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The MN Mean Movement (digital album)

by Carnage The Executioner

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    It’s been stated that there is no such thing as a classy trucker cap. Well…Carnage The Executioner proves that statement to be a lie! Introducing the uniquely-styled and super-dope MN MEAN TRUTHFUL TRUCKER CAP!

    Show the world you say what you mean and mean what you say with this multi-colored snap-back cap that designed with black front, charcoal mesh rear and black bill. The embroidered, noticeable and vividly-detailed MN Mean logo on front of the cap makes this an attention-grabber! One size fits all.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of AntiFaux 1.0, Ravenous, Attack Of The Show Stealer (live performance digital album), The Show Saver (Digital Super Single), The MN Mean Movement (digital album), The Ultimatum (digital album), Carnage The Executioner's Carnology Volume II: Sinner Takes All (digi-mix), Respect The Name (digital album), and 2 more. , and , .

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    If you search the term 'Minnesota Nice' on Google, you'll see why the state's mantra is sort of an oxymoron.

    It's a term that generalizes the unwavering non-confrontational, “nice” & polite manner in which people from the chilly, small & hard-to-find state of Minnesota are characterized as interacting with one another. Those who tend to view this avoidance of conflict & perceived politeness as passive-aggressive rebuke the term Minnesota Nice.

    Carnage The Executioner challenges the overall truth surrounding the locally-popular term with his raw, honest & undeniably boom-bap album, “The MN Mean Movement.” If being Minnesota Nice is likened to being insincere, Minnesota Mean would equate to being real. Sounds simple. But you'll have to listen to Carnage The Executioner break it down even further - with more eloquence and style than you could possibly imagine! Enjoy the ride!

    Join the movement…
    Or be run over by it.

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“When you hear me speak about bein’ mean in ya’ deck/
See it as less about anger – more about bein’ direct”

Take a moment to Google the term *MINNESOTA NICE*. It generalizes the unwavering non-confrontational, “nice” & polite manner in which people from the chilly, small & hard-to-find state of Minnesota are characterized as interacting with one another. Those who tend to view this avoidance of conflict & perceived politeness as passive-aggressive rebuke the term Minnesota Nice.

Carnage The Executioner challenges the overall truth surrounding the locally-popular mantra with his new, raw, honest & undeniably boom-bap album, “The MN Mean Movement.” Subsequently, an in-depth listen will likely enable you to observe the song’s general relevance as it applies to personal relations in your own locality.
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Join the movement…
Or be run over by it.

It’s hard to believe that, after 23 years of inventive, uncompromising hip-hop, Carnage the Executioner is still an underdog in the Twin Cities. But that’s indeed the case, and the bruising Minneapolis emcee is done being polite about it.

Carnage’s latest album, The MN Mean Movement attempts to get at the root of why the beatboxer/MC/producer dynamo still feels like a misfit in a scene he helped develop decades ago. But The MN Mean Movement is not just the ranting of a lifetime undergrounder. Nor is it a debasement of Minnesota culture. It’s not about being mean at all. Carnage is just asking question in hopes of creating a dialogue. It’s the type of statement only someone that truly loves Minnesota would have the guts to make.

“The amount of work I, as a Minnesota hip-hop musician and mainstay, have put in, I feel like I’m treated like I don’t bring what I bring to the table,” Carnage says. “When you put in the work I have, and you don’t get the recognition and opportunities as someone hasn’t been doing it as long or isn’t as skilled, then I believe it’s time to start asking some questions.”

The album’s intent is laid out clearly in the opener “Full Disclosure,” and it only builds from there. In tangents, Carnage takes on different facts of Minnesota Niceness — from the way it’s hampered his booking to the way it's neutered sincerity to the way it divides races along line of faux politeness. What makes Carnage qualified to make such a contentious proclamation? The MN Mean Movement provides the evidence in stacks.

“Hecatomb Cometh” provides a statement for those uninitiated to Carnage’s brutal rap super-collective. “Return Of The Coaches” revisits his come-up alongside Eyedea, giving an obvious hat-tip to the pair’s collaborative track from The Many Faces of Oliver Hart.

Carnage the Executioner has come too far to let Minnesota Nice stunt his career. The track, “Hustle the Struggle,” is a live version of what's become one of Carnage's most requested live number that’s designed to verse first-timers in not only his lyrical acrobatics but also his sloganeering power among the people.

“[Toki Wright] asked me, ‘When does it stop being complaining and become you asking questions?’” Carnage says. “And I said, ‘When you put in the work.’”

While it may ruffle the feathers of the Scandinavian-minded self-effacers in the Gopher State, the 10-song album is actually predicated on demand from Carnage's peers.

