The opening lines introduce a crucial theme - the Maya character's movie-star dream of being so blond-haired and blue-eyed that she amazes onlookers. Unable to contain her urine on the church porch, she wets her clothes then, sure that she will be punished for misbehavior, laughingly embraces her sense of freedom. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is an album where, as pointed out in the albums intro "Caged", is RAST at his most honest and vulnerable.ī4.Rising out of childhood's bitter memories of a too-long cut-down lavender Easter dress made from "a white woman's once-was-purple throwaway," Marguerite "Maya" Johnson, the central intelligence, or key voice, well into adulthood, recalls in a flashback her fantasy of being suddenly transformed into a white girl and her intense need to be excused from church services. For me it was really all about RAST, and his story is so personal that it just made sense for him to be the only voice you hear”. This is also why we didn’t go with a group name or a RAST & 7L title. As 7L points out “I wanted to really take it back to a time when the rapper was the main focus. 7L and RAST worked together on the vision and the direction they wanted to go with for the album.
The Czar-Keys (7L & Jeremy Page) - and this was done by design. The album has no features and was produced entirely by It was during this time that many of the tracks on “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” draw from. But before all this, RAST held down the 90’s as part of the New York GraffitiĬrew RFC. RAST has released a handful of albums, freestyles and a slew of online singles (including collaborations with Czarface, Hus Kingpin and Your Old Droog).
Over the last decade RAST has made a name for himself as one of the undergrounds most original voices.
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