Getcha Life! EP is a collaborative musical project between Unique (a/k/a kLefta*maniak, in MC form) and MRDJXZ, a DJ/producer living in Brooklyn, NY. This project was written during Unique's first year in recovery, and so represents an overcoming of one of the most tumultuous emotional spaces of their lives. It also becomes a triumphant return to deeper truths, ones only found in the darkest nights of the soul. This project is soul-filled, both musically and lyrically, and harkens to 90s energy - an oft nostalgic era in hip-hop, yet simultaneously breathes 21st century life and perspective, with Unique existing as a Black queer artist, navigating the intersections of poetry, academia, and Baltimore's cultural arts scene.
Getcha Life! was released September 24, 2021 on all streaming platforms. It is the second collaborative project between Unique and MRDJXZ, the first being Tha 27th Letter, Vol. II: Tha Remix (2020).
Alternatively, the full project can be heard here: https://klefta.bandcamp.com/album/getcha-life
Written by Unique Robinson (as kLefta*maniak)
Production, Mixing & Mastering by MRDJXZ (Xander B. Points-Zollo)
Album Artwork by Unique Robinson
Recorded at Da Underground Sky (D.U.G.S.), Baltimore, MD
The Word Is All Productions, 2021.
GETCHA LIFE! EP CoverThe Getcha Life! EP cover, designed by Unique Robinson. It represents the past, present, and future state of Black life: what influenced them (Black radical resistance efforts, eliminated by COINTELPRO); poor living conditions, shaped by disinvestment in Black communities in Baltimore: Lexington Terrace - where Unique's family was raised (along with the similarly structured Flag House Courts, and Lafayette Courts, pictured here); and the future of possibility and new paradigms, as symbolized by the Kaballah (also known as the Tree of Life).
