Some of the best from the Northwest
This is something new. In the main version of the song, Blue Scholars choose to go in over The xx’s “Intro” instead of the regular I’ve been hearing, where The xx’s songs are included in mashups. Blue Scholars always have a lot of good lyrical content, along with a legit beat. Blue Scholars are just of the many great Seattle hip-hop acts, other notables ones include Macklemore, Common Market, Dyme Def, Grynch, and Fresh Espresso. This would have been posted yesterday if not for mediafire acting up all day.
Blue Scholars – Lumière (Main) (click to download)
Blue Scholars – Lumière (A Capella) (click to download)
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It was like November 2009 and I was rolling Beacon Ave with my friend Saman, an Iranian girl who’d grown up between the US / Kenya / England. We were in the Nissan Sentra she’d bought from a mutual friend who’d previously bought it from me, and I had bought it from another Iranian dood in Whitecenter who makes some of the best homemade Joojeh Kabob you’ve ever tasted.
She was playing this record from a band called The xx she recently was referred to by a friend or something off the iPod plugged into the tape-deck thru an adapter while powered by one of those cigarette lighter things from Radio Shack.
Yea that’s right, it’s a cigarette lighter. Funny how new cars don’t have “cigarette lighters” and instead have a circular hole thing for “power supply” that you still need to buy a special adapter for. Originally, plugging your walkman, discman, and later cellphone via adapter into these lighter plugs was an innovative way of drawing power from what was available to you as a car owner.
Now smoking cigarettes is suddenly super taboo and new cars don’t have cigarette lighters built in to them, but they still have this power-hole.
My question was, if you’re gonna make a car with a power-hole, why not just make it a REGULAR OUTLET? If you’re no longer supplying the cigarette lighter, there’s no point in keeping the whole power-hole thing in it’s original form.
Well, more and more new consumer cars have regular outlets now and that makes this whole argument a little moot.
The point is, the speakers in this Nissan Sentra weren’t very good and made the the music that’s being played out of them sound all gray. For this particular record tho, that didn’t matter. Every song on this xx record was already gray (pardon me, “grey”), they all sounded the same, and they were all awesome. Perfect for a November drive in the Town.
As we listened to this record, I turned to Saman and said “you know, one of the first things Blue Scholars became known for was flipping indie-rock samples in rap songs. It fits in with our whole eclectic, international-Seattle identity. Also, the only thing that would make us even more compatible with The xx is if the only South Asian in the group, Baria Qureshi, didn’t quit the band.”
She looked back at me and said “will you please stop talking about work for 5 seconds? I DON’T CARE. Geez.”
Blue Scholars – Lumière (Main) (click to download)
Blue Scholars – Lumière (A Capella) (click to download)
Filed under: Hip-Hop
