HipHopDX Premiere – Sapient turns 35 on Tuesday (October 16) and to be able to have fun, the Sandpeople vet is gifting his followers with a brand new visible for “Overjoyed.”
Written and produced by the Oregon-based artist, the track finds Sapient venturing into extra acoustic guitar-based music and utilizing his spectacular vocal vary to drive residence its anti-materialism idea.
“To not be on some Historic Aliens shit, however I’m fairly anti-money and the function it performs in suppressing our pure inclination to dream and be inventive,” Sapient explains to HipHopDX. “‘Overjoyed’ is concerning the vacancy devoting our lives to work, receiving cash and hole reward whereas struggling to remain linked to what really units our soul ablaze.
“I used to be doing a lot to supply for my household that I by no means actually had the prospect decelerate analyze all the things: the reside present, the enterprise construction, the sound and model. I wanted a while to hearken to my instinct and plan my strikes extra intentionally, so I took a yr pause in my tour and schedules to have the ability to refocus on my household, work on my home and and simply make artwork.”
Within the video, Sapient will get a birthday card and present from Life Kills Slowly co-founder Timi Hendrix. He opens the enormous current to discover a labradoodle pet named Moose inside.
“Timi is an excellent dope German rapper who has turn out to be a very good buddy and collaborator,” he says. “LKS releases and helps my music in most non-US territories. He actually has put me on the map in Germany by bringing me on the market to tour and introducing his followers to my music. The birthday current and card are his little distant cameo.”
“Moose] is a chilly killer,” he provides. “He’s not even a yr previous now and he has like three teardrop face tats.”
Because the video continues, Sapient continues to sing whereas making an attempt to mild his birthday cake on hearth.
“We have been making an attempt to determine how you can mild this cake that my spouse made on hearth,” he says. “Jon Sleeves went into the storage and got here out with gasoline in his paper cfee cup. I used to be like, ‘You certain you need to do this inside?’ and he wasn’t nervous about it. So yeah, we lit a cake on hearth with gasoline in his eating room.”
Watch the Tim Slusarczyk-directed video above and discover extra information about Sapient right here.