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Rashad’s collection of references and phrases plays like the inside of a jumbled but vibrant brain.ĭating back to Cilvia Demo, Rashad’s music has been full of tributes to older, mostly Southern musicians who came before him.

Instead, Burning projects newfound poise and even joy through a sophisticated collage. Rashad’s new LP, The House Is Burning, comes after a period that included stints in near-poverty and in an Orange County rehab facility it opens with the rapper noting, slyly, that he “just came back/See, I done been dead for real.” But Rashad is not given to the sort of longform, linear autobiography that would yield a narrative album about his experience.