{"id":676169,"date":"2025-06-19T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/james-massiah-is-the-new-sheriff-in-town\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:59:32","slug":"james-massiah-is-the-new-sheriff-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-massiah-is-the-new-sheriff-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"James Massiah is the new sheriff in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a383dd42eb42\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-massiah-is-the-new-sheriff-in-town\/#On_his_new_album_Bounty_Law_the_poet_MC_DJ_and_Dean_Blunt_collaborator_documents_his_liberation_from_societys_rules_and_the_making_of_his_own\" >On his new album Bounty Law, the poet, MC, DJ, and Dean Blunt collaborator documents his liberation from society\u2019s rules, and the making of his own.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"On_his_new_album_Bounty_Law_the_poet_MC_DJ_and_Dean_Blunt_collaborator_documents_his_liberation_from_societys_rules_and_the_making_of_his_own\"><\/span>On his new album <i>Bounty Law<\/i>, the poet, MC, DJ, and Dean Blunt collaborator documents his liberation from society\u2019s rules, and the making of his own.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271743\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_-_photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_sg0vmy\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"James Massiah is the new sheriff in town\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      James Massiah. Photo by Will Wright<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271747\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Apollo Frequencies is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week\u2019s edition, James Massiah (aka DJ Escrow) discusses how he freed himself from humanity\u2019s laws in the making of his debut LP.<\/i>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            James Massiah grew up in the Church. Raised in south-west London, he played drums as a teenager, touring the city\u2019s extensive circuit of Seventh-day Adventist congregations. \u201cIt was the harmonies that got to me \u2014 the haunting sounds in minor chords and how they changed when there was a shift to darkness,\u201d he tells me on a video call a few weeks after the release of his debut album, <i>Bounty Law<\/i>. \u201cI loved that sense of longing or pain you could get with certain notes and intonations.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271748\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            He started writing poems as soon as he could read. For his sixth birthday, his mother bought him a copy of A.A. Milne\u2019s <i>Now We Are Six<\/i>, and he remembers mimicking those poems in his earliest work. As a teen, he was drawn to the grime and road rap he heard on pirate radio but saw hip-hop as a world completely separate from his own. \u201cI didn&#8217;t think of what I was doing as r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing, but I did enjoy the fact that MCs like Dizzee Rascal were playing with language, and I wanted to do that too,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was only as an adult that I started to see less of a binary between the two.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Since leaving the Church at 18, Massiah (now 34) has broken boundaries imposed on him from within and without: the institutional taboo on sexual desire that had caused him endless angst as a teen, the mind-body barrier (via psychedelic substances), the gulf between poetry and partying \u2014 his Adult Entertainment series pairs readings with afters powered by dancehall and dub \u2014 and, most recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> contract. \u201cI had so many limitations in the Church, and then I was lawless,\u201d he says. \u201cNow I\u2019m putting down my own rules.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271761\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/James_Massiah_lead_press_shot_-_Photo_credit_Will_Wright_1_wpm2fp\/james-massiah-photo-by-will-wright.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"James Massiah is the new sheriff in town\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      James Massiah. Photo by Will Wright.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271749\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Massiah first dabbled in rapping in the mid 2010s, when legendary London recluse Dean Blunt recruited him to play the exaggerated role of a road rapper in his Babyfather project. A fan of Massiah\u2019s poetry and his deep-cut DJ sets, Blunt connected the dots between these skills before Massiah could. \u201cIt just goes to highlight [Dean\u2019s] genius,\u201d he says. \u201cLike, \u2018Here&#8217;s this person. They do this, they do that. I see an angle where they can exist in this world I&#8217;m creating.\u2019\u201d He\u2019ll be reassuming the role soon, he adds, smiling when I ask him if there\u2019s more new music coming in the wake of \u201cbluey vuitton,\u201d Babyfather\u2019s 2024 collab with producer-of-the-moment evilgiane.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            On the urging of friends and against his own best judgement, Massiah dropped his first solo tape, <i>Natural Born Killers<\/i>, in 2019. He was much more confident in its follow-up, 2024\u2019s <i>True Romance<\/i> EP.  Returning to road rap, he mined the dissolution of his last few love relationships over s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped-down, dubby beats. \u201cIt\u2019s less about breaking other people&#8217;s hearts than it is about me breaking my own heart and coming to terms with the ways in which my upbringing and relationship to sex have impacted my ability to perform the role of a partner,\u201d he says. \u201cI was immersed in this world of drugs and hedonism, and I wish I could\u2019ve communicated better that I had to go through these things to figure myself out.