LAFANDAR by HEEMS & LAPGAN

HEY THESE ARE LIVE. THEY CAME OUT LOVELY IF I CAN SAy. 

I LOVE YAL AND APPRECIATE THE LOVE. THIS MAYBE MY FAVORITE HEEMS LP.

Beyond all the high-minded narratives about identity and multiculturalism, LAFANDAR is a record about rediscovering the pure joy of rapping—the sheer thrill of bending words around a beat with skill, style, and a wicked sense of humor. Pitchfork

Something I love about Heems is that he always seems slightly surprised that he came up with a rhyme as good as he did. Heems is obsessed with rap, the whimsy of words, and the joy that pulling off a particularly brilliant couplet can produce. - Flood Magazine

THIS 1ST SET OF 500 VINYL IS SPECIAL.

EVERY FIRST SET AT VEENA CO, IS.

SO LAFANDAR COMES IN AN OPAQUE BLUE LIKE YOU SEE ON THE ROSCOE HALL-PAINTED PORTRAIT OF HEEMS AND KULFI. 

INSPIRED BY CONVERSATIONS WITH ME ABOUT JOSEPH CORNELL, COLLAGE, QUEENS, AND ASSEMBLAGE ROSCOE HALL GIVES THE OLD JOEY CORNELL "LIGHT BOX" A SHOT AND CREATES TWO, WHICH ARE THEN PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THE GATEFOLD, FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL. 

"YO BUT WHAT IF JOSEPH CORNELL WAS BLACK" WAS NEVER OUTRIGHT SAID.

THE TRACKLIST WAS HANDWRITTEN BY BLU, WHO APPEARS ON THE ALBUM AS WELL. (AND IS A GREAT DUDE).

THE MANDEM ARE ON THERE AS WELL: Sonny Jim, Cool Calm Pete, Lee Scott, Kool Keith, Saul Williams, Open Mike Eagle, Sir Michael Rocks of The Cool Kids, Your Old Droog, Quelle Chris, Blu, Fatboi Sharif, Sid Sriram, and Abhi the Nomad