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)

QthaElevated - what ya need. (draft).

Round two from Jimetta's The Gift: Around The Way Queen album.
Produced by Raj Mahal.

LPs available via streetcornerscm.com
Digital via streetcornerscm.com

Jimetta Rose - The Ledge

A Work In Progress

Goin Crazy

"Smokey Robinson's Hands" featuring Planet Asia, the first single from Libretto & Vitamin D's album Ruty Bladez, is now available!  Hear the song and pre-order the album on limited edition vinyl and cassette exclusively from the Liquid Beat Bandcamp page. [https://liquidbeat.bandcamp.com/album/rusty-bladez]

Rusty Bladez is an LP that revolves around all aspects of Libretto's time spent in the Federal Penitentiary system, with Vitamin D's production mastery providing the perfect backdrop for the true life tales.  All of the art for this release directly utilizes photos, documents, artifacts, and images from Libretto's federal case, and time in prison.  The artwork for the first single uses a photo of Libretto's portable MP3 player.  This exact same device was the only model prisoners had access to purchase, and songs could be downloaded only from the Fed's computer, exclusively from the Walmart catalogue at $2 a song.  Libretto's friend @Sethpaulproductions transferred him money to purchase the player and $100 worth of songs.  Needless to say, this MP3 player was a lifeline while Libretto served his time, and was a key component in crafting his own classic compositions.

Raps: Libretto
Production: Vitamin D
Album features collaborations with:
Roc Marciano
Gift of Gab [R.I.P]
Keisha Plum
Guilty Simpson
Planet Asia
Lauren Adams
Jumbo (Lifesavas)
Toni Hill
Syndel
And more...

Mixed by: Vitamin D
Mastered by:   Ryan Foster for Foster Mastering
Art and Design: Dan Kinto
Exclusive Cassette Art:  Aaron Moiel
Executive Produced by: Libretto, Vitamin D, Matt Nelkin, & DJ Sneakers for Kiasu Records

Rusty Bladez

Libretto & Vitamin D - Smokey Robinson's Hands ft. Planet Asia

Prod. Marcel Angelo

Thank you to everyone for listening to my pain. Hopefully what I sing makes sense to you.

Slow Jams

Kind of Dessert drops March 31st
Pre-Order yours on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kind-of-dessert/id1220191656?ls=1?at=1001l3Iq&app=itunes

Kind of Dessert

Main Course (prod. King I Divine)

niteowl (+lissen)

Old Slauson (ode to Nipsey Hussle)(prod. by Yamin Semali)

Jesse Boykins III • Restless Dreamer (King re.fix)

Hip Hop Duo. LQ and Smeazy combine Life, Rhymes and Soul to create the dynamic sounds of MC². 

Venus - Out Now

For inquiries email: mc2vibes@gmail.com 
Currently looking to work with more producers and artists.