Last night's Aesop Rock show at Mohawk has me thinking back to those days in college when indie hip hop was the only thing you'd hear coming out of my stereo. Quannum Spectrum, Anti-Pop Cosortium, Freestyle Fellowship, Cunninlyguists, Raptivism Records - if it was hip hop and preferably political or downright militant I was probably rocking it.
Yo Have You Heard... 2 Mex's B Boys in Occupied Mexico? 2 Mex is an LA-based emcee who's released records with the rap collective The Visionaries (LMNO, KeyKool, Writer's Block and DJ Rhettmatic), SonGodSun and Of Mexican Descent. Most of the crew's record's have been independently released on their own Up Above Records. Really really great underground LA hip hop collective, not unlike the Good Life Cafe scene and Quannum / Solesides a little further north in the Bay Area. Pretty much anything these cats drop is quality.
Sharing a couple tracks this week: "Making Money Off God" teams 2 Mex with Busdriver, another avant-garde rapper from the West Coast, "Doctors, Drums and Danger" features fellow Chicano emcee Xoloanxinxo. 2 Mex's partner in the duo Of Mexican Descent, Xolo actually shows up on half the tracks on B-Boys.
A little something extra: this real great video from another 2 Mex collabo, Look Daggers, featuring Mars Volta keyboardist Ikey Owens. Sick!
1 Ghost Writer
2 L.A. (Like…)
3 Percussion Precaution
4 Humble Is the Style of the Day (Featuring Xololanxinxo & LMNO)
5 Control Mexica (Featuring Xololanxinxo & Fermin)
6 M Is for Memo
7 Across & Down
8 Making Money Off God (Featuring Bus Driver)
9 Doctors, Drums and Danger (Featuring Xololanxinxo & Sick Jacken)
10 Offering
11 Won
12 Lord 25 (Featuring Xololanxinxo & Zen)
13 I Didn't Mean to Touch Your Hand
14 Love You the Same
15 It Will (The Won't Go Away Remix)
16 The Believe In Yourself Song (Featuring Angie Gonzalez)
17 The Truth (Featuring Jerry Quickly)
The Visionaries on wiki
2 Mex on itunes
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