Run It Back: Revisiting A Mankind Complex's DESTINATION EP Ahead of Cap City Ent.'s Cinco de Mayo Show at McGuinn's with Ray Strife, RayRayBeats, Rocky & Alien (Lawrence Township, NJ)
"We talk about the everyday ills of being black, while combining all of the things that make this country beautiful, ugly, and raging against the machine.
Trino
also explains a war with himself about what he sees of the [discrimination.] Should he feel angry and riot or should he sit back and be ignorant about it; the track,
"Loose Change"
explains that,"
Cap City Ent.
founder and
New Jersey
-based producer
Ill-Omega
wrote within a recent emailed transmission. Many of you may recognize
Ill-Omega
's name from his recent work on emcee
Ray Strife
's latest
Preface: I Will Never Be Beautiful EP
, which was, as a matter of fact, premiered right here at Your Friendly Neighborhood Music Publication,
The Witzard
.
Ill-Omega
and emcee
Trino
first met back in the 7th grade, grew up together, and always possessed a common affinity for
Hip-Hop
.
Trino
started doing poetry, which eventually segued into rapping and coincidentally, right around the same time,
Ill-Omega
started his label imprint
Cap City Ent.
with fellow rapper and partner-in-rhyme simply known as
Rocky
; before too long,
Trino
imminently joined into the fold and it was decided to start a group, which they called
Aquemini
. "I'm an
Aquarius
and he's a
Gemini
. We also love the
OutKast
album of the
. Later, we changed our name to
A Mankind Complex
. We thought that some people have a "God" complex and think big of themselves, but we [wanted] to have a voice of "mankind" and explain the faults and triumphs of mankind, so we have
"A Mankind Complex,'"
Ill-Omega
further detailed.
Now, nearly a year after its initial release,
Ill-Omega
has requested I shine a little light back on
A Mankind Complex
's June 2016
Destination EP
in this very space; a request which I'm very happy and honored to fulfill!
Ill-Omega & Trino
are actually warming up to play a $6 show later this week, Friday, May 5th
(Cinco de Mayo)
at
at 1781 Brunswick Ave. Lawrence Township, NJ 08648.
A Mankind Complex
will be headlining a festive
Cap City Ent.
showcase along with fellow
New Jersians Ray Strife
, RayRayBeats,
Rocky
, and Alien.
A Mankind Complex
's
Destination EP
is the proper follow-up to their debut EP,
D.R.E.A.M.S.
(2016.) "The first track [on
Destination,
]
"Stranger at Home"
has a snippet from my other artist
Rocky
from another track called
which you can listen on our
Soundcloud
. We have a mixtape dropping in the spring called
We're All Mad Here
. The inspiration of the album was around all the racial tension going around the black shootings in 2016,"
Ill-Omega
wrote, concerning
A Mankind Complex
's future aspirations. In addition to
A Mankind Complex
,
roster additionally includes
Ray Strife
, Rocky, and
Alien
.
A Mankind Complex
are currently gearing up to unleash their aforementioned
We're All Mad Here
mixtape and companion full-length album
Part 1: Vesica
, the first of which can be expected this spring.
Ill-Omega & Trino
recently shared our first taste of
We're All Mad Here
in the form of
"I Ain't The Problem"
—a feverish, quick-strike track laced over a characteristically hard-as-nails
Madlib
beat!