True-school hip hop made w/ no computer. Technics SL 1200 > Electrix EQ Killer > MPC 2000 classic > TEAC Series 3 analog mixing console. Samples: Lee Dorsey "Get Out My Life, Woman" (drums); Average White Band "Love Your Life" (bass & guitar); Bill Cosby "Dontcha Know" (harmonica); Average White Band "Schoolboy Crush" (sleigh bells); The Sylvers "High School Dance" (clap loop).

GTFO!

Dezzy bin Laden: King of Hearts

Dezzy bin Laden: Corn Bread

Dezzy bin Laden: Da Girl I Alwayz Wanted

Dezzy bin Laden: Who'z Scurr'd?

Dezzy bin Laden: If the Shoe Fitz

I wrote this song in June, a few months after learning my mom had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It is about the feelings I had the day I found out. I originally intended to do more to the beat, maybe even write additional verses, but I never did. I played it for my mom on July 29. It was the first one of my songs she'd ever heard. I tried to keep it together but when it was over, I looked at her and she was crying. She said she wanted it played at her Memorial. She asked me about it again on the last night of her life.

Yesterday

My battle verse against Alex Ruffin; Round 1 of the Rap Genius battle tournament.

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