Name: Sol - WTF by Sol
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Description: Available on iTunes and at www.solsays.com, Dear Friends, Vol. III is the conclusion to Sol's trilogy of free EPs and the prelude to his full-length album.

From the free Soul Like Khan album, http://bit.ly/slkdownload

Soul Like Khan

Pay Homage

produced by @phoniksbeats
vocals at end by @duzzo_dave
mixed by @jachary-beats
photo by twitter.com/cozychev

Rest In Pedals feat. Duzzo Dave (prod. Phoniks)

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae
guest vocals by Gift of Gab

The Night Took Us In Like Family
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

About the album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family." 

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. 

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. 

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic. 

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed.

L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - All I Need (feat. Gift Of Gab)

Available on iTunes and at www.solsays.com, Dear Friends, Vol. III is the conclusion to Sol's trilogy of free EPs and the prelude to his full-length album.



Sol - WTF

THE LEFT - THE MELODY

BUY Kooley High presents... David Thompson on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kooley-high-presents...-david/id482360470

Days Passed Me By

Tobacco Road-Common Market

Living Legends - After Hours

Richie Cunning - Pure Imagination

Tayyib Ali - Keystone State Of Mind

ALL INQUIRIES/LIVE BOOKINGS: info@solsays.com

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