This track is unmixed and unmastered. It is an instrumental in constructive process.

StreetSweeper is a track I have been working on most recently with the lovely and beautiful Alexis Wolf aka Ladexx. I’m not sure how many X’s she prefers.

 This track signifies the beginning of an exploration into the expectations and perceptions of hip-hop music, sexuality and gender. The lyrics for the hook are some   variation of the following:

Gatekeeper sent to sweep the people straight, people straight. / Gatekeeper sent to sweep us all straight, all straight.

Originally the line was taken from a verse I wrote for a track with Eli, “Gatekeeper sent to sweep the peoples street  / feet stretched far fetched waxing the souls streak.”

I began using this line as a hook and contended that I had no idea what my stream of consciousness was on about with the sweeping of a street or who the gatekeeper is. I looked up at lex. “Straight,” I said. “Gatekeeper sent to sweep the people straight.” Wether it’s a friends dad texting them about the liberal sins of evergreen or a religious troupe of family members oppressing the true identity of a collaborator it seems that the Gatekeeper of heaven is attempting to keep all of these beautiful humans heterosexual. To dive into that theology is not my expertise only my hand in expression. I recorded the hook into the Roland Sp-404SX with a vocal transformer that lowers my pitch a few hundred cents. I then layered the outro hook with booth recorded vocals compressed but otherwise unaffected.

I do not know how to read or write music. At all. I am familiar with the alphabetic notation but I couldn’t tell you what a grouping of notes is as a chord. So to the left you will find a ‘musical sketch’ of what each of the three melodic instruments are and what they are playing. It is read from top to bottom chronologically and left to right otherwise.