When you’re making money, and spending it frivolously, everybody comes around to be your “friend.” That’s pretty much the story behind the title track from Quelle Chris’ latest record, which dropped last year on Mello Music Group. Chris recently dropped a video for the song, which features a
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Detroit rapper Quelle Chris isn’t the most energetic MC, but his laid-back delivery approach is complemented with an eccentric cadence, thought-provoking bars, and some ridiculous song topics. If only his bold ideas were a little more well-organized, refined.
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Mu Gadu hasn’t given Quelle Chris’ “Old Friend” the typical music video treatment. Rather, he’s crafted a minimalist short film titled Billion Dollar Question that symbolically follows the “death, rebirth, and rites of passage” of a young man in Uganda. The 7-minute-long flick is scored to a mashup
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Uptown XO and gets together with Creative Junkfood on this new, animated music video for the track “Everyday.” The video brings a lot of fun, playful visuals, but the song itself is stone cold serious as Uptown XO and AB the Pro make some pretty bold statements and comparisons. Stream
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Faces On The Dollar by Gensu Dean & Planet Asia Producer Gensu Dean & MC Planet Asia team up for a new Mello Music Group single titled “Faces On the Dollar.” They’ve got a forthcoming album titled Abrasions. I’m loving the smooth, snappy beat on this thing. The
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Way In Way Out by Oddisee Oddisee has leaked a track from his new album People Hear What They See. On “Way In Way Out” this Maryland-born MC analyzes the segregation in America through tremendous amounts of wit and cunning in his wordplay. He does with a solid delivery that
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Skipping Rocks by Oddisee DC hip hop producer Oddisee has a new album of instrumentals out that tributes his favorite spot in the capital city: Rock Creek Park. With both samples and live instrumentation, Oddisee tries–and succeeds, really–at recreating what the place means to him through song. Stream
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MP3 (page link) New track from beatmaster Apollo Brown, featuring Oddisee on the mic. Brown’s Clouds came out at the start of March. If you’re down with instrumental hip hop, it’s a vacation worth taking. “The Times” is one of the few tracks that breaks the instrumental
