Rising LA-based artist and producer SEB has shared a cover of Chance the Rapper and Nosaj Thing’s classic “Paranoia” (from Chance’s seminal Acid Rap release) as part of Apple Music’s special 2022 Juneteenth initiative, a collection of exclusively-commissioned songs from artists that celebrate the continued and invaluable contribution of Black artistry to contemporary music.
The cover serves as a poignant manifestation of SEB’s genre-crossing sound, whose influences reflect his geographically diverse youth spent moving between New York, Haiti, Oklahoma, and Miami before spending his formative years in Chicago during the era when Acid Rap dropped and Chicago’s rap scene flourished on the national stage. “I remember feeling the hype around Acid Rap in high school. Being in Chicago it was so visceral. The day it came out I downloaded the project and on song 2 there was a 30 second pause of just silence. Then, ‘paranoia’ creeps in and I was blown away he did that mid song. I've loved it ever since.”
The cover follows a pair of singles that are set to feature on a new body of work due in the coming months, “SAVE ME” & “fuck it, i’m the man,” which have been praised by The FADER, Paste, and NME with airplay across Apple Music and BBC Radio 1. The new material continues to build on the world SEB created with his debut EP IT’S OKAY, WE’RE DREAMING, the breakthrough hit “seaside_demo,” and last year’s standalone single “god of the sunsets”.