The date on this file is 2007 but the song is actually a few years older. I was still living in Ohio and Ilyas’ basement was our “Dungeon”. We had so many albums mapped out and in various phases of finish because Tanya Morgan was supposed to be a side project. One of those albums was an Ilwil (me and Ilyas’ pairing) album produced by Suhburb. Somewhere on a hard drive in my apartment (and probably spread out over several CD-R’s in Ilyas’ studio) lies roughly an album’s worth of demo’s for this album that are in my humble opinion pretty damn amazing. This song is probably the best, most fully realized example but if I remember correctly everything else had immense potential.

I managed to get an album out of Suhburb (Suhburban Sprawl) before he left music for academia and photography but based on me moving away from Cincinnati a lot of the Ilwil material is still just sitting around. Ilyas asked me if I was down to do a Beat Thieves 3 a few months ago but to be honest I ain’t tryna rap over a beat that I can’t call my own. He let me hear some of the stuff he had put together for it and all I can say is hopefully it sees the light of day. Maybe that’s why he signed up for Soundcloud recently.