The love story at the heart of local rap luminary Karma Rivera’s debut album, Priceless , is low-key a queer epic—a rise and fall, an odyssey, a saga of love, loss, animus, and reclamation; a journey to the center of Lesbos. Am I being hyperbolic? Maybe. Do we need more queer rap epics? Definitely. Can we rely on Karma Rivera to drop them? Absolutely.

“If I’m feeling some way, I’m going to write about it,” says the local rap luminary. “If it’s catchy enough, it might become a song.”

Priceless , which drops Nov. 1 with a same-night release show at Nova PDX, is at its core an uncomplicated half hour of sing-song alt-rap bars over a contemporary blend of hyperpop island beats, rhythmic bedroom jams, and straightforward club bangers. It’s a simple structure held together with a relatably

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