Hemlock Ernst

Hemlock Ernst

Samuel Herring on a Future Islands’ performance at the Kosmonaut Festival 2015
Background information
Birth name Samuel T. Herring
Born (1984-04-13) April 13, 1984
Carteret County, North Carolina, United States
Origin Baltimore, MD, United States
Genres Alternative hip hop, Underground hip hop
Occupation(s) Rapper
Years active 2010-present
Labels Madlib Invazion
Associated acts Rapdragons, Milo, Madlib, 83cutlass, Curse ov Dialect, Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle, Serengeti, Cavanaugh, Kenny Segal, Scoop DeVille, Paul White, Future Islands, The Snails
Website www.hemlockernst.com

Hemlock Ernst, is the rap name of Samuel T. Herring[1] (born April 13, 1984),[2] an American performer from Baltimore, Maryland, better known for being the frontman of synth-pop band Future Islands.[3]

Biography

Early life

Born in the Carteret County, North Carolina, Herring grew up in Newport[4] and Morehead City.[3] He began rapping at age 14 at freestyle battles and cyphers.[5]

Career

In 2003, while attending the East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina, Herring and other colleagues would start the performance art band Art Lord & the Self Portraits which would last until late 2005. In early 2006, some of its former members would start Future Islands, and the band would relocate to Baltimore, MD, in 2008.[6] Having to focus himself on Future Islands' career, it's not until 2013[7] — when he took a break from his band’s touring — that he would have more time for his solo rap project, writing more verses and doing more shows.[6]

Parallel to Future Islands, Herring continued rapping either solo, under the moniker Hemlock Ernst, or with his brother as Flesh Epic.[8] Hemlock was his original writing name on an on-line music board when he was in the 9th grade, from a poem he wrote about Socrates taking the hemlock poison. Ernst comes from his character in Art Lord & The Self Portraits who was named Locke Ernst-Frost: a reference to John Locke the religious poet, Max Ernst, the artist and Robert Frost, the American poet.[9]

Trouble Knows Me

In 2015, Hemlock Ernst teamed up with producer Madlib for a new rap project called Trouble Knows Me.[10][11] Produced by Madlib,[12] the self-titled EP would be released on September 1 by Madlib Invazion. It was pre-sold on July 17, during its first presentation at The Mid club in Chicago,[13] when the identity of the project’s emcee was finally revealed.[14]

On March 24th 2016, British musician Four Tet sat in for Benji B on BBC radio 1 and played an unreleased track by Trouble Knows Me: "Rings in the Coffe".[15]

Guest appearances

In 2010, Hemlock Ernst would make a guest appearance on the track “Gotta Go”, included on a mixtape by Baltimore hip-hop duo Rapdragons.[16][17]

But it is only in 2015 that he would appear again in other collaborative hip-hop releases. As Samuel T. Herring, he added vocals to the track “Play it Cool” (featuring rapper Earl Sweatshirt), on Gangrene’s album Welcome to Los Santos. As Hemlock Ernst, he made guest appearances on tracks by Milo[18] and Scallops Hotel,[19] 83cutlass,[20] Curse ov Dialect,[21] Busdriver,[22] and Cavanaugh (Open Mike Eagle & Serengeti).[23]

In 2016, he featured on the track "Protectors of the Heat" on Open Mike Eagle & Paul White’s album “Hella Personal Film Festival”, released on March 25.[24][25] He made another guest appearance on the track "This Is Where I Leave You", B-side of the single Chekhov's Gun released on March 31, off the album Fuck That Pretty Boy Shit by Words Hurt (rapper Alaska & producer Lang Vo).[26][27] The track also includes vocals by Marilyn Carino.[26]

Discography

EPs

Guest appearances

[24][36][25]

