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Reks Teams Up With Large Professor For "Gone Baby Gone"
Reks Teams Up With Large Professor For "Gone Baby Gone"

Reks & Alchemist Unite for "Kites"

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

It’s been more than a minute since we last heard from Massachusetts emcee, Reks, but he has big plans for album number 10. Set to drop this fall, The Greatest X, will feature production from Large professor, The Alchemist, Evidence, Statik Selektah, Nottz, Apollo Brown, Black Milk, Buckwild, and STREETRUNNER.

For the album’s lead single, Reks gets deep, as you’d expect with “Kites.” The track has Reks penning two very passionate letters to two different socio-political lightning rods. The first letter goes out to activist/author Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been imprissoned since the 80s for the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner. The second kite is flown out to Dylan Roof, the terrorist who executed nine people during a prayer service in South Carolina on June 17 2015.

The Greatest X, will be out September 9th via Brick Records.