Click photo to D/L.
Here’s an outtake from Nacho’s Blunt Raps mixtape from a couple years back featuring Young TH of State Of The Artist. It’s about girls. Production by Blue Sky Black Death affiliate Raised By Wolves.
“Heaven” – Nacho Picasso & Young TH
Click image to D/L.
Here’s a new slice of funk from Tunk of Sore Losers (a crew that I won’t even pretend to be hip to), featuring Town-mover Thaddeus of State Of The Artist.
Click album cover for D/L link.
State Of The Artist dropped their new FREE EP today, Altered State. It’s a seven-track collection of anthemic electro-infused hip-hop. The title of the EP is appropriate as the album represents a shift in sound, away from the easy-going party rap of their debut LP, SeaCal, toward a moodier synth-heavy club aesthetic.
With all in-house production by group member Parker Joe, Altered State mostly rejects hip-hop’s traditional norms, so from that standpoint it doesn’t please the way SeaCal did. You can’t knock a group for growing, however, and there is plenty new to appreciate on AS.
SOTA will be heading out on tour with Mad Rad. Check the flyer below for your town:
Click image for D/L link.
You’ve never heard State Of The Artist (SOTA) quite like this before. The second leak from the group’s upcoming EP, Altered State (scheduled for a May 10 release), “Alive” finds Young TH, Hyphen8d and Parker Joe spitting rap-life lessons learned over heavily processed industrialized hip-hop. Shaprece Renee lends impassioned vocals on the anthemic hook. This is grand arena rap, more suited for venues like the Key than the Showbox.
(Click here to continue reading at SSG Music.)
Click image for D/L link.
“Brain Champagne” is the second chemical reaction derived from the most talented elements in Helladope and State Of The Artist. Swan Coltrane and Thadwick Tristen Trevor III (alternately known as Tay Sean and Young TH) have concocted a hazy club joint that borrows the tightly-wound kicks from Illmatic‘s “The Genesis” to great get-buck effect. This track right here bumps for two solid minutes and then leaves your blunted ass grasping for more. Adventures in a Helluvastate is the re-up, dropping soon.
A SEATTLE HIP-HOP BLOG 