“I’m drama freeee (yeah) I’m lovin’ meee (yeah ) / be a queen / BE A KING / SPREAD YOUR WIIINGS” It was a chill mood when I walked into Serious Cartoons Records & Tapes to the smell of tacos and kiefy pre-roll for the Noa James / Nuglife listening party. Lesa J was there as ever being brilliant and facilitating new people meeting. Phantom Thrett had been so kind as to open his doors and cook while everyone soaked in the new album. I’ve only met Nuglife a couple times but he’s a really bright soul and fun to kick it with. It’s wild how Noa is always talking about something substantial with whoever is posted with him on a couch – the more I speak with him and hear his work the more it’s clear to me that this is a man very aware of the preciousness of time.
Their new album, The Majestic Travels of Orcamane and OGie, is a spiritual sequel to The Adventures of Young Orca, an IE classic that is now unbelievably over a decade old. It fits too – it’s chill, stony, melodic, positive and seeking of common ground between souls and artists. The intro’s synth sirens remind one of whale calls- Nuglife understand the James paradigm. Noa’s voice has been evolving from his grizzly bear growl of his early career to a more zen rap crooner of the 2020s and the album’s intro “Orcamane” is a great example of where his voice stylings are now and how subtle and thorough Nuglife's synergy with him is. Noa listened graciously as I shared my critiques and faves – I loved the Mescal and Cam Archer songs, the harder stuff near the end was less my thing but still really catchy and James is undeniably good at it. Berserk and Juggernaut continue the chronicling of Noa’s ever gradually increasing descent into the world of nerdcore while providing a positive space to crack concrete in. Noa’s ability to toggle between experimentation and musically chill comfort food is priceless and the triumph of control over one's demons and the emanating of positivity and generosity is an epic triumph. I've been listening back to James' older works and on each album he balances the beautiful and the darkness -in this album the heroes have returned to the shire in peace and success. Odyssean even.
“I just wanna roll up/ just wanna po’ up”
Nuglife’s beat tape The Beat Dispensary is more of a compilation than a beat tape and it feels like a great immediate follow-up to Majestic Travels - chill thick beats with lots of So Cal all-stars from the BrickToYaFace and EOTR Networks and beyond. A longer record with lots of Noa throughout, it’s a wonderful stony companion-piece to majestic travels. The Noa pieces are like motivational mantras that reflect the comfortable synergy the two have developed. The theme playing off the “dispensary” setting is fun and funny from the Rasta Doorman intro the songs that continue to play on the concept like “The Love Dispensary”. EOTR members Zzay and Don't Sleep are standouts on a collection of stellar and effective collaborations. When you consider his elegant and lush EP with Zzay in addition to these works it’s wild to think how much this cat Nuglife has done before hitting age 25 – he was one to look out for, now he’s one to listen to.
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is staff writer for JooseBoxx, a youth hip-hop and poetry tutor, and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
I’ve known Rokem for about a decade, at least 5 years longer
than I’ve known most of the I.E. hip-hop community due to my group’s
longstanding friendship with the boys from Chamber Records, who he was
affiliated with when we met him (if I recall correctly…). By the time we did
stumble into the Inland music community Rokem was among the CLDMKRS crew with
Thesis (now Theez), Kid Presentable, Besatree and more. Throughout all that
time, he has simply never stopped. Now with seemingly countless collaborative
albums and beat tapes under his belt, new releases with Kid Presentable and the
EOTR Network shine a light on what the next phase of his musical career may
sound like.
Rokem's dynamism and rep as a producer rests on his ability to balance proficiency with experimentation. Left to his own devices I've heard him make some noisy avant-garde stuff with unconventional time-structures and busy layers but he can also produce jazzy cuts like "Win or Lose" and "Bad Habit" from this record with stunning polish and frequency. On this album Presentable's maturity and gameness allows Rokem to surf the gamut of his styles within their collab.
