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Our 3rd studio album is OUT NOW on Firepower Records!!

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Truth ft TaLaBun - Them

Electric Six - Danger (High Voltage)

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SuKaFrE - Can't Take It No More (Git & Mr. Live)

DF-0088 - D-SMOOTH - DROPPIN SMOOTH LYRICS EP

Our 88th record is from Providence, Rhode Island’s D-SMOOTH! D-Smooth had 2 12” singles in 1988 and 1990. Our EP will feature those tracks plus a few more previously unreleased cuts direct from D-Smooth’s vaults. More details to come! Follow us for clips and updates. dopefolksrecords.com

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DF0088 - D-SMOOTH - 4 THE HARDWAY - Feat. Mastermind, Cousin Jonah & Ed O.G.

Brownout teams up with DJ Eclipse on this 'Fear of a Brown Planet' Mix, combining Public Enemy a cappellas w/ Brownout instrumentals. 

The album, 'Fear of a Brown Planet', features psych-funk covers of classic PE beats, dropping 5/25 on Fat Beats!

DJ Eclipse - Fear Of A Brown Planet Mix

No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It’s somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn’t ignore the arsenic in the air. 

As Orrick tells it, “Portraits,” his latest album for Mello Music Group is a return to form. 

“I tried to strip everything down to what I think I'm best at: simple, concise portraits of who I am,” Orrick says. “Whether that be finding myself through self-portraits, portraits of everyday workers, portraits of the current political moment or portraits of myself told through the eyes of people I encounter daily.” 

From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump’s America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There’s nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, sad-eyed, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones. 

The Michigan native is an acerbic poet, but too unpretentious and sarcastic to ever call himself that. In his love letter to his long-time girlfriend (“Lazy Buddies”), Orrick fantasizes about the pair decamping to a town an hour outside of Paris, where they can blissfully split a bottle of cheap wine. Then he mocks himself for being a little corny. But that’s part of its charm—through his ruthless honesty, we can see ourselves as we actually are—prone to idle delusions, indolence, and self-obsessed. 

“Portraits can often be overlooked, but there are so many details in the face that tell innumerable stories about what the person portrayed might have been feeling or going through,” Orrick continues. “I'm trying to find those details, within myself and within America today." 

On “Anywhere Instead,” he grouses about how most days he doesn’t want to leave his bed until noon, staring at his phone, wishing for imminent death. It’s a nothing matters, gallows humor that anoints him a laureate of existential dread. He captures the terror of the void, the ambiguity of not knowing where or when your next direct deposit will hit. He’s wise enough to understand how little he understands, allergic to cheap irony or forced symbolism. As he points out on stories, “not every story has a meaning, not every moment has a reason, sometimes you just let the music play and tell you what to say.” 

It’s obvious how loudly the music speaks to Orrick, who is rarely short of opinions or serrated observation. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of “Portraits” thump via a gifted arsenal of producers including Nolan the Ninja, L’Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra. Only two guest rappers appear, Fashawn and Orrick’s partner in Ugly Heroes, Verbal Kent. Orrick carries the rest of the weight and you sense the Atlas burden he shoulders. 

But for the all the poignant complaints, there’s a soulful profundity at the core of the album. It goes further than stress over bills, nicotine and liquor compulsions, and a search for deeper revelation. If you can hear a song like “Mom” without slightly crumbling, you might be iron-born. It’s a eulogy for Orrick’s late mother, dead at 45 without seeing her children grow up, without the opportunity to take pride in her son’s ability to realize his dream—however flawed it can occasionally seem. It’s here where you sense the power of these Portraits. They capture the pain that too many of us feel, that manifests itself in so many distinct ways. For a little while, we understand the raw f&cked up complexity of what it means to be a human being in a lunatic world. The portrait is personal, but it’s all of us too. 
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Portraits Mp3

The Rubric

Chris Orrick - The Rubric (feat. Verbal Kent) (prod. Calvin Valentine)

In May of 2016 the creators of SHAOLIN JAZZ traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to collaborate and perform with local Ethio-Jazz and Hip Hop artists at the African Union and US Embassy.  Upon returning they shared their experiences musically with a special SHAOLIN JAZZ L!VE show held at Tropicalia in Washington, DC on June 4th.  It was a high energy fusion of Hip Hop and Ethio-Jazz sounds performed by the Sound of the City Band led by DJ 2-Tone Jones and featuring local Ethiopian American vocalists.  

This EP features selections from that historic night recorded live.  Enjoy.

SHAOLIN JAZZ in Ethiopia - L!VE @ Tropicalia EP

Fall in Love

Smut Peddlers Wrong Place Wrong Time..

Jerry en Sabina - Not an Addict Acoustic (K's Choice Cover)

Taken from the Complex Engineer CD coming soon on GRR!

Complex Engineer (Masters)

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Emskee - 16 Track Mind (Complex Engineer CD coming soon!)

Imhotep dirty fingers deep diggin' & Napoleon Da Legend conscious lyrics

Where Did Human Go - Napoleon Da Legend X Imhotep

The Roots 'The Seed 2.0' For Orchestra by Walt Ribeiro

Summoned derives from the definition 
called upon; to awaken.
Bronx descendant born and raised 
I grew up listening to hip hop artist such 
as Kurtis Blow,Grandmaster Caz,Furious 5
RunDmc KRS-One and a slew of artist that
paved the the way for majority of rappers today.
Been intrigued by  hip hop for most of 
my life started writing at a very young age 
then decided to learn how to produce beats thereafter.
The thought of capturing perception 
and wording the expression has always inspired
me to bring forth my own understandings.
Formally known as TRU4mz of the Group SOULZ UNDA PRESSURE
with numerous shows and recordings under his belt.
https://youtu.be/FLUUB4jL-ac

Summoned has embarked on his own Journey of pure 
unadulterated lyricism that will indefinitely state why he's 
one of the most underated lyricists LTD.

Nonetheless Bare witness to what will initially
be the related as the indoctrination of pure 
elevated prowess.

Salute.

Smut Peddlers Wrong Place Wrong Time..

Summoned🗿

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