Bottom Feeders (Cap Jones x Jay Fehrman) "Kings of Style" [EP]

 

Bottom Feeders is the working unit of Cap Jones and Jay Fehrman, a Minnesota-based MC-producer partnership operating fully outside the industry infrastructure – everything mixed and mastered by Cap Jones himself, artwork by Czarheel, released into the Dead World Radio and Loop City Slums network. Fehrman out of Saint Paul brings a sample-excavation approach to his beats that prioritizes texture over shine, and Cap Jones has spent years developing a lyrical catalog that includes work with Killah Priest and Shabaam Sahdeeq, demonstrating he can hold his own in serious company. Kings of Style at four tracks is a compact release in a series of them – Heavy Set and Sad Eyes preceded this earlier in the year – suggesting a consistent drip model that keeps the Bottom Feeders name circulating without the need for a major project drop. The project's self-sufficiency, from production through mastering to distribution, is the de facto political statement for this kind of artist.