It’s been five years since rappers P.O.S and Astronautalisreleased their first two tracks under the moniker Four Fists. And today, they make their long-awaited return with two more: the brazen call-to-action of “Nobody’s Biz” and the chiptune burble of “G.D.F.R” find the duo sounding as charged-up as ever. They’ve been in and out of the studio since early 2017, but as for what it is they’ve been working on, like maybe the wildly-anticipated debut LP that fans of both artists have been clamoring for since 2013… sounds like we’ll all just have to wait and see.
Sometimes the best way for artists to keep pushing ahead is to remember who their people are – especially when they’re the ones they’ve known for ages and have been itching to work with from the very start. Stef Alexander and Andy Bothwell, respectively known as P.O.S and Astronautalis, have been making guest appearances on each other’s records for over 10 years, and date their friendship back even further. That makes a collaborative project like Four Fists both inevitable and necessary at the same time: it’s the team-up of two of Minneapolis’ most stylistically fearless artists, both of whom simultaneously inhabit the worlds of hip-hop and indie-punk in a way that the Twin Cities music community has always welcomed.