, who never really made it, he was keeping on releasing mixtapes, or even real records on his own label, Black Clover.
Irish Goodbye was released just after the pancake video, on December 31, 2011. And obviously, with this record, Mac Lethal was trying hard to capitalize on his renewed notoriety. The title sounded like a resignation – an Irish goodbye is when one leaves a pub without saluting his friends, explained the rapper on 'No Miracle'. But in fact, the content was saying the complete opposite.
This album was full of bitterness, true enough, more particularly on the introductory track, theenraged 'The Parlour', where the rapper, quite angry, was attributing the failures of his career to his willingness to stay real, blaming medias like Pitchfork for praising demagogic trap rap like Gucci Mane's, instead of the more authentic and honest forms of hip-hop like, according to him, his own. Disgust and rancor were never too far on Irish Goodbye; however, the beats of Michael 'Seven' Summers – a frequent collaborator of Tech N9ne, the best rapper in Kansas City – offered melodies and catchy tunes which proved that, finally, the guy hadn't fully abandoned his hunger for success.
The album was also full of light-hearted tracks, and nice hooks anybody could whistle in the shower, like with 'Morimoto (Just Duet)', 'Aviator', 'Wooooo!!!', 'Every Night' or the weaker 'Happy to Be Living'. There, Mac Lethal was saying that his life was great, or that he was happy to be happy, and the beats were in the same mood: optimistic, welcoming, rich and warm, from the strings of 'Vodka Tonic With a Lime' to the eerie feminine voices of 'Black Rainbow' and 'Now Miracle'. Mac Lethal wasn't confined exclusively to cynicism and acrimony; he could also posture himself as a wise and sensible rapper, reflecting on his life on 'Quarter Life' and 'No Miracle', questioning the attitude of an easy girl ('Slut'), or, with the appropriate help of some local folk music, exploring his Irish roots through the love and migration story of his grandparents ('Jake + Olive').
Irish Goodbye is, almost, Mac Lethal's mainstream album. He is no Macklemore, though. No demagogy for teenagers there. And, as a result, no international success neither – the guy, anyway, never looked like a rock star. This record showed, however, and as lately as in 2011, that this archetypal product of the early 2000's indie rap scene could still be alive, convincing and relevant.