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Rising Rapper Ghais Guevara Returns with Murky New Single “Bystander Effect”

Featuring label mate ELUCID

Rising rapper Ghais Guevara is back with his new single “Bystander Effect” featuring his Fat Possum label mate, ELUCID, from his debut LP Goyard Ibn Said.

On the new DJ Haram produced single, Ghais Guevara offers: 

DJ Haram showed me true musicianship with this beat. Built a world where ELUCID and I could really lay out our imagery. Wrote this shit in like two hours, so imagine how good it felt to get the green light from my inspirations!

Not many rappers have performed at enormous venues, punk rock dive bars, and Marxist book stores – introducing: Ghais Guevara. Born and raised in North Philly amidst both guns and gang avoidance tactics, nurtured and educated using generational radical Black leftist thought, Ghais Guevara revels in the juxtapositions and narrative conflicts of his life on his new project: Goyard Ibn Said. His discography reveals two previous mixtapes, with Ghais now declaring Goyard Ibn Said his debut album and his first release for Fat Possum. Influences range from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film Persona which Ghais says “opened my mind to the concept of the deflated self as a result of trauma” to Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and onto Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. 

 Very pausable, very rewindable– with Goyard Ibn Said, Ghais Guevara has entered a new tympanic realm, a rare universe, a sector of the rap stratosphere that he can claim as solely his own. 

Are you vibing with Ghais Guevara’s “Bystander Effect”?

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