H.I.S.D.: Metaphysical Rappers Go Superhero In New Comic

​Last year, local rap group H.I.S.D. (Hueston Independent Spit District) released The Weakend, an extra-meta album that was directly aimed at enlightening smart people and indirectly aimed at confusing dumb ones. Here's the bulk of what Rocks Off wrote about it then:

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The title, to begin, is a double entendre, referring both to an actual weekend, which is the amount of digital time that elapses over the course of the album, and the end of The Weak (The Weak = anything that sucks), which is one of the underlying tenets of the album.

The album begins at the end of a work day ("Come Out and Play"), followed immediately with a drive home ("Autobahn"). While on the road, the MCs inexplicably disappear into the ether, only to find themselves later in a figurative outer space ("Piano Sunrise") that happens to be narrated by labelmate Michele Thibeaux (possibly a hat-tip to Carl Sagan's Contact, but possibly not).

From there, they wander around a bit (the next few songs), where, in their enlightened states, they contemplate the general state of existing - done so most effectively on "Point of No Return" and "Rockin'" - as well as search for an answer to how to end The Weak.

When we spoke about the album with Ldavoice, the group's chairman of the adenoid, he mentioned that, as a means of helping people completely grasp the concept behind the album, the group had designs on producing a comic book that would expand on H.I.S.D.'s ideas (increasing modalities is an effective teaching strategy).

It seemed like a fun, auspicious, creative thing. It also seemed like the kind of thing that rarely manifests itself in any sort of physical product.