KEXP.ORG records some legit live footage of Blue Scholars debuting a DOPE new track about Seattle. Straight fire even if you ain’t from around there.

Dope song from Seattle’s Grynch that more than a few of ya’ll can feel. I know my boy Kazu feels the fuck outta this song everytime he hops in the ride! Great concept video against a typical Seattle backdrop in a place that rains like 300 days out of the year.

Big Up To The ILLEST car troubles song ever though! Grouch told the world in 1995 “FUCK THE DUMB”! Hope you listened.

Words by: @ChasenPaper

In 2009 Jake One is emerging as a Corinthian pillar of hip hop from out of the Pacific North west, but his beginnings were humble. As a young kid he was a maniac when it came to collecting baseball cards. After games he would wait by the player’s locker rooms, chasing players exiting the field for an autograph to expand his ever growing card collection and he was damn good at it too. Until one day, when he was in the 8th grade he had a light bulb moment while running to catch a signature. He thought to himself, “I’m way too old for this shit. What am I doing here?” At that realization a lot of boys conform to the old adage, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things,” and they moth ball their baseball cards, or their comics and pick up more “grown” up hobbies. Not JakeOne. Soon after his epiphany he discovered that his favorite hip hop records at the time derived their signature sounds from even older records, and the “record digger,” in JakeOne was born.

It’s been 8 months since the release of JakeOne’s first official album, “White Van Music” that features some of hip hop’s loftiest and most talented emcees and he is still humble. He’s produced for hip hop’s heaviest hitters and most under rated emcees, and is currently a member of the good Dr.Dre’s personal in house beat production camp. A group that is reserved for only 4 other producers in all of hip hop. Talk about keeping good company. As a judge in Red Bull’s international “Big Tune” battle, he’s heard the best and worst that hip hop has to offer and he comes back year after year with open ears and mind. To put it in lay men’s terms. The dudes got mad stripes son! He’s made his bones. He’s a fucking Hit Man. Which makes it obligatory for any person who appreciates hip hop to listen when he speaks. Enjoy.

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