With names unfriendly to your preferred search engine, and a cold industrial sound bleak enough to make Chappie shit his robot drawers, producer Mvllah teams with fellow Tacoma goons Zaddy Rxffin, BishpBishp and Seaan Brooks for “Hop.” The latest from the upcoming Wett Peso LP.
We’re a little late with posting this video from Federal Way’s Q Dot, but “Black Gold” as a song and message is timeless in any capacity. From the rapper/producer’s EP of the same name.
Scenes of Seattle nightlife and vintage rap cassettes flood your mental in this new clip from the 96 crew. Raps by Alca, video directed by Zar and beat by the good doctor EarDr.Umz.
Producer/MC Vitamin D and MC Maineak B are two Seattle rap nonpareils who’ve blessed the Town with crucial albums and career-making artist co-signs over the course of multiple decades. Their official union as a duo, the Stay High Brothers, has always catered to the classical rap-minded aficionado’s ear.
High On Wax forgoes the universally accepted studio techniques normally used to craft beats (ie. samplers, sequencers and the like) and relies solely on the art of turntablism to provide the backing tracks for the duo’s raps. The result is a heady, organic and raw soundtrack for Vita and Maine’s daily living. In this hazy, hedonist’s landscape, the good is consumed like daily bread and the pursuit of pleasure rules the day; that is until the fucking pigs inevitably blow the high.
And yet, no matter. Music is the benevolent dictator for the Stay Hi Brothers who remain compelled to get — and stay — lost in the forgiving boundaries of the groove.
Raz Simone continues his assault on 2015 with a new joint, “Why You On My Line,” off an upcoming album — that would make four within the calendar year, but who’s counting? — titled That Nigga; artwork above. And that bro-y sounding dude on the phone at the end of the track? That would be one of the Burch twins with whom Raz has apparently entered into a business relationship. More info to come, apparently.
Moor Gang’s Thaddeus David with a proverbial banger. “MoorThanLess3” is one track in three parts, allowing you to execute your three go-to dance moves in under four minutes.
Nothing’s free during tax season — except for this two-piece EP from All Star Opera. Tax Season Special finds ASO rappers Flow Carter and Oz trading the mic over producer Breve’s organic, Golden Era throwbacks.
Ju-Ju Twist, the self-proclaimed “Young Colossus,” is out to wake the baked. Watch for his BraveHeart 2 tape coming soon.
Ryan Caraveo answers his detractors with a new song called “Jealousy” (produced by L.E.K.). The message here: work hard and don’t waste your youth dwelling on peripheral opinion, lest you become the person who ends up hating the new version of yourself. Or something.
(And for post-listening exposition: Critics get old, cranky and end up eating their own tails. Discuss.)
A punctuation mark and some friendly advice for fakes, from Raz Simone: “Your outfit cost more than your life savings… You should budget.” Produced by Antwon Vinson and Raz.
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