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Category: Video
NEW MUSIC: The Coffee EP – Dave B.
Click album cover to download via Fresh Selects.
2013 EMP Sound Off! champion Dave B with a new drop. Dude has a common name but uncommon dexterity on the mic. The Coffee is a seven-track extended player that does much to highlight Dave’s versatile flow and clever lyricism. The EP left me with the feeling that this MC is capable of much more. Fully realized potential and more expansive projects are hopefully on the way from Dave.
VIDEO: “Books” – Bambu (feat. Prometheus Brown)
If Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis reunited to make a love song about books and then enlisted the rap stylings of two Filipino brothers this might be what they would come up with. Oh, and also if it were adapted into a sitcom set in the ’80s then you’d have this video. Whaaaaat…
(New The Bar album, Barkada, coming soon.)
VIDEO: “Boom” – The Breaklites
Hey, Tacoma does bro-rap too! Nah, I kid (mostly). On the real, though, 206UP digs a lot of what The Breaklites do. This is just good fun in the California starshine as far as we’re concerned.
VIDEO: “Guttersnipe Bridge” – RA Scion (prod. by Todd Sykes; dir. by Garrett Gibbons)
RA Scion, the most professorial MC in Town, has a new full-length coming out soon called Adding to the Extra (March 19). It’s produced entirely by City Hall’s Todd Sykes and is a sample-based, boom-bap affair that trends toward ’90s traditionalism (Golden Era enthusiasm?). “Guttersnipe Bridge” is the first video from the new shit.
VIDEO: “The Wave” – Kung Foo Grip (prod. by Keyboard Kid; dir. by A.K. Romero)
206UP.COM is always excited for a new Kung Foo Grip drop. “The Wave” is off their Growing Up In The Future EP which you can download for free here.
VIDEO: “All The Soldiers” – Spekulation (feat. Okanomode; dir. by. Chris Volckmann)
Spekulation dropped “All The Solders”, the first single from his upcoming Truth Be Told EP, last week, and followed it up with the visuals above. From the press:
Like the song, the video takes a personal look at the problem of violence in our society. The film focuses on a handful of people living in fear of the violence that has become a part of American life. It is a subtle film that poses powerful questions about how we choose to live our lives in the face of fear and uncertainty.
VIDEO: “Red Cups” – Kingdom Crumbs (dir. by Stephan Gray)
Kingdom Crumb’s eponymous debut was a hair’s width away from being my favorite Seattle rap album of 2012. This clip for “Red Cups” captures the party cool vibe of the track perfectly: ’80s synth stretched out like the truck the crew stunts in. Stephan Gray on his high-def shit again.
VIDEO: The Otherside (Official Trailer) – M.A.D. Northwest
The M.A.D. Northwest collective has released the official trailer to their Seattle hip-hop documentary The Otherside. There’s no official release date yet, and I can only imagine the crew is frantically collecting footage from Mack and RL’s recent adventures down under and on SNL. Really looking forward to this.
VIDEO: “Take My Hand” – Dark Time Sunshine (feat. Aesop Rock & Swamburger)
Dark Time Sunshine had the best Seattle rap album of 2012 — by this blogger’s estimate, anyway — with their moody-as-fuck but still addicting ANX. “Take My Hand” was one of the best entries from that collection and it now has its own video treatment courtesy of Beats Rhymes Films.
Catch DTS on the road now with guests Void Pedal and Moody Black, including the SxSW thing in a week’s time.
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