BAZOOKA JOE 204’S NEW LP, PRAIRIE NILSSON, OUT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021 VIA PEANUTS & CORN RECORDS
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‘Lookit where I come from / Lookit who I came with / From the north, with the poor and the faceless’
Bazooka Joe 204 wants you to see the things he’s seen. On “Lookit”, the next single from his new album Prairie Nilsson, the listener can sidle up to the table at the “drug den debate club” and meet Joe’s co-conspirators, with minimal personal risk. There are laughs, but the life is dead serious, as a succession of “the bloodied unbroken” are introduced, their stories and idiosyncrasies piling onto one another’s as the room grows louder and more crowded. Winnipeg nights are dimly lit, indeed, but “Lookit”, featuring Bazooka Joe 204’s defiant hook and bigmcenroe’s anthemic, hand-clapped production, shines light into its darkest corners.
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MORE ABOUT BAZOOKA JOE 204
Indie rap luminary Bazooka Joe 204 (formerly John Smith) is back, detailing a life well-wasted in Winnipeg’s drinking holes and dark alleys, one bare-knuckled bar at a time. Prairie Nilsson, Bazooka Joe’s 8th solo offering, features the veteran storytelling MC leveraging tales of lost payday weekends, agoraphobic apathy, and middle-aged rap regrets into raucous, but unsparing explorations of class, addiction, and privilege. Legendary producer bigmcenroe’s timeless, layered, music box boom bap provides a banging backdrop for Joe’s authoritative delivery, clever hooks, and deft technical touch.
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Bazooka Joe’s rap career began in earnest in 1999, when, known as John Smith, he started releasing music with stalwart Canadian indie rap label Peanuts & Corn Records. Initially a scrappy battle rapper, Joe quickly displayed a knack for detail driven community stories rooted in his unique upbringing, with one foot firmly planted in Winnipeg’s notorious North End and the other on the shores of the Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba. A pioneer and player in Canadian rap, Bazooka Joe has remained relevant and active in the studio and in concert over decades, having shared the stage with a diverse group of artists including Propagandhi, Sean Paul, and Killer Mike. “Kinship Of The Down & Out”, from Joe’s critically acclaimed 2004 album Pinky’s Laundromat, recently made the Winnipeg Free Press’s list of Manitoba’s 150 Most Important Songs.
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PRAIRIE NILSSON TRACKLIST
01 Lookit
02 Iowanna
03 That I Knew What For
04 King Cake Baby
05 Art School Kidz
06 Carp Diem
07 The Prestige
08 Into The Sea
09 The Stone