In September, hip-hop duo The Underachievers released their second official studio album, Evermore: The Art of Duality, on RPM MSC, and today Billboard premieres the LP’s accompanying documentary, tracking Issa Gold and AK The Savior’s journey to that point.
Featuring cameos from Juice and Meechy Darko from Flatbush Zombies, the film goes back to the group’s beginnings in Brooklyn — Issa started out as AK’s manager before starting to rap himself — and the blue-walled basement of the house in Flatbush where they recorded their first mixtape, Indigoism, with producer Mark James in 2013. Cut with plenty of concert footage, the duo lays out their philosophy, the creative spark behind Evermore, and their own struggles along the way; Issa in particular opens up about battling addictions to prescription pills and cocaine. “I think all the depression I experienced on drugs is what helps me make music,” he says. “It was like a training course for me to be able to know what was necessary to speak to the people now.”
Evermore is the fourth official project from Issa and AK in two and a half years, an impressive output for a duo who have spent a good chunk of time on the road as well.
“It’s a different project and a different feel,” AK says about the album. “It shows complete growth from Indigoism to now, ’cause we been through so much experiences and we rapped so much shows and we learned so much things to bring us to now. So Evermore is all that in one.”
Check out the 13-minute documentary — and the group’s European tour dates in March — below.
March 13, 2016 – Glasgow
March 15, 2016 – Vienna
March 16, 2016 – Zurich
March 19, 2016 – Paris
March 20, 2016 – Cologne
March 21, 2016 – Frankfurt
March 22, 2016 – Leipzig
March 23, 2016 – Munich
March 24, 2016 – Berlin (2P)
March 25, 2016 – Hamburg
March 26, 2016 – Rotterdam
March 29, 2016 – Copenhagen
March 30, 2016 – Stockholm
March 31, 2016 – Oslo
April 01, 2016 – Helsinki