Peace Be to the People.
This incoming transmission is coming to you LIVE From The Bear's Den: Digital Edition (my tenative title for these updates & posts. Feel free to call it corny), AKA my bedroom/studio space on a little island off the coast of Georgia, a few nights before December 1st, post-blunt, yet pre-dinner. The weekly Hip Hop Night that my partner in rhymes, Signature, & I run, alongisde the esteemed & immaculate DJ Halftyme Humble, is gonna start gearing up for liftoff in an hour & some change.
WHADDUP INTERNET!? I hope you're doing well!
It's Your Friendly Neighborhood cunabear™ here!
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a rapper, singer, painter, musician, and Illustrator (both digital & ink-on-paper). I shoot/edit music videos & mini-documentaries on my life/tours/travels, I do a little grapic-design work, I dub cassette tapes for myself & others, I like to hand-paint my own t-shirts/merch (trust me when I say trusting in a place like fourthwall that does that FOR me is SO bizzare- which is why you will see listings for hand-made merch by me in the future)...I DO A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING CREATIVE. All my disciplines come with a heavy-handed self-taught, DIY mentality. That also includes booking my own shows & tours in the indie-rap scene, as well as running the BearTooth Collective.
For the uninitiated, BTC, as I like to abbreviate (fuck Bitcoin, nigga), is an Art & Music Collective with "official members" all across the globe. We help each otherDespite being centered & housed in my tiny lil treehouse on the island & the surrounding local city (s/o CPOTE, 91Deuce all day baby!), the internet has really been what separates us from other crews & collectives because BTC encompasses multiple crews, collectives, indie labels, affiliates, friends, family (both blood & chosen-flavored). As they say, it takes a village. And we take that community ideal seriously.
It should go without saying, but we don't fuck with any homophobes, transphobes, or xenophobes around here, fuck white supremacy, fuck the police, power to the people & to the people all the power. Free all peoples world wide from colonization. BearTooth Colective in all iterations & locations aims to be a safe space for marginalized folks of all kinds, and it is, indeed for the children (Blessings be to the Wu).
WITH THAT BEING SAID. As much as BTC is for the people, it is a real collective of actual friends & family, and we deserve/reserve levels of privacy within' the HQ(s) and online spaces where we do our own thang, BUT we wanna let yall in on the fun & community as well, because without your support we wouldn't be here (Only WE Can Help WE). So consider this fan-club your personal portal into Into The Bear's Den (see what I did there?!) where your support goes a bit beyond the regular album-purchase (that we're all immensely grateful for) & becomes, hopefully, more mutually beneficial.
Welcome to the Bear-Cub Fan Club 3.0! Hopefully this iteration will be the most fruitful.
Some of you may know I've dabbled with subscription/membership clubs in the past as a way to either force myself into a creative flow (with your happiness as fans & customers as motivation to make art) or to try and reward you all with over-the-top promises I wasn't able to deliver on long-term (because, let's face it- content creation to that level is a full-time job AND THEN SOME and it's hard to keep up with demands as a singular artist with no team to back me up in the physical sense. I already had my hands triply full running the BearTooth Collective & my active rap career & my dayjob and I couldn't hack it).
NONE OF THAT IS HAPPENING HERE
Within the trial & error of the previous two attempts I've learned what the best things I can offer you without burning myself out are, and that they mostly entail our own connection as people growing.
So here's what I propose! By joining this Member's Only Fan Club & supporting me + The Beartooth Collective directly I can give you more ways to keep directly in touch with me, some personal artwork, and quicker access to any and everything I'm working on, as well as some other goodies provided by the good folks here at fourthwall that enable things like dope discounts & exclusive merch that I design. I want to focus on simply making dope art & music as much as possible, and showing you all the details while bringing you along for the ride!
I plan to update the website regularly with posts & to send newsletters via email to keep everyone in the loop with all my going's on, as well as open up a discord server just for us to be abel to share music & art and whatever else comes to mind. I hope this life of creativity, music, and fun sounds like something you'd like to support, and if so, Welcome to the Bear-Cub Fan Club!
I'm gonna roll another blunt & head to Hip Hop Night! I hope to see/speak with you soon!
Cheers!
- cuna
