KingsOfKings
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If you’d seen Mach-Hommy’s car once, you’d recognize it again. A little over a year ago, I wrote what I believe to be the first in-person magazine profile of the Haitian-American rapper, who covers his face in public and has never acknowledged any government name. Beginning with the reporting of that story, and resuming when he reached back out to me several months ago, I got used to spotting the distinctive vehicle — a luxury sedan in an icy metallic color — in unusual locations: parked alone on a deserted block in Leimert Park, tucked into the foliage outside a Malibu estate, idling in front of a hotel in Beverly Hills. Despite cutting an imposing silhouette, Mach is not clockable by the average person; the slightly uncanny ride is the only sign that all might not be so ordinary.
What follows — what will be published in three parts, over the next three days — is a series of recollections that Mach has written about songs recorded at pivotal moments in his life and career. Though our in-person conversations continued, Mach sent these vignettes to me via email, which is also how our interviews about them were conducted. In his prose you’ll find the same pointed humor, hyperfocus on detail, and authoritative voice that defines his raps. His self-insertion of “[laughs]” notations is a sly acknowledgment of the medium. Any added emphasis, fittingly, is his.
Only one of the three songs Mach chose to write about has ever been officially released. The first will surely never surface: a freestyle the adolescent Mach recorded, with two older boys, over one of the most iconic beats in the genre’s history.
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www.thefader.com
What follows — what will be published in three parts, over the next three days — is a series of recollections that Mach has written about songs recorded at pivotal moments in his life and career. Though our in-person conversations continued, Mach sent these vignettes to me via email, which is also how our interviews about them were conducted. In his prose you’ll find the same pointed humor, hyperfocus on detail, and authoritative voice that defines his raps. His self-insertion of “[laughs]” notations is a sly acknowledgment of the medium. Any added emphasis, fittingly, is his.
Only one of the three songs Mach chose to write about has ever been officially released. The first will surely never surface: a freestyle the adolescent Mach recorded, with two older boys, over one of the most iconic beats in the genre’s history.
More here :
The Making of Mach-Hommy, Part 1: Designated Unicorn
In the first part of a three-part cover story, the elusive Haitian American rapper Mach-Hommy remembers a freestyle he recorded as an adolescent, with two older boys, over one of the most iconic beats in hip-hop history.
www.thefader.com