2025 reissue on black & yellow vinyl, originally released in 2011 - Detroit’s Apollo Brown and Rochester’s Hassaan Mackey operate in a world where every drum slap lands like a timeworn truth and every bar drips with lived-in wisdom. Brown’s production is rich with that signature crackle—soul loops stretched and repurposed into something both hauntingly nostalgic and unmistakably fresh. Mackey’s delivery is sharp yet unhurried, weaving Northern NY grit with effortless poise. It’s the kind of record that doesn’t beg for attention but demands respect.
Back with that grit, tell the soundman to turn this sh*t up. New York emcee Hassaan Mackey (Rawkus 50) slangs words and onomatopoeia, rhymes like he wants to, and backs the whole room into a corner with a raw vision of the streets that pierces ordinary experience and gets at life’s marrow. Meanwhile Detroit Producer Apollo Brown (The Reset, Brown Study, Gas Mask, Clouds) lays the sonic foundation with hard drums and big bass, while the crackle of vinyl hums. Gritty and soaked in soul, Daily Bread brings to mind an old photograph that bangs out the system. Each track is heavy with a sense of atonement, haunted by experience, and energized by a cathartic sense of hope. Give us our Daily Bread and forgive us our trespasses.
| A1 | Daily Bread |
| A2 | Volume |
| A3 | Something |
| A4 | Dollar Bill Hill |
| B1 | Elephants |
| B2 | Different World |
| B3 | Weak Won't Do |
| B4 | The Trenches |
| C1 | Tell Me |
| C2 | Mackey's Lament |
| C3 | Heroes |
| C4 | Megaphone |
| D1 | Higher |
| D2 | The Note |
| D3 | Like A Diamond |
