I Like My Music Like Costco on a Sunday

Full of samples.

Having a great love for New York Hip Hop there is something so magical about how a producer can strategically splice separate works of art into a single masterpiece, like a musical collage. I feel DJ Kool Herc had a lot to do with the evolution for majority of the groups I love (Tribe, Wu Tang (which is for the children), KRS-One). I thought I'd share a fun song Spotify introduced me to, but first I'll warn you that it sounds messy & chaotic, and it's what I love about it. I also have the same cat unitard as the girl in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPLG7YTyzDA

I also love catching the same sample in multiple songs, for example Groove is in the Heart has the same sample from a Belly Dancing instruction video that Tyler the Creator used in I Ain't Got Time

Night Life Photography

I absolutely love night life photography. You can play around with a vast amount of lighting, props, shadows, and people. I love catching raw emotions and candid photos. Catching people in their true form brings a joy to me that I cannot describe. Mostly because I don't care for anything close to superficial. Candid photos are honest, and sometimes a smile is a lie. I also love watching people play with fire, but who doesn't.

Great Instrumental for Freestyling

A thing I do to get inspiration for lyrics is listen to instrumentals and free style over them. I love taking the unspoken journey that a producer wishes to take its listeners. It's like reading a book; being able to fill the empty spaces with your own imagination. This is a nice, chill kind of melancholy beat with a versatile tempo.

Trip to Seattle

Here are some shots from my first visit to Seattle last year. The photo of the bees is my favorite from the trip, because it's beautiful and kind of sad. I think it's a perfect representation of the word, bittersweet.

Can I Spell Kaiyote?

Another band I can listen to is Hiatus Kaiyote. I can listed to the albums from front to back. Found them via Spotify playlist. They're from Australia and I got to see them when they had their first show in Las Vegas. It was at Insert Coins (RIP Insert Coins, I hope to find a bartender that used to work there so I can have a Dirty Kerby. I've been craving one for like 4 years, but I digress). It's been absolutely amazing seeing them grow from being in a small, intimate venue and upgrading to Brooklyn Bowl during their next visit. Nai Palm is the lead singer and she's incredibly sweet. Her vocal runs are otherworldly, listening to her really helped me lock down the ability to perform vocal runs ("Swap Thing" is a great demonstration of it). Her voice may sound familiar if you listened to the most recent album releases from Drake and Kendrick Lamar, you can hear her voice sampled in their song (I think Kendrick sampled "Atari").

Long post cut short: I really love this band and can't wait for the next album to drop.