The Lique

We’re a Vegas-based hip-hop collective, comprised of vocalist Rasar Amani, guitarist Sean Carbone, keyboardist Jason Corpuz, bassist Nick Schmitt and drummer Jeremy Klewicki. 

We’ve been blessed enough to perform all over the United States and to write and record three albums, including our newest: Imposter Syndrome.

Inspired by the pain, anxiety, heartbreak and isolation that we all faced in the year 2020, Imposter Syndrome was conceived as an album unlike anything we released before. In the production, we chose to depart from our individual roles in the band, instead collaboratively programming drums, recording keys, and incorporating samples and other new elements into our music. Our emcee, Rasar Amani, took his piercing, critical gaze that he reserved for the powerful and the corrupt and turned it inward, exposing what he felt was his own hypocrisy, presenting honest confessions, and offering pleading apologies. It’s the most deeply and brutally honest writing of his career, and he often referred to it as “the work of a lifetime.”

On September 28th, less than two weeks after recording the final vocal tracks for this project, Rasar took his own life. He was 35.

With contributions from some of his closest musical collaborators and inspirations (<a href="spotify:artist:5wPZy5qe8YevsqA4w7vbmY" data-name="Cedrice">Cedrice</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6m40c4149RPTYV42tlaIQ6" data-name="Spxtrm">Spxtrm</a>) as well as his mother, Margaret Williams, we present our third album to you as a tribute to a man whose legacy of spreading love, peace, and joy can never be destroyed.