It’s safe to say, the belief in what he’s got coming next is palpable. Erick wants to take this hazardous and precarious existence and turn it into substantive and classic art. It would seem that Erick has begun to find what many of us have sought in this time – a therapeutic purpose. So you got some of the best artists of all time releasing some of their peak records at that very moment”, Erick explains. ‘Stankonia’, ‘Like Water for Chocolate’, ‘Who Is Jill Scott?’, and I think ‘Black on Both Sides’ came out then. “When I created ‘Future Proof’, the idea of it came from me kind of looking back at history and saying, “What other time in my lifetime have we experienced peril, confusion, and uncertainty about the future?” Then I was like, “Well, 19 were weird years man because people thought the world was gonna be over.” But also some amazing albums came out in those two years. These two songs are only the initiation into the fully realized soundscape of his upcoming ‘Future Proof’ EP.
Erick sounds like a vessel for dignity and empathy, while also being entirely human with unfinished work to be done on himself. Thus the range he organically covers feels essential. You hear Erick going through his own societal and personal reckoning on the tracks. In the most apocalyptic year of our lifetime, Erick dropped two poignantly omnipresent singles, “WTF” feat.
Yet, this period of separation from that habitual lifestyle allowed Erick to ponder upon his individual needs, desires, and empowerment. He holds robust value to his time of creation and exploration with his mystically transcendent rap group, Flatbush Zombies. Erick The Architect has spent the pandemic like many of us did, reflecting and readjusting.
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