Rap Collective Analysis

Rap Collective, the work of rapper WD Destruction and musician AC Cooler isn’t your typical genre of music. It all started in a dorm room for Walter Douglass and Anthony Coleman, who are cousins, when they both attended Elmhurst College in 2012. Freshman year, Walter was sitting in his dorm room when he heard an acoustic guitar playing down the hall of his room. The first thing Walter did was walk down the hall into Anthony’s room where he was playing the guitar. While Anthony played, Walter would sing along, making up lyrics as he sang. Walter was influenced by Tyler the Creator’s Bastard album, the lyrics Walter sang were mainly silly, just for laughs or to make someone smile.
During winter break of their freshman year Walter went to visit
One day in 2014, when both of them were at Anthony’s house, they decided to make an album out of the blue. Since the public already liked a few of their songs they saw no harm in making a full album. The genre of the album is described by Walter as folk indie music, the genre didn’t fit into a category so the duo made one for themselves.
“We sat down for 15 minutes, that’s how much time we put into this album, 15 minutes” Walter says.
The title of the album was Taller Tale, and it was released on Band Camp for free. The title was something that came naturally.
“We didn’t want to put that much effort into it” Walter says.
Both Walter and Anthony turned to social media to advertise the album. Once friends caught wind of Taller Tale they shared it on social media and many other people across the world got to listen. The next thing Rap Collective knows they have 4,000 downloads on the album. With success comes negativity, and some listeners were offended because of the abundance of curse words used on the album. Some negative feedback was about Walter’s terrible singing voice which he describes sounds like social media star Ice JJ Fish, who is also a singer on social media. Walter’s message about the negativity of Rap Collectives music