ALPHA CENTAURI Arrives As Hip-Hop's Next Rising Star With Debut Album 'The Future Right Now'

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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After five years of work, six singles, and a rollout that has steadily built him into one of the most electrifying new voices on the West Coast, ALPHA CENTAURI is here with his full debut album, 'The Future Right Now,' out now via Rogue Planet. "Never Be," "Grow," "Get Your Money Up," "I'll Fly," "Higher Up" and "We Rise" each landed with their own moment in the spotlight. The ten-track album is a genre blending, funk soaked, Afrobeat charged, jazz-tinged hip-hop statement recorded entirely live off the floor with his eight-piece band.

ALPHA's own story is exactly the kind that makes a debut like this hit harder. Trained and licensed as a lawyer in Zimbabwe, he walked away from a secure, respected career to chase the thing he could never actually let go of, music. It started long before law school, back when he was 13 years old breakdancing with his crew, Blade Squad, at pageants and basketball halftime shows. "I took what I understood from dancing, rhythm and movement, and turned it into rap," he says. "I tapped into my background in English literature and realized, I know how to write poems. I understand rhythm. Maybe I can do this."

'The Future Right Now' is built entirely around that idea: self belief as fuel, motivation as philosophy, the present moment as the only place the future actually gets built. "Everything I do today, everything I did all these years, has brought me here, because my future was always in the present," ALPHA says. "We Rise," was originally written back in 2014 while he was finishing his law degree. "Expect Us" channels real testimony, drawn directly from ALPHA's own experience as a practicing lawyer in Zimbabwe supporting the movement built by activist Evan Mawarire against corruption and injustice. And "Never Be" is a full display of technical firepower, stacking wordplay, literary references and mythology into bars built to be replayed just to catch everything packed inside them.

That live reputation has already put ALPHA on some seriously big stages. He has shared bills with Method Man & Redman, Ja Rule, Chali 2na and Cut Chemist of Jurassic 5, The OBGMs, Moka Only and Tanika Charles, and lit up major festival stages across Western Canada.

"I want people to hear this and see themselves inside the music," ALPHA says.

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