New mix for Flavourhood.
Hip-Hop/R&B + Electronic. 53:10. 18 songs. Tracklist included with DL.
Oddisee Remix - Aint That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
“Cloud”
Directed by Sam Fuller Produced By DreamCollabo The Homies.
Sam has some of his ill photography up at Chaparral City in Oakland as we speak. Show ends this friday. But anyways, this video is well done. You can’t even hate if you’re not feeling the music. Shit is that good. Oh and here’s part 1 - Belly of the Best
Brothers who Lyrically Act and Combine Kickin Music Out On Nations
KS: My friend and I were talking earlier about how everyone has ghostwriters. Everybody has someone writing their stuff. And I’m not gonna name names because that would probably do my career in. But it’s like almost any artist that you know of that’s a rapper. People are just going for the money. It’s not as looked down upon in the singing world as it is in the hip-hop world. People have been doing that for years and years. In the ’60s, people didn’t write their own music. I mean, Jan and Dean? Are you kidding me? “You’re so cute, but you didn’t write your own music.”
I guess I just didn’t know that that’s the way it could work, and that’s why albums come out so fast; it’s not just one person, it’s a team of writers getting shit done and pumping this shit out. I wrote my whole album. I co-wrote one—sorry. But if you really wanna do it, that’s not how it works. So, lesson learned!
F151: Yeah, it’s really not conducive to pumping out singles.
KS: That’s why I think hip-hop sucks right now. Well, pop sucks, because hip-hop became pop. Remember when hip-hop wasn’t pop? Because I kind of do. There was still weird stuff getting play. Remember Digable Planets? As cheesy as “Cool Like Dat” may seem to some people, they played that on the radio! They don’t play anything like that on the radio anymore. They don’t even give you a shot unless you’re like, “Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!” Oh man!
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It’s been a decade since Cannibal Ox’s Cold Vein, the most influential thing ever to happen in my life. Dark Time Sunshine’s Vessel might be that second coming.
Vessel is profound and polarizing. It’s about life, love, suicide, fatherhood and fear. Upon my first go through I hadn’t even realized what hit me. Onry Ozzborn ( aka Cape Cowen), the emcee has a way words. Smart, witty, and dystopian with occasional peaks and valley’s of hope, he’s comparable to a young EL-P, from the Company Flow era, but better. He’s not bitter.
I’ve listened to Vessel about 17 times now. It’s hasn’t worn out it welcome out yet. That was the case with Cold Vein. 10 years old is there’s still new things I pick up every now and then.
Biggest difference between Vessel and Cold Vein is their accessibility. Cold Vein was difficult thing to listen to. El-P used “pain blips, death synths and doom drums,” to get the production to sound what I like to call space pop music from the future, year 3150. Providing the lyrics were two emcees; Vast Aire, a conjoiner of clever one-liners, and Vordul Mega, who couldn’t use a conjunction if his life depended on it. They were okay, not great, just okay, but when you put these three together you fucking got voltron. The sum was greater than the parts.
Vessel on the other hand was a cake walk for me. The sound is polished. Zavala the producer uses the right amount of experimentation without crossing that weird for weird’s sake line. It’s Boom Bap done right. The guest features complement the work and are a perfect fit. They use their strengths and stay within their comfort zones.
Despite my praises, chances are you won’t like it. It’s not for everyone. It’s not even for people who like rap. This is some genre boundary pushing shit here.
Track - Dark Time Sunshine/////All Aboard ft. Reva Devito
Aint No Such Thing As Half Way Crooks. Scared to Death, Scared to Look. They Shook.
Mobb Deep sampled this joint. Not a big fan of Herbie, but I appreciate him and his contributions to jazz and electronic music.
“Longtime Hypebeast community member, Tyler, the Creator serves the first visual for ‘Yonkers’ – the self-produced first single off his forthcoming Goblin-LP out this spring.”
Self-directed with some clever editing, thats all you really need. A good concept. Fuck a video ho. I mean, fuck a video ho, but really, fuck a video ho.
green is cool but that el camino should have been murdered out.
