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Big Dese & Confidence drop “Ain’t Playing Around”
Big Dese and Confidence “Ain’t Playing Around.” New single out now from the Boston area duo is pure 90’s boom-bap bliss including Confidence’s beat-smithing and scratched-in sample hooks. Big Dese’s disrespectful bar-work and melodic sing-along chorus is at-once braggadocious, humorous and potent.
Listen to “Ain’t Playing Around”: https://bsr.ffm.to/apa
Available via all streaming services, the track will appear in the forthcoming Kool Moe Dese LP. The project will drop via Below System Records digitally on May 16th as well as in a limited vinyl edition of 100 yellow copies and 200 black.
Pre-order Kool Moe Dese LP & digital: https://bsr.ffm.to/koolmoedese
Two other singles from the project “Strike Back” and “Melt” (featuring Oak Lonetree) have previously dropped and gotten rotation from underground hip-hop gatekeepers across the globe. Guests on the project includes fellow Massachusetts spitters Just Pete and King Author (as well as the aforementioned Oak Lonetree).
Big Dese, over two decades deep in the game, makes a masterclass of balancing lyrical disrespect and self-deprecation. Fellow Massachusetts neighbor and producer Confidence has laced tracks and projects for such notables as The Legion, Neek The Exotic, Purpose (Tragic Allies), Rashad and Edo G. He specializes in creating an ill array of head-nodders crafted from deep, dusty crates of funk, soul, disco and other vinyl sources.
The emcee and producer initially met over two decades ago. Speaking on the genesis of “Kool Moe Dese” Confidence recalled “I was working on a beat recently and found some old vocals from Dese that were never used. I put the vocals over the beat and sent them over to him. He was feeling it and decided to write new lyrics for it and we just started building from there.” Regarding the album title Dese added “I always like to do a play on words on my name for my album titles. This one had such a classic Hip Hop feel to it I decided to reference a classic Hip Hop figure.”
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Soon-to-be superstar Alivia Clark makes her triumphant return following a one-year hiatus. The multifaceted talent showcases her sonic evolution through her new single, “Breathless.” “Breathless” is a culmination of genres, most notably EDM/House and Pop. The Dance-Pop, Electropop song has an R&B/Soul flair, demonstrating Alivia Clark’s versatility and immense artistry.
“Breathless” is a booming, fun feminine anthem. Alivia Clark’s sultry, seductive vocals pair well with the song’s thumping, up-tempo instrumentation. The flirtatious, sensual jam is a late-night bop that is passionate and carefree. “‘Breathless’ captures the intoxicating feeling of losing control in a moment of desire.” Alivia Clark continues, “The song lives in that space between vulnerability and power – where emotions hit harder than logic.”
Follow Alivia Clark on Instagram (@alivia314) and TikTok (@aliviaaaclark).
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