hey ya | ben talmi & kamau

 
Ben Talmi and KAMAU slow OutKast’s Hey Ya way down and infuse the track with a much more reflective time signature. I love the original version well enough but this right here is doing the most.

“Ya’ll don’t give a damn, ya’ll just wanna’ dance.”

This interpretation is a example of what you’ll experience on brother KAMAU’s deput A Gorgeous Fortune EP out now. The EP feature six creative and wonderfully bohemian soul tinged songs. I am going to keep my ear to the rail awaiting more from this artist. I dig. Also, make sure to heck out the tracklisting down, way down below. Peace.
 

 
Artist: Ben Talmi & KAMAU
Single: Hey Ya (Interpretation)
 
Hey Ya Lyrics:
 
My baby don’t mess around
Because she loves me so
And this I know for sure.
Uh, but does she really wanna
But can’t stand to see me
Walk out the door.
Don’t try to fight the feelin’
‘Cause the thought alone is killing me right now
Uh, thank god for mom and dad
For sticking two together
‘Cause we don’t know how

Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.

You think you’ve got it
Oh, you think you’ve got it
But got it just don’t get it
‘Til there’s nothing at all
We get together
Oh, we get together
But sex always better when there’s feelings involved
If what they say is “Nothing is forever”
Then what makes, then what makes, then what makes
Then what makes, what makes, what makes love the exception
So why you, why you
Why you, why you, why you are we so in denial
When we know we’re not happy here…
Y’all don’t give a damn, ya’lljust wanna dance

Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.
Hey… ya.
Hey ya.

We rose like a rose from a stone under flourescent light
Love like glass in the water and we thought it was ice
Cold like earth when it froze unforgiven forgiven for it was dead from the go
We gets under the vultures confused it for mistletoe
We jump into the ocean without learning how to float.

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dj shadow | nobody speak

 
DJ Shadow pumps our ears full of fun with his latest collaborative track Nobody Speak featuring NYC’s dem spittin’ figha’ boys Run The Jewels ( El-P and Killer Mike). The forthcoming album A Mountain Will Fall drops June 24th via Mass Appeal Records. The album release will also offer the previously-released titled-track A Mountain Will Fall (⇦ check it out by clicking on the link). Peace. P.S. The opening (and subsequent) guitar work is most def channeling Ali Farka Touré, am I wrong?
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Artist: DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels
Album: The Mountain Will Fall
Featured Track: Nobody Speak
Label: Mass Appeal Records
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Track List:
 
01. The Mountain Will Fall
02. Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels
03. Three Ralphs
04. Bergschrund feat. Nils Frahm
05. The Sideshow feat. Ernie Fresh
06. Depth Charge
07. Mambo
08. Ashes To Oceans feat. Matthew Halsall
09. Pitter Patter feat. G Jones & Bleep Bloop
10. California
11. Ghost Town
12. Suicide Pact
13. Swerve (iTunes Bonus Track)

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domo genesis | dapper | ft. anderson paak

 
Domo Genesis brings a bit a lighthearted frenetic energy to brush off the anticipated sun rays of a long hot summer (I hope). I am diggin’ the guitar solo, which gives the track Dapper an old school flare. You can cop this song March 25th and 11 more from Domo’s debut release GENESIS courtesy of Odd Future Records. Peace.
 

 
Artist: Domo Genesis
Release: GENESIS
Featured Track: Dapper ft. Anderson Paak
Record Label: Odd Future Records
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Tracklist:
 
