Birds flock around to collect crumbs. And Raz has no time for them. “Bullshit” is episode seven from Cognitive Dissonance: Part 2. Xavier Ruffin co-directed.
PHOTO SET: Miss Casey Carter 4 Year Anniversary Party at Neumos – Friday, 1.16.15
Seattle media giant Miss Casey Carter celebrated her company’s four years in existence last Friday night at Neumos. Gifted Gab, Brothers From Another, Bruce Leroy, Tre Ross, Leezy Soprano, and Sneak Guapo all shared the bill (in addition to some surprise guests). Photographer Rafy Ochoa paid camera respects for 206UP.
Miss Casey Carter & Flywheel Present: MCC 4 Year Anniversary Party | Neumos | Friday, January 16, 2015
Photography by Rafael Ochoa.
AUDIO: Word Play – MADlines
MADlines continues to mash her influences and affinities together like sedimentary rock beds (shout-out to the WWU Geology Department, class of 2000). Her Word Play EP dropped in mid-December but the album’s appeal stretches out like an all-night reggae dance party.
AUDIO: Indiana Facers – Key Nyata & Mackned
The Thraxxhouse collective bum rushed the end of 2014 with a grip of new releases. None better, however, than Indiana Facers, the murky, beautiful drone of a horror show by de facto team leaders Key Nyata and Mackned.
VIDEO: “Fantasee Island” – Malice & Mario Sweet (dir. by Justin Frick)
Malice and Mario Sweet, the “foremost man and wife of Northwest R&B,” break into Doc Brown’s shop and hijack (temporarily, I’m sure) the DeLorean for a quick spin back to their wedding day. “Fantasee Island” was release in celebration of the duo’s sixth wedding anniversary, from their ’80s loving nostalgia piece, Enjoy Like Love.
VIDEO: “Part of the Game” – Fleeta Partee
Seattle OG Fleeta Partee with a new self-directed video. “Part of the Game” tells a familiar ‘hood story with old school precision and unflinching rawness. From the MC’s Lifemuzik Deux.
28HUNDRED INTERVIEW: Shad
London, Ontario native Shad slipped through NYC for a quick headliner at The Studio at Webster Hall on December 4, 2014. The 28HUNDRED team caught up with the Canadian lyricist for a wide ranging discussion that touched on touring, his last two albums, what it’s like having an unusual first name (by North American standards, anyway), and the aftermath of the Eric Garner grand jury verdict. Check it out below.
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AUDIO: “These Words” – Raz Simone (feat. Natasha Baron)
The eighth “episode” from the lead-up to Raz Simone’s Cognitive Dissonance: Part 2 release (January 28). “These Words” is an embattled, impassioned love song from the rising MC.
AUDIO: “Rare Breed” – Ju-Ju Twist (prod. by Rob Skeetz)
Scattershot but focused, Ju-Ju Twist preps for the release of his Braveheart 2 mixtape with this first drop, “Rare Breed” produced by Rob Skeetz.
THE SIX: The Good Sin
THE SIX is a regular Q&A feature on 206UP with a simple format: One member of the local hip-hop community and six questions. For past editions click here.
Seattle rapper The Good Sin had a worthy showing in 2014 with the release of his third full-length album entitled Life Before. We called it one of the ten best Seattle hip-hop albums of the year for its great attention to soulful detail and emotionally insightful lyrics. Life Before felt, appropriately, lived in.
That characteristic has much to do with the MC’s ethos of quality over quantity — an increasingly rare creative approach to music these days — and a willingness to open himself up to experiences outside of the norm, both physically (he relocated from Seattle to New York City in late 2013) and internally (the album was meant to be illustrative of the MC’s emotional growth over the years).
206UP caught up with The Good Sin in our latest edition of THE SIX. Hit the jump to read on.
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