Bishop Nehru remembers the title of his eighth album, My Disregarded Thoughts, appearing to him in a vision when he was in the seventh grade.
“I knew I wanted to make a concept record about what it takes to free yourself from mental enslavement,” the New York rapper recalls over a crackly phone line. “The plan was to make something that showed real vulnerability and was, like, the polar opposite of masking how I felt.”
Thankfully this high school pledge is something the artist has more than honored as a 23-year-old adult, with the artist’s new record underpinned by a brutal honesty. Clearly seen as a coming-of-age album, My Disregarded Thoughts - particularly via highlights like Colder and Too Lost (produced by DJ Premier) - is about showing young black men and women how to escape a culture that encourages their morbidity, and to find a way to embrace getting older.
The introspective trap of “In My Zone”, which includes the boast: “I have no friends / I be chillin alone”, promotes self-love and an inward-looking perspective at odds with the Instagram generation’s need for persistent external validation. But these were all... more
Tracklist
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Colder (Prod. by Bishop Nehru)
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In My Zone (Prod. by Maaly Raw & Cubeatz)
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WhyDoesTheNightSkyTalk2Me? (Prod. by Bishop Nehru & Marcus Machado)
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Little Suzy (Be Okay) (Prod. by Bishop Nehru)
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Too Lost (Prod. by DJ Premier)
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Emperor (Prod. by Bishop Nehru)
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3:50 in L.A (Prod. by Bishop Nehru)
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OurEnergyIsAstral (Prod. by Imphanyte)
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All of My Years (Prod. by Brady Watt)
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Meathead (feat. MF DOOM) (Prod. by MF DOOM)
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Me & My Thoughts (Prod. by Bishop Nehru)
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Carefree Blackboy (Prod. by Maaly Raw)
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Never Slow (Prod. by Brady Watt)