Supernova

Description

He’s worked as an artist, producer, songwriter, and scorer for the past decade,

“winning a MOBO (for his work on Bashy’s Being Poor Is Expensive)”, as well as being

nominated for GRAMMY, Juno, and Ivor Novello Awards, along the way. Recently,

Runkus felt a deeper calling towards the world of visual art, which has lead to working

with Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan, whose multi- disciplinary output has earned

him a MacArthur Genius Prize. With the new album, SUPERNOVA, which includes

guest appearances by Sean Paul and Peter Tosh, they have reignited a seamless

collaboration of music and art, following in the footsteps of pairings like The Velvet

Underground & Andy Warhol, Kanye West & Virgil Abloh, and (closer to Runkus’s home

country of Jamaica) Bob Marley & Neville Garrick. Roots reggae, thumping bass,

dancehall energy, and deep lyricism merge together to tell a story of life and death, the

sheep and the wolf, the version of you that has to die for the next one to be born, all

elements of SUPERNOVA.