Stream “Locust Drive” from pre-Rodan/June of 44 experimental rap project King G & The J Krew

Ahhhh, “Locust Drive”… What can be said about this late-night cruising-for-Krispy Kreme groove number that hasn’t been said already? From the nature video-like pansexual erotica bulging out of Ben “Sweet Cheeks” Daughtrey’s ukulele AND conga inclusions, to the indecency-inducing bass guitar caresses of MC Jedi Knight (aka Simon Furnish), to the Night Musk additional vocals by Leila Coppala…this song has it all, with a cherry on top. This track is the Family Planning ‘slow song’ of King G & The J Krew’s 1992 hip hop classic Indestructible Songs of the Humpback Whale, and is under-girdled by the Ultra Sensitive drum programming of King G (Greg King), and led to the bedroom by the soothing sibilances of MC Diogenes (Jason Noble) and MC Crawdad (Jeff Mueller).

About The Album
Before musicians Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller were indie music superstars with their bands Rodan, June of 44, Rachel’s, and Shipping News, they were rap superstars. In Kentucky, that is. Louisville, Kentucky, to be exact. Where Muhammad Ali is from.

Together with their drum machine-owning, Rockit-by-Herbie Hancock-playing-on-a-Yamaha DX21, RUN DMC-fanatic friend Greg King (King G), the three formed the group King G & The J Krew while still in high school (beat-boxing and rapping together in the echo-rich stairwells), and performed live exactly seven times before their 22nd birthdays, to the delight of dozens.

After initially 4-tracking a 90-minute ‘EP’ titled SNUG (with hip hop compatriot Jonathan Hawpe, aka Secret Weapon), the trio embarked on a much more ambitious project after achieving some better gear; their magnum opus ‘Indestructible Songs Of The Humpback Whale’. Released on CD in the fall of 1992, they were joined in the effort by fellow Louisville scene luminaries Tim Furnish (Crain, Parlour), Drew Daniel (Matmos), Ben Daughtrey (Squirrel Bait, Love Jones), Heather Cantrell (Drinking Woman), and Tara Jane O’Neil (Rodan, Sonora Pine). They would have gotten nowhere fast without the help of musician/engineer Aaron Frisbee, who basically taught them how to record music properly, and who contributed guitar and violin to the record when the need arose. Which it did.