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DJ Design drops “I Wanna Be Free” single ft. Gennessee
Bay Area beatmaker/visual artist DJ Design returns with new single “I Wanna Be Free” (Below System Records). Washes of synth collide with a dense horn arrangement and snappin’ drums. West-Coast emcee Gennessee guests on the track spitting a lyrical dissertation on the woes of a police state, racial profiling and surveillance.
Listen to “I Wanna Be Free” (Ft. Gennessee): https://bsr.ffm.to/iwannabefree
This is the 3rd leak from the forthcoming Survival Web Vaults LP to drop in vinyl and digital formats later this year. Additional album guests include Fashawn, Phat Kat, Elzhi, Guilty Simpson, LMNO and more.
Listen to “No Less Than The Trees And The Stars” (Ft. Fashawn): https://bsr.ffm.to/nltttats
Listen to “The Blues” (Ft. Phat Kat & Elzhi): https://bsr.ffm.to/theblues
While more of a behind-the-scenes player DJ Design’s (aka Keith Griego) work has had a sizable imprint on the history of modern hip-hop. As a DJ/Beatmaker and visual artist he has contributed production and art since the late 90’s for notables including The Beastie Boys, Madlib, A.G., Foreign Legion, Rasco, Peanut Butter Wolf and Phat Kat.
As a visual artist, his high point of work with the label was his design of the 12” vinyl cover for Lootpack member Madlib’s side project Quasimoto. The cover for “Microphone Mathematics” featured Design/Griego’s visual representation of Lord Quas as a sort of alien aardvark, which was adopted by the artist and has since become one of the most iconic and enduring
characters in the game today.
More Info: https://www.belowsystem.com/
Skillionaire Global Enterprises is proud to present The Last Shall Be Thirst, the new album from the legend Thirstin Howl The 3rd. Out now via all streaming outlets, the album is packed with features and production from hip-hop greats and keepers of the culture today (listed below).
A video was released for the first album single (filmed at NBA hall of famer Kevin Garnett’s Content Cartel Studios) “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street” (pays homage to Ultramagnetic MC’s and Kool G Rap) featuring Young Hump (Digital Underground).
Watch official video for “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street”: https://youtu.be/tkCLQrWwtoo?si=8WwCJDFfVD0ojKff
Another video filmed at Content Cartel Studios for the song “Feet On The Gas” featuring Rampage The Last Boy Scout will drop next week. The video was co-sponsored by Avirex, who released the following commercial featuring footage from the forthcoming video.
Watch new Avirex commercial featuring Thirstin Howl & Rampage: https://youtu.be/blNtpjmyJXE
The Last Shall Be Thirst also features contributions from DV Alias Khryst, Tash (Tha Alkaholiks), Snaggapus, Rampage The Last Boy Scout (FlipMode Squad) Dana Dane, MC Supernatural, Psycho Les, Varona, Rebecca Billips, Beme Mystique, DJ Muggs, Statik Selektah, DJ Heron, Stu Bangas and Giovane Platone & OG Bigg Dabb.
Stream full album via Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lSBD6Dd0XFrchxq9pCC9H5YoW9WX7tRxI&si=I5zkOQ6Nf4IhVYDn
Speaking on the significance of the album title Thirstin Howl The 3rd relayed “I was having lunch in Los Angeles with my friend Abnormal (who was on The Lyricist Lounge TV show with me and was also the voice of Hip Hop Harry on Children’s TV). In the middle of the conversation, he dropped that quote from the Bible and I said, wow, that’s a perfect title for one of my albums.”
Of the recording process he also said “I record music all the time so I’m not necessarily envisioning which tracks will go on a specific project, but I do send specific tracks to artists that I think would sound good on there. However Young Hump was in the studio for all the tracks he appears on (three of them) and Psycho Les and Tash were staying with me in Miami when they were working on The Liknuts project.”
Also coming this year is the long awaited short musical film Don Chicharron which also features Latin Hip-Hop legends Hurricane G (RIP, who was the first female member of EPMD’s Hit Squad), TMP AKA The Microphone Prince (the first latin emcee to sign to a major label),DJ Exes (also of Grupo HNE) as well as Lo-Life affiliate/emcee Luey The 4th.
More info: https://thirstinhowlthe3rd.com/
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