Have you ever wondered what would happen if the fifth member of Color Me Badd never aged and then attempted an ill-advised musical comeback in the year 2011? You’re lookin’ at it.
If you want more of Lace Cadence’s overheated bologna, go here.
(And yes, I know, Color Me Badd only had four members. This was the guy they kicked out of the group.)
Peep the video for “Something Brand Nu” by Saturday Morning Cartoon featuring Julie C, animated and directed by David Toledo. SMC is Nitro Fresh (beats) and Jonnie Storm (rhymes). Their vibe is on some chilled-out, schoolyard whimsical sh-t. 206UP.COM appreciates that. Check for the crew’s FREE mixtape, ABC’s and 123’s, here. And keep an eye out for their debut album, Cereal Box Superheroes coming sometime in the Spring.
Mr. Lovework (aka. Gabriel Teodros) brings some of that new-new to the New World Seafood Restaurant this Friday. Celebrate the release of GT and DJ Ian Head’s The Lentil Soup EP. It’s more of that powerful positivity from the world-wise local cat. 206UP.COM will have more on Lentil when it drops.
I like this clip. It’s simple. Brain and a few of his homies standing outside an undisclosed location, probably making more than a few white people really super nervous as they walk by. The track f-ckin’ bumps, too. Off the forthcoming Celestine Prophecy.
CLICK :: LISTEN :: VOTE
New to The TrackMeet? Here’s what it is: every Friday I pull three tracks submitted to 206UP.COM by lesser-known, Town-affiliated artists and let the readers vote for which one they think is the freshest. It’s that easy. Just CLICK, LISTEN and VOTE. The voting runs for one week. If you’re an artist who wants to submit a track, hit me up with the mp3 and a press photo at: 206upblog@gmail.com.
Congratulations to last week’s winner, WUF TIX (who is Type and Pen Pointz) and their track, “I Be Me.” Click here to download the track.
Here are this week’s esteemed combatants:
LANE 1: “Pity Pot” – Soul The Interrogator
Click Play to listen to “Pity Pot” by Soul The Interrogator. Click here to download.
LANE 2: “In My Head” – Drei Ros feat. RobYoung (Note: RobYoung spits first on this track.)
Press Play to listen to “In My Head” by Drei Ros feat. RobYoung. Click here to download.
LANE 3: “Born To Get It” – PROPS (check him online here and here)
Hit Play to listen to “Born To Get It” by PROPS.
#LateWidit. Of all the Valentine’s Day drops, this was my favorite. A video for Grieves and Budo’s “Pack It Up,” in which neither Grieves nor Budo actually appear. (Or do they?) (Directed by Mr. Man Of Many Talents, Griff J.)
From (two of) the hardest working men in Town rap, emcee Eighty4 Fly and director Jon Augustavo, here’s the music video for “Faded” from Eighty4’s 1st Class In Fly World. (Read my not-so-subtle criticism of that album, here.) The first two-thirds of the clip is like a visit to Cameo City, with members of the local hip-hop community trying on JonJon’s camera rig to varying degrees of amusement and then, aw SNAP!, the last third culminates in…well, I won’t give it away here. Just watch.
#NewTownShit. Meet the emcee PROPS, an Indianapolis native currently putting in hip-hop work in Seattle with Vitamin D. This clip is an introduction to the rapper’s forthcoming mixtape (which your loyal blogger will try to determine the name of). PROPS’ confident easy rasp flows like concrete gravy over Vitamin D’s beautiful grime on “So Ghetto,” the first single from said ‘tape. Get acquainted before your friends do.
(A couple of other things: the name of this joint immediately reminded me of this; a bold move giving your first major SEA track the same title as a Jay-Z/Premier collabo. Also, what the hell is “concrete gravy?”)
Kublakai (who you might also recognize as 33.3% of every local college student’s favorite Town crew, The Let Go) dropped this clip a few days ago. Looks like the homie is making a belated push to get his massively under-appreciated 2009 EP, Lights For The Dark Nights back out into Seattle’s collective conscious. In case you missed it before, click on the album cover below for the D/L link.
Click album cover to D/L.
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