Listen to IBS (Incendiary Blanket Statement)

Tap in at https://www.suncutflat.com "In a world of fast bars and faster fame, Family Tapes chooses something slower, deeper, and more deliberate. Hip Hop Sovereignty, Vol. 3 is less an album and more a daydream—a carefully structured odyssey through memory, protest, chess boards, and sunlit city blocks. Every track feels handcrafted, like something found in a dusty basement crate and given new breath. Built like a basketball game and unfolding over a day in New York and Atlanta, Vol. 3 finds power in ritual. The twelve tracks are split into quarters, each with its own pulse, its own light. There’s the jazz of the morning, the mid-tempo grooves of reflection, the chaos of city dusk, and the spiritual stillness of night. Like the streets they walk, stephenxjones , Derek Cedar , and Mistah Levy understand rhythm as survival—and survival as art. Dearly Beloved is the heartbreaker—a sun-drenched ode to matriarchs, memory, and mortality. Its jazz chords shimmer like a half-remembered dream, while the verses are soaked in gratitude and loss. Even the record’s most energetic tracks Br@ve New W0rld , Azzi Fudd and Backpack Respirator carry a moral gravity. Their bars offer lyrical CPR to a genre too often intoxicated by its own excess. Hip Hop Sovereignty, Vol. 3 reimagines Hip Hop as a sacred space. A place for chess players, jazz heads, truth-tellers, and community builders. For those who choose to listen closely, this album just might be life changing." -Philomena Marie