WHEN THE RAIN POUR, WHEN THE SUN SHINE

by HUEY, The Cosmonaut.

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1.	air nomad (prod enoch) 02:28	buy track
2.	faith (prod forestgreen) 01:24	buy track
3.	early morning sun (prod Savan DePaul and marginalman) 01:32	buy track
4.	always in my reach (prod enoch) 01:54	buy track
5.	half life of a cosmonaut (prod deka and marginalman) 01:11	buy track
6.	lessons for the end times with Savan DePaul and Black Costanza (prod enoch) 03:02	buy track
7.	manifesto (prod dvnt) 01:29	buy track
8.	peace with enoch (prod enoch) 03:29	buy track
9.	huey by the lake (prod enoch) 03:07	buy track

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my projects are always vastly different from how i envision them. this is a really just a collection of rap songs that emerged out of 2019 that i am releasing in 2020. i do not sing on this. the singing stuff should be out later this year. i dont have very much else to say about it. i am very unsure about who i am as a rapper. but i believe in possibility for abolition and black liberation in my heart. that seems to be the theme that runs through this project alongside my love for my hometown, comrades, friends, family, community and significant other. i want this album to fill you with some degree of hope for a better future. i am very inspired by the resistance of people on the plantation and in the prison. as long as the folks inside have hope, we cannot be nihilists. music fills me with a lil bit of hope and joy to continue onwards towards a future free of prisons, police and borders. i hope it does for you. thanks to Enoch and Savan for really being in my corner on this project. couldn't have done it without y'all.

thanks to all of my friend who constantly encourage me to keep doing music. i feel like i get mad love from chicago (SHOUOUT TO LLD AND BLACK MARSH FOR ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS OF 2019) and philly mostly so shoutout to those cities and rockford of course. i throw in little references to each city. thanks to the bad apple commune a lot. i cant even go into depth about that.

some of the books that i was reading while i made these songs

A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings from a New Afrikan Anarchist by Kuwasi Balagoon
How We Get Free edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

just generally i was inspired by

working in south philadelphia
sunshine
everybody in the bad apple commune (really can't stress this enough yall)
activists involved in the OccupyPHA campaign
conversations with Josh, Coleman and Harrison
lake michigan
missing rockford
super hot basement hip hop shows
TSOP
slave resistance
bus rides across long distances
zaheer and the red lotus

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released January 20, 2020

executive production: enoch
mixing and mastering: savan depaul

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HUEY, The Cosmonaut. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Huey, The Cosmonaut was raised in a beautiful Midwestern city called Rockford, Illinois. His music exists in the space between emo, R&B, bedroom pop, lofi hip hop and jazz. Themes in his music focus upon loneliness, traveling, nostalgia, melancholy, everyday sensations, renewal, growth, cartoons, comic books, the cosmos and imaginary worlds. ... more

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