Initializing Reboot: TSDK 2.0
(Pictured above: me emerging from my lair, about two weeks ago)
We gotta start this shit off right with an all-encompassing apology to everyone who has sent me an email, all of you artists who like to hear my feedback, everyone who has been looking for new music to bump, and to the people in my life who I have ghosted entirely over the past six months. There were people looking to me personally and professionally and I let every single one of you down, setting aside everything to… do whatever it is I have been doing for a half-year.
I’m not going to tell you a whole story about myself, but I’ll break it down into some bullet points so you know how I’m about to approach this shit going forward. I had a job, one of those real-person ones that paid me money, one that I had been at for a significant amount of time. It got… bad (imagine me, a writer by trade, and I can’t come up with a better word than “bad”…). I had to leave. I left, started a new job not even three days later. This new job has been better, but it’s not any less exhausting (but at least it’s not mentally exhausting). Over the course of the past six months (and honestly even a few months before that), getting up the gumption to get through a day was a challenge, let alone listening to 20+ albums weekly while trying to deliver the knowledge responsibly to all of you in a timely manner.
(Pictured above: me waking up in the morning, approximately 6 months ago)
I didn’t listen to anything new for over two months after my last post. I’m being deadass serious when I say all I listened too for two months was Ghostface and Three Six (don’t sleep on Fishscale and More Fish). When Mach dropped Pray for Haiti I decided to dust off my ears. Big Ghost got me with that Ransom joint. Boldy and Al pulled me out again with Bo Jackson. I *almost* came back with Kanye; the inspiration was there, but my body wasn’t ready. Westside Gunn got me thinking for real. After six months of locking myself in the Batcave, thinking the world had forced me into retirement with only a half-dozen listened albums to show for it, ya know what really brought me out of this shit?
Y’all did. I wasn’t planning on, banking on, or expecting the support from the community, but y’all checked in on your boy. Y’all kept the recommendations coming (of which I now have a substantial backlog; I got a lot of work to do), the praise coming, and the words of encouragement coming. Six months ago I thought I was done for, but now, after seeing what my life is truly like without music, without TSDK, and without all of you, on my fuckin life I’m never going back. I am back motherfuckers, and y’all are gonna get some schooling on this hip-hop shit.
(Pictured above: me realizing, like a Kung Fu Fuckin Panda, that there is no secret ingredient. Just do this shit. Also, existential dread)
That being said, I have a lot of work to do. Things to plan, buildings to build (literally), teams to assemble and people to talk to. I’ll have more detailed plans for some innovations before too long, but we’re gonna get back to it with baby steps: I’m starting off with this new Discord that I made, where I want all of y’all to get on here and tell me about the shit I’ve missed, and the stuff you’re hearing coming out.
Let’s get this ball rolling.
