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Declaime Rides the Fuzz on Black Fuzz

The Oxnard original teams up with producer SaltChunkJerry on Toronto’s Riff Pillage Records

Typographic graphic for Declaime’s Black Fuzz, in yellow

Fuzz Rap From Oxnard

Declaime’s new album pairs him with producer SaltChunkJerry across 16 tracks. 


Dudley Perkins, better known as Declaime, has a new album out, and it sounds like a left turn. Black Fuzz is a 16-track record made with the producer SaltChunkJerry and released through Toronto’s Riff Pillage Records, as BroadwayWorld reported.


The pairing came about by chance. BroadwayWorld said SaltChunkJerry had been making music for over twenty years before he put out his first real Hip-Hop project early last year, a collaboration album with underground names like Daniel Son and Rahiem.


Declaime came across it and liked the production enough to label the sound “Fuzz Rap.” BroadwayWorld described SaltChunkJerry’s beats as dark, eerie and riffy, and suggested the album could be called Declaime’s comeback and might put SaltChunkJerry on the map.


For anyone new to Perkins: he’s from Oxnard, California, and Wikipedia notes he started rapping in 1987 and appeared on the Alkaholiks’ 1995 album Coast II Coast under the Declaime name. Qobuz traces his first solo release as Declaime, Illmindmuzik, to 1999, produced by Madlib. Wikipedia adds that in 2008 he co-founded the SomeOthaShip Connect label with Georgia Anne Muldrow, with whom he also recorded as the duo G&D, as Apple Music notes.


Qobuz also notes that his 2021 double LP The Last Stand was rumored to be his final album as Declaime. It wasn’t. Wikipedia lists In the Beginning, Vol. 3, his third collection with Madlib, in 2023. His Bandcamp lists Flatulent, produced by Germany’s Der Brxwnsxn, for December 2025. A run of 2026 singles followed, and a collaboration with the French collective Spice Program, Reclaimed, was released in October, according to its Bandcamp page. 


Perkins has always moved between lanes. Apple Music describes him as switching between abstract Hip-Hop and funky, spiritual neo-soul. Black Fuzz looks like another swerve, and the Sounds block below is the quickest way to hear it.


Sounds



Sources & Further Reading

  1. BroadwayWorld — Black Fuzz album announcement
  2. Wikipedia — Dudley Perkins profile
  3. Qobuz — Declaime bio and discography
  4. Apple Music — Artist page
  5. Bandcamp — Flatulent
  6. Bandcamp — Reclaimed (Spice Program)


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