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documenting Blvck Svm’s michelinman dinner series + further epicurean endeavors

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michelinman dinner 019 // September 14, 2026 // @josefinabaltimore // Baltimore, MD

filmed by @lahunchoball by @otoroprotocols

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@personasthlm [Stockholm, Sweden]

April 1, 2026

filmed by @lahunchoball by @otoroprotocols

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MD002 // March 27-29, 2025 // @heirloom1907 [Rogers, AR]

In October 2024 I traveled to @chefjasonpaulroth’s restaurant in northwest Arkansas to film the Bvck of House video for saintlaurentarmor. During the shoot he stood next to me and breaded trout. That’s gonna be important for later. Later that night I mentioned the idea for the dinner series and he gave me the most enthusiastic “yes let’s do it” possible.

February 2025 we got on a call and started planning. Chef Jason suggested we start off with 2 nights, 18 seats per night. I told him that sounded perfect, but inside I was a bit nervous because I didn’t know a single person in Arkansas, and I couldn’t have had more than a handful of listeners, so I wasn’t sure how many seats I could help fill. But he seemed confident so I rolled with it.

Both nights sold out within an hour of the ticket link going live. I didn’t even get a chance to post the flyer to promote them. Later that night we decided to add a third night because there were people on the waitlist. The third night sold out too. 54 seats filled at $325 per seat in a city where in which nobody knew me. That’s when I knew this concept could work anywhere.

Going into this series I mostly expected the chefs to use only the culinary references from my lyrics to create their respective menus. But Chef Jason leaned away from the obvious and into the abstract in a way that stuck with me.

The course he designed for saintlaurentarmor was essentially an upscale Filet-o-Fish, made with a milk bun and caviar tartar sauce. If you’re familiar with the song then you know it contains no references to fish or any of those ingredients. Instead of using the song’s lyrics as a guide, he used the saintlaurentarmor video we filmed a few months prior. As a callback to the trout he was breading during the shoot, he used trout as the sandwich’s filet.

I’ve done 17 of these dinners so far and that’s still one of the coolest ways a chef has converted one of my songs into a course. It made me broaden my own vision of what these menus could look like. And it gave me even more reason to take a hands-off approach to menu creation.

Shot by @bummiefresh @tiinley @lahunchoball by @otoroprotocols

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MD001 // January 24-25, 2025 // @brutodenver [Denver, CO]

Last January I collaborated with Brutø for the first installment of the michelinman dinner series. Initially we planned for one night but we ended up adding a second because the first sold out so quickly. They were two of the coolest nights ever, and they were a formative experience for me in at least a few ways.

@chefbyrongomez chose 6 songs to transform into courses and Bartender Autumn chose 6 other songs to create drink pairings for Chef Byron’s courses. Up until this point I had a specific vision of how I wanted to execute the dinner. The most prominent aspect of that vision was that I wanted each dinner to be one course per song (13 courses) to allow the guests to experience each song fully. So I wasn’t sure how well my idea would translate into a 6-course dinner, but I didn’t push back. And I’m glad I didn’t. It was the best possible start to the series.

This 2-night run made me feel like the concept I created worked in real-time and was worth exploring further. It taught me to trust the chefs I collaborate with in order to make these dinners truly interdisciplinary. But maybe most importantly it made me check my ego.

The haute cuisine/fine dining ecosystem is still uncharted territory for me regardless of how much I’ve absorbed over the past couple years, and it was especially foreign to me last January. My rigidity of thought was unearned. 15 months later the dinner series has progressed a lot. But I often think about how fixed my perspective was at first, and how unwarrantedly certain I was that things should be executed a certain way. It reminds me to stay humble.

Ever since this collaboration I’ve been telling the chefs I’ve been set to partner with that I desire no creative direction in terms of menu design, menu length, etc. (unless it’s something they actively want from me). It’s been fye to see how each chef has uniquely bent and contoured the album to their imagination. I really want to keep that going. At this point there’s not a creative decision I’d say no to. The art is the art.

Photos and footage by @lahunchoball, @bummiefresh, and @tiinley by @otoroprotocols

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MD009 // January 10, 2026 // @caaa_lucerne [Lucerne, Switzerland]

Last January I set my sights on bringing the michelinman dinner series to Europe within 3 years of the first dinner. But once things started rolling I felt like it was time to take a(nother) leap. I ended up making it happen within 1 year of the first dinner.

This was my first time in Europe and it was a personal awakening of sorts. The week I spent in Lucerne was the catalyst for some big changes I’ve made in my life over the past few months and every day I’m grateful for that.

Thank you so much @officialcatalano @eleklim for having me, thank you to everybody who came, thank you to @lahunchoball for pulling up to document my (our) first eurostep, and thank you to Swiss McDonald’s 🫂🖤 by @otoroprotocols

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