Colorful lives don’t always equate to meaningful music, but in the case of Jake Otto McDonald, better known as ATL producer and rapper Astroknot, the two are inextricably linked. A born performer, McDonald has been writing and recording music since he was 14, immersing himself in a broad range of music, from math rock and punk, to reggae and various forms of electronica. But as time went on and his musical proclivities began to sharpen, he found himself increasingly drawn to trap and hip-hop.
What follows next, and what is outlined only briefly in McDonald’s soliloquy below, is a long journey of self-discovery that winds through the halls of high school and college, through the murky corridors of the 9-5 corporate rat race, into a rabbit hole of copious psychedelic drugs, and down into a dark pit of traumatic depression. READ MORE…
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