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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

Outro Flow Feat. Toine & Trek Life

The Goings On

Killing Time

THE MASS.

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

Produced by @5ynoT.

Recorded by Willy Puff.

Mixed by Nolan The Ninja.

abyss. (feat. Red Pill of Ugly Heroes) [prod. by 5ynoT]

Reflecting on one of the most challenging years of my life, and I managed to get through it. 

Produced by Jimmy G.U.A.P.
Recorded, Mixed, & Arranged by Otis Clapp
Artwork by Khidhar Rich

01 XXVI

prod. @BlankNoriega
not on the album
but is in your hearts

I’ma need some proof
Where’s the lie detector yo?
I'ma need the truth

Don’t expect all talent to hit 1,000,000 views
Like you can’t expect the realist shit to be displayed on the news
Pussies sell out for fame, you Pro-Tools prostitute
When you aint never had enough then what you got to lose?
I'm gon' win a VMA, all songs like ancestry.com
I just show my DNA, bullshit all go D.O.A.
Cops still love to lock us up, that's cuffing season
I know that you a human but act like a fucking demon
The pessimism you preachin' giving me trouble breathing
Claustrophobic when you plot for losses
Been lock and loaded since snotty noses
Can't answer the door back in the 90's, they let pistols ring
Murder, murder monologue
I ain't hearing anything
Pupils white when I kicks these eulogies
How much hoes I hit like 22 or 3, pillow talkin' about the truer me
All I banged was Dead Presi's and Diplomatic Immunity
Back when we were duckin' seakin' our true talent and truancy
My heart in my lungs, spit a rap, spit out blood
Prayers hands full of tears
Turned our chat to a flood
You don't rap, you just mask what you lack with a drug
So I'm not passive when you laugh, I turn a dap to a hug

We all need some proof
Where’s the lie detector yo?
We all need the truth

Life been unbelievable
The way I A&B the game so inconceivable
I master the platform
If goosebumps rise when I rhyme, fuck a rap forum
Fountain of youth been turning into a sandstorm
Gots to remind power to the latin and black boys
And holla at women with confidence, not cat calls
Sometimes I thought the lord had me blackballed
If Jesus a Carpenter then I would get what I ask for
Should get what I ask for
Couldn't get and wouldn't then I turn into a bad sport
Strangers call me asshole
I just need my chance dawg
I been hitting three's and never touch the fucking backboard
I been hunting theives, extorting kings and printing passports
I can't fucking dream, can't get no sleep, can't keep my ass calm
At a bar with God and I swear this gon' be my last call
I see no road, see no answers, no hope
No breaking point, no door
No vacant spot, so low
Feel sold out, feel no break, feel left out
Been stoned out, been strung out, at the brink
I can't think I can't think, I don't know I don't know I don't know what to say
How to blow, who to touch, how to pray, who to trust
Is self belief an ego or is it real luck?
Ain't gotta die, monetize, emphasized that I'm dope
You a lie, none of ya'll gonna survive if I don't Go
I feel dry, waiting on me to go and quit but i'm a GOAT
I know I know the know inside even if it don't Billboard climb
My future kid can't eat a Grammy when he hungry
You gon' compliment my fit but do you love me mothafucker?
Need no follow, need no nod, don't even touch me
Ya'll could be 12-foot-6 and still no one above me mothafucker
Facin' this bad luck but still I go and trust me
Still I know to trust my gut
Know I won't give up

Oprah

Oprah Freestyle

Oprah Freestyle (prod. Blank Noriega)

“They say you have your whole life to make your first album/ guess I’ve been busy living so the first outcome/ was worth hearing...” - Oddisee “Ready To Rock” 

Rappers are generally in the business of storytelling, but whether those stories are true or not is often a sidenote. “People Hear What They See” is Oddisee’s debut full length album, and its key concern is honesty - honesty with yourself, with what you tell the world, and the relationships people have with each other. The title came from a feeling that most of the time we’re content not to look or listen beneath the surface for the truths which lie beneath. 

Out now on Mello Music Group 
iTunes: http://bit.ly/NeMnYU
Compact Disc: http://bit.ly/Nfig4K
Gatefold Vinyl: http://bit.ly/MBriCx
Deluxe Edition Haze Vinyl + Bonus 7": http://bit.ly/L5g8dh

08 Maybes

Clear Soul Forces - Get No Better

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

Oddisee- 'From Largo With Love' MP3

Mahalo (The Hawaii Instrumentals)

For Your Love

From the album Blakk Soul "Take Your Time" (4/17)
https://smarturl.it/BlakkSoul

produced by Kuddie Fresh
Recorded, Mixed & Arranged by Eric Mercer, Jr.

Cover Art by Gustavo Soto

Executive Produced:
Eric Mercer, Jr., Thomas Jones, Michael Tolle

Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth
Mello Music Group, 2020

Take Your Time

Help (feat. Joell Ortiz)

Blakk Soul - Help (feat. Joell Ortiz)

From the upcoming album "Marlowe 2" from L'Orange & Solemn Brigham smarturl.it/Marlowe2

Marlowe 2

Otherworld

Marlowe - Otherworld

MC/Producer from Washington DC 
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