ANDERSON .PAAK ALBUM "VENICE"  
GET IT NOW
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/venice/id929712951

#OBE / STEEL WOOL  
OCTOBER 28, 2014


Venice

Off The Ground

Miss Right

from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

From EOM's album "Sunrain" - set to drop April 25th.

Preorder the album here
itunes.apple.com/album/id983346742

or

play.google.com/store/music/album…jalb2jyuube&hl=en

EOM - Taking My Time (feat. Asher Roth & Camila Recchio)

Long Way Home

'Lose Sleep' is the third single taken from the upcoming album 'Divas and Demons'.  OUT 16th September through House of Beige Records and available to pre-order now.

Remi’s words on “Lose Sleep”:
 
“Since our last record, a lot of young mixed race Aussie kids have come to me talking about how much they can relate to the racial struggle in our music. I don’t think that’s a good thing, but I’m proud that these kids feel a little less alone, because of some songs we didn’t think anyone would hear. It also became inspiration for me to continue opening up about my experience. Often you can feel like one crazy beige kid in a sea of ignorance shouting about equality. These kids helped change that for me. 
 
The most beautiful thing about a lot of musicians I know is how much the social climate effects them. Jordan Rakei is one of those musicians. Even though we were literally continents apart when he worked on this joint, with very little background on the song, Jordan was able too match the tone and message immediately. Partially because his voice sounds like liquid gold, but mostly because I know he gets it. It’s very apparent across his discography (if you haven’t heard it, get it) that he cares for our planet and the people in it. Thanks for being one of the good guys my brother.” 

– Remi

Divas and Demons

Lose Sleep (feat. Jordan Rakei)

Lyrics written by Duckwrth
Melody written by Sabrina Claudio
​Produced by Sad Money
Vocals by Sabrina​
Mixed by Sad Money and Duckwrth
Bass Guitar by Brandon Canada

I'M UUGLY

I'M DEAD

I'M DEAD ​(feat. Sad Money & Sabrina Claudio)

Masego x Medasin - Girls That Dance

Purchase The Pink Polo EP on Limited Vinyl:
http://www.aswearrive.com/store/masego-medasins-the-pink-polo-ep-vinyl

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3efpx8tZjv4jOqmQPH6Myn
Listen on Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-pink-polo-ep/id1099376295

@MasegoMusic
@OfficialMedasin

Girls That Dance

Masego x Medasin - Girls That Dance

I hope this means something.

Written & Performed by Armani White
Background Vocals by Seraiah Nicole and Steve Chandy
Guitar Produced by Steve Chandy
Bassline by Kilconfirmed & Sk8z
Co Produced by Armani White & DJ Watts, Jake Prein
Engineered by Ben Thomas, Co-Engineered: Armani White

Spotify: http://bit.ly/ArmaniNYC
iTunes: http://bit.ly/NYCApple

lyrics:

spigot water tastes horrible in california... take me back ...

[verse1]
well i, wrote this in cold sweats, no.. i wrote this in old sweats.. no
i wrote this in gold text, in a book of shit you'll forget, so/
i hope the page rip, so that way you never erase it/
saving it up in a pile to cover and color my smile and let the paint drip/
cuz, either way you'll brush it off! Even days we up in odds/
even nights we dusting spawns, from dusk and dawn to up in arms/
when i dust the crust you a rusted charm, scared to leave & squeezing tight/
so all we want is peace and fright and all we won is sleepless nights/
you paint that picture 'perfect' then curve with curse and revert the design/
i broke this verse in person, you took the perks and inverted the kind/
don't wanna lose my mark but that food for thought, deserted my mind/
i hate that i cut all my personal time to be just a person in line! i'm thinking…/
maybe i'm calling too much, maybe you don't answer enough/
maybe the cure is me and you but the cancer is us, maybe i../
maybe i baby you and I pamper too much/
so i took out the lighting and put it in writing as if that stamp could do much...

[hook]
staring out my new york city window (x8)

[verse2]
well you, read this in my words, no. You read this in my shirt/
and first thought was cry first, bible, hold tight then sky search/
but read on.. drink and chaser.. look how you wrinkled the paper/
left the best condolence, time escapes when you arrest the moment/
On and off like pre-teens... i'm getting too old for this/
i'm a different breed of a saint, 1 layer of paint, still makes the picture deep/
i hope that's what you get from me, a grip on us or slip from me/
you learned from the best, I learned from ya ex, it still takes a locksmith to get the key to my new york city window

[hook]
I'm staring out my new york city window

NYC Window (ft. Seraiah Nicole & Steve Chandy)

Lorine Chia EP

I Just Want To Love You

French Kiwi Juice

FKJ - Better Give U Up

He Makes Mad Beats

None of EOM's beats are free to use - if you'd like to buy a beat, email contact@blackmannequins.com

EOM - Taking My Time (feat. Asher Roth & Camila Recchio)

EOM703