About “Sleeping Shirts”
This is the best song about sleeping shirts. Celebrating the 15th Anniversary re-release of Aging Is What Friends Do Together on vinyl, Epic drops a single for his hit ode to his favourite sleep wear. Turning the original Maki-produced solo into a posse cut, Epic is joined by friends Jay the Rapper, Id Obelus, Inky, and Tachichi to provide their own take on sleeping shirts over a chill beat by The Dirty Sample. Even the toughest MCs wear sleeping shirts...
Written and performed by Epic
Produced by Maki
Remix by The Dirty Sample
Remix written and performed by Epic, Jay the Rapper, Id Obelus, Inky & Tachichi
About Aging Is What Friends Do Together
Aging is What Friends Do Together is Epic’s third solo full length album, his first on Hand’Solo Records, and his last official album prior to his semi-retirement. Epic has always been an honest, heart-on-his-sleeve MC, but Aging is probably his most personal album of the three. Tapping the production talents of Factor, Fresh Kils, Kutdown, Mattr, Roma and Variex, alongside his regular collaborators soso and Maki, it’s also his most varied. And joining Epic to rap about the personal and political with a side-serving of humour, extra dry, is an international collection of abstract MCs: Touch, Andrre, Nomad, Roma, Bleubird, Archer Hymnz, Kay the Aquanaut, MC Homeless, and Ira Lee. It’s a touching, emotional hip hop album that resulted in the underground hit songs “Ah Hemsky”, an ode to professional hockey player Ales Hemsky, and “Sleeping Shirts”, an ode to every rapper’s favourite night wear. Originally released on CD in 2008, Epic and Hand’Solo Records celebrate the 15th anniversary of Aging Is What Friends Do Together with a first-time release on vinyl.
About Epic
Epic pioneered the scene in Saskatoon as a member of the Beatcombers DJ crew alongside their chief rivals, Isosceles, in the early 90s. They had the first college radio rap show and promoted early live rap shows. Upon switching to rapping, he linked with Clotheshorse Records where he released the albums 8:30 in Newfoundland (2001), Local Only (2004), Epic & Nomad (2006), a collaboration with Belgian rapper-singer Nomad, and the vinyl-only EP Heater In My Truck (2003), before moving onto Hand’Solo Records for his final official album, Aging Is What Friends Do Together (2008). Since then, Epic has been semi-retired, although he has recently returned to the scene with physical re-releases of some of his classic albums and songs, as well as releasing a handful of new songs and making some guest appearances, many released through his new label, Saskatoon Folk Rap Records. He is currently working on a few albums expected to drop shortly. His unique flow is as iconic as his grey hair.
