SHOUTS - Music from the Rooftops!

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.

Here is the just released statement from the music service:

“On most first Fridays of the month since March of 2020, we’ve waived our revenue share to provide additional support to the artists and labels who form the backbone of Bandcamp’s community and without whom we would not exist. Over the course of those 26 Fridays, fans have spent more than $91 million dollars, and participation has remained consistently high, with each Bandcamp Friday generating millions of dollars of extra income for artists and labels.

So, we’re going to keep a good thing going in 2023, and will hold the next Bandcamp Friday on February 3rd. We’ll share dates for the rest of the year soon.

Thank you, and happy holidays!”