“Everything is prevalent right now in this existence…It’s about chasing the spirit.” Little Dominque, aka Dominique Purdy, comes to this revelation, opening his third eye when he suffers injuries from two serious car accidents as a child. He suffers a broken leg and chronic nosebleeds that affected his ability to breath and sleep. These accidents serve as his origin story as he becomes the Koreatown Oddity, with a new spiritual awakening and attention to the deeper details surrounding him in his everyday life. 

On his new album, Little Dominique’s Nosebleed, Purdy weaves a tapestry of obscure samples, fat beats, and rich, at times obtuse rhymes, that tell the story of his enlightenment growing up in Koreatown in LA. On the track “Chasing the Spirit,” he states his humble approach to life as a young man, “Chasing the spirit, not the paper or hoes/And watching how everything organically unfolds..born complete, like that heavenly digits/Always receive insights from every decision.” As Purdy chases the spirit in Koreatown, he finds the sacred in the mundane. The narrative, however, is not weighed with heavy introspection, rather Purdy relates his observations of pain, frustrations, and joys with an injection of humor and comedic edge, such as on tracks “Weed in LA” and “A Bitch Once Told Me.”

Purdy paints his personal narrative with a spiritual amalgamation of beats soaked in soul, jazz, funk, and spoken word snippets. He creates a living, breathing album that is sonic ear candy to the everyday listener but also weaves a perplexing quilt of sampled nuggets that leaves even the seasoned beat digger challenged to identify. The resulting masterpiece is a mosaic of head-nodding rhymes that brings to life Purdy’s gritty, life-affirming experiences in Koreatown, reaching new heights of depth after each listen. 

*Originally published in Content Magazine

(Stones Throw)

Release Date: June 19th, 2020