Wave Runners breaks years-long patterns for Kid Presentable, a
cat I’ve known albeit not well since high school, who has always been the
Southwest’s Latino answer to Anticon in my mind in his consistent delivering of
fresh but often somber raps about inner turmoil and love over boom-bap beats
with spidery guitar melodies and haunting piano loops. On Wave Runners we find
Kid Presentable playing with limerick, with modern styles of production, with
brightness and pop in a way that he never has before all while riding some of
Rokem’s most experimental beats since Jazz Spectrum with Bone-Solyd.
If KP reminded me of Slug and Eyedea before, this brief and upbeat yet pensive
album reminds me more of MC Chris and Drake with its masterful grasp of the
balance of hip-hop substance and ephemeral pop particularly on songs like "Cobretti" where Presentable sounds like he's teasing while he weaves a catchy refrain. On "JohnHughesOG" its apparent that his elder millennial stoner
persona is more relatable every year; "maybe I should write something a bit more uplifting" he says portending this project itself. It really is impressive how KP takes what
some MCs just hear as “hard” and to shape it into a project’s sound. Kid
Presentable told me he asked Rokem to challenge him with beats the other
rappers wouldn’t take- this immediately conjured an image in my mind of a
surfer tackling a gnarly wave that other surfers dare not – an image of the wave runners…
While Rokem’s latest album
release is Wave Runners, his latest single release is 3rd Person with
EOTR Network’s Don’t Sleep & Mad Macks. While 3rd Person’s
Full LP is forthcoming, their self-titled debut is a music video for a single
that is not on said LP. They introduce themselves in an attic-style art gallery
surrounded by local luminaries like Sista Eyerie and Vel the Wonder. Smoke
billows through the gallery and the visually arresting
silhouette-with-white-background shots that I find to be the piece’s signature.
Muds is great at trying new things without smacking you upside the head with
it. The effect meshes perfectly with the subtle, chill and arty video. Don’t
Sleep’s OutKast tribute chorus is a wonderful reminiscent touch that reminds
one that 3rd Person is shooting for high atmospheric levels. Rokem’s
beat is seasoned yet sizzling, Macks’ struts his gusto like a dog he loves over this down-tempo treasure of a track, the first of many heat-rocks to come from the Rarest Ones.
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is staff writer for JooseBoxx, a youth hip-hop and poetry tutor, and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
"Bankin' off this rap shit / forever with these flows and this Peyote Cactus"
Having lived in Fontana for
the decade during which I transitioned from adolescent to young adult before
having lived in San Bernardino for the last decade does an interesting thing to how you understand the East Los Angeles /
Inland Empire milieu...you can actually get to BoyleHeights in less than an hour from Fontana when you take the
10. A lot of people in the western parts of L.A.County think of anything east of East
Los as rather “Inland” covering vast areas like San Dimas,
Montclair, Pomona
and others that exist in a sort of interesting limbo to those in the So Cal
know. On a rainy Saturday morning in January I dipped out to Viva Mescal’s EOTR
studios. When I arrived he was dragging just a bit, having had a
birthday/record release celebration the night prior.
Mescal has been my crew and I’s
vision of the future of Latin L.A. hip-hop since he whupped our collective
asses in a massive performance contest in West
Covina in 2015 and started booking us for various
shows in the year subsequent. He and his crew EOTR have kept boom-bap fresh
while showcasing diverse progressive professional music in major venues with
top-acts like Murs and Felipe Esparza from East Los to Europe.
One rolls up to the automated gate at
their First Street
studio in BoyleHeights and it feels like the Rebels on
Yavin IV waving in allied freighters. After getting lost like a dweeb in their
nondescript hallways Penner and other EOTR homies kindly point me in the
direction of Mescal’s studio even though I’ve been here like 4 times before at
least. An honest and communicative collaborator, Mescal engineers a recording
of a song I’m working on produced by Yohalmo for my first solo album. Both of
us familiar with these motions, we have a satisfactory set of layers within 45
minutes and have time to get some pho and visit the dispensary Zzay works at.
"keep it to yourself / if it's negative..."
