Long Kiss Goodnight by Rocky Rivera

“We eatin’ Dungeness crab with garlic noodles
Livin’ hella good, I’m a Frisco foodie
I don’t drink wine but my mafiosos do
Taught ’em how to roll and now I never have to
I’m from the place that put Capone on a stone isle
So don’t you ever ask me why the fuck I don’t smile”

With a “heart colder than the fog when it roll up,” Filipino-American rapper and journalist Rocky Rivera lays out hard-earned truth and wisdom in clear, plain language on her new album Long Kiss Goodnight. Produced by Otayo Dubb and dotted throughout with references to the Bay, the album has a Tribe-like quality, twisting luscious funky walking pace beats with Rivera’s relentless expression of pain, maturity, responsibility, social justice, sexual desire, self-confidence, joy, and more. Basically, it’s unapologetic San Francisco realism in all its messy, beautiful complexity. Out now on Beatrock Music.

Celebrate the album release with Rocky Rivera—performing live with DJ Roza & Otayo Dubb, Tia Nomore, and Jenset—this Sunday, September 29 at Crybaby.

Listen on Bandcamp →