Slipknot turntablist Sid Wilson has announced he’s started up a new label called Vomit Face Records, and he’s launching his latest venture with the release of a single from Houston rapper Lil Bushwick.
The label’s debut offering is dubbed “Take It Back,” and it finds the Texan hip-hop artist working his flow above production by DJ Lethal, of Limp Bizkit and House of Pain fame. The track also features a posthumous vocal appearance from Lil Bushwick’s father: late Geto Boys member Bushwick Bill, who was also a friend of Wilson’s.
“Bushwick Bill and I had made a promise to each other to make an album,” Wilson explained in a statement. “After several roadblocks in scheduling, Bill sadly, and unfortunately, passed away due to illness most were unaware of.
“In meeting his son and discovering that he too was a music artist, I made a promise to the spirit of the great Bushwick, that I would fulfill our pact by producing an album for his son. We did just that, and through the help of a dear friend DJ Lethal, we were able to add an unreleased track of Bill’s, and I’m proud to say, we made the impossible possible for this iconic hip-hop lineage of father and son.”
“Being able to collaborate with my pops six years after his passing brings me a different type of joy,” Lil Bushwick added. “Hearing his voice again speaking life and expressing himself just as I remembered takes me back to the simpler times. I know he’d be proud of how I approached each verse my own way. He was always big on being yourself and I’ll forever be that.”
You can sample the collaborative, psych-guitar-fuzzed, multi-generational single up above, while the rest of Lil Bushwick’s self-titled album arrives on October 31st.
As for the rest of the Vomit Face Records roster, Wilson reveals that it also includes J57, DEAD X HEDZ, Rome Fortune, Ricardo Grimm and Mars Black. Details on their respective projects have yet to be proffered, but Wilson noted the acts are united in that they’re “artists who don’t fit in and never wanted to.”
“It’s rebels in motion that unapologetically stand out,” he continued. “It’s to celebrate imperfection, people making real art out of the mess in a world that rewards fake. It’s where the sound, hard work and spirit collide and no one can tell you how to look or feel.
“Real art isn’t pretty, it should stir something slightly uncomfortable and break down those walls to create something new inside of you. It’s a place for the misfits to have a voice and a place to make their own.”
You can find out more about Vomit Face Records over here.