Son Of Sumter

Cerrome Russell operates with the unbothered cadence of someone sitting on a porch with zero interest in rushing his thoughts. His best material treats domestic collapse as a series of avoidable clerical errors. In his telling, men will painstakingly study injury reports to keep a player with diarrhea off a parlay, but will blithely ignore a partner lying awake beside them at two in the morning, actively debating whether to pinch their nostrils shut.

The set was recorded at The Pour House in Raleigh, North Carolina, and clocks in at forty-seven minutes. A Marine Corps veteran originally from Sumter County, Georgia, Russell spent years anchoring shows across Washington, D.C., after an early run on BET’s prank dating show Hell Date. Here, he pulls mostly from life back home: rural driving, dating while large, and the specific humiliation of having your partner treat washing your back like intake at a county jail.