Sauce of the hottest here. Like way close to the sun.

This beat-tape came together over the course of October 2020, right around the time I began live streaming on Twitch. With no live shows, live streaming has allowed me to continue to engage with the music community while openly sharing my process. 

A first of its kind in my collection of released music, Forever Flowing is a full album’s worth of live beats. 
All finger drumming. All dope vibes.

I'm incredibly thankful for the Raresounds World family and the community.
I hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Much love.

Luv U

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)

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)

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’.

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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...

Joint that didn't make Lost Art For Collectors. Love the production and my 2nd verse on this.

[Verse 1]
Fuck what you kids heard
Dopest in my city I’m hittin’ y’all wit a big curve 
Rock sets in Pittsburgh 
Came back to Lansing got depressed on sight 
I’m waiting on my next trip, tryn’ catch more flights 
But nevertheless
I gotta treasure my flesh 
I find peace in meditation when I measure my breath
How he local on the scene and get national looks 
A big chapter in my life cuz I don’t rap by the book 
You done heard ‘em the radio I’m comin’ wit a 80 flow I like my time and money what the fuck I need a lady fo’ 
I’m tryn’ get my mind right and my body tight 
Hard to break the love of the parties and rowdy nights 
Tryn’ get my rocks off post till it pop off 
Somebody get shot, the cops gotta block off 
I guess I find another way home 
Another night I’m not famous is another day blown

[Hook]
What I’m on got me up
I don’t like the come down
I’m tryna party every night till it’s sundown 
I keep it real, y’all do the run round
Throw ya hands up if you like how the drums sound
I took a break but I’m back in effect
Ride real slow catch wreck in the deck
Props come to me I don’t have to collect
I stay low-key kick a rap for the stress

[Verse 2]
Nobody knew I was dope until I really went out 
Gotta come to a live show if you wanna see I’m bout 
The person that I am in a conversation is different Gimme liquor and some hoes and the combination is gifted 
What I gotta say to let you know that I don’t give a fuck 
Living frivolous, late night fuckin’ my liver up
Work at 8(a.m.) it’s 4 o clock and I’m still up 
Adderall connect got me crushing the pills up  
Hope she still fuck but we ain’t spoke in a minute 
Bottle in my lap and the windows ain’t even tinted 
I’m just tryna catch a vibe 
Really feel alive 
Can I make it I don’t know I let y’all know what I decide 
Everything is yo own hands yo, stick to what the plan be 
Keep it real ad take care of all yo family 
I know you want more but that’s what I got, and if you fuck with that old school that’s what I rock 

[Hook]
What I’m on got me up
I don’t like the come down
I’m tryna party every night till it’s sundown 
I keep it real, y’all do the run round
Throw ya hands up if you like how the drums sound
I took a break but I’m back in effect
Ride real slow catch wreck in the deck
Props come to me I don’t have to collect
I stay low-key kick a rap for the stress

Vice City

Vice City [prod. by J. Kishi]

French producers Alcynoos & Parental team up with Norwegian beatsmith Type.Raw from the loop.holes crew to lay a jazz-infected foundation for an all-star cast of MC's like Mathematik, Ill Conscious, Verbz, Kid Abstrakt, Illa J & Frank Nitt, Kev Brown & J Scienide and many more.

Available in a limited run on colored 2LP (vocal version), black 2LP vinyl (instrumental version), CD in digipak (vocal version), cassette (vocal version) and digitally (vocal & instrumental version).

Tank Feat. Waju

*PSA* ALL VINYL COPIES ARE SOLD EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH https://cphcrates.com/ & DIGITAL COPIES SOLD EXCLUSIVELY ON https://brainorchestra.bandcamp.com

Following the Fat Beats EP 'It Means A Lot', Brainorchestra delivers 'E-TOWN GENERAL 2' - the surprise release & 2nd in a series hosted by Denmarks own 'Copenhagen Crates'

We find ourselves sitting in the back seat as Brainorchestra goes full throttle on this brand new feature-less project. Ranging in styles & floating as a wordsmith, this is by far one of his strongest presentations to date. In tradition, we get another amazing piece of art by none other than Mustart, a long time friend & collaborator.

Focusing heavily on a listening experience, we hear the progressive thoughts of manifesting & dedication in this stellar 8-track play through with interludes, sound bites of legends & much more.

Releasing on all streaming platforms April 4th, 2023

E-TOWN GENERAL 2

Purchase + Info Here

E TOWN GENERAL 2 (SIDE A) · FULL PURCHASE IN BIO

Be the Same - SwuM & Grimm Doza 
Devin Morrison - Shesbi 
Stock Marley - Cory Rhymal - Basics Jstook 
Curren$y - Lounge Area 
Dreamville & EarthGANG - Swivel
Logic - Lucidity
Kanye West - Bad News
Big Tymers -This is how we do it
OutKast - A life in the day of Benjamin Andre
Zilo - Fire fly
Kaytranada - 10%
Snoop Dogg - Let's get blown (Pharell)
Roy Ayers - Love will bring us back together
Premo Rice - No one (Larry June) 
Drake - Madonna 
Ahwlee - 28th

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