Love for the Chi..

Tomorrow, I will be making a long awaited trip to the "Windy City" otherwise known as Chicago, Illinois. Chicago is known for many things in the musical sense. Mainly as the birthing ground for acts such as Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions; Earth, Wind, & Fire; Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis; R. Kelly; G.O.O.D. Music(Kanye & Common); Lupe Fiasco; and most importantly (IMO) House music.  Given my fondness for House music and its many different forms, this trip is in part a pilgrimage. Most importantly though, I'm going to DJ a very special event put on by a very special friend of mine Drunken Monkeee. I will rocking his annual loft party known as "The Honeycomb Hideout"

It's held in the Center of Chicago at The Elastic Arts Foundation, and will feature performances by several up & coming Chicago artists including Ill Legit and Professor Gorilla Dickens (trip-hop/loungy alias of Drunken Monkeee). As a special gift to all I've compiled a little mixtape of my friend, Drunken Monkeee's tracks. As well for the next week, while I'm gone, I'll be hosting my old "Windy City Mix" on my SoundCloud for stream/download

EZRAKH Present... The Drunken Monkeee Show d/l

  Windy City Mix  by  ezrakh

-Ez

Jay ElecRamadaan Muhammad Asalaamica RasoulAllah Supana Watallah



Some may say I'm late on this, but I feel like his time is now. Penned as Hip-Hop's "Savior" in many places, Jay Electronica may well be just that. With the aura & persona of a holy wandering Monk, JayElec maybe the realest thing the game has to offer. Although he brings an amazing element of 'conscious' rap to his lyrics, he stays completely raw with it and doesn't seek to sugarcoat any of the things he says. Every one of his rhymes paints a very vivid visual image in your head, & Wu-Tang-esque sound bytes do the job of helping reinforce these images. Even most importantly, he has come with something extremely fresh and to my knowledge never heard before in hip-hop. I'm talking of course about "Act:1 Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)." In it's entirety (the full original contains two voicemail messages), the song is a drumless, chorusless classical-styled composition containing several movements. In it JayElec addresses not only his opposition to mainstream hip-hop culture, but as well a sour relationship, mind control by the present power stucture, & his knowledge of UFO & Supernatural Phenoma.... All in 4 classical movements. Just Listen....

Exhibit C (Prod. by: Just Blaze)

(no voicemail version, comment for full 15 minute version.)



Peace.

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