What started with an offhand comment over leftover stuffing and Action Bronson impersonations during a Friendsgiving Feast in 2023, has evolved into so much more. Big Scrimps has officially announced the release of their highly-anticipated debut EP Facing East: The Holy Processions—a genre-blurring blend of raw creativity, offbeat humor, and collaborative energy. The collection drops Friday, August 1 on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
The concept for the project originated from one of the trio’s two emcees, The Honorable Brother Muscles, who pitched the outlandishly entertaining idea: let’s record some songs comprising DJ drama-style ad-libs, Action Bronson-style absurdist parlance, and a heavy dose of comedy. Minutes later, the other of the trio’s two emcees, Big Man Z, happened to mention a few deep cuts he’d played while cleaning for the evening’s festivities. Within days, ideas were flying. Texts were flying even faster. And Facing East: The Holy Processions was beginning to take shape.
Inspired by these two ideas, Producer and Scrimps Co-Founder/Facilitator goodie goodman, who also releases music as “Creature Benny” and “goodie” hastily stitched together early versions of three beats from the songs Big Man Z sent over and he told the crew “These beats are the stage and you are the players. So, we doing this or what?” It turns out that they were, and, in fact, they did.
Over the course of eight chaotic, laughter-filled sessions across a year’s time, the trio turned random freestyles into strange anthems. Every track was Frankensteined together from hours of audio—freestyled, chopped, reworked, and sometimes scrapped completely. The process was late-night texts, in-depth discussions, and constant revisions. And the result? A beautifully unhinged body of work that can’t quite be described, but somehow feels right. And bumps pretty hard too.
While the original blueprint was DJ Drama meets Action Bronson, the final product is less a derivation and more a meditation—through humor, chaos, and bars—on the joy of making something purely because it feels good to make it. It’s art by way of alchemy. Comedy through cadence. A holy procession of nonsense and brilliance.
The official tracklisting for Facing East: The Holy Processions is as follows:
- “Shootin’ Verbal Missiles / Gimme the Remote”
- “Diuretic Flow”
- “Another Tuesday”
- “Pernicious Goo Drown Slow \\ Horseplay”
- “Sweet Whispers (Chemtrails of Tears)”
- “Big Scrimps at a State Fair Near You”
