From Scott Thorough: “Pumpkinhead, also known as PH and Robert Diaz passed away this morning. He was a ferocious emcee, a great battler and nice guy. People often say that rappers are jerks. Sometimes they are. Not PH. When I was coming up in the rap scene, PH always offered support, respect and guidance. He treated me as a peer, even though I hadn’t earned that yet, or ever. He always asked me for updates on my career when I saw him, and was the first legend to tell me my beats were dope. When we would do shows together, even though he could, he never asked to go last, and he rapped fucking dope. I also saw him put a sucker mc in his place for trying to battle him out of nowhere outside of the old Knitting Factory. A good man, a rap pioneer. Sleep well.”

Produced and Directed by Shaka King
Written by Shaka King and Kristan Sprague
Starring Cavalier, Jerard Anderson, China Shavers and Shaka King
Director of Photography Daniel Patterson
Editor Kristan Sprague
Briefly features Scott Thorough getting chased down the block

Scott Thorough created the original score for the film, which was directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, produced by Shark friend Elena Greenlee, edited by Shark friend Kristan Sprague, and executive produced by Shark hero Spike Lee.

We’ve been wanting to show this to you for a while… Modern Shark presents: Junk Science and the Hundred Dollar Sandwich! Available as a special double-disc SANDWICH with art by Cool Calm Pete! What do we mean by sandwich? The ‘bread’ is the 2 (clear-substrate) CDs. Disc 1 has toothpicks on it!:

The ‘ingredients’ are 10 die-cut pieces of paper between the ‘bread’ with the lyrics to the album and the liner notes printed on them. Looky.

Looky closer:

The whole thing comes packed in a classy, custom-printed freezer-safe ‘ziplock’ bag in case you are a weirdo who keeps CDs in the freezer. Keep your raps fresh:

Pre-order on Bandcamp now and get an immediate download of our new track “The Science of Stupid”!! The album officially drops on March 15th, but if you pre-order you’ll get the digital version before all your friends get it. Of course, you could just get the mp3s, but if you can swing the 20 bucks, why not get the whole sandwich? Pre-order here, or click “buy” on the player below. FUCK YEAH!!!

Shout out to Chances with Wolves for making this edit for their excellent Martin Luther King, Jr. episode a few years back. There’s a tradition building to turn MLK day into a national day of service. Personally I think that’s a beautiful idea.

“The mission to which they call us is a most difficult one, against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom… I speak out against this government because I love America. There can be no great disappointment where there is not great love… And the press generally won’t tell us these things, but God told me to tell you this morning. The truth must be told.”