The
large pho combo is fire and Mescal dishes on how busy he is trying to achieve
and represent for his city and families. He’s engineering, recording new music, making a video for every
song on his new album to name just a few things on his plate. He says he’s shooting the next morning with a guy who
was working an a Hopsin video while we were in the stu. His latest video, “Peyote
Cactus” having garnered most of 10,000 views in the first month of it's release is a good indicator that he’s not just saying shit. “People
don’t have attention spans anymore and that’s okay. You don’t gotta hype up
some shit for 6 weeks before you drop it. – ‘got a project coming out’ – okay? Cool?
Just give it to people. Just give it to them. No need to sit on it forever.”
Zzay brought some sunshine into a rainy day and rolled us all a blunt while
we visited her shop and caught up about video shoots and newly discovered
mutual friends. She’s making visuals for her stellar new 4-song cycle producedby NugLife Solstice. As someone who’s
followed Zzay from the outset of her recording endeavors I’ll always have a
soft spot for the spirited growing young woman who rapped and sang her real
thoughts over hip-hop soul as she found herself but the Solstice EP finds her a woman so confident in her groove that it’s
a Throne now; NugLife is a wildly melodic producer but knows how to make
productions that keep the performer front and center. With more upbeat ideas and spiritually conscious lyrics from EOTR's resident songstress than ever before, the EP goes down easier
and more smoothly than any of her other projects, a smart snack of posi-neo-soul
made with utmost craftsmanship; both artists are in their pocket.
Blunted back at the lab, Viva Mescal slid me a copy of his new album. Now
his Weird Turn ProLP from 2017 is a master’s
class in keeping an album one coherent mood but this new album Long Live the Peyote is my favorite
record from Mescal since the fevered and political Strange Rumblings in Aztlan. With swifter ease than ever Mescal
bridges hip-hop posturing with grown man example setting, barring out spazzing
with hook-driven songwriting, psychedelic politics with working class
grounding. With beats from Rokem, Global Getdown and more, the album bangs and
unfolds cinematically- Mescal’s ponderings and pontifications about drugs like
lean and peyote weave organically into references to the Latin culture’s agua
frescas and nopales that he grew up with. Before we parted I think we had a
moment of kindred business- seeing someone in front of us who kept as busy as
we did. I see it seldom and sometimes it’s nice just to be reminded that you’re
not the only insane one who is trying to balance so much. He gave me valuable
advice on the album he was helping me with as well as another project I have
coming in the Spring and we promised to follow-up with each other about both as
well as music we had mentioned to each other for listening recommendations- I’m
still curious as to what he’ll think of At the Drive In, Mars Volta and No
Malice albums I sent him links to.
Greaseball from Strange People,
Herbalistics, and lately Cookie World Productions has long been my favorite
Inland Emcee and I don’t say that lightly. I recognize that Vision is the
illest freestyler in the region, I recognize that Cam Archer’s power levels are
unimpeachable, I recognize the versatility of Brandon the Wizard and the battle chops of Epyk
Saga so I’m not claiming my preference is objectivity I’m just being honest
about my tastes. On the way home from Boyle Heights I decided to stop in San Dimas
and catch up with the man once known on the other side of the I.E. as Johnny
Greaseball.
