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Paper Cut From The Obit
''Paper Cut From the Obit'' is a studio album by American musician Celestaphone. It was released on February 17, 2023, through Drumhex. The release features sole production by Celestaphone and includes guest appearances from Armand Hammer, Defcee, MC Paul Barman, Moor Mother and R.A.P. Ferreira. Critical reception Francesco Nunziata of '' Ondarock'' gave the album a 7 out of 10, writing: He said of Celestaphone's rapping, it's "''metà strada tra la declamazione di un profeta su di giri e il ghigno sardonico di uno che ne ha viste tante, prima di decidere che la cosa migliore da fare è raccontare, non agire.''" (English translation: "halfway between the declamation of an amped-up prophet and the sardonic grin of someone who's seen it all before deciding it's best to narrate, not act.") OG Nick Marsh from ''Focus Hip Hop'', giving the album a 93 out of 100, said "This album is amazing. I think this is the best project I’ve heard from Celestaphone, which is saying a lot." a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestaphone
Joseph Murphy (born October 4, 1996), professionally known as Celestaphone, is an American musician and record producer. Early life Joseph Murphy was born in Riverside, California on October 4, 1996. Several members of his family are musicians, including his parents. Career 2014–2017: Early recordings and instrumental albums Celestaphone released his first solo EP, ''Glorifying'', in October 2014. His first collaborative effort was producing Dionté BOOM's single "Fish Market" the following year. The song was included in a 2015 edition of the Arkansas Times' Rock Candy journal. In 2016, Celestaphone published a second EP titled ''Minappi's Last Wondrous Escapade'', and in 2017 he released three full-length albums: ''Robosoul'', ''To Cite Psych'', and ''To Cite Fright''. The EP, along with album ''To Cite Fright'' received a nod from Raoul Rego, former webmaster at WREK, in an interview with the station published by Bandcamp Daily. The aforementioned albums, consisting prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Hip Hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres drawing equally from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, reggae, and even folk." Alternative hip hop developed in the late 1980s and experienced a degree of mainstream recognition during the early-to-mid 1990s. While some groups such as Arrested Development and The Fugees managed to achieve commercial success before breaking up, many alternative rap acts tend to be embraced by alternative rock listeners other than hip-hop or pop audiences. The commercial and cultural momentum was impeded by the then -also emerging, significantly harder-edged West Coast gangsta rap. A resurgence came about in the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Rap
Jazz rap (or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating the former while expanding the horizons of the latter." The rhythm was rooted in hip hop over which were placed repetitive phrases of jazz instrumentation: trumpet, double bass, etc. Groups involved in the formation of jazz rap included A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, De La Soul, Gang Starr, The Roots, Jungle Brothers, and Dream Warriors. Overview During the 1970s, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron placed spoken word and rhymed poetry over jazzy backing tracks. There are also parallels between jazz and the improvised phrasings of freestyle rap. Despite these disparate threads, jazz rap did not coalesce as a genre until the late 1980s. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Hip Hop
Progressive rap (or progressive hip hop) is a broad subgenre of hip hop music that aims to progress the genre thematically with socially transformative ideas and musically with stylistic experimentation. Developing through the works of innovative US hip hop acts during the 1980s and 1990s, it has also been known at various points as conscious, underground, and alternative hip hop. Progressive rap music critically examines social issues, political responsibility, and existential concerns, particularly in the context of African-American life and youth culture. Common themes include social injustice, inequality, status, identity, and religion, with discourses around ideologies such as Afrocentricity and Black religiosity. Unlike the genre's more commercially-dominant counterpart gangsta rap, prog-rap artists typically disavow intracultural violence and economic materialism in favor of constructive and educational responses such as consciousness, uplift, heritage, hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instrumental Hip Hop
Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio. While the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music creation, including recording the rapping of an MC, a turntablist or DJ providing a beat, playing samples and "scratching" using record players and the creation of a rhythmic backing track, using a drum machine or sequencer, it is most commonly used to refer to recording the instrumental, non-lyrical and non-vocal aspects of hip hop. Music production Hip hop producers may be credited as the record producer or songwriter; they may also supervise recording sessions. Hip hop instrumentals are colloquially referred to as beats or musical compositions, while the composer is called either a programmer, songwriter or beat maker. In the studio, the hip hop producer often functions as both the composer and as a traditional record producer. They are sometimes called Orchestrators, P. Diddy is an example of one, and they are ultimately responsible for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Year Of Octobers
