, a nationally recognized goth rap trio with King FOE and Karma. But now, at forty years old, Abraham is finally making the music he wants to make, freed from the expectations previously put upon him by bandmembers, audiences, music-industry gatekeepers, and even himself.
After moving back to Denver, Abraham worked as a Lyft driver and reignited his love for music as a listener during the long stretches of time in his car:"I was listening to these shoegaze bands; one was called Whirr, and one was called Nothing. That process helped me with, 'What do I like listening to?' And it was this. So for me, I was like, 'I want these textures, I want these guitar tones, but I want to put it on my beats, and I want to sing.
"In my period of destitution, she had early demos, variations of some of these records. One of them was called 'I Hate the Sun,' and she was like, 'Yo, this is my favorite piece of music ever made,'" he remembers."I was blown away by that, because one of the things that I was most destitute about was, who am I making music for? And it made it very clear: I am making music for Féven. Dream pop for a Black woman. It's her.
Abraham explains that often, so-called alternative Black artists end up catering to white audiences, because they themselves have been deluded into thinking there isn't a Black audience for their particular sound."The notion that somehow Black people only like rap, only like R&B, don't like rock, is a lie. You will think as an artist who is Black, who doesn't fit into the preexisting paradigms of Blackness, that the only potential audience is white people.