from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family"
Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/

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 - Taken By The Night

“Planetary Energy” is the third single off of the third Converse CONS compilation, CONS EP Vol. 3. The music was recorded and produced by Sweet Valley, and the vocals were written and recorded by GZA at the Converse Rubber Tracks Studio in Brooklyn, NY.

Music by: Sweet Valley
Written by: GZA
Vocals by: GZA
Mixed by: Tony Stanziano at Converse Rubber Tracks and Sweet Valley
Recorded by: Tony Stanziano at Converse Rubber Tracks

GZA x Sweet Valley - "Planetary Energy"

**NEW ALBUM PRESALE: www.puts.band** : This is a track that got recorded for our 2009 release "Carried Away" but was left off do to potential sample issues - it was to be the second to last track right before the song Carried Away. Even though it's 6 years old now, the sentiment remains the same, with every day being a struggle to be a full time, middle class musician. If you feel inclined to support this kind of hip hop, stop by our new website or itunes and pre-order our new album. 

If we can't make it, then we won't make it. 
If you can't give it up, then you can't take it.
So what's done is done and won't ever come again because 
All good things must come to an end. 

photo by Jason Shechtman

**Support**

All Good Things

Free Download

Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman - Katz

So...How's Your Girl?

Magnetizing (feat. Del tha Funkee Homosapien)

Lice Two: Still Buggin'

Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman - Zilch

People Under the Stairs - "The Break Down"

Produced by Rthentic RTNC
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2012/12/jaylib-homboy-sandman-7inch

Homeboy Sandman - Richardsun

Rap Album Two

These Words Are Everything

JJ DOOM - BANISHED (Beck Remix)

Homeboy Sandman connects with Deca to create a jazzy, lyrically rich new collaboration, “All Because of You (Infatuated Duke).” The track is pure ear candy, bursting with standout turns of phrase and immensely sharp rhyme patterns. Here’s hoping “All Because of You,” is the start of something bigger from these two. The single is available now through all major digital retailers and streaming platforms via Beulah Records☛ https://smarturl.it/InfatuatedDuke

Deca Online:
• Website: https://beulahrecords.com
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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DecaMusic
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All Because of You (Infatuated Duke) Single

All Because of You (Infatuated Duke) feat. Homeboy Sandman

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