Beans

Hip-Hop

There are at least 5 Beans: 1. New York MC & producer Robert Stewart. Member of AntiPop Consortium. 2. Vancouver post-rock band, formed in 1995. Added a ‘The’ to the name by 2004. See The Beans. 3. Dutch steetpunk band formed in 1996. 4. Ska group from the 60s. 5. Garage-Psych band from Melbourne/Geelong, Australia. Formerly known as Baked Beans. 1. Beans is a rapper from White Plains, New York. He was a member of the underground hip hop group Antipop Consortium. He is a founder of the record label Adored And Exploited. With his distinctive, fast-flowing and poetic style, Beans amalgamates witty, thoughtful lyrics with his own productions of Chunky psychedelic electro-hop. According to the Pitchfork Media review for the album Thorns, The MC is simply good at what he's good at, putting together bushy, crooked beats with rhymes that are both confessional and evasive. Beans has released two LPs and one EP on AntiPop Consortium's former label Warp Records since launching his solo career in 2003: Tomorrow Right Now, Now Soon Someday EP and Shock City Maverick. The third solo album Only was released on Thirsty Ear Recordings in 2005, followed by the fourth album Thorns on Adored And Exploited in 2007. In 2011, Beans released the fifth solo album, End It All. on Anticon. It features productions by Four Tet, Sam Fogarino of Interpol, Clark, Tobacco, Fred Bigot, Nobody, Son Lux, Ade Firth, In Flagranti, and The Bumps. Beans has collaborated with Vernon Reid of Living Colour, ...