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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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THE BOOKS ARE HERE. The Drawings of DOD45 just landed & y'all... they're INCREDIBLE. Months of buildin' these pages & now we're holdin' the real thing.

And the doorstep didn't stop there. The stickers from our affiliates at @Stickerfied are in & they're dope. Prints for everyone who pledged for 'em are ready to roll. The original drawings are prepped & ready to ship too.

Still waitin' on a couple things like the @AwolOne shirts & some shipping boxes... then the tangibles start shippin' out.

The music's still in the @DJZole mix (literally) so as planned, that part comes later. But if you're impatient, 4 tracks from The Forty Five LP are already hidin' in our pod episodes. Swipe to the end for the treasure map.

Missed the campaign? Books go up for sale on our site later this week. Backers already locked theirs in at the cool peeps price. If ya slept on the campaign, ya gonna have to pay full price...

Oh, & we threw in an xtra sticker for everyone who backed the project. See if you can spot it.

Random page flip... & it lands on @Blackliq. Every episode drawing from The DOD45 Show lives in here, each one paired with @ArtByTai's recap tellin' the story of that episode, all created for this book only. Foreword by @Runtski of @JivinScientists, afterword by @Cas_One, plus photos with guests & a few hidden surprises tucked in the pages, including a page about an unaired episode with Justin Bua???

Archival prints of "Still in Rotation" & "A Little Sound Sanctuary," the bones the cover grew out of, are stacked & ready. Sittin' right next to 'em are some of the one of one ballpoint originals, prepped for their new homes. If one of these has your name on it... it's comin' soon.

Fresh from @Stickerfied. Every stack is a DOD45 Show episode drawing turned sticker... Metermaids, Jivin' Scientists, Jesse The Tree, Zole, Cas One & a bunch more of the fam. One of these is the bonus backer sticker. Look close.

Up close & shrink wrapped. Every ballpoint line from the original drawings came through on these. 👀🤦🏽‍♂️😘

The 45 tracks are still bein' mixed, but 4 songs from The Forty Five LP already slipped out thru parts 1, 2 & 3 of our pe'a (tattoo) journey episodes, wit
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“Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS REVEAL 💀

Volume 1 and Volume 2 chapter titles.
Also a sneak peek of select chapter contents.

Release date: September 29, 2026 

Subscribe to caltropspress.substack.com for purchasing details and more. 

Humbly, I submit no music collective (definitely not within hip-hop) has ever been written about with this degree of depth and detail. But I’ll let you tell it on September 29. 

💀🐜💀
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“Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon.”

COVER REVEAL 💀

Cover paintings by the incomparable @aaronhorkey [a.k.a. abuse]

The cover paintings are from the same period of time that abuse did the “Hip-Hop Music for the Advanced Listener” and “Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop” compilations. The painting that forms the basis for Volume 1 likely used the same enamel paint.

Eternally grateful for Aaron’s willingness to dig around in the archives and resurrect these pieces for this distinct purpose. (He also discusses his involvement with anticon and his artwork in the books as well!)

The books are for sale on September 29, 2026.

They will be available at Amazon firstly, and then Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, etc. soon after.

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