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Tower Basement · Teal door · Free entry

Truth is a Trap House

A book, a listening party, and a set of recordings by Jessica Holter. Truth as a house you get lured into, where the product is fear and everybody leaves with something they did not come for.

Truth is a trap house,
built beneath mythical trees
guarded by weasels.
The teal Truth is a Trap House door in the HIP IP Tower basement, lit in neon and signed 'Listening Party hosted by Emcee Skawla,' with headphones hanging on the brick wall beside it.

The Listening Party

Hosted by Emcee Skawla — every cut in one set: her songs, Brown Viking's title poem, and the Pete Prayer duets and solo cuts from his folder. The horrorcore remix is the explicit cut, adult language throughout.

Truth is a Trap House — The Listening Party, in teal neon beside glowing headphones.

Listening party · now playing

How to Build a Trap House

Emcee Skawla

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Water Drops — from The Water Radio Show

Radio drops and clues that expose more of the lore. New drops land in this player as they are filed.

Water Drops — Emcee Skawla at a vintage microphone in a red and blue lit radio studio.

Water Drops · now playing

The Water Radio Show — Official Intro

Emcee Skawla

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The Book

The title poem's world: a former crack house in Atlanta that a poet converted into a venue for her Open Truth Night — walls freshly papered with the faces of Sanchez, Brooks, Angelou, Lorde, Giovanni and Hughes, the scent of old misery still stuck like gum on the carpet.

Poetry and narrative collection — poems, haiku, one-act poems, letters, and essays

Read in Coffy BooksDownload the PDF

Characters & Recording Artists

  • Emcee Skawla

    Host of the Listening Party · Coffy Town site agent

    She keeps the teal door open and runs the room. Ask her about the book, the haiku, or where a track came from.

    Visit Emcee Skawla

  • Pete Prayer

    Recording artist · Club Surrender

    Gospel-cut horrorcore out of the basement. He sings with Skawla on 'Secondhand Wings' and 'Wasting Prayers on Demons', and holds his own set with 'Bury This Book' and 'Casting Satan'.

  • Brown Viking

    Recording artist · reads the title poem

    The voice on 'Truth is a Trap House — The Poem'. Mythical trees, weasels on guard, and a house where the product is fear.

  • Lady

    Bathroom attendant extraordinaire · The Lady's Room

    Goddess, healer, truth sayer. Towels for tips, butters and silky skin milk, and a mirror that reads: 'You have been here before.'

    Visit Lady

Enter the Black Stone Maze

The Trap House tile sits inside the Maze — step on it and the walls quote the book back at you. Truth is a Trap House. Watch your step. Pay attention.

Play the Black Stone Maze

Back to the Basement — three passageways