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Hometown rap hero Grynch dropped his new EP, Timeless, today. And, as the title suggests, dude rhymes about many things in hip-hop that are indeed timeless. Those things include:
a) Shaking off haters (“So Long”)
b) The party life (“All I Wanna Do” featuring Sol)
c) Shorties (“Out of Sight, on My Mind”)
and of course the age-old favorite, d) Hustling to get respect and one’s due shine in the rap game (“Randy The Ram”).
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And the Valentine’s Day drops keep coming. Don’t forget to acknowledge that special someone today. Girlfriends, boyfriends, wives, husbands. Hell, even jump-offs and F-buddies of all types. Everyone can get it!
Sol pays tribute with “For The Love” featuring Dice on back-up and DJ Nphared on the boards.
Hit Play to hear “For The Love” by Sol f/Dice. Click here to get it.
Portland’s DJ Jacks Green with a brief four-track salute to Northwest hip-hop. Sol, Scribes and Geo provide bars on three of the tracks (previous post: “Kickitwitchu” featuring Sol). It’s FREE, so why wouldn’t you click?
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Loverman rap sh-t by Sol. Bland production by PDX maker Jacks Green. It’s just aight to me.
Press Play to hear “Kickitwitchu” by Sol. Click here for the D/L, dummy.
Dig that smooth jazz saxophone and Sol’s rapped/sung hook. Not a whole lot to celebrate here other than a nice three minute and forty-five second interlude to drink and dance to. And Grynch always sounds good, of course — even when he’s not saying much.
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Click to listen to “All I Wanna Do” by Grynch f/Sol. Click here for the free D/L link.
Question: how easy is it for you rappers to feel like a big fish in a small pond in the SEA? Answer: Fairly easy, according to the homie Solzilla. “Feed My Ego” is a little like therapy on wax for Sol, one of The Six’s current favorites. Balancing on the precipice of Mount Humble can be a fairly precarious act when folks are so quick to praise your sh-t, he says. Sol even calls out blogs like this one for inflating his dome with every little bit of exaltation proffered forth.
Rest assured, my dude, 206UP.COM doesn’t say it unless we really mean it. Do with the praise what you will, we can’t control that. But this blog (generally) thinks you’re pretty dope.
DJ Nphared quietly produced the best SEA hip-hop song of 2010. The Physics’ “Coronas On Madrona” was a breezy soulful anthem that expertly captured the laid-back vibe of a typical Seattle summer.
The Red October EP is a four-track freebie from Grynch’s favorite DJ and features a few Town heavyweights like Sol, Thig Nat, Fatal Lucciauno, and The King of Ballard himself. Click below for the download link.
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The Viper Creek Club Hip-Hop Remixes — collect ’em all!
Here’s the latest: a dramatic redux of Sol’s “Wake Up.” Somnambulant synth and plucky electronic keyboard invoke a different form of hypnotic stasis than the original’s ethereal new wave.
(Wouldn’t an entire album’s worth of VCC’s electro-pop remixes be dope? If only…)
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Visuals by Jon Augustavo, a director on his grind as of late. (Next up: The Physics’ “I Just Wanna Beat.”)
Download Sol’s Dear Friends EP series, here.
I love the lush production on this joint from Sol’s latest FREE EP, Dear Friends, Vol II. Cop it at the homie’s website here. Like Thig Nat, I don’t smoke, but I understand why people do…
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