Hip-Hop
[MP3 + Music Video] D-Sisive – Don’t Turn The Lights Out (feat. Neverending White Lights)
This is not really my bag, a little too top 40/alt-pop sounding for my ears but, ‘objectively’ speaking, not a bad track from one of the T.dot hip-hop scene’s finest. Here’s the official blurb with more…
There was a time in Derek Christoff’s life when he didn’t have many words. It’s not that he didn’t have a story; but he was stuck on the start.
In the late 90s, the young MC known as D-Sisive came up quickly in the Toronto hip-hop community with a string of well-liked singles, but his burgeoning profile was stopped cold with the illness and death of both of his parents in a six-year span. Grief and depression stole his creativity and motivation for the better part of a decade, but in a moment fit for fable, his lyrical inspiration returned suddenly one day while singing along to the Beach Boys on the radio. It was the new start D-Sisive’s story needed. And he hasn’t stopped since.
2008’s The Book EP was nominated for a Juno and its single “Nobody With A Notepad” won the SOCAN ECHO Songwriting Prize. 2009’s Let the Children Die was long-listed for that year’s Polaris Music Prize (and would later get an elaborate send-off with a full-band live funeral after legal issues forced it out of production). The same year, he released Jonestown as a free download. Less than a year later, we got Vaudeville, and a year after that, the Jonestown sequel, Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye, back and forth between his story and others’. Along the way were a series of Hijacked singles, with D-Sisive rapping his own words over the music of such songs as Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” and Sigur Ros’ “Festival,” an homage to just some of his comprehensive influences and tastes.
On 11-13-2012 D-Sisive released his latest project, Run With the Creeps (TheD-LuxeEdition), it’s a deeper dive back into himself and with his wide-open online look at the creative process along the way, his most honest yet. The hunger, pain, humor, and scrutiny have been on display every day; he’s forever brazen in ambition and as credulous as a kid. He’s writing the whole thing down, sparing no detail and certainly no time.
D-Sisive is a disciple of hip-hop and a Bowie devotee. His eleven-year-old imagination was captured by Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s “Nightmare On My Street,” and later, by a legendary punk spectacle as heard on Creep single “GG Allin.” There’s something new everyday, and so he’s running, trying to keep up with himself, trying to connect with his fellow creeps. There was a time he didn’t have these words; didn’t know how to say them. So now he’s making sure he doesn’t miss even one.
[MP3] Roc Marciano – Thread Count (prod. by Q-Tip)
From the Reloaded album that dropped on Decon last week. Hit the jump to see a teaser for the music video for the track, “Deeper” from the album directed by Jason Goldwatch.
Roc Marciano – Reloaded : BUY on iTunes | stream on SPIN
[Mixtape] AL-Doe – Nose Candy
I don’t know much about this cat but I like how he’s getting down on this mixtape! Check this out, seriously…
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[New Mixtape] Action Bronson x Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers
Just hit the inbox from Vice‘s Noisey Music:
No matter which way you look at it, it’s a really good time to be a fan of hip hop in New York. It seems like there’s as much great, truly unique music coming out of the New York hip hop scene as there was there was back in the 90s. The fact that a scene of sorts has catalyzed around an intensely talented bearded white dude who used to be a chef is perhaps the coolest thing ever, especially since it’s Action Bronson and he’s signed to our own VICE Records.
We’re beyond psyched to be premiering his newest project, Rare Chandeliers, which he made with the prolific (and equally great) producer the Alchemist. Roc Marciano, Meyhem Lauren, Styles P, Sean Price, and A.G. Da Coroner all guest, but Action wins Best Line Of The Album with, “Flick chives in the soup/ Stick knives where you poop.” At times opulent, at others mining the pulpy grit that Alchemist specializes in, this gets our award for Mixtape Of The Year.
Download Action Bronson x Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers [direct zip file link]
[Album Stream] Listen to The Closers album by Son Real & Rich Kidd
This dropped a few weeks back but I missed posting it then. I’m just getting into it myself but this is worth checking out imho just based on who’s involved. Drop a comment below and let me know what you think of it though…
BUY The Closers: iTunes | Signed CD on Bandcamp
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