01 Awkward Groove [prod. by Mike & Keys]
02 One Below [prod. by Sha Money XL]
03 Wanderer (ft. Tay Walker) [prod. by Cam O’bi]
04 Questions (ft. Da$h and Kendra Foster) [prod. by Maffyuu]
05 My Own (ft. JMSN) [prod. by Christian Rich]
06 Go (Gas) (ft. Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, & Tyler, the Creator) [prod. by Tyler, The Creator]
07 Coming Back (ft. Mac Miller) [prod. by Sap]
08 Faded in the Moment (ft. Cam O’bi) [prod. by Cam O’Bi]
09 Dapper (ft. Anderson .Paak) [prod. by Garcia Bros]
10 Brotha [prod. by Drewbyrd & Kintaro]
11 All Night (ft. King Chip) [prod. by Left Brain]
12 Lost and Found [prod. by Steely Wonderbread]

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tunde olaniran | namesake

 
Tunde Olaniran is about to blow! One listen to his astutely wise and bangingly badass track Namesake and you’ll my prophetic stance. This young lion hailing from Flint, Michigan flows wickedly like whitewater over Celestial Falls. This track stylistically straddles a sound somewhere between Danny Brown and Kid Cudi, but it is wholly something different and on a higher plateau. If you are looking for something clever with a sound and production profile among the best out there then cop his debut Transgressor album. Pre-Order below. Peace.
 

 
Artist: Tunde Olaniran
Album: Transgressor
Featured Track: Namesake
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Seeds of Ambition drops July 15th courtesy of HiPNOTT Records. You can Pre-order the album now via iTunes (mp3) and Bandcamp (Compact Disc). I’m crying foul ’cause there isn’t an 8-track format. However, all digital Pre-orders made through iTunes and Bandcamp will receive an immediate digital download of the first single, Blow My Mind. Peace.
 

 
The Other Guys, Seeds Of Ambition, Tracklisting:
 
01. Who We Are
02. Memories (feat. yU & Substantial)
03. So Cruel
04. 15 Cents
05. Blow My Mind (feat. Tanya Morgan) 03:39
06. Dream Chaser (Interlude)
07. Turn The Lights Out
08. P.G. Lights (feat. NikaBea)
09. Reflecting
10. Struggle Raps
11. Out The Basement
12. Unstoppable
13. Outro

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[Angel Haze]
It seems like yesterday that I was nothin’
Then all of a sudden I’m a volcanic eruption
Then all of a sudden it’s like spontaneous combustion
And I’m all up in your face yellin’: “Bitch, you can tell me nothin’.”
Cause I came from the bottom, now everybody’s watchin’
I said it was my time, now I’m who everybody’s clockin’
And I’m just out here sprintin’, I’m runnin’ right through my vision
I’m trying to outrun my past, but still trying to defeat my limits
Cause you only get one moment in this life to be great
And you can give it your all despite what it takes
And you never let ’em kill you, you take everything they give you
And throw it right fuckin’ at ’em and tell ’em it doesn’t build you
And no it don’t ever break you, and no it can’t overtake you
Life’s like a bed of roses, you take the thorns and you make do
Sometimes you have to hurt for the cause to be reached
But one day you’ll be stronger than all that you beat
And you can say

[Sia]
Money cannot buy
All the love that’s here tonight
All the love that’s here tonight
Ouh-ouh
It’s just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Ouh-ouh

[Angel Haze]
I woke up one Sunday morning, stopped believing in Jesus
Stopped believing in churches, I stopped believing in preachers
I realized I was a teacher, not just one of the heathens
I’m born to destroy the fallacies, start creating believers
Start creating the leaders, tell ’em who they should follow
Nobody but themselves, especially if they hollow
Especially when they empty and death reserves for fulfillment
You the only person alive who holds the key to your healin’
So you take it and you run with it
And keep going even when your sun’s hidden
Because the time we spent in darkness when the rain come
Is where we often find the light soon as the pain’s done
There ain’t no material things in the world
That can change the fact that you feel alone
Despite the fact that it gets hard,
You take it all and you still go
Take the sun and you still grow,
Lose the light and you still glow
I been there, I’m still here and I know how you feel, so

[Sia]
Money cannot buy
All the love that’s here tonight
All the love that’s here tonight
Ouh-ouh
It’s just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Ouh-ouh

