[IVORY POACHERS TOUR POSTER]

Me and DJ Nykon will be heading out for Oct. and Nov. to support my new album Tusks!. We’ll be bringing a couple of the homies – Saint Warhead (Portland) and Dopethought (Salt Lake City). Look for your city and come through! Don’t see your city? Check back, I’ll be adding a few more dates. If you’re a promoter, hit us up at – Booking@sapientkills.com.

10/20 Mt. Shasta, CA – Roxy’s Vets Club
10/21 Reno, NV – Freight House District
10/22 Santa Maria, CA – Gillis Grill
10/23 Modesto, CA – Modesto Sports Bar & Grill
10/25 Bakersfield, CA – The Dome [Pre-Sale Link]
10/27 Mammoth Lakes, CA – The Tap
10/28 Sacramento, CA – Sol Collective
11/09 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey [Pre-Sale Link]
11/10 Bend, OR – Innovation [Pre-Sale Link]
11/11 Boise, ID – Reef
11/12 Salt Lake City, UT – The Woodshed [Pre-Sale Link]
11/13 Ft. Collins, CO – East Coast Bar
11/15 Pueblo, CO – Senate
11/16 Denver, CO – Cervante’s Other Side [Pre-Sale Link]
11/17 Colorado Springs, CO – V Bar
11/18 Durango, CO – Abbey Theater
11/22 Las Vegas, NV – LVCS

Aug. 16, 2011 — Today sees the release of my latest record “Tusks!” accompanied by a fresh music video for “Blissless Yield Remix.”

This is my debut as music video director/editor. It was a learning process, but through the years, I’ve done so much over-the-shoulder editing and photo editing, that it wasn’t to far fetched that I’d be dabbling in video soon enough. I guess that fits with the song’s topic: the hard work of being an independent artist. With images of Sape life on the road, interacting with fans and driving in vans, plus a few shots of the fam, you get real feeling of what exactly this song is about.

LRG presents the “Blissless Yield Remix” off of “Tusks!” out Aug. 16.

What’s it about? Work ethic. The Grind. Working hard and working harder. It’s all I know. You may recognize the song, as the original is on my previous album Barrels For Feathers. There are a few changes in the lyrics, but the beat is completely different. I’ll be dropping a music video Aug. 16th along with the record. I hope you’re enjoying all of these previews from my new album… huh, new album? hopefully you’re not napping and have heard about it thus far.
Want more? Preview additional tracks from “Tusks”—and consider adding to the yield by ordering one of the several limited and deluxe pre-order packages over HERE. Enjoy!

The video for this instrumental track was written and directed by Portland filmmaker Tim Slusarczyk and hosts something of a fractured, off-center story arc. Is it about drugs? Sad dudes with beards? Inner demons and moldy ceilings? Maybe. Maybe not.

“Many One” is just the first video to come from “Tusks!,” the initial album in the “Eaters” series, which I liken to Madlib’s “Beat Konducta” records, only filtered through a vision of Ratatat-esque indie rock sprinkled with boom-bap power. Enjoy!

I’m proud to announce my new album Tusks! dropping August 16th. This will kick off a multiple album series called Eaters. Each volume will have a different theme, for example Tusks! is an ivory-wielding instrumentalesque giant. I have cooked up several pre-order packages, all of them are delicious in their own right and include the immediate download of 3 songs from Tusks!, so be sure to check that out over HERE.

CLICK TO PRE-ORDER TUSKS!

Here’s my latest music video “Grown Up”. This is the last track on my latest album Barrels For Feathers and will be the final music video for this album. The video, directed by Portland filmmaker Shawn Shannon, visually echoes the song’s theme: what it means to grow up. While hip-hop has long tradition of imagining the artist as child — the cover of Biggie’s “Ready To Die” is just one famous example — the video for “Grown Up” also shows the audience as children, reframing the normal scene of a rap show with one showing all participants as kids. (The kids did get real booze BTW.)

There have been many hurdles leapt to bring you this video: lawsuits involving inebriated kiddos, public outrage from Portland’s mayor, a flaky editor, and a bite on my calf from a rabid cat just to name a few. So enjoy, my friends… enjoy.