The Black Opera have been busy as of late, in addition to a number of live shows including opening for Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge in Michigan, TBO has been back in the studio working on a new EP for Mello Music Group to hold fans over until the next full length for the group. In the meantime, they decided to enlist Oddisee for a remix of their popular track “Queen Of Hearts featuring Mayer Hawthorne”. The track debuted this morning on HipHopDX and is now out in the wild! Sit back and let this one roll over you.
Free Mp3: Oddisee Remix of The Black Opera “Queen Of Hearts (feat. Mayer Hawthorne)”
– May 21, 2013Posted in: Downloads, US Hip Hop
Ypsilanti’s golden child, 14KT, has flipped some of his instrumental magic into full-fledged songs on the new EP A Friendly (Vocal) Game of KT. The original instrumental project was rife with earth quaking bass lines, precise drums and heavenly synths. Now the vocal version pairs select beats with equally select MC’s to tease a few great instrumentals into a few classic songs. The Ep debuted at Complex today!
After releasing the instrumental project “A Friendly Game of KT”, we decided, instead of letting the fans have all the fun rhyming over 14KT’s lush soundscapes, we’d let some of our MMG affiliates take the tracks for a test spin. We ended up creating an entire EP of vocal versions including a special track in which KT himself delivers the rhymes.
Oddisee is too large of a talent to dwell comfortably under the term ‘beatmaker’ or even ‘hip-hop producer.’ The DMV representative has a musicality and vision that elevates him past those kinds of confines. Oddisee is a producer with roots in hip-hop. He can work a drum machine and he can rap, but he can also conduct and produce other musicians and vocalists.
After commanding attention on Diamond District’s In The Ruff and his own Before Taxes project, last year’s The Earn continued cementing yU the 78er as a substantive and skilled lyricist with something to say. Recently, his DMV brethren Oddissee remixed “I Believe”, one of the standout cuts from The Earn. Mello Music Group is proud to share the results with you.
