What do you do when your computer is spoilt, or has been stolen, or your external hard drive fails on you when you’re trying to put a music record together and you can’t afford to get it fixed or buy a new one? Some people might have simply thrown their hands up and admit defeat, but not in the case of Brooklyn-based rapper Prince Harvey.It seems that these setbacks weren’t enough to deter the artist from creating his album, to the point where he spent four months inside the Apple Store where he created his new album entirely from scratch. Speaking to The Daily Beast, Prince Harvey said, “It wasn’t my plan to record this at the Apple Store. First, my computer died. Then my external [hard drive] died. New York is expensive. I couldn’t just buy another laptop. I just thought, ‘I’m going to die before anyone knows I’m hot.’”
How he managed to pull this off was by going down to the SoHo Apple Store daily and befriended some of the employees there. He also found tricks and methods to bypass the daily memory wipe the stores perform every night on the products there, such as storing items in the trash, putting them on a thumb drive, or emailing it to himself.
However he did run into obstacles, like during a fire drill in which his work got lost in the process. His album PHATASS is expected to be released on the 26th of July, but in the meantime if you’d like to get an idea of what kind of music you can expect, check out one of his tracks in the SoundCloud link below.
[Image credit – Matthew Narvin/The Daily Beast]