New Leak from Breakup Music: “Funeral Groupies”
Posted Jun 06, 2011
I have a hard time being professional. (Hopefully that’s not news to any of you by this point.) When I get something done, I want to just send it out to The Fans Yo©. Instead, I’ve been cultivating about 5 different albums for the past year or so. Pretty much all of my favorite work I’ve done is currently behind the curtain of the Book & Snake show we call World Around Records. This track is one of the best.
Taken from my next album, Breakup Music, which is entirely produced by the sound mystic and beat painter Dr. Quandary, this song is the beating heart of our approach to love songs. We wanted to take a holographic approach, not so much a concept album...more of an LSD trip than a movie.
Source: Credentials Hip Hop
CHH: Why is your upcoming EP called Breakup Music? What inspired that title?
HJ: I know every rapper says this nowadays, but it was inspired by a Joni Mitchell song, Both Sides Now. I already had a track called Breakup Music done, but I thought it was too sneering, too cruel. People still need that, of course, but I wanted to balance it out. So I kept getting
more and more material flowing, hitting this universal theme of Love, Ending, and it evolved into a dope EP. Then, I suddenly and predictably found myself single at the beginning of this year. At the same time, a couple rappers I really respect heard the EP material and wanted to get on board, so it’s evolved into an album and we’ll be recording it all in March. Breakup Music is really a love letter, though, it’s not some morbid emo navelgazing sh*t. I’m trying to emphasize the growth, the change, the positive aspects of these horrible phases we all have to go through. It’s definitely the most complex album I’ve done so far.
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