Detroit producer Apollo Brown and Richmond, California battle rapper Locksmith have worked together on a new album they call No Question. Today they debuted the title track and within three minutes Locksmith gets thoughtful about the religious prejudice he witnessed as a child, America’s classicism and the elevation of mythical heroes. Apollo Brown provides a dusty falsetto soul loop, strings and a tambourine which makes Locksmith sound like he’s rapping with Curtis Mayfield or The Stylistics. The full-length No Question album releases June 15th.  

[youtube id=”XHxl7y2BkJ8″] Locksmith’s “Nobody” is the reason for his journey as a solo rapper.”Nobody” lists all the reasons he’s not big on collaborations and prefers to rap alone. The video is black and white and Locksmith raps mostly in the shadows of the building surrounded by space. Locksmith’s Olive Branch will be released March 31st.

[youtube id=”wbO5AYU9bZk”] Locksmith kicks off the future release of Olive Branch with a video for “Agenda.” He raps about gentrification, Bacon’s Rebellion and colonization in black and white. The Bay Area lyricist released Lofty Goals in 2015 and is getting ready for Olive Branch to come out the end of March.

[youtube id=”8vYgkRRF4lI”] Locksmith takes to the streets of New York in his video for the Kato-produced “Grime” and spends some time rapping on the Brooklyn Bridge. His relentless verses about shallow people will be on his Olive Branch album that’s coming out soon.