Blueprint and Aesop Rock Collaborate on New EP

As veterans of the early underground hip-hop scene, me and Aesop Rock have a friendship and history that goes back over 15 years. It all began in the year 2000 when my original crew (Greenhouse Effect and Illogic) invited Aesop Rock to perform at our album release party that was held in Columbus, OH. Besides putting on a great show that weekend, a friendship was sparked that led me and my crew to make several trips to New York for collaborations with Aesop Rock and members of the Atoms Family.





From there, the classic collaborations started to fall into place: I appeared on the track "Alchemy" from Aesop Rock's 2002 Daylight EP; Aesop Rock appeared on the track "Lo-Fi Funk" from my 2005 debut solo album 1988; I appeared on the track "BMX" from Aesop Rock's 2012 album Skelethon; and in 2015 me and Aesop Rock were both featured on Atmosphere's single "This Lonely Rose." There are probably another 3 or 4 collaborations that we've done that I'm forgetting about at the moment, but you all get the picture.



Creatively, I have brainstormed for years about writing an album that was a complete story. The only problem was that I needed just the right producer to compliment the darkness and intensity of the tales I had in mind. Enter Aesop Rock. After all the years of great collaborations, me and Aesop rock decided to extend our chemistry into a whole project and try to do something neither had done before: Blueprint on the rhymes, Aesop Rock on the beats. The result, is the Vigilante Genesis EP--a story that is as engaging and moving as any television mini-series or graphic novel, but with all the musical fluidity of a hip-hop album.





Vigilante Genesis will be released Friday May 27th, 2015 on Weightless Recordings.

Me and Aesop Rock have both put a lot of work into making this album possible and ask that you support by pre-ordering your copy below. Please understand, in an era where music streaming is making it difficult for many artists to continue practicing their craft, the direct financial support from our true fans is what allows great independent music like this to continue being made.



So for all of our true fans who pre-order the album, here are the ways you can support directly:

Purple Vinyl + Instrumentals + Poster + Lyric Sheet + Digital DL = $20Signed CD + Instrumentals + Poster + Lyric Booklet = $10Instrumentals + Lyric PDF + Music Videos = $8Pre-Order your copy of Vigilante GenesisPlease Note:- All CDs & Vinyl will be signed by Blueprint, but only the first 250 posters will be signed by both Aesop Rock AND Blueprint.- Customers who preorder will receive their order on Tuesday May 24th, three days earlier than the May 27th release date.