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Killing Time

from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10.
prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett

If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce.
 
For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.
 
Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell.
 
If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards.
 
But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.



Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte)

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

Oddisee has unveiled the second song from his forthcoming full-length album ‘The Iceberg,’ out February 24 on Mello Music Group.  The song debuted today on Ebro’s Beats 1 radio show.  

“Like Really” is a cutting song, the prolific MC and producer reflecting a state of disbelief in the political climate.  For the second verse Oddisee flips the meaning to address how some perceive of him as an artist.  It’s set to deep soul with chilly trap inflections and is an important piece in the overall concept of ‘The Iceberg.’  

“How you gonna make us great when we were never really that amazing /
take it back what, I don’t find hanging black lives entertaining/
how do you police the streets of a neighborhood you do not engage in/
why a brother get three for a sack while your brother go free for a raping”

Oddisee has announced a show in LA on February 3, where he will open the 2017 season of the First Friday’s series at the Natural History Museum.  On January 27 he will host a a full rehearsal with his band Good Compny open to the public featuring his band Good Compny in his hometown of Washington, D.C., open to the public at St. Stephen's Church.  A three-month international tour begins March 2 in Paris.  
 
TOUR DATES
February 3 – Los Angeles, CA – Natural History Museum First Friday’s 
Feb 17 - Reykjavik, Iceland @ Sonar Festival
March 2 – Paris, France – La Place
March 3 – Lyon, France – Bizarre!
March 4 – Nantes, France – Stereolux
March 6 – Bristol, UK – The Lantern
March 8 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
March 9 – Dublin, Ireland, The Sugar Bluc
March 11 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
March 13 – Munich, Germany – Ampere
March 14 – Erfurt, Germany – Franz Melhose
March 15 – Berlin, Germany – Gretchen
March 16 – Hamburg, Germany – Mojo Club
March 17 – Cologne, Germany – Gloria
March 18 – Stuttgart, Germany – Im Wizemann
March 19 – Frankfurt, Germany – Zoom
March 22 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
March 24 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Bird
March 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
March 26 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
March 28 - Barcelona, Spain @ Apolo 2
March 30 - Milan, Italy - Biko Club
March 31 - Cully, Switzerland @ Cully Jazz Festival
April 1 - Zurich, Switzerland @ m4Music
April 4 - Zagreb, Croatia TBA
April 7 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Sofia Live Club
April 8 - Bucharest, Romania - Arenele Romane
April 10 – Vienna, Austria – Grelle Forelle
April 11 – Warsaw, Poland – Stodola
April 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts
April 20 – Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
April 21 – Raleigh, NC – King’s Barcade
April 23 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft
April 26 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
April 27 – Dallas, TX – Dada Dallas
April 28 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room
May 1 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
May 5 – San Diego, CA – Music Box
May 7 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency
May 9 – Eugene, OR – WoW Hall
May 10 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
May 11 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
May 12 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
May 13 – Spokane, WA – The Big Dipper
May 14 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
May 17 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
May 18 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
May 19 – Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall
May 20 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
May 21 – Indianapolis, IN – The HiFi
May 25 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Smalls
May 26 – Detroit, MI – Arab American National Museum
May 27 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
May 28 - Montreal, QC @ Newspeak
May 30 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
May 31 – New York, NY – Highline Ballroom

Oddisee - Like Really

Slime Dollaz - All Star

Thanks 4 the patience, lots of new music to share with all of yall that hold me down …. After a year wait … a new tape will be coming soon trust!

_boooom (Donut)

MAVI'S CONCERN

ZACSREVENGE - ALEX (PROD. WISEGUYBRUNO)

LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE

PRODUCTION CREDITS 
Tracks 1 & 3: @Melacrusin & @Yonqi 
Track 2: Melacrusin 
Track 4: COHEN BERG
Tracks 5-8: Yonqi 
Track 9: ZekeUltra

MIXED & MASTERED BY @YONQI
ARRANGED BY ZEKEULTRA & YONQI
COVER ART/ART DIRECTION BY JAMES PARIS OF IN-HOUSE

(The Power Of) The Will Of Man

KJ Balla - Changed Up

fo....real

Actually Not · Mali Smith · Keem XIX98 · Cash Cobain

℗ 2019 Most Hated Power Gang LLC

WOCK98

Mali Smith & Keem XIX98 'Actually Not' (Feat. Cash Cobain)

