Beans (rapper)

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Beans
Beans performing at Coachella 2005
Background information
Origin	White Plains, New York, USA
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	MC, record producer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Moog synthesizer
Label(s)	Warp, Thirsty Ear
Associated acts	Antipop Consortium, Matthew Shipp
Website	adoredandexploited.com

Beans (aka Mr Ballbeam), hailing from White Plains, a suburb of New York City, was one of the founding members of New York's legendary Antipop Consortium, which disbanded in 2002. With his distinctive fast-flowing poetic style, Beans manages to amalgamate witty, thoughtful lyrics with his own productions of "Chunky psychedelic electro-hop".

Signed to former Antipop label Warp Records, Beans has had two LP and two EP releases since starting his solo career in 2003: Tomorrow Right Now (2003), Now Soon Someday (2003 EP), Down By Law (2004 EP), and his latest release, Shock City Maverick (2004).

Beans has performed on the same stage as such acts as Radiohead, Prefuse 73, Missy Elliott and collaborated with, among others, Funkstörung and DJ Shadow. He can often be found performing in the many small underground clubs in New York's East Village, on stage with just a microphone and a portable CD player for his backing track, further reflecting the minimalist nature of his style.

"The Ornette Coleman of this rap shit, The link between Suicide, Sun Ra and Bambaata is Ballbeam" — Beans from "I'll Melt You" from the album Shock City Maverick

Beans is featured on the Ratatat Remixes Vol 2..