After over a decade of working together in the Arizona hip hop trio Injury Reserve, upon the untimely death of fellow MC and collaborator Stepa J Groggs, the remaining duo of MC RiTchie and producer Parker Corey decided to part with the moniker out of respect for Groggs. They now make music under the name By Storm. Their first release under this name, My Ghosts Go Ghost (2026), came out earlier this year to critical acclaim. Convectional percussion swirls with glimmering guitar samples as RiTchie's soft-spoken sermons pull listeners into By Storm's world of unconventional rap – dark yet tinged with hope. Grief clearly plays a part in this record; it is a contemplative and boundary-shifting release that is audaciously sensitive and deeply experimental at its core. By Storm create a new kind of leftfield hip hop whose distorted and lo-fi sensibilities knit inextricably with RiTchie's bars – speaking to serious questions around death, loss, and survival in these times while remaining undergirded by a playful sense of experimentation and improvisation.