“Everybody my age learned the name of the game and I think that we all want to die”
Between the aforementioned Zzay and
Greasy B, I don’t know whose journey of change surprises me more…as I type this
out I think it’s Greaseball’s because Zzay’s felt gradual and step by step
whereas Greaseball’s life shifts seem even more volatile. I remember hanging
out with him in dusty garages and backhouses in San
Bernardino and Riverside
throughout 2014, 2015 and 2016. Reckless swings through downtown with his drunk
troublesome exes, anxious blunts with ne’er do wells in alleys….visiting him at
what many call the TrapHouse in San Dimas
was different. A beautiful home sheltering a makeshift artist commune, various
beanie-topped sweater-clad tall men made a veritable vegan feast in the kitchen while
Greaseball and I smoked glass pipe bowls of herb in front of his computer and Xbox, showing eachother demos. Young women with their facially modified friends
brought in cannabis cannisters and twelve-packs of Stella Artois. One such person said she used to
hang out with my sister in my old Fontana
home to my stoned surprise. Grease talked about embracing progressive
philosophies that he used to seem somewhat distant from when he was just a
thunder-voiced street urchin battle-ready scrappy Riverside MC. On songs like “The
Pain” from his new album The Alligator KingGrease shows that his values
have changed- he now walks through life with a deep almost burdensome empathy
for everyone’s struggles; every stanza is not a tank filled with internal rhymes
designed to melt your face but rather with melancholy limerick that often
devolves into tourettes like spasms of coping mechanisms for the agony of
letting things stack. Even when he does spaz on this song, it’s to show a man
fraying as he grasps at his values like a sweater being ripped from him and not
an MC battle like display of spittery. He
grapples with the loss of his father at a young age in new ways yet compared to
the hagiographic tracks about his father in his past oeuvre. Now he complicates
the picture of his fallen patriarch as he discusses the struggles his mother
bore for the family growing up. On “GoodybeRiver” he says goodbye for now to his
hometown of Riverside, singing wistfully and
hopefully about his current Pomona-Claremont village frequenting San Dimas-dwelling paradigm. Given the inter-genre collaborations and production company community
he’s developed with Birote the Musical and other Cookie World artists, who can blame
him? Rock artists and the always welcome Hepthy sound equally natural on this indie hip-hop masterpiece of an album.On "I think I do", Grease embraces the idea of free will and gets positively philosophical. Grease was fresh off of a night at the Smell in LA rocking a packed house when
we caught up; also right around his birthday, like Mescal. I told him I was
truly envious of his new life-art-friends arrangement. That I had long sought
such a treehouse refuge in my own 20s and that I was happy he had the chance to
truly enjoy and expand on such an opportunity. He gave me some kind feedback on
a song I had about just those very topics. I asked him if he'd heard Mescal's new one and he said not yet. He told me a story about how he saw that his last album Happiness to Me was on a Snapchat story shared by EOTR some months back and he laughed and thought "gotcha!" as he saw the image scroll by on his feed. "Good," I thought, "Greaseball and EOTR should be hearing eachother as they are each the most cutting edge progressive boom-bap Latinos of their respective regions..."
His new album haunts me- for me it
represents working class Latinos of my generation finally bumping against the
realities of the limitations of our aspirations. Here he is existing in a
situation I used to fantasize about and he drops a 45 minute long document as
to the inescapable pain of life when you’ve been trained to feel inadequate by
a too-often too-narrow-minded society. Here he is to say the pros and cons are
just as balanced in his circumstance and perhaps even more starkly and intense.
His Gator-King persona alternates between being out of fucks to give and being
paralyzed with sympathy for his fellow misfits and lovers. His defensiveness
slowly gives way to his seeing all of our souls behind surprisingly earnest
eyes.
Mescal and Greaseball are both
sensitive thoughtful Capricorn poets who have built communities they’ve nestled
themselves within. I relate more to Greaseball’s claustrophobic paintings
because of where I am from but visions like Mescal’s give us I.E. kids an idea
of what we’re looking for when we stare towards the coast and press down on the
gas. I thought of both of them and the friends I’ve been lucky enough to meet
and know through and around them as I made my way home, transferring from the
605 North to the 210 East, chasing the massive distant moon.
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is staff writer for JooseBoxx, a youth hip-hop and poetry tutor, and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
There are a lot of reasons I give EOTR Network their own weekly day on Jooseboxx- they're dope, they're entertaining, magnetic and likable when recorded but also because they represent a new wave of Mexican-American hip-hop artists fighting to be heard that thousands of Latino youth in Cali and beyond can relate to. I want to associate myself with the side of cultural history that embraced this wave. Note how the Hollow Visions and Vile videos work in tandem with their (at the time) upcoming music releases; take notes kids....
Hollow Visions has a new travelogue story series, pull up a chair or just sit cross-legged.
Don't miss Kiddo and Macks on this gritty but fun knocker by Badson Beats.
Never to be outdone or stagnant, the Soul Providers bring you a new literary discussion series on Youtube for your perusing convenience!
Between the last EoTRSDAY installment and now these foos made a video for this track so peep it one time! Chill ass banger.
