Sometimes a gift can take a lot longer to deliver than you would hope. 

You can’t find the right tools to properly package it. 

Or it’s not as shiny as you think the one receiving it would like it to be.

Jimetta Rose began this journey in 2014. Her and House Shoes had linked up for “Castles” on his Let It Go LP a couple years prior. ‘Shoes had started a record label, Street Corner Music, and launched the label with a series of ten handcrafted beattapes from relative unknowns, “The Gift”.

He had an idea for a full length SCM project with Jimetta, where they would choose one beat from each of The Gift volumes. Could be crazy. 

So they got to it, going through the series and choosing the tracks that elicited responses from the pair. After a few hours they had the backing sonics for Jimetta’s own volume of The Gift. 

They began meeting at Tenacity’s small studio apartment in Glendale. She would record her vocals in a closet, some hip-hop shit if there ever was any. The songs were coming out incredible, with a few very out of this world moments included.

With all the vocals now recorded, the next step was to mix.
This was a pivotal learning point for all involved. See, The Gift was dusty. Grandma’s basement dusty. Rusty two-track wavs at best. In some cases mp3s. No stems to properly separate and balance the production with the sometimes 30+ tracks of Jimetta’s vocals. So it went to another engineer, and another, and another.

Then it kinda just sat there. They kinda gave up on it. Years had passed. It hadn’t gotten any better. One of LA’s best engineers said he couldn’t get it anywhere near a space he would want to put his name on. Fuck.

Shoes got a lightbulb one day and sent it to Mags, his homie from back in Detroit who was the in-house engineer at The Disc in Eastpointe for over 25 years. He definitely had strong experience dealing with similar situations over the years.

So that bring us here. Jimetta Rose - The Gift : Around The Way Queen. Royalty from the hood. Dirty soul at it’s finest. The Queen surrounded by her court, Nameless, Dert Beats, EXT. TUAMIE, T-White, Cream Of Beats, Shoes, Raj Mahal, Denmark Vessey, DRUGS BEATS, Josef Leimberg and I-Ced.

It took a very, very long time.

But your Gift has arrived.

Jimetta Rose - The Gift : Around The Way Queen 
available 2.28.22 via streetcornerscm.com

Jimetta Rose - Black Light (THE GIFT 2.28.22)

“Sixteen” by Liv Averie 
Written and performed by Liv Averie 
Produced by Jay808
Mixed by Danny Lewie

Liv Averie - Sixteen

Heavy.

Jimetta Rose's The Gift: Around The Way Queen now available via
streetcornerscm.com and streetcornermusic.bandcamp.com

Jimetta Rose - Splatter (The Gift in stores now)

'Interstellar Black Space', out now on Brainfeeder: https://brandoncoleman.lnk.to/interstellarSo

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Interstellar Black Space

Times Gone (Interlude)

Just Stay

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'Winderbreaker XL' album + limited run of "Hasbulla" shirts out now: smarturl.it/windbreakerxl

Pacific Northwest rap duo Milc & Andy Savoie will be following up their ‘Windbreaker’ EP project this July with a deluxe, full-length LP version, entitled ‘Windbreaker XL’ (naturally).  With the original already considered somewhat of a local classic among Portland & Seattle rap fans, the project is now expanded with 5 more additional songs – all pulled from the original EP recording sessions.  


"992's"
Raps by Milc and Soop Dread
Hook by C'est La
Produced by Andy Savoie

Recorded & Mixed by Elan Wright @ Ruby Room Recordings
Mastered by Patrick Brown @ Different Fur Studios

Artwork by Tawfiq Mardini

A&R: Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-052-XL © Fresh Selects. "This shit is so hard we had to drop a deluxe."

Windbreaker XL

Milc & Andy Savoie "992's" (feat. Soop Dread & C'est La)

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Stream, download & order LP: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/kiwi

Isatta Sheriff and Koralle join forces on ‘Eat The Kiwi Skin’ - a six track EP that unites the talents of the East London MC and the Bologna-based beat smith. The duo's first collabo ‘Laid Back’ was released in 2021 and gained 2.5 million streams to date. Even though the music is made in Italy ‘Eat The Kiwi Skin’ is a London sumting.

“It's a laid back journey into my world in East London,” Isatta explains. “I paint a picture of my journey so far as a Black female rapper, and the racial politics and experiences surrounding that. It follows Laid Back’s relaxed approach to the stage where I am at making music on my own terms and speaking freely.”

On the EP, Isatta is joined by fellow vocalists Lex Amor, Shumba Youth, Awate and Mercy's Cartel who are also not afraid to eat the kiwi skin. “The skin is the most nutritious part of the fruit and you have to digest the roughness (harshness) to get the most nourishment,” the outspoken Eastender explains.

“When you do things differently, some people get it, and some don’t. Some join in and some just comment from the sidelines. Might not be the easiest (or tastiest) thing to hear but it's necessary. This could be interpreted in a music and life sense.”

Isatta's track record includes collabos with Flying Lotus, Oddisee, Arrested Development and Athletic Progression. She is hosting a radio show, runs her own label Doctored Sound and works as a music writer.
Koralle is one of the most in demand European beatmakers with a sound rooted in jazz and boom-bap. Since signing with MPM in 2019, he has released three albums and accumulated more than 30 million streams.
 
‘Eat The Kiwi Skin’ will be available digital and on LP (including instrumental edits of all tracks for the beat lovers out there). The album artwork is designed by acclaimed Colombian illustrator SagaUno who also did the covers for The Silhouettes Project and Koralle's ‘Beat Kiosk’.

Follow Isatta Sheriff
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/isattasheriffmusic/ 

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Produced and mixed by Koralle.
Lyrics written & performed by Isatta Sheriff.
Pierfrancesco Melucci – Additional Piano on ‘For Those Who Love…’ and ‘What You Tellin Me?’
Giovanni Tamburini – Trumpet on ‘Will They Try’
Recorded at Doctored Sound Studio, London & Godblesscomputers Studio, Bologna.
Mastered by Roe Beardie.
Artwork by Sergio “SagaUno” Alférez. Graphic design by Chicken.

Cat No: MPM 317
Artist: Isatta Sheriff & Koralle
Titel: Eat The Kiwi Skin

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

Isatta Sheriff & Koralle - For Those Who Love...

Sparkast Show 27
With Mpumelelo Nkasa & Cphiwe King

A fresh start to 2023.. A grand reunion.. Fresh sounds from across the world bought to you from Meadowlands,  Soweto..

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Show #027

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We'll Be Ok 1 (Long Term)
We'll Be Ok 1 (Long Term)
Not of Production
Out Set Up 363636

Some Way

New Single “Down With the King” ft. Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Out Now! 👑

DJ Harrison - Keys
Andrew Jay Randazzo - Bass
Morgan Burrs - Guitar
Tennishu - Saxophone/Trumpet/Vocals
FONVILLE - Drums

Listen to New Album 'Solar Music' - https://found.ee/BB_SolarMusic

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