{"id":225334,"date":"2026-03-27T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=225334"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:30:16","slug":"grand-agent-culture-freedom-drop-a-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/grand-agent-culture-freedom-drop-a-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Agent &#038; Culture Freedom drop a new EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=O8yI1Txo-fQzr17F&amp;list=OLAK5uy_m4X40seCygnbl0PaOwZOrtpTtASTqEl6I\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Philadelphia artist <strong>Grand Agent<\/strong> released a new song every day for the entire month of March on Facebook. There was no system behind it. It was discipline. Now, he returns with &#8220;A Calm Killing,&#8221; a six-track EP produced entirely by <strong>Culture Freedom<\/strong> of <strong>Poor Righteous Teachers<\/strong>. The project isn\u2019t a throwback. It\u2019s the result of a fifteen-year arc rooted in craft, restraint, and lineage. The title track names how harm becomes routine and profitable without spectacle, while the production stays menacing but playable, built for real environments like the car and the gym.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A music video for &#8220;A Calm Killing&#8221; was also released alongside the project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PnqEPf2qZlw?si=L5hmouS6wau2szKt\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"225335\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/grand-agent-culture-freedom-drop-a-new-ep\/grand-agent-ep-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Grand Agent EP Cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225335\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover.avif 1920w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grand-Agent-EP-Cover.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff In 2011, Philadelphia artist Grand Agent released a new song every day for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WCq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225397,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225334\/revisions\/225397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}