Tiny Desk Contest decide Madison McFerrin introduces us to finalists Remedy for Paranoia out of Dallas
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
Madison McFerrin is aware of what it takes to placed on a present behind NPR’s Tiny Desk as a result of years in the past, the Los Angeles-based artist submitted an entry to the Tiny Desk Contest. That is NPR Music’s annual seek for the subsequent nice undiscovered artist. Final 12 months, she performed her personal Tiny Desk live performance, and now Madison McFerrin is a contest decide. And right this moment she introduces us to considered one of this 12 months’s 5 contest finalists.
MADISON MCFERRIN: I am so excited to share the entry of “No Brainer” by Dallas hip-hop group Remedy for Paranoia.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “NO BRAINER”)
CURE FOR PARANOIA: (Rapping) Everyone go left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind. I misplaced my thoughts. Not complaining. Go.
MCFERRIN: This group has submitted to the competition yearly since 2023, and every year they’ve raised the bar. Songwriter Cameron McCloud says, I obtained positioned on treatment for bipolar melancholy and paranoid schizophrenia. Nevertheless it turned out that the music was extra therapeutic than the treatment was.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “NO BRAINER”)
CURE FOR PARANOIA: (Rapping) I do not proper no songs, I am a lefty. Received a ghost author with me like Nic Cage. I do not write my wrongs ‘trigger I am left-brained. I am not homosexual no extra. I am simply insane.
MCFERRIN: McCloud says, I created Remedy for Paranoia as a supply for remedy for myself with the hope that finally it may very well be remedy for another person sooner or later.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “NO BRAINER”)
CURE FOR PARANOIA: (Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind. I misplaced my thoughts. Not complaining. Go left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind. I misplaced my thoughts. Not, not – left mind, proper mind going forwards and backwards. Mind cut up right down to the apple core. Sasha Fierce ego. I am a savage. Received two wolves in me. I’mma feed the unhealthy – I am the massive unhealthy wolf. Yeah, I am about to blow. Sinners exterior, how I am at your door. Knock-knock joke. I be sort of lame generally. However I am unable to change, no Macklemore. Once I was within the third grade, I assumed that I used to be straight.
MCFERRIN: I like this entry as a result of, you realize, as quickly as I noticed it, I used to be captivated, not simply by the massive eyeball within the again, but additionally simply the sound itself. I felt contemporary. It felt distinctive. And simply the mix of, like, punk, hip-hop, jazz even, was – it actually stood out to me, and I used to be, like, instantly hooked.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “NO BRAINER”)
CURE FOR PARANOIA: (Rapping) ‘Trigger, I imply, that is America. That is embarrassing. That is solely the start.
(Rapping) America.
(Rapping) We have to take the entire nation, then put it in rice after which reset to manufacturing unit settings.
(Rapping) America.
CHANG: That was artist Madison McFerrin speaking about Remedy for Paranoia, considered one of this 12 months’s Tiny Desk Contest finalists. You possibly can watch their entry, plus many extra, at npr.org/tinydeskcontest.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “NO BRAINER”)
CURE FOR PARANOIA: (Rapping) Everyone go left mind, proper mind, no mind.
(Rapping) Left mind, proper mind, no mind.
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