A fan recently contacted rapper Sadistik saying that she was a fire performer and available if he ever needed her for a video. Naturally, he took her up on the offer. Filmed in the SODO district of Seattle, “Out the Dark,” premiered by 2DopeBoyz, finds Sadistik in a warehouse surrounded by mannequins that he says “felt like a sensible symbol for the reality vs. perception theme of the song.” Influenced by poets Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, and Anne Sexton, among others, Sadistik’s rhymes reveal his admiration for good poetry. From his recently released Salo Sessions EP, “Out the Dark” merges caustic honesty with lyrical wit and technical innovation.

“I named this song ‘Out the Dark’ because at the time I couldn’t stop thinking about Plato’s Cave Analogy,” Sadistik explains. “If you’re not familiar, the analogy basically goes like this: Imagine a group of prisoners who have lived their entire lives inside of a cave, and they are only allowed to face away from the entrance (the light). At times, birds, animals, etc. would pass by the entrance, leaving silhouette shadows on the cave walls. Naturally, the prisoners would mistake these projections as actual reality instead of just shadows. Now, imagine one of the prisoners escapes and sees the reality of the real world and he realizes that his past experiences were mere projections of what was truly exists. The prisoner returns to the cave to proclaim what he’s learned (showing them ‘the light’), and to his astonishment, nobody in the cave believes him. In fact, they’re angry at him and insist the shadows are what’s real and castigate the escapee for his ideas.”

Sadistik’s Salo Sessions EP, released in January, is available to stream on Soundcloud and to purchase on Bandcamp. Salo Sessions follow’s 2015’s Phantom Limbs, a collaborative EP with Kno of CunningLynguists, and 2014’s Ultraviolet, his most recent full-length album. Ultraviolet peaked at #12 on the iTunes Hip-Hop chart and held the #1 spot on the CMJ Hip-Hop charts for two weeks. In 2015, Sadistik headlined the 23-city Nightmares + Dreamscapes tour, featuring Sapient & Ceschi, toured with rapper Cage, performed at X Fest in Modesto, California and opened for Tech N9ne in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Produced by Eric G.

Directed by Tim Slusarczyk

iTunes: Salo Sessions – EP – Sadistik

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