It feels like Mescal drops a new definitive manifesto every year and this year is no different- each time they feel like the ultimate one so let's see if he can't top himself in 2019....Had the pleasure of seeing him rock this one at Blackbooks & Rhymebooks in July and haven't quite had it out of my head since. Til next time....
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is staff writer for JooseBoxx, a youth hip-hop and poetry tutor, and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
Before you see them open for Felipe Esparza tomorrow night in L.A. check out a sampling of what the EOTR network has been up to if you weren't aware....
How does Muds One keep topping himself? Check this ridiculously entertaining piece featuring Hollow, Zzay and many more from the EOTR Network.
The EOTR Vlog continues apace as the anchor show of their TV channel so to speak- the saga continues!
With the breezy intimacy of a snapchat story, Kiddo has begun the second ongoing webseries on the EOTR network YouTube channel. Muds is pretty incredible at this shit so that Kiddo decided to try her hand at it anyway is a sign of her bravery and example of the kind of work ethic the EOTR squad has. That it's funny and engrossing is a sign of their dynamism and her sense of editing and humor as well- enjoy!
The Soul Providers are cooking something new and in the meantime they're gonna tease you with weekly poetic doses of hip-hop city life rawness- this duo will always surprise you for the better.
Falcon 9 with Mescal, Macks, Zzay, Rokem and Ras Austin is another example of the kind of withcraft these folks brew on the regular- vibe out to this! Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
A lovely, catchy and very well done song from Aye Brook and Noa James dropped on Valentine's Day that does not disappoint!
All 4 One
Hell will freeze over before the EOTR network runs out of barsy melodic boom-bap to show you- Badson does his fuckin' thang on this brief but stellar EP with Mesoamerica's sweethearts, Mad Macks and Kiddo!
A catchy, clever and super vibey single from the King Crilly!
California Neglect A new album from the So Cal exile! Dope, relatable, funky and smart! Some really personal, fun, and creative music tackling original topics like girls who won't date black guys, being sick of California and more working class reality! Full disclosure: There's a track with yours truly on here, repurposed from my Inland Imperial album with Ras Josh. Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is staff writer for JooseBoxx, a youth hip-hop and poetry tutor, and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
A debate everyone's had for years, finally in song form. Clever and well-executed.
NOA JAMES - NO GAMES VIDEO: LESA J
Noa does layered shit with thoughtful writing and this down-to-earth yet kinda trippy video may help you see that...
CAM-LEE - FOR THE GUSTO VIDEO: SEAN ALEXANDER
Possibly the most low-key member of English Class Project, Cam-Lee is a top-tier MC with delightful voice, flow and bars no question- a damned nice video with a killer beat too.
EMPIRE CYPHER VARIOUS ARTISTS VIDEO: 6th Element Killer cypher from up and comers in front of and behind the camera! Riverside area!
ILL SMITH - EMOJI VIDEO : @DATBOYDATS
A catchy, cool, and cute song that get dirtier by the minute! Mess with this nasty mofo Illy Smith.
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
In the interest of starting new segments, here's a new one for the East Of The River crew that seems to need its own feature on this site because of how much of their content we share.....
All video by Mighty Muds One
Zzay - Cool, Calm & Connected
Muds One documents a smooth night with a selective songstress...
Killa Teck ft. Sir J - This One
Hot ass single from Killa Teck with a poppin' city video from Muds One
Kiddo x Mad Macks x Badson - Do or Die
Hop on the merry-go-round with lyrical killers onetime....
Enjoy! Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
This week a lot of new videos, songs and albums came out so we had to share a few of them with our fine readers, check it:
NOA JAMES produced by ELIAS & AYE BROOK- KEEP THAT SHITTY ENERGY TO YOURSELF
Noa James' new single is an aggressive banger that shows the flip side to the philosophy he's been espousing on records like his latest E.P. "Peace of Cake". Over a face-stompingly hard beat, Noa implores his listeners to only come with that pleasantness, ya dig? "Be Majestic" magazine coming soon, stay tuned to all things BTYF for the latest!
