"We're going to take you to the future," says Omar "Jneiro Jarel" Gilyard on "Light Years Away." A shape-shifter on par with MF Doom and Kool Keith, Jneiro produces and raps under multiple guises -- Panama Black, Dr. Who Dat, Rocque Wun, Capital Peoples and Mel Owens. His music, captured on Shape of Broad Minds' recent CD, Craft of the Lost Art, sounds as if it descended from outer space.

But for Jneiro, the future lies elsewhere. On this late-summer afternoon, he shares drinks with Khujo, the baritone-voiced veteran from Goodie Mob. Superficially, the two seemingly couldn't be more different: Khujo is a pioneer of homespun ghetto-spiritual music from a decade ago, and Jneiro is a purveyor of bleeding-edge bohemia. But Jneiro is an ardent Goodie Mob fan: "BuddaFly Away" from Craft of the Lost Art pays homage to Goodie's "Fly Away."

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