B-SIDES, 2008-2009
January 20th, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Occasionally, I take trips away from the Cinemetropolis to make music with other rappers. Here are a select handful of cameos from the last year and some change.
KRS/Buckshot feat. Talib Kweli & Geo
Oh Really? (prod. Marco Polo)
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When you get invited to collaborate with not one, but two, legendary artists of your craft, you can’t help but feel as if its going to either be a rite of passage or a reset button. Like taking a martial arts belt test. In the end I just had to block all that out and do what the beat (produced by Marco Polo) told me to do.
Cunninlynguists feat. Grieves, Macklemore & Geo
Close My Eyes (prod. Kno)
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You’re not indie or hip-hop, and especially not Indie Hip-hop, until you’ve done a track about going on tour. So thanks to Kno for reaching out and giving me that notch on my rap belt, right up there with “release music on vinyl” and “get bumrushed on stage by a meth head.”
Slick Corea feat. Skyzoo, J-Encite, Young Ivy & Geo
A Sound Supreme (prod. Illmind)
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I met Illmind through The Pacifics in Chicago back in 2003. He was then producing for Organic Thoughts and I was still in the middle of recording the first Blue Scholars album. That year he shot me a few beats I never recorded to (epic fail on my part). Since then, with increasing frequency, I get asked when I’m gonna rock over Illmind track. Well, I have. Once. Thanks to the homie Phil Chang, who put me on this track for his senior project/album Children of the Idiom that came together shortly after he brought us out to Dartmouth in ’08 for a show where Wale opened up for us. True story.
Macklemore feat. Geo
Church (prod. Budo)
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I was wondering if Macklemore was ever gonna put this out, and I’m glad he did (off The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009). A byproduct of the handful of Good Medicine sessions from 06-08 when any combination of us would chill at his apartment-studio and occasionally turn the mic on. This was one of those tracks made up on the spot. I wasn’t about to pass up a Budo beat with organs. Organs!
Bambu, Kiwi & Geo
Divide & Conquer (prod. Fatgums)
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One of the new exclusive joints off DJ Phatrick’s A Song For Ourselves mixtape/soundtrack for Tad Nakamura’s documentary of the same name. Fatgums flipped a sample of “Divide and Conquer” from Charlie Chin, Nobuko Miyamoto, and Chris Iijima’s monumental A Grain of Sand album and it was on.
Grynch feat. Tunji & Geo
Smoke and Mirrors
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Something happened during the mixdown and somehow my vocals were placed slightly off beat. So, no, that’s not me experimenting some new slow, delayed, cadence, which someone actually told me they thought I was doing on purpose.
Logics feat. Fice & Geo
Last Hope
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I guarantee, when it comes to this rap shit, Logics aka Young Ghangas is hungrier than 95% of you. You’ll actually find that among alot of the Tacoma cats I’ve come across. The scene is definitely growing out there, without all the venue/media/marketing resources Seattle has and takes for granted. At the same time, it weeds out all the cats who don’t take the music seriously.
I’ve heard most of these before but I really appreciate the stories behind them. Good lookin out, man. Keep doin it.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:09 pmSICK SONGS!!..NO DOWNLOAD!?!?
January 21st, 2010 at 8:31 pmAll fire! Thanks for sharing. Illmind track is intense.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:39 pmreal fresh to me thanks, makes me feel better about where I’m gonna land in the future, you know? seein the monkeys behind the magic
January 21st, 2010 at 9:27 pmyou could probably make a mixtape on just your cameos
January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 pmLast Hope, filthy, thanks for the eargasms.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 9:18 amOh Really…Buckshot AND KRS1, wow! Totally feelin’ it. I had to comment, haven’t even heard the rest of them yet.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:14 amnice… these should be on a mixtape of their own.
January 23rd, 2010 at 12:50 pmThanks for listening, folks.
Brian, Gar: Said mixtape is coming soon, including some of these tracks and a bunch of others both released and unreleased.
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:42 pmgreat news man. chee!
January 25th, 2010 at 8:13 pmnice shit. dude looking forward to the new album.
January 26th, 2010 at 7:44 pmI’m sorry, Geo!
January 31st, 2010 at 2:58 pmThanks for putting these up. “Church” is amazing. You always come with great political shit, nice to hear one speakin real on religion, which no other rapper will do. I hope I can find this track somewhere to buy. I agree, these definitely gotta be on their own mixtape!
February 11th, 2010 at 6:21 pmMan, you one of my fav emcees. I can’t tell you how much your music means to me. I just want to send some blessings cause through some of my hardest times your music reminds me that there is good in this world. You give a sh*t, and not enough do these days. One.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:52 am[...] mixtape. Nice to finally have this much material compiled in one place from this cat. Geo has been telling the public for a minute that the rapper also known as Young Ghangas is hungry. Hit the album covers below for the D/L link and see what’s on his [...]
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