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“Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon.” is about the underground insurgency that took place as we approached the new millennium. As such, the two volumes tell the story of anticon, but they also tell the story of the entire movement - the story of hip-hop at its most experimental, avant-garde, and adventurous. 

Even if you aren’t a fan of anticon, I’ve placed their story in the context of - and in conversation with - myriad other underground rappers, producers, and DJs (and even some daring aboveground ones). 

I wrote these books with not only the diehards in mind, but for hip-hop heads of all persuasions. 

Nobody has written about the underground with this level of scrutiny and analysis before. 

Links to purchase in the bio. 

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2026 has been a big year already for Teller Bank$, dropping both the Mathmatics album and the highly acclaimed Hate Island. Well he and the $$$ crew are back with arguably their biggest release to date, NOAH. An album that highlights everything from $357ENT and shows no ceiling to what they can do in sight.
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40 Days starts the album as Teller Bank$ spits “In the beginning there was nothing”, ushering in NOAH. The Flood comes next and brings a collaboration between Teller & Doseone. A pair that fit together perfectly. The flow of the album across NOAH ironically feels like waves. There’s moments that feel huge and monumental, there’s calmer quieter moments, and the way these fluctuate and flow keeps you grasped continually. Within that comes the uniqueness of Teller Bank$ and $$$. The way Teller Bank$ manipulates his voice and delivery combined with the eccentric and driven production blend together incredibly through the full hour of NOAH.
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Teller Bank$ combination of content that weaves his life, with witty lines and the concept displayed on NOAH is impressive. And doing it all with flows and rhyme schemes that are far from average. Rain Dance is a song that brings some of the most off kilter production in NOAH but the way Teller Bank$ too the reigns and never let go as he controlled the track was great. Benny & We$ 4: The Fellowship of the Fiend is of course great, anytime Teller Bank$ and Rent Moneyy get on a track together, I’ll be tuned in. So many great bars through NOAH but one early one that I loved is on Jonah when Teller spits “still ain’t the cool kids, got 100 black mags full of bullets”.
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NOAH feels like everything previously has been building up to it. Not just from Teller Bank$ himself but even my journey as a listener. As I’ve continued to grow as a fan of Teller Bank$, so has my appreciation and vision of what he and the $$$ crew are making and doing. With NOAH, it feeling like the doors are finally wide open for myself and everyone involved here delivered on an amazing body of work. From the lyricism to the production to the cover artwork. It’s time to tap into $357ENT.
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#hiphop #review #underground #noah #newmusic
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Truth Ugly 
by doseone, Fatboi Sharif & steel tipped dove

Oct 30

via fused arrow records and Handsmade Collective

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Link in bio
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So anyone who knew me from the birth of my rap name in 1999 knows that I was well into @anticonrecords 

I remember clearly I was working in Bang Music in Brighton and myself and the manager would always stick on any new hip hop we hadnt heard over the shops speakers when the owner wasnt there. The first time we put on Music for the Advancement, I was blown away. And it wasnt the usual tracks that got me - my manager would love Nothing but sunshine but I was hooked from Human vs Tortoise by @youngsole and @doseonegrams 

I took that CD home and copied it. Cos thats what you did back then. But from that moment in, anytime anything on the Cargo list said "anticon" I was getting at least 10 copies in. Our normal stocking remit was 3 or 4. But I would get 10 and stick in a bag for my mates who I was also getting hooked on the collective.

Ah back then I had copies of everything on vinyl.

Anticon really influenced our style in the beginning, not that we were biters, but going from listening to nothing but WuTang - this group of dudes showed us that there was more...we could do more...we could basically talk about whatever we wanted. We just saw what they were doing as more "for us" than any other hip hop at the time.

I have since met most of those dudes on their tours and even got to see Themselves perform in San francisco, which at the time, felt like I was at a gathering of family and friends more than a gig. I remember Dose being like "Legs, what the hell are you doing here?" like I had travelled all the way there just to see them. I had the feeling he thought I might have been a stalker! It was just a happy coincidence that they would be doing a gig while I happened to be on holiday there.

So now reading about their beginnings I feel like I am reading about my own. All the early internet hustle. The making up your own CDs. The being surprised that people on the other side of the world know your stuff. I remember in the early stages of myspace I collabed with a Japanese dude who said he had seen my CD in a shop in Japan! I was like thats mad cos I only just made it in my bedroom about a week ago.

Anyway, read the book. Its dope.
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