”I was at the forefront of emo rap in the early 2000s,” the artist who goes by the name “The Calculus” told The Bad Penny in a video interview conducted Friday. “Now I feel like that music’s narcissistic. It was so self-important and ‘woe is me.’ But it was still a personal story. Race has always been underlying in all my work. My experience in being brown, having a Hindu family, growing up in South Orange County … I don’t think there’s a single non-white person on my whole residential street.”
After many periods of reflection and deliberation, The Calculus went through a transformation resulting in him wanting to focus more on the world around him – and political matters in particular, as they now infiltrate every aspect of our lives.
“I came to realize that anything is right or left,” he continued. “It’s all division and distraction from looking at people that are hoarding money while everyone’s suffering. We have a guillotine, it’s time to start chopping heads. Things need to be changed from up top in order for things to start getting better.”
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