Remedy For Paranoia desires you to imagine in your self. Perseverance, plus an entire lot of expertise, is what bought the Dallas hip-hop collective to our area after submitting to the Tiny Desk Contest 4 years in a row.
Right here, between laying down intelligent verses alongside his ten-piece band, frontperson Cameron McCloud introduces the group and their mission. “Ten years in the past, I used to be positioned on treatment for bipolar melancholy and paranoid schizophrenia — but it surely turned out that music was far more therapeutic than treatment was, so I created this band, this model, this motion, known as Remedy For Paranoia,” he shares. “Making music with these folks is my remedy, so hopefully the music we create will be remedy for different folks as effectively.”
Regardless of what number of main names have stopped by the Desk, discovery continues to be the guts of the sequence. The Tiny Desk Contest, which we host yearly in quest of the subsequent nice undiscovered artist, is an ideal instance of that. This 12 months, we acquired greater than 6,000 entries from unbiased artists throughout the nation, however one act had plain star energy. Amongst our judges, the choice to crown Remedy For Paranoia was unanimous.
Every track carried out right here was as soon as a Contest submission. And every verse within the group’s successful track, “No Brainer,” comes from a undertaking the place McCloud posted a brand new rap verse on Instagram daily of 2025. The final track — known as “That Child Cam,” which is what McCloud glided by when he was promoting CDs on the mall as a child — is a set spotlight that showcases McCloud’s magnetism, the group’s dynamism and simply how far they’ve come since they began believing within the energy of their music collectively.
SET LIST
- “The Artshow”
- “No Brainer”
- “That Child Cam”
MUSICIANS
- Cameron McCloud: vocals
- Jay Analog: MPC
- Tomahawk Jonez: MPC
- Kwinton Grey: keys, background vocals
- Mack Worth Jr.: guitar
- KJ Grey: bass
- Emery Varrie III: drums
- Nick Rothouse: percussion
- Jordan Carr: trumpet
- Kierra Grey: background vocals
- Dana Harper: background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producers: Elle Mannion, Bobby Carter
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Director/Combine: Josh Newell
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
- Audio Engineer: Tiffany Vera Castro
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dora Levite
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Ashley Pointer, Felix Contreras
- Collection Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Govt Director: Sonali Mehta
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
