The new album by Dereos Roads and Jumbled, Saw the Landmark, Missed the Turn, is a hip-hop collaboration that started materializing back in 2021 and is only now finally seeing the light of day.
Roads told me about a couple of songs off of the new album, especially If Life Has Wings Time Has Really Flown, in which Roads addresses immigration and the plight of migrant workers and further does his best giving a voice to the voiceless.
The two artists also recently spoke in depth about the new album with Sherron Shabazz on The Real Hip-Hop.com podcast. In the interview Roads explains how immigration is such a big issue in the US, how it’s simply been a part of his life and something he feels important sharing stories about. People are separated into us and them in the US, as in so many parts of the world. As Roads explains in the interview below “illegal immigrants are ‘the other’ in America, so I wanted to tell that story.”
On We Gonna Raise the Roof, Roads embraces the perspective of a dissafected American:
Roads told me via email that at certain points in the song he embraced “a section of America that feels disaffected, reminiscent of Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ recognizing how their attitudes about life are so ingrained in their culture that they’ve all but checked out from keeping up with the systems of power and politics as usual that have resulted in their declining material conditions.”
Check out the full interview above and listen to the new album below which is also out on all streaming services.
