Metroactive Interviews San Jose Rapper Brian Knockin

Metroactive’s Mike Hugenor has a few words with Brian Knockin, the San Jose rapper who just released his new album, Open. Knockin has gone from selling tapes out of the trunk of his car to releasing 14 long-players, a dozen EPs, and a number of singles.”I feel like I’m opening up to a new life with all the stuff I’ve been through. I’m opening up a new direction and closing the past,” Knockin says.

The seasoned rapper's new album was produced at SJ’s Tone Freq Studios. His collaborators are artists he met on Twitter. His subjects include the high cost of living, BLM, and the ICE deportations. “Food Not Bombs” concerns the plight of a fast-food worker Knockin met right before the last presidential election: “She told me whether Biden or Trump, she’s still gon be working two jobs/ midnight, Wienerschnitzel meals and two corn dogs.”

Read more on Metroactive.com: “Brian Knockin Opens Up.”