Sh8kes faucets West Coast Rap legend The Grouch for his new single, “Transfer On”
The track arrives forward of his upcoming efficiency at this weekend’s M.A.P. Fest alongside Dizzy Wright, AJ McQueen, and others
At present (2.20.2025), revealed creator, motivational speaker, enterprise proprietor, spoken phrase poet, and native North Carolinian Robin “Sh8kes” Williamson shares his poignant new single “Transfer On”.
Produced by Skii, and that includes a visitor verse from the Bay Space’s personal The Grouch of Residing Legends.
The track serves as Sh8kes’ first new launch since his 2024 EP, ‘Essential Ache’.
“This monitor is in regards to the worth and energy in letting go and shifting on. Generally that’s laborious to do due to the love you might need for somebody, however there comes a time once we begin to change into dangerous to ourselves with resentment. I needed to study this the laborious means. It’s normally greatest to simply let go and transfer on earlier than you begin to change into a burden to your self. By letting go, you make room for relationships that encourage development, alternatives that align along with your goal, and love that nurtures your soul. It’s a daring leap right into a life the place you not accept much less however attempt for one of the best model of your self… I wrote and recorded this poem nearly three years in the past. Round this time, DJ Contemporary launched me to The Grouch. I had been a fan of his and Murs for so long as I might keep in mind, so I requested him if he might add a verse to the document and he was very happy to. Initially, the document had a special instrumental produced by my little brother. After I bumped into a difficulty with getting the document cleared, I went into the lab with Skii, we got here up with one thing totally different and despatched it again over to The Grouch, who then put me in contact with audio engineer extraordinaire Starski, who blended and mastered the document, and now we’re right here.”
Sh8kes’ “Transfer On” can be out there now to stream and cop on all main digital streaming platforms!!!
Sh8kes will be part of AJ McQueen, Dizzy Wright, and a bunch of others onstage on the first ever Music And Poetry (M.A.P.) Competition this Saturday (2.22.2025), as part of the annual God Physique Weekend in Houston, Texas.
Tickets for this occasion can be found now to cop by way of Eventbrite!!!
Extra About Sh8kes:
Writer, poet, motivational speaker, and enterprise proprietor Robin “Sh8kes” Williamson was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina.
As a reformed gang member, Sh8kes seeks to encourage youthful generations, and create optimistic change in his neighborhood by way of his work.
Sh8kes writes from a spot of transparency and private expertise in his poetry.
By way of blunt lyricism, ache and a fascinating voice, his work is, without delay, immersive and emotionally stirring.
“Sh8kes’ poetry is the bass from a automotive speaker…the laughter from the barbershop…a chunk of nook folklore,” says award-winning artist, educator, and revealed poet Dasan Ahanu. “His poetry is stuffed with honesty, emotion, and can. It displays our lives… the battle, the thrill, and the resilience it takes to make it. It’s blue-collar brilliance. It’s phrases for and from the folks.”
Sh8kes’ mom wrote poetry, however his real love for spoken phrase was born from his discovery of one in every of Southern rap’s most coveted voices, Huge Rube (of the Dungeon Household).
As a fan of OutKast and Southern rap music, Rube impressed Sh8kes to jot down poetry himself on the age of seven and led him to review the greats similar to Langston Hughes, and the like.
Sh8kes’ full circle second arrived in 2021 with the discharge of ‘Probability 2 Change‘, his debut music venture narrated totally by Rube.
The seven-track venture served as a private testimony of therapeutic and development by way of love, life classes, reference to household, and far more.
Exterior of his artwork, Sh8kes can be the Founder and head chef of Durham, North Carolina’s standard Bull Metropolis Dawgs.
