Although Mic Capes’ forthcoming Cold Blooded: Volume One is 11 tracks long—enough to consider it an album—the rapper’s not quite sure if it’s truly an LP.
“I don’t know what to call it—an album, an EP, project. People say it’s an album because it’s 11 songs,” Capes says, “but I look at albums like something with a main theme. And this is not that.”
Recorded with Zeb at Momentum Studios, the North Portland MC says his purpose for Cold Blooded—due May 27—was to just rap, get things off his chest, and talk his shit over some bouncy production. Unlike his debut LP Concrete Dreams, which sets a foundation and tells where Capes came from, this new project is more in line with the rapper’s Sheesh EP from 2017. “I wanted people to feel [Cold Blooded] more, rather than just listening to it and having to break down everything,” he says. The result is a less dense and deliberate project, and more of a vibe that lets the ego shine.
