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My guest this week is California rapper-producer, drummer, and skateboarder Cletus Strap. We spoke about Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Belly, From, the Scary Movie series, coming into his own as a drummer before he started rapping and producing, making 2022’s St. Cletus with the producer Luzine, meeting Sideshow and Earl Sweatshirt, he and Earl’s creative partnership, managing snooty rap fans’ expectations, and the creative process behind Cletus’s Tan Cressida debut rappers suck, from the music to its collage cover art. Come fuck with us.
rappers suck is available now wherever music is sold, streamed, or stolen. Consider copping a CD or T-shirt via Tan Cressida Records's website. Follow Cletus on Instagram (@wefuckeditallup) and Twitter (@cletusstrap). Follow Tan Cressida on Instagram: @tancressidarecords.
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