“Oh shit, it’s BB Sun. He kinda looks like God.” The Thraxxhouse teammate stews the clique’s stoner pot with a singular type of understated humor and swag. Gimmie is full of shrouded threats that lull you to within an inch of sleep, but then, with just the slightest pinprick, keep you hovering above slumber so there’s just enough time to see BB Sun slip out the window with all your stuff, laughing the entire time.
The Pacific Northwest region is blessed with landscapes that run the gamut in natural diversity. Curiously enough, however, local rappers don’t mine the majestic scenery for everything they could when it comes to their music videos.
Young Ju-Ju Twist and his director Jacob Hill saw the similarities in Seattle’s urban landscape and its neighboring mountainous terrain to the east (or west). The dual cinematography in “Diary of Twizzy” is both synchronous and at odds with each other. If the endgame for Ju-Ju is stardom in the music world, how different is that feral deer wandering through the frame from the anonymous coattail rider bouncing up and down on stage?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stoned & Dethroned, the long-awaited fourth collaborative effort between SRFSCHL team member Nacho Picasso and the dudes that brought him to the dance in the first place, Blue Sky Black Death, has arrived. It bears a strong passing resemblance to everything that came before; if that surprises you then you’re probably the one that’s been sleeping.
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