The Clubhouse has been leaking some ISH right now, to the point where I just wanted the damn project. The Clubhouse has a mixture of shit I like – a bit of the quirk, with hints of the boom-bap and some jazzy vibes. The fuck do I know, my ass is dumb. It sounds like they are a live band who loves Hip-Hop and experimentation within the confines of said genre, and if niggas as diverse as Blu, F.Stokes, Freddie Gibbs and Homeboy Sandman can fuck with them (like they do on this EP), why can’t I? Actually, fuck that. This is the Hip-Hop I wanted when I was a misunderstood nerd in high school. If I was a blogger in 1998, I’d expound upon how “like me” The Clubhouse was. I’m damn near 30, and this just combines a bunch of shit that I love about music into 20 minutes. I want 20 more. J57, hook that up for me, please. Shouts to HomeBase.
It's been a minute since I've posted the music of F.Stokes; the heads from The Dirty Disco Kidz hit me up with their remix of his Death Of A Handsome Bride EP, and its sick. Forever I Love Madison combines the raw lyrics of Stokes with the throwback to the future production of DDZ. I put my stamp on it, but then again, who the fuck am I? Check this out NOW, then send the creators of this some love.
F. Stokes "Pretty Shit": Here's another cut from the homey F. Stokes; this is one of those tracks that I can't do anything else but listen to when its on. It's one of those gritty, real life situation type tracks - topic is domestic violence, but in the sense that we're hearing both snippets of the ensuing argument as well as fragments of what's going on, mentally, during said argument. Thought provoking shit. Stokes hit me with an e-mail detailing himself. Dude keeps it way real. Check it out.
F. Stokes "Letter To Kanye": I'm not sure what prompted F. Stokes to drop a letter to Yeezy, or why the loop of "Homecoming" he raps over sounds odd to me, but I'm all about cats who pay homage and show respect to those cats who they felt helped pave the way for them. And dude isn't a wack rapper at all. Check it out - the 2nd half is what's really ill.