Elfen’s What’s Old To You Is New To Me Underground Hip Hop Monday
This weeks What’s Old To You Is New To Me Underground Hip Hop Monday artist of the week is Marlowe.
“An artist afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Over a half-century later, the axiom remains true for hyper-kinetic hip-hop innovators, North Carolina’s L’Orange and Solemn Brigham—the hard-boiled duo behind the fun house fever dream, Marlowe.
Released on Mello Music Group, Marlowe is a triumph of ambition, a rap bricolage blending prohibition and civil rights-era samples with Asian psychedelic rock flourishes. Solemn Brigham controls the microphone like a general who can’t help but be right. His flow is a blitzkrieg. It’s an Olympian sprint, gliding over snares and kick-drums like hurdles. He’s a showman seeking revolution—resolute in his desire to strike equilibrium between awareness and entertainment.
Solemn applies the fictional protagonist’s search for the truth towards different ends. His crimes are existential yet specific, rooted in the injustices of the past and the attempt to redress them in the present. He’s an artist perennially seeking something to fight for, channeling energy from the music of the civic rights era, stealing timeless rhythms and inflection from classic funk and soul. An old soul with original ideas, tapping into the eternal reservoir of Sam Cooke to Ice Cube, Otis Redding to Chuck D, Curtis Mayfield to KRS-One.
Over the course of 17 tracks, Solemn hurls sharp darts at counterfeits trying to crack his religion, the onslaught of time, and prevaricating rappers—all while paying homage to those who paved the road for him. He bounces off the beats like a trampoline placed in a speakeasy, doubling up on the vocals, burrowing into dense cryptic tangles of slang and then stretching them out with melodic ease.
With dazzling cinematic mise en scene, L’Orange crafts a world that sounds like an old-time medicine show dropped into 90s Brooklyn, with Solemn summoning the holy spirit of Big L. Cymbals crash, drums pound, fuzzy guitars ride out, a bronze rain of horns cascade. This is gorgeous celestial dust, high-powered fuel with every syllable meticulously ordained. Marlowe cracked the case, but how they did it can only become clear under deeper investigation.
Solemn got some killa rhymes. Just click play and you can decide if this album Is garbage or a head banga!!
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Young Jeezy & Jeannie Mai Form The Latest Rumored Couple
Jeannie Mai has been living her best life since her divorce.
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Young Jeezy may have scooped up the newly-single Jeannie Mai. A recent photo featuring the pair posing with two other couples prompted fans to speculate about their relationship status. It shows Malika, who uploaded the image, sitting in front of her partner O.T. Genasis. Next up are Trey Songz and Lori Harvey, whose relationship has been confirmed publicly. Then, comes Jeannie Mai posing in front of the “Bottles Up” artist. Although Jeezy and Mai could simply be friends, social media users are expressing some excitement at the prospect of romance.
The Real host has previously admitted to dating someone who had been a guest on her show. Young Jeezy is part of that group. This doesn’t prove an actual courtship, but viewers have noticed Mai’s fondness of rappers. Check out the clip below for this take.
Mai recently navigated through a high-profile divorce with Freddy Harteis. Their relationship lasted a decade and came to a bitter conclusion in 2017. “One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, ‘You don’t truly know a person until they don’t get what they want. That’s when they show you who they are,” Mai recalled during an interview with The Breakfast Club. “You wouldn’t think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it,” she added.
Azealia Banks Responds To Threats Of Legal Action Over Comments About Ireland
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Azealia responds to her latest controversy.
Azealia Banks sparked some more controversy when she made offensive comments about the Irish and Irish women after an encounter on an airplane. She went on to describe Irish people as “a bunch of prideful inbred leprechauns who have ZERO global influence.”
Since her social media rant, an Irish lawyer responded to her words with a statement in which he asserted that Banks’ words are punishable by law apparently, explaining that anything deemed to be hate speech on social media is a crime.
“Hi #azeliabanks [sic] in light of your recent comments on #instagram about Irish women & Irish people generally, perhaps I can introduce you to the #CommunicationsAct2003 (s127) before you land in England,” said Tomas McGarvey.
According to McGarvey, Section 127 of the UK’s Communications Act of 2003 says that it’s an offense to “send a message that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character over public electronic communications network.”
Banks took to Instagram to address Mcgarvey’s new revelation and accused the threat to be spurred form racism, adding that if her actions are punishable by law, then so are the responses that she’s gotten.
“Racism at its finest,” she penned. “The eagerness to put a black woman in a cage. EL OH EL. If I’m gettin arrested then we will have to go through my DM’s and arrest each and every person who said racist things to me, which would mean you’d basically need to arrest the entire country of Ireland. I’m not sure what kind of point these folk are trying to prove but the racism keeps jumping out of them like vomit on a stomach virus. Literally cannot believe the kind of negro-hunt these folk are on about. […]The fact that these people think this should scare me into submission to let people say racist things to me so long as I dont say them back is hilarious. Arrest me and THEN do what?[…] 212 will shoot straight to the top of the charts and I will become a part of UK School curriculum, Feminist Theory, he will literally make me a HUGE star for arresting me. A blessing in disguise.”
Check out some Lovelyti videos:
Azealia Banks Breaks down crying in Ireland~ They’re all ‘inbred Leprechauns’
Azealia Banks CRIES on Wild ‘N Out then goes off on Wendy & the Cast~ Hip Hop can’t AFFORD ME!!
Beyoncé talks About Difficult Pregnancy+ Azealia blasts Bey for STEALING her choreography?
Offset Implies He’s Missing Cardi B’s “Birkin P***y”
Offset is fiending for some designer sex.
Would anybody truly be surprised if Cardi B and Offset announced that they were getting back together? Probably not. At this point, it seems like it’s bound to happen. A few weeks ago, Cardi revealed that she would be filing for divorce from her husband but just days later, they were spotted on a jet ski together in Puerto Rico. A few frisky meet-ups later and it feels like the two are inseparable despite not even being seen together for a while. We know that Offset and Bardi spent the holidays together but there have been few updates since then, unless we count Cardi practically begging for sex on her live streams. The Migos rapper can be included in that conversation because, in his latest social upload, he tells the world that he’s “missing Birkin pussy.”
Of course, many believe that he’s implying that he wants to hook up with Cardi B once more. Perhaps he’s actually trolling us all and speaking about Summer Bunni but it feels like that ship has sailed.
From the “Softset” comments to the fangirls just begging him to run back to his estranged wife, there is generally a mixed reaction in the comment section. Either people are shipping the couple hard or they think the two should just go their separate ways. Do you want them to get back together? Also, where the hell is this Offset solo album???
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