References

  1. ↑ Pelly, Jenn (23 March 2014). "Future Islands Frontman Samuel T. Herring Is Also a Rapper, Watch Him in Action". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Vi, Natasha (20 April 2014). "Future Islands – The Observatory – 04/15/14". www.soundbysight.com. Sound By Sight. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Young, Alex (11 October 2011). "Interview: Samuel T. Herring (of Future Islands)". www.consequenceofsound.net. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Hill, Corbie (26 March 2014). "Future Islands' international star is rising, but their roots run back to North Carolina". www.indyweek.com. Indy Week. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Saincome, Matt (23 September 2015). "Sam Herring: The Late-Night Big Bad Wolf". www.sfweekly.com/. SF Weekly. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  6. 1 2 Stern, Marlow (3 April 2014). "Future Islands Frontman Samuel T. Herring on Their 11-Year Journey to Letterman and Viral Stardom". www.thedailybeast.com/. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Woolever, Lydia (22 April 2015). "Listen to Future Islands' Sam Herring Rap on a New Track". www.baltimoremagazine.net/. Baltimore Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  8. ↑ Stacey, Stacey (27 August 2010). "Flesh Epic Brings the Beat to Berkeley". www.newraleigh.com/. New Raleigh. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  9. ↑ Weekes, Jabbari (7 July 2014). "Future Islands talk alter egos, the Smashing Pumpkins, and the upside to being sad". www.aux.tv. AUX Music Network. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  10. 1 2 Beauchemin, Molly (17 July 2015). "Future Islands' Sam Herring Teams With Madlib for Rap Project Trouble Knows Me, Shares Track". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  11. ↑ Reed, Ryan (17 July 2015). "Future Islands, Madlib Unite for Collaborative Hip-Hop EP". www.rollingstone.com/. Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  12. ↑ "Rappcats » Trouble Knows Me". www.rappcats.com. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  13. ↑ "Rappcats » Photos: Madlib, Sam Herring in Chicago". www.rappcats.com. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  14. ↑ "Future Islands' Sam Herring Teams With Madlib for Rap Project Trouble Knows Me, Shares Track". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  15. ↑ Yoo, Noah (24 March 2016). "Four Tet Shares Unreleased Madlib, Future Islands' Sam Herring, Pearson Sound Tracks on BBC Radio 1". Pitchfork. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  16. 1 2 Gillespie, Blake (28 June 2010). "Rap Dragons, Featuring Baltimore". www.imposemagazine.com. Impose Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  17. ↑ "Rapdragons Shows". rapdragons.ltdcomp.com. Rapdragons. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  18. ↑ Mehnert, Paul (30 October 2015). "’Sco Continues Year of Impressive Acts with Hellfyre Club Rapper Milo". oberlinreview.org/. The Oberlin. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  19. ↑ Minsker, Evan (21 April 2015). "Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring Raps on New Scallops Hotel Track". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  20. ↑ Weigel, Brandon (9 July 2015). "Listen to the 83 Cutlass track featuring Sam from Future Islands and Josephine from Blacksage". www.citypaper.com. City Paper. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  21. ↑ Pitchfork (16 September 2015). "Future Islands' Sam Herring Revives Rap Alias Hemlock Ernst in Curse Ov Dialect's "Twisted Strangers" Video". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  22. ↑ Breihan, Tom (10 November 2015). "Busdriver – "Ministry Of The Torture Couch" (Feat. Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring)". www.stereogum.com. Stereogum. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  23. ↑ Innis, Charles (18 November 2015). "Cavanaugh – "Typecast" (Feat. P.O.S., Hemlock Ernst, & Busdriver) (Stereogum Premiere)". www.stereogum.com. Stereogum. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  24. 1 2 "Open Mike Eagle and Paul White Team for Hella Personal Film Festival, Share "Check to Check"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  25. 1 2 Reeves, Mosi (18 March 2016). "Review: Open Mike Eagle and Paul White Get Up Close and Well, You Know, on ‘Hella Personal Film Festival’". spin.com. SPIN. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  26. 1 2 3 "Words Hurt – “Chekhov’s Gun” b/w “This Is Where I Leave You” feat. Hemlock Ernst". http://ugsmag.com. ugsmag. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016. External link in |website= (help)
  27. ↑ Orcutt, KC (31 August 2015). "Music Monday: 12 Questions With Words Hurt". 12ozprophet.com. 12ozProphet News. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  28. ↑ Kaye, Ben (6 March 2015). "Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Earl Sweatshirt team on "Play It Cool" — listen". consequenceofsound.net. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  29. ↑ "Plain Speaking, by scallops hotel". milo. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  30. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/83cutlass/wicked-kingdom
  31. ↑ "Future Islands' Sam Herring Revives Rap Alias Hemlock Ernst in Curse Ov Dialect's "Twisted Strangers" Video". Pitchfork.
  32. ↑ "milo: so the flies don't come". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  33. ↑ "Ministry of the Torture Couch (prod. by Elos feat. Hemlock Ernst), by Busdriver". Busdriver. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  34. ↑ "Cavanaugh – "Typecast" (Feat. P.O.S., Hemlock Ernst, & Busdriver) (Stereogum Premiere)". Stereogum. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  35. ↑ "Lemons (feat. Hemlock Ernst), by Cavanaugh (Open Mike Eagle & Serengeti)". Open Mike Eagle. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  36. ↑ "Hella Personal Film Festival, by Open Mike Eagle & Paul White". Open Mike Eagle. Retrieved 2015-09-02.

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