Remedy For Paranoia desires you to consider in your self. Perseverance, plus a complete lot of expertise, is what obtained the Dallas hip-hop collective to our area after submitting to the Tiny Desk Contest 4 years in a row.
Right here, between laying down intelligent verses alongside his ten-piece band, frontperson Cameron McCloud introduces the group and their mission. “Ten years in the past, I used to be positioned on treatment for bipolar despair and paranoid schizophrenia — however it turned out that music was far more therapeutic than treatment was, so I created this band, this model, this motion, referred to as Remedy For Paranoia,” he shares. “Making music with these individuals is my remedy, so hopefully the music we create will be remedy for different individuals as nicely.”
Irrespective of what number of main names have stopped by the Desk, discovery continues to be the guts of the collection. The Tiny Desk Contest, which we host yearly searching for the following nice undiscovered artist, is an ideal instance of that. This 12 months, we obtained greater than 6,000 entries from impartial artists throughout the nation, however one act had simple star energy. Amongst our judges, the choice to crown Remedy For Paranoia was unanimous.
Every tune carried out right here was as soon as a Contest submission. And every verse within the group’s successful tune, “No Brainer,” comes from a venture the place McCloud posted a brand new rap verse on Instagram daily of 2025. The final tune — referred to as “That Child Cam,” which is what McCloud glided by when he was promoting CDs on the mall as a child — is a set spotlight that showcases McCloud’s magnetism, the group’s dynamism and simply how far they’ve come since they began believing within the energy of their music collectively.
SET LIST
- “The Artshow”
- “No Brainer”
- “That Child Cam”
MUSICIANS
- Cameron McCloud: vocals
- Jay Analog: MPC
- Tomahawk Jonez: MPC
- Kwinton Grey: keys, background vocals
- Mack Value Jr.: guitar
- KJ Grey: bass
- Emery Varrie III: drums
- Nick Rothouse: percussion
- Jordan Carr: trumpet
- Kierra Grey: background vocals
- Dana Harper: background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producers: Elle Mannion, Bobby Carter
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Director/Combine: Josh Newell
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
- Audio Engineer: Tiffany Vera Castro
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dora Levite
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Ashley Pointer, Felix Contreras
- Collection Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Government Director: Sonali Mehta
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
