Published February 5, 2008
in Hip Hop.
Listen to “babaeng mandirigma” on MySpace.
How do you find time to write and record sweet, provocative, important hip hop sounds while organizing the single most important music revolution in the Northwest? Only Rogue Pinay knows, for only Rogue Pinay has done it.
“babaeng mandirigma” is just one of the many reasons why Seattle is now the premiere source for pro-womyn hip hop that isn’t just taking on the Northwest–this collection of artists is using hip hop to voice a significant, growing awareness: that the entire planet is connected and responsible for one another. If being in it together, with all of us, scares you, listen to “babaeng mandirigma”, then gently tell yourself that it’s all going to get better because of this. Because seriously, it’s true.
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Published November 20, 2007
in Hip Hop.
Listen to “Warriors” on MySpace.
Gabriel Teodros is smart, provocative, smooth, and intimate. Always intimate. The subtle organ on “Warriors” (from the album lovework) is much like the subtle beauty of Gabriel Teodros’s voice. Greet the voice like an old friend: let it take off its shoes at your door, let it sit at your table while you feed it, and let it sleep in your best bed, in your best head. Now use your best head, and walk on, empowered.
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Published October 30, 2007
in Hip Hop.
Listen to “Get Wet” on MySpace.
Not only does Breezee One have some of the finest beats I’ve heard in a while (excellent use of horns, piano, and more…), she is also uber-sexy, uber-smart, and uber-insightful. She’s so uber-this and uber-that that I actually use the word “uber” (a word I normally would avoid like the plague) to describe her.
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Published August 29, 2007
in Hip Hop.
Listen to “Breakdown” here.
Handsome Boy Modeling School has a sense of humor. What else do you expect from a couple of people who stole the idea for their name from an episode of Get a Life? And if they thought it was hilarious to put hip hop samples behind Jack Johnson vocals, they were dead right. It is hilarious. But it also overwhelmingly works as a beautiful piece of music. Somehow, Jack Johnson’s traditionally hippy-style lyrics are given soul. His vocals (and even his whistles) are turned into gold. Handsome Boy Modeling School’s “Breakdown” (from the album White People) is the definition of adding soul to the whitest of places.
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