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From the newly released CD EVOLUTION!  Available on ITunes Now!  http://georiot.co/11mi

LET IT GO  feat. Blu and The Action Figures

The legendary AZ is back with new music, "I Excel" produced by Cookin Soul. Look out for Doe or Die II Album coming later this year & Last Of A Dying Breed 2 Mixtape in September. Purchase "I Excel" on Itunes here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-excel-single/id688919425

AZ first became known by appearing on Nas' landmark 1994 album, Illmatic, as his hook on “Life’s A Bitch” still resounds today and he was also featured on Illmatic’s opening opus “The Genesis”. AZ was the only guest feature on Illmatic and soon thereafter he signed with EMI and released his own debut LP Doe Or Die in 1995 to widespread critical acclaim. The album's lead single, "Sugar Hill", became one of AZ's major commercially successful records as a solo artist, reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and achieving Gold status. In 2002, he released Aziatic from which his single "The Essence“ f/ Nas was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. AZ has since released four solo-LP’s (his solo release Undeniable also made a high debut on the Billboard charts) and worked with artists such as Nas, RZA, DJ Premier, Ghostface, Raekwon, Pete Rock, Buckwild, Trackmasters, Emile, Lil Fame, Phonte, Sheek Louch, Styles P, Foxy Brown, Beanie Sigel, Nottz, Large Professor, Bink, Baby Paul, MoSS, & Statik Selektah and remained a constant staple with fans and critics alike.

Today, AZ is back and better than ever and is readying his forthcoming Doe or Die II release.

Follow AZ on Twitter and Instagram - @QuietAZmoney

For Press contact: Promo@Clockwork-Music.com and Booking: Booking@Clockwork-Music.com

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AZ "I Excel" (prod. By Cookin Soul)

From the upcoming Oddisee mixtape "Tangible Dream"

Mixtape available exclusively with "The Beauty In All" his new instrumental album everywhere October 1st.

Produced by Oddisee
Vocals by Oddisee

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Oddisee - Own Appeal

The Goings On

Killing Time

Tangible Dream

 Reggie Miller's Original concept, Flipped upside down by @Mozaic2. Lyircs heavily influenced by Royce Da 5'9 and the likes of. This is Michigan .... Run For Your Lives 

A S T R O N A U T ~ G A N G

 


Reggie Miller (DJ Mozaic Remix)

 Produced by Oddisee. From the upcoming return of Diamond District "March On Washington" October 14th.  Diamond District is yU, Oddisee, and Uptown XO. 

When Diamond District dropped In the Ruff on Mello Music Group in 2009, the gritty drums and grimy raps combined as elementally as hydrogen and oxygen. The D.C. Voltron of Oddisee, yU, and X.O. dusted off and revitalized a sound once consigned to the catacombs.

Hailed as an instance classic, its impact reverberated throughout the underground and mainstream. The Washington D.C. City Paper called it the city’s best album in many years. During an era when lyricism was deemed too intellectual and samples too dated,Diamond District overturned conventional logic. They preserved the raw and made it righteous.

A half-decade later, the holy trinity has returned with March on Washington. The truths remain timeless. Wisdom over rhythm. Slang turned into testament.

Diamond District - First Step | (prod. Oddisee)

From the forthcoming Jamla Records release "Beauty and The Beast" available October 7th on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Spotify. 

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Rapsody "Hard To Choose" prod. by 9th Wonder

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

I Guess

Company of Greatness Presents...

"Countdown" 

Consequence + Lupe Fiasco featuring Chris Turner

Prod. by Consequence + Mike Cash

Mixed and Mastered by John Sparkz

Recorded by Mike Cash at HOD Studio in Staten Island, NY
Recorded by Jenso "JP" Plymouth at Crosby Collective Studio in New York, NY
Recorded by Prophit at 1500 or Nothing Studio in Englewood, CA

Countdown by Consequence + Lupe Fiasco featuring Chris Turner

from the upcoming album Ugly Heroes - Everything In Between
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/everything-in-between/id1094898313?app=itunes

produced by Apollo Brown
vocals by Red Pill & Verbal Kent
mastered by Eric Morgeson
photo by Jeremy Deputat

Ugly Heroes - Heart Attack | Red Pill, Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent

Stakes Is High (Dela Remix)

I Love Ugly exclusive, written & produced by Oddisee. visit http://www.iloveugly.net 

Oddisee- 'From Largo With Love' MP3

HipHop • Jazz • Space • Soul • Funk // Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth

Diamond District - First Step | (prod. Oddisee)

Mello Music Group

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