David Aaron Greenberg cut his teeth sharing bills with Allen Ginsberg. Back in the nineties, he was a relentless fixture of the downtown New York cultural grid.

He bounced from reading verse at the Nuyorican Poets Café to curating experimental nights at CB’s Gallery alongside Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. Throw in a stint fronting indie rock outfit Pen Pal, running the conceptual art space mad little gallery, and co-writing for reggae legend Toots Hibbert. You get a resume that bleeds eclectic hustle. Now, the multidisciplinary artist is trading dusty open mics for blown-out 808s.

It’s a pivot that sounds unhinged on paper. Yet his upcoming full-length project ‘Trap Poems,’ dropping April 3, makes the collision work. Greenberg linked up with veteran collaborator and producer David Sisko to build a sleek, psychedelic hip-hop architecture around his verse. The duo operated as Disco Pusher in the early 2000s, but this new venture feels altogether more aggressive and strange. They are not just pasting words over beats. They are forging a genuine dialogue between oral tradition and heavy digital production.

The second single ‘Streets’ lands this week. It acts as the bruising centerpiece of the new record. Sisko laces the track with punishing, distorted low-end frequencies. This gives Greenberg the perfect backdrop to spit his observations. He bridges the gap between mid-century jazz poetry and the claustrophobic energy of modern rap mixtapes. His delivery is brash, confident, and drenched in a weird hypnotic atmosphere.