Epic Records – The Earology Dept.

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Wed, 07 Oct 2015 01:08:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 big grams | big grams ep https://www.theearologydept.com/big-grams-big-grams-ep/ https://www.theearologydept.com/big-grams-big-grams-ep/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:46:44 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=13008 big grams | big grams ep Big Grams is the supergroup comprised of Big Boi (Outkast) and Phantogram (Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter). If you’re cool you know all of the players involved. Are you cool? Of coarse you are. The bands long talked about and much anticipated album is out now courtesy …

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Big Grams is the supergroup comprised of Big Boi (Outkast) and Phantogram (Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter). If you’re cool you know all of the players involved. Are you cool? Of coarse you are. The bands long talked about and much anticipated album is out now courtesy of Epic Records. The self-titled Big Grams EP is seven tempestuous tracks fluent in debauchery. And well, if you like debauchery like I do this one will surely satisfy. Stick around, after the jump check out much more ’cause they’ll be video games too.

If you want to sneak a listen head over to Spotify and enjoy a bit of streaming. I like this collaboration because neither Big Boi nor Phantogram lose their respective identities, it’s the perfect and well balanced imagining come to life. And didn’t I mention video games? Yup, you heard me right. Test your video playing skill set and see if your next level debauchery skills are up to par.

Of course this isn’t the trios first meeting, the respective parts got together on Big Boi’s album Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumours back in 2012. So the die was cast way back when and it sounds like something I’d like to hear more of. What do you think? Are you lovin’ it too? Leave a comment and let us know. Turn it up and play it nice and very loud.

Band: Big Grams
Album: Big Grams
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Big Grams: Tracklisting

1. Run For Your Life
2. Lights On
3. Fell In The Sun
4. Put It On Her
5. Goldmine Junkie
6. Born To Shine
7. Drum Machine

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v. bozeman | race jones https://www.theearologydept.com/v-bozeman-race-jones/ https://www.theearologydept.com/v-bozeman-race-jones/#respond Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:41:39 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12018 V. Bozeman isn’t your typical artist, especially when it comes to issues addressing self-identity, perceptions of beauty and cultural assimilation. This Black woman is creating music on the outskirts of popular music. She’s flippin’ the script and making the masses come to her instead of the other way around. Ballsy. But true to self. …

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V. Bozeman isn’t your typical artist, especially when it comes to issues addressing self-identity, perceptions of beauty and cultural assimilation. This Black woman is creating music on the outskirts of popular music. She’s flippin’ the script and making the masses come to her instead of the other way around. Ballsy. But true to self.

V. Bozman has penned a deep and penetrating ode on the periphery of commercialism. She swings a heavy bat and breaks open a pathway illuminating the underpinnings of self-loathing and cultural despair. But in the end this is about introspection and rebirth: the veritable Phoenix affect. A people arising from the ashes of self-hate. This is music as an antibody attacking a deceased host. Not a cancer per se but the antidote.

The track Race Jones is a thrashing river threading its way through the gray matter of your consciousness. A river cresting the banks ans washing way the old and making way for possibilities. It is both silt fertilizing fields and salt stinging within ancient wounds still fresh with pain a thousand years old. It rattles cages, slaps faces wide awake and combats the very real issues of race and identity. Period.

This is the African Holocaust, Jim Crowism, Strange Fruit, The Black Panther Movement, Four Little Black Girls Blown To Bits, The Civil Rights Era. MLK and Malcolm X. It is every inhumane atrocity perpetuated against black skin the world over rooted in bigotry, racism and racial prejudice. This is the song we sing when we hand gospel songs back to the plantation from whence they came.

In short, the song encapsulates the very real psychological aspects of what it means to be assaulted by, to struggling with, and coming to terms with race from a victims point of view. But, more than anything Race Jones is about coming out of the other side a survivor. Not solely just a survivor for the sake of surviving. But a survivor in the sense of having become a well-developed and self-aware individual who looks into the mirror and loves the image reflected back. Yes. Black is indeed beautiful. Peace.

Artist: V. Bozeman
Album: Music Is My Boyfriend
Featured Track: Race Jones

Lyrics:

I’m Black! Matter fact I’m blacker than that.
I’m Black in yo face and I’m black when you turn your back.
Black when you stare. Black if you smile.
I was black back when it wasn’t even in style
Blacker than before the movie starts during the trauma and the laughter
The light-hearted jokes and in the end I’m black right back after.

Blacker than being burned and I still didn’t crack cracker
I’m already black as hell then I go an act even blacker
Blacker the right, blacker the wrong
A work in progress, a work of art
But my black is not painted on. NAW it’s the way I was born.

THEY CALL ME RACE JONES

Blacker than a panther made of black lacquer
Blacker than cancer. Blacker than chewed up tobacco
And the only reason I’m not blacker than Santa, is because Santa was my Grandma. Santa was Nana.

JUST LET IT BREATHE!

I often imagine, my skin being lighter and the sun shining brighter,
my hair being longer and somewhere I belong to a house being bigger and not being a nigga.

They would pay to paint then it gets in my eyes and I can’t see
And my friends love me so much that they’re afraid to say that it ain’t me
But they let me fake it because they still need me to make it
Give ’em a piece of your mind and not your heart cause they’ll break it.

OOOOOH! HELL ACCEPT IT! ACCEPT ME!
FOREVER AND EVER!
HELP ME! HELP ME!
BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACK!
BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACK!
BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACK!
BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACKER THAN BLACK!

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