There is a precise moment in early adolescence when an interest quietly turns into an obsession. For Omari Alltimer, that moment arrived in a seventh-grade classroom at Horace Mann Middle School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Right before a pivotal family move to Texas, he realized he could construct actual songs—turning abstract thoughts into rhythm and finding his voice behind a verse.
His latest album, ALLTIMERR: The Horace Mann Project, is a direct thank-you letter to that seventh-grader. Where its predecessor, ALLTIMER, served as a broad dedication to family support and artistic sacrifice, this new record turns the lens inward to map out the geographic and emotional road he’s traveled since—tracing a line from Little Rock through Houston, Austin, and ultimately Los Angeles.
Produced entirely by Popalardo, the project moves with a rich, organic warmth built on chopped soul, smoky jazz keys, and textured hip-hop grooves. Alltimer himself frames the album’s unique dual energy best: “This is that champagne glass with grape juice music, that you better be investing money music, that youth sports coach disgruntled parent music, that Black man’s plight music.”
That friction between adult responsibility and unyielding drive gives the tracklist its real weight. The album opens on a grand scale with “Champagne Glass,” letting glowing samples bloom under Alltimer’s commanding, detail-heavy verses before “Etrade” lowers the lights, pairing relaxed, jazz-inflected keys with thoughts on financial autonomy. That introspective balance sharpens on “Little Man,” which uses an orchestral soul loop to dig into growth, fatherhood, and the quiet sacrifices required to build something lasting, before “Orange Juice” brings the record full circle on a bright, triumphant note, offering a warm toast to how far the journey has taken him.
ALLTIMERR: The Horace Mann Project isn’t a typical nostalgic victory lap. It’s a grounded, deeply human body of work that bridges the space between adolescent ambition and hard-earned maturity, proving that no matter how far you travel, you never really leave where you started.
ALLTIMERR: The Horace Mann Project is available to stream now.
