We listened to some of his new music and it sounded good. Reaper Mook asked if I’d like to smoke a blunt in his car. It was almost dark by the time we left the 555 Steakhouse. It encapsulates the cigar-smoke-tinted, basement feel of the record perfectly.
Other highlights from the album include “Capone” featuring sstray and album closer “GMMW,” which sees Reaper Mook reach a near meditative flow over a somewhat romantic sounding keyboard riff. There’s a certain complexity to being concise and he’s at his best when he slows down. You can sense as much when listening to his music.
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In his free time he mostly listens to R&B and he says he never intended to be a rapper. This is in fact where Reaper Mook feels most comfortable. With “Alpina” and “5th & a 8th,” he stretches out his singing voice and channels his inner Max B to croon about diamond rings and nightmares. On For the Pagne, Reaper Mook takes similar risks in sound. The song “MSK Wanna Die,” sounds more punk than it does hip hop and is a good example of Reaper Mook’s ability to experiment with different sounds. Back then he rapped under the name JSN MSK and would attack house shows in Long Beach with the same fervor as the actual Jason did his victims. In 2015, Reaper Mook became one half of the duo Crimewave 5150, with Dez Yusuf. But he was always more attracted to creative pursuits, like drawing or making music. At 6 foot 7 inches, Reaper Mook was practically expected to play football in high school and he played well. He tells me he was born and raised in Long Beach and that he moved around a lot while growing up with his mom.
He has a poet’s sense for finding meaning in the mundane, whether he’s on the sidelines of a New England Patriots game getting mean-mugged by Bill Belichick or conjuring up images of a lava lamp while pouring lean into lemon-lime soda.Īs we begin our interview, Reaper Mook orders four oysters and a helping of crab cakes for the table. Reaper Mook is able to flex by merely describing scenes from his own life as if he were sifting through b-roll. It’s luxury rap without the pretentious nature of Ross’, and with production, handled mostly in house by NiceGuyxVinny, that reminds me of Currensy’s penchant for world-building. Reaper Mook really made something happen this year when he released For The Pagne, a slow-burn, mobster-music masterpiece that plays like if Currensy and Rick Ross had a 6 foot 7 inch child with exceptional taste in fine dining.
“I decided to give myself a year to see if I could really make something happen.” “A month before my son was born I was just sitting there going crazy, I knew everything was about to change,” Reaper Mook says. Reaper Mook has been making music in Long Beach on-and-off for nearly a decade, but it wasn’t until he found out he’d be having a son of his own in 2019 that he began to take it seriously. A life where you can avoid a typical 9-to-5 life in lieu of becoming your own boss and taking care of the family.
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“The Godfather: Part 3 is the best film of the series and it’s the one that’s still quoted most often,” Reaper Mook said, before reenacting the film’s most infamous scene, since eulogized by Silvio Dante in The Sopranos: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”’Įven though the film is often considered the worst in the series, Reaper Mook says he can relate to the arc of Michael Corleone being pulled back into a life that not everybody understands. It was an opinion that hadn’t even crossed my mind as a possibility and one that I’ve since rejected. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon.ĭonald Morrison starts off his day by watching David Lynch’s weather report.Īs we settled into a cozy booth in the back of Long Beach’s dimly-lit 555 Steakhouse, Reaper Mook said something I’ve never heard anyone say. These are more than words, this is more than rap.
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