SB x BIG YAYA - GLOCK

Bacc with some phoncc

https://www.instagram.com/hoodride61/ for the pic

Wave Race 2064

CARRY ME HOME PROD BY FREE OTIS

Neck_Back (explicit)

WELCOME TO INSTALMENT #79

We back with our new guest mix since a while, @snowy on the decks for this one. Upcoming producer with crazy influences, developing his own style with pure finesse. Discover more music from him:

https://soundcloud.com/snowy/tracks

start: 35min.
tracklist coming soon!

@snowy

Instagram: www.instagram.com/prod.snowy/
Traktrain: www.traktrain.com/snowy#170207
Twitter: www.twitter.com/prodsnowy

Bump Your Neck Radio #79 // Snowy Guest Mix

@ZEKEULTRA
@ELIJAHBANKSY

artwork by Devon Mahallati
www.devonmahallati.com

LIFELINE (by. ZekeUltra x Elijah Bank$y) (prod. Yonqi)

mixed by abu
mastered by nova blu
executive prod mavi

to be Pro-Black means to relentlessly pursue money, land, guns and useful knowledge for the purpose of creating and maintaining healthy and productive Black communities. It means the cultivation of a culture that reinforces a unified vision of Black well being and continuous advancement. It is also to seek for oneself and share to share with one's communities the following critical assets: knowledge, wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, equality, food, clothing, shelter, love, peace and happiness.

let the sun talk

own pace ! 

thank you moms, umi kali, pops, all my aunties uncles and cousins,  my big brother nate, jasper, my inspirational blessed brother caleb, he was there when niggas was really in the pit, my G laron, the chicago homie chaz, sexmon liv, the guy iamnobodi, my brodey matt, my mud brother 4L mike, my good brother sage, the homie animoss, and maassai the best rapper 

went thru the most makin this project, happy to finally be able to share it w/ yall

--- tracks -- 
1. trauma & grace prod. caleb giles & slauson malone
2. smallsteps prod. laron
3. bloody knuckles prod. bluezy
4. on me prod. iiye
5. affirmation #1 prod. iamnobodi
6. whispers prod. bori
7. grapefruit prod. AFB
8. looking 4 runtz feat. MIKE prod. dj blackpower & AFB
9. stranger feat. navy blue prod. AFB
10. affirmation #2 prod. animoss
11. walk with me prod. AFB
12. 2020sht feat. Maassai prod. iamnobodi

OWN PACE

Base Camp III
Executive Produced by ZekeUltra & Yonqi

1. Untitled 2
2. Flexing Baby Hummers (Fly On The Wall) ft. sstrawberry
3. Ultra Magnetic ft. sstrawberry 
4. Cotecut
5. Bound By String
6. Bases ft. RobbieGoldFinch
7. Notre Dame
8. Ali

BASE CAMP III

https://ampl.ink/2DkYG

Thank you!

1. Try Again
2. 2 Minute Bars Ft. Mavi
3. Face Ft. Navy Blue
4. AllPraise
5. Interlude
6. Church Ft. Demahjiae
7. Casualty Prod. M1tch
8. Uck Ft. Pink Siifu
9. Outro (its time) Prod. Demahjiae

Special thanks to my lover samplov and my homie chriskeysbeats for additional melody and vocals.

cover art shot by @qlick22

Try Again

poppin/odyssey - salemy3k
reborn - eONE
soybean - hemlock
sexy can i - ray j
wanna be down - iamnobodi
i gotta find peace of mind - lauryn hill
i left my heart in san francisco - esta
come through and chill - letjo
he know, she know - nene
distance - eponym & esta
sugar - k, le maestro
flowers - ka-yu
chocolate strawberries - dessy hinds
vibin out - fkj
locked in - elujay
stop this train - oshi
love is only a feeling - joey bada$$
1nce again - omokage
ride with me - eileen sho ji & out of town
if this is how love feels - phony ppl
i want u around - niko
Luh u - p-lo
summertime - dawgus
honey - jrco gco
blow the whistle - proci
big booty pedal - daaliah
big fish - vince staples
love sosa - spray22k

Try Again

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