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <i>Bounty Law<\/i> is about the freedom that comes when one renounces conventional relationships, romantic and otherwise. Employing outside producers for the first time, Massiah raps above dream-dusted beats from the perspective of a modern-day outlaw. This freedom comes at a cost \u2014 even on the record\u2019s slickest, most swaggering cuts, our hero grieves the life he\u2019s leaving behind \u2014 but it\u2019s worth it in the end, at least for now. Unshackled from social mores, he\u2019s ready to be the ruler of his own free world.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271760\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/bounty-law\/1810585608\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1BXbDQs2KMslPKHaLvStHf?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271759\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<hr>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271750\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: You\u2019ve framed <i>Bounty Law<\/i> as a Western set in London.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It&#8217;s not meant to be a literal Western, but I like the idea of outlaws and cattle rustlers going back and forth across county lines, shootouts, people running into the saloon, getting drunk, having a fight. I&#8217;d been running around town quite a bit, and it felt like there was no regulation, like anything was possible in quite a scary way. I realized I was gonna have to be the sheriff of my own life.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I was thinking about the idea of the outlaw in a world where it&#8217;s everyone for themselves, where the price of success is the bounty on your head. How much is it gonna cost you to get what you want? What are you willing to pay for happiness and peace of mind?\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>If this <i>was<\/i> a Western and you had to make a character chart for its protagonist, what would their most important traits be?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The character is like any tragic hero, the kind that you have in [the films] <i>Natural Born Killers<\/i> and <i>True Romance<\/i>, even <i>Django Unchained<\/i> (I named the last two projects after Tarantino movies, and I often go to him for references when I want some creative direction). [The character is] trying to figure it out, get it sorted, make sense of the world they\u2019re in. They&#8217;re trying to score, but there&#8217;s a question they can&#8217;t answer.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The track \u201cBaby\u201d is like, \u201cWe could take over the world, me and you, if only you&#8217;d let me know if you want this or not.\u201d And \u201cPeroxide\u201d is letting go of that dream, like, \u201cYou know what? I can go anywhere in the world and find what I want. It&#8217;s up to me to decide.\u201d It\u2019s the social contract moving from collective responsibility to individual responsibility, which you see in action films. The album could\u2019ve been called <i>The Bourne Identity<\/i>.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271758\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>While I&#8217;ve got this passion, I want to use it \u2019cause I don&#8217;t know how much longer I\u2019ll feel this way.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271751\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>My reading of the story was cyclical, starting and ending with these hedonistic benders that seemed destined for disaster, rather than linear, like the hero\u2019s journey you describe.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            A lot of the record is about one particular relationship that was really sour at the time. It starts with \u201cPop Down,\u201d where I go home after I&#8217;ve been out partying, and we have a fight about where I&#8217;ve been and who I&#8217;ve been with. By the end of it, I&#8217;m like, \u201cLook, should we just get married and have a baby?\u201d And then [\u201cPeroxide\u201d] is like, \u201cWell, if we&#8217;re not gonna be clear on that, then I&#8217;m just gonna go out into the world. I&#8217;ve got things everywhere, life is good.\u201d That\u2019s the end of the album, but then it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, I kind of want to see this person,\u201d and we pop down again. I&#8217;m keen to get the next record out because I feel like I&#8217;ve already broken out of that cycle with that person. I&#8217;ve gotten better at communicating what I want and what I can offer. I&#8217;m more confident and more brave.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>This is the first time you\u2019ve had other people produce one of your records, and a lot of the producers you chose are part of your scene. Who do you see as your peers in London right now, and how did that scene contribute to the way the album sounds?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Jawnino and sasha B have worked with most of the producers on <i>Bounty Law<\/i> \u2014 3o, Cajm, and Cold. I had my own relationship with those producers before that, but it was through hearing the music they made with Jawnino and sasha B that I was like, \u201cWow, I trust you. You&#8217;ve done so well in carrying and containing the power and essence of what sasha B and Jawnino want to say with their music that I feel like you can do the same with mine.\u201d They all know my production, and they honored it in their own way.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It feels so good to be in this mix of artists I respect and admire, and I want to say more and do more and travel more. I want to keep the momentum up. While I&#8217;ve got this passion, I want to use it \u2019cause I don&#8217;t know how much longer I&#8217;ll feel this way. I&#8217;ve got access to producers who respect and love me, and friends who have studio space and let me take advantage of that. And there&#8217;s an audience who wants to listen, so I want to keep feeding and respecting them as well, rather than waiting another five years.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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