Interview with Rapper Cowboy Coder To Discuss His New Album, "Code Rage"
Before recording “Code Rage”, Cowboy Coder lived in Texas, with a day job working as an independent IT consultant for the past fifteen years. His debut album discusses what it was like having one foot in the music world, and the other in the ever-changing world of startups, featuring songs like “B01” (detailing the 2001 tech bust), “Linux Administrator” (a stark analysis juxtaposing office politics with archetypal hardcore Linux CTOs), and “3rd Generation” (a collab with Cowboy Coder’s producer and friend MC Lars, which uses and demonstrates musical history as a metonymy for the evolution of code). When COVID both necessitated and obviated Cowboy Coder's need to continue the day-to-day grind of creating enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies, he moved to Puerto Rico and dove deeper into his creative calling, writing an album that combines elements of country, punk, hip-hop and even EDM. Connecting with MC Lars at a show in Austin in February...