''A Year of Octobers'' is the first collaborative studio album by American rapper MC Paul Barman and record producer Celestaphone. It was released August 20, 2021, on Drumhex. Barman performs as virtual band member and alter ego YOUNGMAN on each song, except for "Guillotine", performed as himself. The album was produced entirely by Celestaphone. Background The YOUNGMAN character was created during conversations MC Paul Barman had with rapper MF DOOM. Their earliest appearances include songs "YOUNGMAN Speaks on (((race)))" on 2018's ''(((echo chamber)))'', and "The Young Man Has A Point (Nurture)" from Milo's 2017 album ''Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?!'' Critical reception Brauch Owens of ''HipHopSince1987'' stated "''A YEAR OF OCTOBERS'' is one of a kind music masterpiece that transcends genres through a fusion of punk and hip-hop." OG Nick Marsh of ''Focus Hip Hop'' gave the album a 91 out of 100, saying, "Celestaphone’s dynamic, layered, detailed production is phenomenal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Hammer (music Group)
Armand Hammer is an American hip hop duo from New York City. It consists of Billy Woods and Elucid. History In September 2013, Armand Hammer released a mixtape, ''Half Measures''. It was produced by Steel Tipped Dove, Blockhead, Uncommon Nasa, and Small Pro, among others. In October that year, the duo released the first studio album, ''Race Music'', which was produced by the likes of Steel Tipped Dove, Marmaduke, Willie Green, and Blue Sky Black Death. '' Tiny Mix Tapes'' called it "a potent record about life, art, sex, drugs, politics, and violence." '' The Village Voice'' included it on the "10 Best New York City Rap Albums of 2013" list. On October 25, 2013, "Shark Fin Soup" was included on ''Spin''s "Rap Songs of the Week" list. In 2014, the duo released an EP, ''Furtive Movements''. ''The Village Voice'' included it on the "10 Best New York City Rap Albums of 2014" list. In 2017, the duo released a studio album, '' Rome''. ''Stereogum'' placed it at number 28 on the "40 Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Paul Barman
Paul Nathaniel Barman (born October 30, 1974), better known by his stage name MC Paul Barman, is an American rapper. He resides in Manhattan, New York. In 2012, ''LA Weekly'' placed him at number 14 on the "Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time" list. Early life Barman is from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He is Jewish. He attended Brown University. Career MC Paul Barman released his debut EP, '' It's Very Stimulating'', on Wordsound in 2000; it was produced by Prince Paul. His first studio album, ''Paullelujah!'', was released on Coup d'État in 2002. He released his second studio album, ''Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud'', on Househusband in 2009. He has toured with Blackalicious. He has taught a hip hop class to high school kids at the Bank Street College of Education. In 2018, he released ''(((Echo Chamber)))'', his first studio album since 2009's ''Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud'', on Mello Music Group. It included productions from MF Doom, Questlove, and Mark Ronson, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Mother
Camae Ayewa, better known by her stage name Moor Mother, is an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips, and co-leads the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss. Early life and career Ayewa was born in Aberdeen, Maryland, where she grew up in a public housing project. She moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study photography at the Art Institute. In 2016, Moor Mother released a studio album, ''Fetish Bones'', on Don Giovanni Records. The album, which was released alongside a 122-page book of poetry, was included on year-end lists by '' Pitchfork'', '' Rolling Stone'', and '' The Wire''. In 2017, she released a studio album, ''The Motionless Present'', on The Vinyl Factory. It featured collaborations with Geng, DJ Haram, Mental Jewelry, and Rasheedah Phillips. The same year, she released a collaborative EP with Mental Jewelry, titled ''Crime W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elucid
Chaz Hall, better known by his stage name Elucid (often stylized as E L U C I D), is an American rapper and record producer from New York City. He has been a member of Armand Hammer, Cult Favorite, Lessondary, Nostrum Grocers, and Small Bills. Early life Elucid was born Chaz Hall in Jamaica, Queens. His mother was a singer and his father was a bassist. He grew up in Deer Park, New York. Subsequently, he moved to East New York, Brooklyn East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough l .... Career Elucid released his debut solo studio album, ''Save Yourself'', in 2016. In 2017, he released a mixtape, ''Valley of Grace''. In 2018, he released a collaborative studio album with Milo, titled ''Nostrum Grocers'', under the group moniker Nostrum Grocers. In that year, he also released a mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Woods (rapper)
Billy Woods (stylized as billy woods) is an American rapper based in New York. He is also the founder of the record label Backwoodz Studioz. Woods has been a member of Armand Hammer, Super Chron Flight Brothers, and The Reavers. Early life Billy Woods was born in Washington, D.C. His mother was an English literature professor from Jamaica. His father was a PhD Marxist writer, active in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation and then member of the government in Zimbabwe. In 1980, the family moved to Zimbabwe. After the death of Woods' father, they returned to the United States in 1989. Woods briefly attended Howard University before getting involved in New York City's hip hop scene. He started making music in the late 1990s. He wrote his "first real rhyme" at a laundromat in Kennebunk, Maine in 1997. Career Billy Woods released his debut solo album, ''Camouflage'', on his record label Backwoodz Studioz in 2003. In 2012, he released ''History Will Absolve Me''. In 2013, he released ''Dour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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