Root For The Villain from New Orleans, Louisiana brings the Pyramid Tapes produced track "Red" featuring Calig Kontra.
Root For The Villain from New Orleans, Louisiana brings the Pyramid Tapes produced track "Red" featuring Calig Kontra.
Crate Baptist presents the Promotheus produced track "Berserkers" featuring Shyste, Calig Kontra, Words and DJ Madhandz.
Moemaw Naedon & Calig Kontra’s debut collaborative album, 'Cult Theatre,' is a celebration of surreal, grimy hip-hop that comes to life through visually provocative lyrics, experimental songwriting, and equally chilling and booming production. The entire record is produced by longtime collaborator Pyramid Tapes, the New Orleans beatsmith who surrounds the emcees with smoky, macabre instrumentals.
When Calig came up with the idea for the project, 'Cult Theatre' just clicked because he heard the album as “a soundtrack to an old grindhouse-type film from a projector screen.” Moemaw knew they had the right name, too: “I thought it was perfect since we’re both so visual with our bars and the album has a non-stop cohesive feel to it, like a movie, and the vibe is dark and psychedelic in typical ‘cult’ fashion.”
That vibe is apparent from the jump as the two emcees get underway on the opening track, “A New Abyss,” a sinister jaunt through “broken beer bottle glass and microphone booth bits.” Moemaw and Calig keep the pace on the ensuing eight cuts that include a woozy back-and-forth banger on “Pass the Vodka” and a dream collaboration with Lord Goat (f/k/a Goretex of Non Phixion) on “Witches Sabbath.”
Another instant standout is “Future Dystopia,” which Calig calls his favorite track. “Moemaw blacks out on that verse and hook,” he explains. “Plus I think it summarizes the album pretty well.” It’s actually that shared reverence for one another’s craft that makes Cult Theatre such a success. Moemaw and Calig don’t only sound great together on the record; they’re also quick to praise the other with rich details that only two close collaborators could really understand. And with Cult Theatre sounding this damn good, we can only hope that they bless the hip-hop community with more music in the future.
Moemaw Naedon & Calig Kontra are hosting a rapping clinic on their new banger “Pass the Vodka,” which fittingly boasts woozy, drunken production from Pyramid Tapes. The single stems from the duo’s forthcoming ‘Cult Theatre’ LP, and it shows off the strength of what real artistic collaboration sounds like. “Pass the Vodka” sounds like two talented friends having one hell of a time as they pass the mic back and forth.
Check out the lyric video and head over to your preferred streaming platform to support. 'Cult Theatre' is available now for pre-order and officially drops on Thursday, June 03 on classic black vinyl and through all major DSPs via Soul Slime Records☛ smarturl.it/CultTheatre
Brand new joint from Cult Theatre (Moemaw Naedon & Calig Kontra)
features Lord Goat aka Goretex...called "Witches Sabbath"... its the first
single off the Cult Theatre vinyl project.