"I don't understand. And when is it coming out?"

So instead of one long record, we are doing three medium-sized records. I started writing songs a few years ago that related to Fred Rogers in some way, then I realized the scope of what needed to be covered would require the project to grow.

So to do justice, and to still not write a four hour rap opera, I decided to split it into three parts. Mr. Rogers of the Rap Game is the title of the series, spread out into three volumes, which will be released several months apart.

Volume  1: Come On and Wake Up! jolts the listener awake with the rapturous beauty life—and its torturous difficulties. We've already got a music video in the works for this one.
Projected Release Date: November 19, 2022—20th anniversary of Royal Ruckus Self-Titled Release on Flicker Records.

Volume 2: Mr. Bennett’s Neighborhood takes you into that part of life where escaping from the coldness of reality a bit with make believe is okay, and you can be a bit more imaginative. It is hard to deal with our feelings, and sometimes we have to step aside from reality for a bit to properly understand it. This part of the record especially deals with the difficult problem of death.

Projected Release Date: Jan. 21, 2023—This date marks 25 years since Royal Ruckus was founded. 

Volume 3: Wisdom of Fred will round out the project and help to bring out some of the major messages of Fred Rogers, reimagined into a Royal Ruckus record in our time now. Fred's wisdom internalized, and then spoken back out into the world in rhyme. Without annoying preachy moralizing, this is a poetic conversation of an adult who grew up on Mr. Rogers and is in conversation with life and culture now.

Projected Release Date: March 20, 2023, on Won't You Be My Neighbor Day, a day that celebrates the impact of Fred Rogers.