True God has been busy since our last discussion on the site. This past weekend, he dropped his first “live album,” The Soul Revue Experience. A concept album of sorts, SRE finds True spitting love, heart, and soul over more live instrumentation (and singing). It’s not your typical True album, as there’s less of a focus […]
Read moreSOTBMusic: An Interview with BLACK AX
Maryland-born, VA-residing artist–and one of my DAR brothers–Jeff Axel, better known as BLACK AX, has been making music for over ten years. The twenty-six-year-old “energy gawd” has always been unique in his approach, mixing crunchy southern instrumentation, soulful vocalization, and enough sauce, percolation, and verbiage to make E-40 do a double take. Coolin in AXELWorld is […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Shokus Apollo Explores The Sun In Scorpio
Shokus Apollo opted to ring in his thirtieth (we’re getting old) with a new project. The Sun in Scorpio is nothing like Tresvant. Instead of an exploration of melody and 90s R&B homages, we’re given more of an attacking Apollo over dreamy instrumentation in a journey through the cosmos, stopping off throughout lands of astrology and […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Shokus Apollo Releases Tresvant
My Team DAR brother Shokus Apollo returns to the mic to deliver his first album after an almost two-year hiatus from solo work. Tresvant, named after Apollo’s alter ego “Apollo Tresvant,” features a mix between smoker-friendly production and heavy emphasis on lyricism, even on the turn-up songs such as “High Tide.” Keeping true to the […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @SpeedontheBeat Drops Another Loosie in SSS2
About a week ago, I dropped “For Her” (b/k/a “Se Roquel 2”) and the response was a bit “eh it’s aight.” Maybe I shouldn’t have dropped it around the same time as KOD. Maybe I should’ve thought a bit more about taking creative liberties with my girl’s name and whatnot. Heck, to return from a […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Wayback Wednesday: @TrueGodImmortal’s "The Dawn"
I originally flipped this track (Willie Hutch’s “Never Let You Be Without Love”) for The Sh*t I Shoulda Dropped for a track dealing with my relationship with Raquel and my first-born son. It’s a pretty deep song, and details where I was mentally and whatnot before Raquel and I reconciled after the original One Year Later and […]
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