“Sometimes I Don’t” is the most recent single from Raz’s upcoming Solomon Samuel Simone (due March 19). The track features frequent collaborator Sam Lachow who does his own good dirt on both coasts (NYC x SEA).
Category: Video
VIDEO: “Thrift Shop” & “Can’t Hold Us” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on Saturday Night Live
Red fringe game bowl-leg swag. Or something.
VIDEO: “Potential Fans” – Aaron Cohen
In which Aaron Cohen and crew cavort through Sunnyside, Queens. I looked at a few apartments in that neighborhood a couple years ago, this after New York magazine named it the third most liveable community in New York. Not with those hooligans roaming the streets.
VIDEO: “DTRT” – Dave B (dir. by Ralph Madison)
New clip by Dave B from his upcoming The Coffee EP.
NEW MUSIC: Flowers For My Father – Sadistik
Click album cover to purchase at Circle Into Square.
Sadistik’s Twitter page lists “Suicide Capitol” as the MC’s current location. There’s a segment of area hip-hop artists who’ve been knowing it’s not all coffee shop philosophy and Alki barbecues under this perpetual cloud cover — count Sadistik as one of them. Flowers For My Father is an in memoriam of the dude’s padre who passed on after the MC’s debut in 2008 (The Balancing Act). This album is a bitter pill to swallow, a dichotomous answer to the half-full glasses Seattle rap fans are used to raising these days. It takes it all types, I say.
“Russian Roulette” – Sadistik (feat. Cage & Yes Alexander; prod. by Blue Sky Black Death)
VIDEO: “Emilio Estevez” – Art Vandelay
Art Vandelay’s Eye 8 The Crow is due April 2. Ricky Pharoe and Mack Formway still think your television is brainwashing you. They’re probably right.
VIDEO: “I’ve Been Down” – Havi Blaze (dir. by Ricky Pharoe)
Been a minute since we heard from Havi Blaze. Here he’s on his down-and-out, bootstrap talk with some lens work by fellow area MC Ricky Pharoe. Havi’s upcoming album is called Self-Portrait, due in the Spring.
VIDEO: “The Rundown” – The Bad Tenants (dir. by Detooz Films)
The Bad Tenants are “what happens when hip-hop and blues get drunk … and make a baby”, according to the trio’s Facebook page. The crew originated in Bellingham and now do their dirt in Seattle. “The Rundown” is an example of either rap-rock fusion in harmoniously discordant consensus, or yet another bad piece of genre mish-mash suffering arrested development, depending on your point of view. File this one under “acquired taste.”
VIDEO: “Dean Martin / Rat Race” – Nacho Picasso (dir. by Gator Vision Production)
I can’t watch this video right now (at work, shhh) but hopefully you can.
VIDEO: “Jabari Presents: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis”
During my initial descent into an internet K-hole this Sunday morning, I came across this documentary from last October by Jabari Presents. Nice piece of work.
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