After he dropped the video for “Minnesota Mean” in January, people clamored for more of the honest, straightforward communication he was calling for over the song’s three verses. After hearing so many reach out and profess that they’d felt the chill of Minnesota Nice in both music and culture, Carnage realized he had a concept album on his hands.

“I’ve had the ‘Minnesota Mean’ song for a while, and I’ve kinda sat on it because people told me, ‘You know, people are gonna think you’re bashing Minnesota,’” he says. “Then, I asked some other people outside of my camp, and they were like, ‘No, what you’re saying needs to be said.’ So I was like, ‘Alright, let’s put it out and see what happens.’ And the reception was good. So, I built a whole album around that idea.”

Carnage believes that Minnesota Nice has been especially damaging in the wake of all the controversy surrounding the Black Lives Matter protesting. He sees the divide between the white majority and the black minority widening, with ignorance triumphing over empathy.

He brings his tour back to Minneapolis on May 6 with a release show at Fifth Element. After that, he plans on turning the Minnesota Mean Movement into just that — a veritable social movement.

“I wanna start having sit-down conversations where a group of people sit down and talk about these things candidly and openly,” Carnage says of his plans to turn the album into a real-life phenomenon. “I wanna talk about how we get to know each other better and how we relate to each other better. Get off the internet, let’s sit down and talk. That’s the humanitarian in me.”

The transformative power of honest conversation is something Carnage has seen before in his career. He gladly recalls an interaction he had where Eyedea challenged him to be more conscious of the homophobic language he was using in his verses.

“Eyedea made me talk about why I made so many homophobic references in my hip-hop but I claimed to not be against homosexauality,” he says. “I didn’t think I was being homophobic, I thought I was just being a hardcore rapper. And he was like, ‘No, you’re turning your back to a whole audience, and you’re not being true to yourself if you’re making those statements and you don’t believe it.’”

He immediately changed up his style and started thinking critically about the intent behind his words. Decades later, he’s trying to push people to go through the same conversion. “How many other people can be changed if we just sit down and have a conversation?,” he says.

To help facilitate that conversation, Carnage has toned down the spellbinding tongue twisters he’s known for. The MN Mean Movement is not only the most comprehensive statement as an artist, but it’s also his most direct.

“People won’t have to rewind 30 times to get some of the cryptic references I’m spitting,” Carnage says. “It’s getting people prepped for my next album, Ravenous, which is even more deliberate. That’s the style I’m going for now. I want more people to relate to what I’m saying.” — Jerard Fagerberg (City Pages)

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released May 6, 2016

TRACKLIST + CREDITS

01. Full Disclosure
prod: West End Productions

02. Hecatomb Cometh
prod: Guerrilla Beats
co-prod: Big Jess
scratches: Imaginary Friend

03. No More MN Nice Guy
prod: Level 13
co-prod: Wesley Opus

04. If You're The Promoter
prod: J.Bomb.Beat
co-prod: Big Jess

05. Minnesota Mean
prod: J.Bomb.Beat
co-prod: Wesley Opus

06. How To Get Away With Murder
prod: Blastah Beatz

07. Return Of The Coaches
prod: Big Jess

08. Who Got The Props?
PUBLIC EXECUTION
(Live at Dakota Jazz Club)

09. Hustle The Struggle
PUBLIC EXECUTION
(Live at Dakota Jazz Club)

10. Minnesota Mean (Empathy Version)
(feat: Dispute One, O.S.P., Niles, King Fuvi & Katana Da Don)
prod: Big Jess

Executive Producers: Maynard Terrell Woods/Carnage The Executioner (Hecatomb Industries) & Jaron McDaniel (West End Productions)

All songs written, conceived, arranged & co-produced by Maynard Terrell Woods (Executioner Style Music - ASCAP), except where otherwise noted.

Mixing, recording & engineering: Rob Genedek (Brewhouse Studios) / Jaron McDaniel / Wesley Opus (Hopeful Opus Productions) / Big Jess (Big Jess Music).

Mastering: Rob Genadek & Jaron McDaniel.

Art and layout by Pat Jensen.

Hecatomb Industries, LLC

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Carnage The Executioner Saint Paul, Minnesota

Carnage The Executioner A.K.A. TERRELL X is an artist of many disciplines & talents:
Song Writer & Producer / Human Beat Boxer / Live Performer / Actor / Collaborator / Instructor / Activist.

Carnage's message resonates deeply while he confidently promotes honesty, self-reflection, resilience, growth & social justice.

•15 U.S. tours - 2012-2022
•5 European tours - 2011-2013
•1 Asian tour - 2018
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