VIDEO by MIGHTY MUDS ONE
Muds changes it up for a stylish L.A. visual to accompany the bonus track from Kiddo's debut album. The chorus here is undefeated as EOTR's march to L.A. supremacy continues! Peep it!
REAL JOY - ITAL SANTOS
VIDEO BY ITAL SANTOS & GEORGE BURNS
Ital Santos' new single, video and album dropped this week so peep part 1 of a day in the life of the artist formerly known as Jynxx! This chapter depicts a father and daughter adventure that should warm any hip-hop head's heart!
The artist formerly known as Jig is back with a message about being free while you are on earth! Armed with wisdom and airtight flow, his new album just dropped so be sure to hear his new jams!
A gritty yet silly LA area hip-hop duo, Altered Change are thinkers who don't take themselves too seriously. Peep their new record and find out why they are ya mamma's new favorite!
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
Another boom-bap classic from East of the River. I love that this video makes Mad Macks' college graduation ceremony look cool. The video is still dripping with irony and working class skepticism of the system, evident in Macks' irreverence while so many students around him are somber but at the end of the day, the video conveys an image of family and loved ones are happy around our protagonist. Muds' eye conveys both the momentousness and everydayness of the situation with Macks gamely playing a Fresh Prince-like vessel for the audience to experience the narrative through. More Mad Macks here
SONG: THE JUICE BY CAM GNARLY AND BRIAN/FOLK VIDEO: NEW CULTURE MEDIA GROUP & CYBERTHUG
Cam Gnarly’s modern polished posi-bangers never disappoint.
Gnarly reminds me of OutKast- each time a new song of his starts, you’re sad
the last one ended and then the cycle repeats. This song is no different and
Cam’s hip embrace of campy on-the-nose video imagery is a stoner’s delight.
SONG: INTERTWINE BY
ARALESS & OK
VIDEO: ARALESS AND
MELANIE WINSLOW
Seattle based hip-hop artist Araless finally dropped the
video for his chill summer love song, “Intertwine”. Set in San Diego, the piece
finds his co-director and he clearly enjoying themselves and each other. Don’t
miss the EP’s worth of remixes that came out with this single and since. More Araless here
BEATMAKER YOHALMO VIDEO: MIGHTY MUDS ONE
Nice clips of up and coming beatmaker Yohalmo, video by the John Romita Jr. of west coast hip-hop videos himself....
DOCUMENTARY WEB-SERIES: EAST OF THE RIVER - ROAD TO PAID DUES VIDEOGRAPHER: MIGHTY MUDS ONE
Yeah that's two monthly video round-ups in a row in which Muds One has multiple entries in the round-up. What can I say? Dude puts out a lot of completed polished content. This chronicle of the East of the River crew’s journey to
their Paid Dues appearance on 09/16/2017 is released in weekly webisodes and is
funny as hell. Looking forward to watching it all as one movie soon!
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
Gonna try to do a monthly round-up of videos from the past year and more recently that I got a chance to catch and want to share.
Viva Mescal - Cherry Of My Blunt
Muds One does immense justice to one of my favorite Mescal
songs here. Stay peeping content by Soul Providers and East of the River crews.
This is a really biased thing to say but I feel like EOTR is one of the only
crews besides mine that really goes out of its way to credit beatmakers. Mescal’s
latest project here
Skinny Trillions – go to sleep foo
Who couldn’t help but be inexorably drawn to the stubborn
and almost inscrutable weirdness of Skinny Trillions’ new video series?
I can't lie about how often I find myself shocked by the gutter-ass shit the founder of
Grey Entertainment has to say but I find his work hard, dark, unique and ever
defter in it execution. I like his consistency and that he reps the I.E. to the
teeth. His latest project linkedhere
18SCALES – No Potassium
More from Muds One, had to get a repost of a piece of one of
the latest projects from the superdope superduo 18 Scales in…
Cam Archer - On The Way The first video from Cam Archer's upcoming Spirit Gunner LP shows that dude can sing choruses and boom-bap with the best of 'em. Filmed in New York City, Coca crisply rides a chill and bassy Nabeyin production. Detailed write-up and links to Cam's last project here
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com.
