Parris LaVon – Better Off
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Directed by Ben Healey, this video combines striking visuals with entertaining effects to bring “OXYGEN” by Koga Shabazz to life. The music video follows Shabazz and his crew on their journey to secure oxygen. They pile into the van and head to the convenience store in order to get what they’re looking for. The video pulls influence from classic drill visuals, to intensive editing like Dexter Navy.
In a perpetuated culture of music production where tunes are specifically curated to hit the charts, an epidemic of shallow, looped riffs and calculated drops has taken over. There are few remaining purists who work tirelessly to preserve a hip hop’s name, and one of Seattle’s own is leading the way. A product of Seattle’s Central District, Koga Shabazz is a trained writer and vocalist whose dynamic style grounds itself in such influences as MF Doom, Isaiah Rashad, and Fela Kuti.
With intriguing lyrics that reveal the mind of an avid thinker and consistently high production value, his pure love of the genre is reflected in every track. Amidst a world of dubbed performances and singles that retread established genre tropes, Through the mentorship of local artists and figureheads Shabazz grew into his voice and transformed into an artist. After years of artist development, Shabazz finally started to gain attention his Junior year of high school. Since then, he’s dropped a mixtape and an EP, started playing sold out, electrifying shows all around the city, and has evolved as a writer and performer.
Long Island / New Jersey native Spa Boys “Hit The Strip” while gone of some Gelato for their @ggggoldbloom shot adventure.
https://youtu.be/z0jyhy6OgsM
Spa Boys are a New Jersey/Long Island based collective consisting of Jersey artist $paceman + BrownBoiPachino (who form the duo, SHOTBOI$), $ Mic and Ab Flexinn (who both hail from Long Island). Formally MHCSB, the group has evolved as they take their art including producing, graphic design and video editing to the next level, the Spa Boys are surely making names for themselves on the East Coast.
Watch the official music video for 2XX Pheno’s “No Cap”, produced By Austin Martin and directed By BenMarc.
2XX Pheno is one of the most well-known upcoming independent artists of Central Texas. 2XX moved to Killeen, TX from Chicago, IL and is now currently based in Austin, TX. He is an American rapper, songwriter and performing artist. 2XX Pheno got the attention of music lovers when he released a song titled ‘No Cap’ produced by “Austin Martin” which got over 200K views on YouTube within it’s first week. He is also well known for his most recent projects “Forever” and “Street Dreams III”.
2XX has a unique sound making him stand out against the other artists of his era. He is genuine about his passion for music which reflects in his sound and makes him one of the Hip-Hop Genre’s most relevant new Star’s. He continues to push the genre’s sound and continues to evolve exciting his fans and keeping the interests of several music channels.
Gnarly Rari first release “Crooked” off his anticipated mixtape, “The Z”. Now the single gets motion picture captured by Los Angeles videographer, Ronnie Lewis. Produced by Houston’s Smoke Dinero, fall into the “Crooked” story behind Rari’s latest on YouTube.
Gnarly Rari is an artist from the Southwest Section of Houston known as Alief. Quickly becoming popular with catchy lyrics and Superb songwriting ability. Gaining recognition on Pandora and other streaming services. Westcoast influence he has family in the Inglewood section of California. With the right guidance sky is the limit for this brilliant songwriting artist.
Father Nature, 22, is an underground Hip Hop Artist from Roseburg, Oregon. He has been releasing music since 2013 and released his first project August 2015. All the music is written and recorded in house by him and his team, Productz of Nature. He’s released several music videos and is and two mixtapes and done a few shows in the Northwest. He recently dropped a video to back his single, “Mind On My Money”. The song will be featured on his forthcoming project, “”Where You From 2”.
HVNK’s most recent release, “Wrong.”, is a dark ballad in which she showcases her wide vocal range and contemporary songwriting abilities. This track explores the feeling of love and loss; the differing harmonies on the hook represent the dark and light side of a modern relationship. We tend to get so caught up and consumed in the negativity in what other say via social media that we lose sight of the good things we see in people. Social media truly has the ability to make or break a relationship.
HVNK, born Hannah Sweet is a 26-year old singer born and raised in Niles, Michigan. She studied Vocal Performance and Theater while attending Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana and decided to move away from her small town to pursue a career in music in Dallas, Texas. She soon began to thrive in Dallas working with Houston producer Jake Markow. After the local success of her two singles Hide and Say she later decided to move to Chicago, Illinois. Growing up she has taken influence from a variety of female artist from Whitney Houston to Amy Lee, Madonna and Lana Del Rey. Her influences have led her to pursue a musical style that would be described as Dark RnB/Electro Pop.
LiL Wok is from Tennessee near the Nashville/Franklin area. He started doing music about a year ago> At first, it was hard for Wok to find own sound but he discovered using vocals meshed with autotune and layering was his niche. Using FL Studio as artillery as well, the rising rapper looks to soon dominate his section.
Lil Wok’s newest single, “The Motto” mixes rap and jugg music over a melodic GualaBeatz production.
“I just kind of went and felt the beat and made a melody in my head listening to it then freestyled to it. I spent some time mixing it at home to get my unique sound. This is an intro to my upcoming EP, “Journey Into My Mind”, a solo project.”
Kryptogram is an electronic artist, known for neo-house, which is a fresh spin on deep, jazzy-house, garage and deep tech. The Serbian-born, Chicago-bred producer, known to friends and family as Igor, grew up in a musically fruitful household as his father is a musician himself. Initially inspired by Serbian music, his affinity for house arrived years later as he was introduced to veterans including Daft Punk, Larry Heard, Junior Jack, and Todd Edwards. Kryptogram has since moved on to release stunning originals like Scarlet, Idea of You, and Bless It, as well as putting his own ‘neo’ spin remixing the likes of Waterson, and several others.
His newest audio edition comes in the form of the 3 track EP, “Neo1”. This is the first release in a planned 6 part series in conjunction with Heartist Records. Listen to “Neo1” on Spotify.
Gliz provides an alternative rock meshed production for Blueberry Ren’s break up tune, “Don’t Need You”.
“Don’t Need You” is my sixth single. My friend sent me the beat for it and a melody popped up in my head in the first 10 seconds of the beat.
I had no idea what topic I wanted to be for the beat until I found out my girlfriend had cheated on me. I was bottling up my emotions and I know that is bad for my mental and emotional health. So, I expressed my feelings on this song. This single means the most to me because of the backstory of it.
June Anajao, A.K.A. Blueberry Ren is an R n B/ Hip Hop artist. He has a distinctive style that combines up beat Hip-Hop sounds with melodic vocals. Bryson Tiller, Drake, Juice Wrld, Lil Uzi Vert, Bazzi and Bryson Tiller are Blueberry Ren’s inspirations.
Blueberry Ren hails from “The Sin City”, Las Vegas, Nevada. He emigrated with his mother from poverty-stricken Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines at the age of 9. Blueberry Ren learned the English language from TV Channels like Nickelodeon, Disney, Cartoon Network, etc.
Blueberry Ren attended Aggie Roberts Elementary School and Jacklund Schofield Middle school. Silverado High School is where he would graduate from. He graduated #55 of the Senior Class ’16.
Currently, Blueberry Ren is in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii as an Active Duty US Army Soldier. He is a Telecommunications Systems Operator. When June is on his free time, he likes writing lyrics to beats online and studying music itself.
