Bike for Three!

Bike for Three! unites Canadian rapper Buck 65 with Belgian electronica producer Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê across continents. Richard Terfry, born in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia, entered the scene as an underground alternative rap veteran whose first full-length album, Game Tight, appeared in 1995 on Halifax’s Murderecords. Vertex followed in 1997 and stirred widespread attention throughout the international underground rap community; the well-regarded experimental rap label Anticon then issued Man Overboard in 1999, an effort that likewise drew strong praise. After that release Terfry secured a major-label contract with Warner Music and began folding an expansive array of non-hip-hop styles into his subsequent projects. Minh Lê, raised in Brussels and of Vietnamese heritage, surfaced in 2006 when she produced and released her debut Greetings from Tuskan album Lullabies for the Warriors. Terfry and Minh Lê first joined forces in 2007 on a single track for a Buck 65 tour mixtape hosted by Halifax DJ Skratch Bastid. That lone piece expanded into the full-length album More Heart Than Brains, issued by Anticon in 2009. Minh Lê handled production duties from Belgium while Terfry laid down vocals in Canada, making the record a true long-distance collaboration. Its arrival on Anticon signaled Buck 65’s return to the label a decade after Man Overboard first appeared there.