ATTENDEES
Chop The Head, Keith Rollins, Daniel OlneyAGENDANew Business
Discuss the positives and negatives of album cover art in 2025. What do we want more of? What do we want less of?
Discuss 2025 album covers in detail.
intro and outro by August Fanon
ATTENDEES
Daniel Olney, Keith RollinsAGENDANew Business
Discuss the necessity for a fun rap album and what we need from it in this hip hop marketplace.
Discuss Hi Top Fade by The Cool Kids and God Takes Care of Babies and Fools by Blu, Myka 9 and Mono En Stereo in depth.
intro and outro by August Fanon
ATTENDEES
Jesse The Tree, Mopes, Keith Rollins, Daniel OlneyAGENDA
New Business
Discuss moving from Pigeon Man to Worm In Heaven after so much growth outside the collaboration in between projects.
Discuss Worm In Heaven in depth.
intro and outro by August Fanon
ATTENDEES
Fleetwood DeVille, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the legacy of Nicole Wray aka Lady Wray in music.
Discuss Cover Girl in detail.
intro and outro by August Fanon
My old roommate works in tech support with AI and loves art in all forms. I had to chop it up w/ him about AI in music and where we are seeing it pop up in cover art/other forms. This was a dope conversation and I'm happy to share it. Hope we have more.
ATTENDEES
Killer Kane, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss various projects like Drug$$$, 2000XL: A Space Odyessy, Blue Beach, Face Off 1 & 2, and Surviving Outta Spite.
Discuss the style, habits and aspects that make Killer Kane’s music special.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
I.B. Fokuz, Collasoul Structure, Iceberg Theory, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Talk about the mission statement of Jyroscope and how it grew out of Tomorrow Kings and developed its own direction.
Discuss Overdue in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Kosey!, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss Excerpts of Blk Joy Vol.1 in detail.
Discuss BLACK STAR and New Moon in detail and in terms of how they deal with joyful sounds and themes.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Declaime, Spectacular Diagnostics, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss what lead to the creation of WHAT IF and where it sits in the catalog of everyone involved.
Discuss WHAT IF in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Gabe Nandez, Preservation, Keith Rollins, Daniel OlneyAGENDA
New Business
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Nosaj from New Kingdom, Height Keech, NAHreally, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss After The End and how it led to Run Away with A Wild and A Rare One.
Discuss Run Away with A Wild and A Rare One in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
PremRock, Curly Castro, Raphy, Ohbliv, Steel Tipped Dove, Keith Rollins, and Daniel Olney….and a bit of Sunmundi
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the conception and execution of Triple Steel Beam.
Discuss Lincoln Continental Breakfast, Saisir Le Feu, and Armature in detail.
NOTES
Three albums, 33 songs total. Prolific and at the same time lean and mean. Different flavors, all within that 25-30 minute range. The only thing comparable to the excellence and execution of this strategy is Roc Marciano’s 2018.
Nobody Planning To Leave was a beloved success and new level of cohesion for the group. When people took shots at the record it was only to note that the album recalled Def Jux flavors and a lot of ears still aren’t tapped in. Triple Steel Beam leaves those concerns behind. Very different sonics, very different outcomes, and three projects that need one another like family. This is not the Jux playbook.
The other thing that Triple Steel Beam builds on is the fantasy albums all of the fans dream up. Since each ShrapKnel album is one producer from this otherground space, fans were always spitballing the possibilities (I am super guilty of this) and this is our dream on overload. No matter how much we as fans wish albums into fruition ShrapKnel and beyond our powers in the realm of beat picking and always outpace our expectations. Triple Steel Beam is clear evidence of that.
SHRAPKNEL LESSONS
ATTENDEES
Lord Juco, The Standouts, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the classic previous effort White Walls and how that came together.
Discuss Break A Leg in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Sunmundi, Sasco, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the different phases of Sunmundi and what was learned from Klwn Cat, Āthmaan, on the way to CONTACTING.
Discuss CONTACTING in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Yaya bey, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the growth from Remember Your North Star to Exodus The North Star to Ten Fold to do it afraid.
intro and outro music by andrew
ATTENDEES
Dylan Green aka CineMasai, Dash Lewis, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the excitement of Dope Game Stupid moving to My Story Got Stories.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Ben Pedroche, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss the process and patience it takes to put together a reference book of the scope of Independent As F*** and what it achieves.
Discuss Indie hip hop from 1995-2005: the labels, regions, and trends that people need to know.
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
AGENDA
New Business
Discuss what has been missing from this years musical output.
Discuss what we have loved so far about 2025 in music.
Do both in detail.
intro and outro by andrew
AGENDA
New BusinessATTENDEES
Lord OLO, TELVANGEL, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney
intro and outro by andrew
ATTENDEES
Rhys Langston, Daniel Olney, Keith RollinsAGENDA
New Business
Discuss making hip hop outside of the standard/known sonic formats it exists in for the mass public.
Discuss Pale Black Negative in detail.
intro and outro by andrew