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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/
Modern day Grime-lord Tone Fultz returns to peddle that audio dope in new single, “Fentanyl Fultz.” Out now via streaming the producer drops the dissonant banger that meshes horns with some of most bombastic kick ever put to boom-bap. Pulling double-duty, in addition to production Tone also talks greasy in his murderous mic alter-ego, Messiah Of Madness.
Listen to “Fentanyl Fultz” here: https://youtu.be/DGCb3kabvAY?si=qki1MZDSuSjOFdCg
This single is the second leak from the forthcoming Tone Fultz LP, Bare Knuckle Boom Bap. Fultz revealed originally it was supposed to be a producer album but “I ended up jumping on every track so it’s just as much of a Messiah Of Madness album.”
Previous single “Talk To Um” also featured a verse from Solomon Childs (Theodore Unit). Fultz has a long-standing relationship with Solomon Childs as he has produced two tracks for him. This includes his recent “Get On Your Knees” single.
Listen to “Talk To Um” here: https://youtu.be/UHueUgrUVn8?si=sL5omvBkmfX9vd38
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