First EP · Artist statement
A Colorado record born under pressure.
Colorful Come Up was not built to decorate the moment. It was my way of speaking from inside it.
“When George Floyd was killed and people prepared to march with Black Lives Matter, I had to speak my piece.”
— Touch Trillion$
I left Denver for North Carolina, then came home to a city getting harder to afford in the middle of a pandemic. Rent kept climbing. Too many jobs still paid less than survival required. Legal marijuana, tech growth and a wave of new arrivals changed the economy, while people who had lived in Colorado all their lives were increasingly pushed toward somewhere cheaper.
The civic pressure was just as real. Elijah McClain had already died after being stopped by Aurora police and treated by paramedics. Then came the killing of George Floyd. The tone of the Trump era—especially the rhetoric aimed at Black Lives Matter—made silence feel like its own decision.
Colorado · 1876
The Centennial State has a longer memory.
Colorado entered the Union as the 38th state. An earlier statehood bid was stalled after territorial lawmakers refused Black men the vote and Black Coloradans petitioned Congress. The modern image of the state sits on top of a much older fight over who was allowed a voice.
The record that answered back
All Blow Colorado (ABC)
Recorded March 15, 2021 · Released January 21, 2023 · Touch Trillion$ · Pee Da Gee · Mr. Groove (Groove the Boss)
Something Pee Da Gee said about everybody wanting to smoke marijuana from Colorado lit the spark. The hook turned that thought into the record’s central contrast:
“All I want to do is blow up in Colorado.”“All you want to do is blow Colorado.”
We were trying to rise from Colorado—to build something here and carry it into the world. Too many other people only wanted what Colorado could do for them. They came with resources for legal marijuana, tech and a booming city; longtime residents were left to absorb the higher rent, rising costs, displacement and crime that followed. Blow up in Colorado was our play. Blow Colorado was the extraction we were watching.
B.Touch · Verse one
“Looking for fortune / fuk fame.”That was the game plan then, and it is still the game plan now: build real fortune, ownership and survival—not chase celebrity. “Where they might kick in your door” warns people not to mistake the postcard for the whole place. The cash, chains and Retro 13s are not there to hide the danger; they show what desperation can look like when people are forced into the streets just to eat.
“The problem in Denver’s unseen / and it will never be seen / as long you live above means / you give a damn about me.”
Those closing bars are the indictment. When you have enough money to live above the struggle, you can move through Denver without ever seeing what is happening underneath you—or caring that your success is pushing somebody else farther from housing, opportunity and the resources that could keep them out of poverty. ABC refuses to let that hidden Denver disappear.
Colorful Come Up · Five songs
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Mind my own business. Get money. Ignore all bustaz and haters. Create legacy.