Look Out for Kane Mayfield’s Thievery Corporation Mixtape
Look Out for Kane Mayfield’s Thievery Corporation Mixtape
Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter.District Line Daily covers local politics, culture, and the Needle—our daily quality of life index for D.C. under the Trump administration. Few rappers get more out of Twitter thanKane Mayfield, who combines the usual self-promotion with well-measured personal openness and a general tone of intellectual curiosity. (He’s alsodelightfully stoopidon a regular basis.) If theBaltimore MCexisted only on social media, it would still be a net gain for society. Dude actually does make music, too, but until now it’s been atrackhere and anEPthere. He’s about to hit a whole new level of shrewdness, however, withRhymes By Kane: Thievery Corporation, which involves exactly what you might think: He raps over beats borrowed from the D.C. dance-musicgroup. It’s out July 24 onMania Music Group, and executive-produced by that label’s owners,Dwayne LawsonandBrandon Lackey.