This is the latest MV from Seattle’s hip hop favorites, Blue Scholars. The track is “Seijun Suzuki”, from their Cinemetropolis album. I haven’t checked it out myself but I’ll be sure to share my thoughts once I have.
[update] Clean, stylistic cinematography that matches the decidedly off-centre content of the song. The incorporation of Samurai swords was the icing on the proverbial unpredictable cake that is this video. It’s like a weird dream… with street cred.
August gave us the release of the FreEP from Bambu x the Diamond Supply Co. featuring the production of 6 Fingers. One of the tracks, “Bang” has been given a visual treatment comprised of performance footage from the 1st half of his current stint on the road with the Blue Scholars for the Cinemetropolis tour. Not a bad way to keep tabs on the MC as he makes his way across the country.
Take a look at this dope performance clip of Bam doin his thing while touring with the Blue Scholars at their stop in Seattle. He spits a little something new and old via “Just(Us)” and “Iron Bam“. It’s crazy how hyped up that audience is! Other MCs need to take note cause that’s how you flippin move a crowd. Audio gets a little distorted at times but it’s still a very watchable clip.
Seattle’s own hip hop group Blue Scholars and LA native emcee Bambu have joined forces together to announced their first national headlining tour appropriately called the Blue Scholars and Bambu Tour. The tour will officially kick start on September 14th in Vancouver, Canada and will be spread out across 30 venues. The schedule will be after the jump and if they’re playing a city near you, you should definitely check it out!
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Fresh off the release of the Blue Scholars’ latest album, Cinemetropolis, they have a new music video for the single “Fou Lee”. The duo continues to expand their sound and push boundaries with their music although I was a bit underwhelemed by the MV. Although it’s an interesting watch with some fun moments, the bulk of it is also a bit uneventful. Get both the song and full album on bandcamp now or iTunes & Amazon starting tomorrow.
Let’s start off our first post of the month right, shall we? The long awaited new full-length album from Seattle’s Blue Scholars – Cinemetropolis - has finally dropped. Right now it’s available only on Bandcamp (which means you can stream it too; see the widget below) but look for it on other major services like iTunes & Amazon come June 14th, only a couple weeks away. Pick up the 15 track release now!
Hip-Hop group Blue Scholars has always shown nothing but the utmost for their hometown of Seattle. That includes the major loss of the Supersonics franchise as the team was relocated to what is now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Perhaps thats why it must have been a no-brainer for the Scholars to team up with the vocal group Sonicsgate. The following clip is the outcome, an ode to the lost Sea-town team and a hopeful proclamation for their return. It’s called Slick Watts – A Day in the Life of Seattle without the Sonics.
The folks behind the Home:Word album, Magnetic North & Taiyo Na have finally put out the music video to their song “I Got My” featuring Jin. But I doubt you’re ready for what you’re about to see as the crew has dug deep and reached out to all their contacts, friends, affiliates, etc to be a part of this MV. There are cameos from the Blue Scholars, Denizen Kane, Conchita Campos, DFD, Christina Chung, FM, Thomas Apartment, James Ha, Vienna Teng, DanAKADan, El Gambina, Cynthia Lin, Dawen, Bambu, DJ Phatrick, Kiwi, Heather Park, Vudoo, Lyrics, Manifest, Alfa, AJ Rafael, Jay Legaspi and a whole lot more. Those are just some of the musicians, there are a ton of activists, media folk, dancers, artists, students, educators, and more who also had a role. This is easily one of the dopest concepts put to music and unifying MV’s I’ve seen all year. Great release.
I love it when artists put a fresh spin on their music and switch up the topics and concepts. Seattle’s Blue Scholars integrate a little time travel talk with some spaced out production and dope synths to create a refreshing track that stands out in a sea of lazy Hip-hop music. I’m really diggin this track, and lucky for me it’s a free DL. Well, I guess you can have it too.
Dumb and company put on a podcast series called Knocksteady live, and last week featured Seattle’s Hip-Hop duo the Blue Scholars. They came through to interview, perform, and just plain chill. You can plain DL the entire podcast on iTunes but for your A/V pleasure they’ve posted up the footage from the live in-studio performance. Can’t wait for their Cinemetropolis album to drop.