[Bridge]
We don’t wanna fight
So sing with me your battle cry
Sing with me your battle cry
Ouh-ouh
Money cannot buy
All the love that’s here tonight
All the love that’s here tonight
Ouh-ouh

[Angel Haze]
It’s hard to explain my way of living to people who never lived it
A minute in my position filled with my opposition
That anybody not different fighting to stay the same
I got lives in my hands and I’m fighting to make ’em change
Couldn’t accept responsibility, find somebody to blame
The emotions that I’m harboring ’bout to drive me insane
Tried to say fuck everything, but I ain’t have a heart to
Rarely had a heart to do a lot of things I ought to
So now I spit it for people who say their cords missing
Inspire life into anybody that’s forfeiting
Cause it’s easy to keep pretending that there’s nothing wrong
But it’s harder to keep your head up and be fucking strong
So, now they tell me, “Go, Haze, they can’t stop you.
Heavyweight flow, if they can’t lift you then they can’t drop you
The pinnacle, if they can’t reach you then they can’t drop you
Man, they can’t do anything that you’re about to.”

[Sia]
Money cannot buy
All the love that’s here tonight
All the love that’s here tonight
Ouh-ouh
It’s just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Ouh-ouh

We don’t wanna fight
So sing with me your battle cry
Sing with me your battle cry
Ouh-ouh
Money cannot buy
All the love that’s here tonight
All the love that’s here tonight
Ouh-ouh

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  old money // fire in the dark

 
The rap duo Old Money (Ahmad Julian and Andre Oswald) rifts precipitously and adroitly upon matters of realness minus the pre-packaged cross-fade of the fake and contrived. Rap music, like every other type or genre of music, is perpetually going through evolutionary cycles. And like all things Darwinian the weak and inefficient will go the way of the Dodo bird, leaving room for innovation and renovation.

This evolution is reminiscent of the undulating waves of sea change or stock market trends; the former based on mother nature and the latter a virtual artificial construct which has all too real consequences in our everyday lives. It is exactly this kind of mundane dichotomy which pushes and pulls rap music against itself, it becomes stale on one side of the coin and cannibalistic like Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son on the flip-side. Reincarnation or regurgitation? Rerun of reinvention?

And so the pendulum swings between the blatant commercial effigies, i.e., Jay Z’s Magna Carter Holy Grail, Kanye West’s Yeezus etc. Listening to the acerbic tracks which make up the heart and head of their debut release Fire In The Dark via Dutty Artz, is kind of like unlearning bad habits, eating more fresh fruits and veggies or subscribing to Luminosity. Basically, vowing to be a better human being through the quality of the sonic images you put into your brain cavity. This curated collection of tracks is deep but not overly didactic, no superiority complex here.

This isn’t underbelly, grimy realness, but rather the mentally progressive and self-propulsive variety. Then there is the music, which is more world-pulse driven and less stereotypically typical. And further, this LP was by no means a quick fix for what Rap music was missing. In the words of duo co-founder Ahmad Julian, “It was a few years in the making, so we definitely want to make sure people get a chance to sit with it for a bit longer.” So, pull up a chair, the table is set, read the menu. Nothing but good food for thought up in here.

Also, check out Old Money’s Certified Space Trade Mix, it has more tracks than NYC’s Inwwod-Far Rockaway line. Peace.

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Just ahead of Shabazz Palaces‘ soon to launch tour of Asia. Seattle, WA-based avant garde Hip Hop torch bearers release the video for An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum, better later than never-ish, right? The  video was directed by Joris Grelet, and features molotov cocktails and sword wielding assassins. The video comes nearly two years after the release of 2011’s Black Up from which the track is taken. The duo, Palaceer Lazaro and Tendai Maraire, are hopefully in the lab putting together new material. We can only hope. Also, after the jump check out the recent Shabazz Palaces Remix of Animal Collective‘s New Town Burnout. Peace. 
 

 

 

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