MC Solar Wind
Breathe Life.
Writer first. He picked the name in a high school calculus class and has been rapping under it ever since: two mixtapes, one album with Faulkner, and a run of Bay Area bills with Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Black Milk, Dizzy Wright, Wax and Yonas.
The Solar and the Fury
The title borrows from William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and nods to the producer behind every beat, Faulkner. Eight tracks of betrayal, hardship and a grim look at where things are headed, built on the Macbeth line the novel took its name from, “signifying nothing,” and answered with a refusal to be absorbed by the matrix. Released 12.21.20, eight years to the day after I AM SOLAR WIND.
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“In the beginning was the word, now the word transformed.
Tell em like Jay, every day a star is born.”ALPHA, The Solar and the Fury
Two written, two off the top
His sets run a few written songs, then a few freestyled from whatever the room gives him. Between 2016 and 2017 that format shared the bill with Pete Rock & CL Smooth at Mighty, Black Milk and Yonas at Brick & Mortar, Dizzy Wright at The New Parish and Wax at Starline Social Club.
Written for the room
Palo Alto Networks in 2014, MZ in 2016, each with a song of its own, performed live for the company. Then “Big Dreams (Road to a Billion),” the theme song for Sequoia Real Estate’s documentary A Giant in the Making: under a week from studio to the live premiere on August 19, 2021.
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