PAUL SCHRAG: HAVE YOUR EXPERIENCED XPERIENCE? >>>

Let’s talk about this cat Xperience. I don’t know if you’ve seen this guy. It doesn’t matter. You will. He’s that good.

After years of grinding in the lost land of Olywa, rapper, producer, vocalist and all-around superstar Xperience is finally coming into his own. You may have seen him crooning with the man himself Macklemore as one half of Step Cousins; or you may have heard him plumb the depths of darkness while shining blinding light with Compost and A.K.A. as part of Olympia supercrew (((SoundAsylum))). Recently he’s been working with Seattle’s Oldominion, dropping verses on new singles from Grayskul, and is reportedly working on a project called SIX with Smoke of Oldominion and Iamme of Portland-based Sand People.

There is no stopping him. Period.

[The Royal Lounge, with Diezel P, Bad Habit, Luck One, Bad Crowd, Black Science, Deadbeat, Thursday, Oct. 1, 9 p.m., $5, 311 Capitol Way N., Olympia, 360.705.0760]