While most of the world is on preemptive lockdown ...
Many of us haven't fully downloaded all of the corresponding anxiety from the impending terror to come. In these beginning stages many are just loafing around an environment we call home watching the rain hit; we get this strange and ire moment of quasi comfort as we peer around our lives within the reprieve from working responsibilities and in that space I have been discovering the most aesthetical accompaniment to such times… Hip Hop.
What follows is a curated bundle, part instinctual go-tos for a mood created by the 11 straight days of rain & overcast which this post was started under and the others are projects that artist have either been droppin in this quarantine period and others are in actual response to it.
Regardless, a lot of great content is flowing from the city and I aim to capture as much as I can in the moment.
I'll be adding to this playlist until the Apocalypse is over so check back if you are still here.
Good Luck, spread love not Covid. Feel free to make ad hoc additions of your own by sharing links in the comment section.
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https://loosecannons.bandcamp.com/album/break-ups-make-ups
Check out the album Goin' Thru Here
https://open.spotify.com/album/5OoYrIZOP0OTL2oVsKgT96
https://songwhip.com/album/flower-child/reasons-and-seasons
We almost lost one of the best in the city and didn't even know it<<< in my Future voice of course.
Arlington artist and Home Team Records label head, J$ph just announced he had quit music. In a newly published video in what seems a sincere and heartfelt moment, J$PH addressed the decision explaining that after last summer's release of the Believe It single he felt something was off.
After a meeting with his team he decided to momentarily step away from music in effort to get closer to that feeling he didn't understand. Similar to what native Americans call a vision quest. In that space, what he discovered brought him to peace with the idea of not making music. He realized that if he were to never picked it back up again;
then as he said, "..thats fine by me."
From a buddhist stand point this very much sounds like a moment of zen, if not enlightenment. But whatever you call it, he realized that he is more than his music and it isn't what defines him. And that's profound moment in ant artist journey. Everwonder how so many talented artist just seem to onday fall off the face of the earth? It happens, the spirit takes you and your gone... ascension. There is a Zen koan that reads
"Who is it that carries this corpse around?"
It speaks to the weightlessness of the spirit and the transcendent experience of enlightenment, or in this case a fruitful Vision Quest.
Allen Watts describes playful notions of tying down monks who would otherwise just float away from the experience of nirvana. The implication being that once you find that inner peace, the only reason to reground and come back is out of compassion for others.
"if I never pick this back up... thats fine by me."
Any time rikki blu drops its kinda-of-a big deal.
lofi mood
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The heat tho spring collection
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Online streaming Concert Series...
Dj D-Nice live stream turns viral party on ig live
"Tell a friend! Homeschool at Club Quarantine! Get your bottles ready!" he wrote.
Countless celebrities and even punk ass politicians cycled in attendance including; Janet Jackson, Nia Long, Eve, Missy Elliot, Gayle King, Joe Bidden, Joe Budden, Dj Khaled, Amorosa, Ellen, Jada & Will Smith, Rihanna, Diddy, Justin Timberlake, Ava DuVernay, Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx, and even former First Lady Michelle Obama!