Goyard Ibn Said

Not many rappers have performed at enormous venues, punk rock dive bars, and Marxist book stores - introducing: Ghais Guevara. Born and raised in North Philly, his discography contains two previous mixtapes, with Goyard Ibn Said Ghais' debut album. Influences range from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film Persona which Ghais says “opened my mind to the concept of the deflated self as a result of trauma” to Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Mask and onto Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. 

First single Leprosy, a song inspired by multiple nights in NYC, winning acclaim from publications such as Clash, The Line Of Best Fit and Brooklyn Vegan. Elsewhere on the album, 4L was written after Ghais experienced some fun “trips”, while Bystander Effect features production from DJ Haram, alongside Ghais' Fat Possum labelmate, and one-half of Armand Hammer, ELUCID. 

Ghais Guevara has turned in an eclectic mix of sounds - tribalistic boombap, trap and club and drill amalgamated against sultry soul, dense wordplay and highly danceable postmodern park jams. Ghais ruminates on Philly, hip hop and the life of a Black man in America all to a soundtrack that is relentless and immersive.