Stogie T — The Empire of Sheep | Extend Play (EP) album review
“We’re living in a world that’s upside down. Where the exception has become the rule. Where the margins have become king. The aesthetics of the carnival are all around us: the spinning, the spurning, the entertainment mode — anything about our world is carnivalesque. And usually it is the fool [or sheep] that brings us to that moment. It’s the fool, the clown, all of these types of characters that bring us into this upside-down world of spinning and entertainment and excess.”
During the annual carnivalesque and hyper-consumerist event that is Black Friday, the 29th of November this year, we welcomed an eight-track EP from seasoned hip-hop artist and Motif Records label head, Stogie T, formerly known as Tumi from Tumi and The Volume, a sorry for the wait project while we wait for his forthcoming full album in 2020. He said in an pre-EP-release Instagram post that his upcoming album was delayed due to both local and international features’ contributions being finalized on what will be his fifth solo studio album after Music From My Good Eye (2007), Whole Worlds (2009), The Return of the King (2015) and the self-titled Stogie T album (2016). The latter served as his re-introductory album under his rebranded moniker, Stogie T. What needs no re-branding is the richness of literature, literary culture and critical theory in his music, broken…
