Hey, song of a day listeners. This is Larry Meisel Jr. host of the afternoon show here at KXP, DJ Writer, you know, and we've been working real hard here at the editorial team at KXP on a limited edition podcast.

The first few episodes are out now. You can go check it. I'm talking about fresh off the spaceship, the story of the black constellation.

The black constellation is an arts collective mostly based here in Seattle who's been doing some things for a while and we felt like we needed to document.

I'm really looking forward to you checking it out. You can go ahead and find it on your favorite podcast platform. Make sure you subscribe so you get all new episodes as they come out.

It's called fresh off the spaceship, the story of the black constellation. Again, make sure you subscribe so you get all new episodes when they drop.

And for now, I've got the trailer for you to get you appetized for the podcast. Thank you for listening.

This is a story like many others in that it straddles the continual of space, time, and men.

Because that's what black people are, men.

So what does it mean to mythologize yourself and your people with some kind of cosmic beings?

You brisk, escape, or simply wreck it.

I wanted to start out with black constellation. I thought that maybe you could tell people what it is who don't know about it.

Black constellation is the gang.

The black constellation collective, the psalm is greater than the individual parts.

But the parts are fantastic. So what you have with black constellation is a supergroup operating at a genius level.

They're all team players, yet they're also superstars. It's unusual.

When you think of them together sort of as a collective, it's like constellation is the right word.

Individually, they are so shining and bright anyway. But together, I think it really is a divine force.

It has been my observation that black constellation, whether they are given credit for it or not, are your favorite musicians, favorite musicians.

This is Fresh Off The Spaceship, a new limited series podcast from KXP in Seattle.

Exploring a story that hasn't been told anywhere else, the story of the black constellation and the artist to make it up.

Like Ishmael Butler of Shabbat's palaces and digible planets.

It's kind of gangster and it's hip-hop and it's also something from beyond.

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