Had the pleasure of recording this last night at the Breadquarters.
Be there. I will.
Tix are available to see Yourstru.ly Presents: G-Side, Main Attrakionz and DaVinci @ The Independent, next Tuesday the 20th.
WATCH YT’s features on G-Side and Main Attrakionz
Our latest video. Shot & directed by my older brother. FEAST OR FAMINE YOU BEEZY! http://swtbrds.com/davinci
DaVinci - Paying for my Past (ft. Tenille)
im always late to posting shit. this is a song i produced for davinci. got 2 other rappers im a fan of on there too, roach & plus.
this is a must watch. i dont think theres a more honest rapper out there right now. this is a new documentary piece on davinci by the werehaus:
The Fillmore District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California which has a long history dating back to the 1800s. In the last 50 years and up until today, the redevelopment of The Fillmore District has displaced families and local businesses away from their own neighborhood.
DaVinci and his family are the few remaining natives still residing in The Fillmore.
This is a SWTBRDS.COM and WEREHAUS.TV collaboration.
Download the Feast or Famine EP here:
swtbrds.com/davinci
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san quinn - “butterfly”, off i give you my word (2004)
i still remember when they first played this on kmel. i wanna say it was summer of 04, but wikipedia says it came out in december of 04. maybe they didnt play it until summer of 05 then? anyways, time flies. this was the album that jr rider funded.
davinci - d.r.e.a.m. (ft. dj platurn) [prod. merk s. villain]
new music video i co-directed with my boy johan thomas. my brother on the edit. feast or famine.
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one part ‘fuck you, ima get mine’, one part homage to the great dexter wansel.
Mirroring the untouched nature of Wansel’s song, the song’s title represents DaVinci’s current state in his career. “Pangea symbolizes something in it’s pure, original form, as well as creation and birth,” he explains. “I dropped my debut album last year and I’m about to drop my EP, so this is all still a part of the creation of me as an artist.” Despite the airy, psychedelic feel of the song, he still brings the fire lyrically, dropping lines like, “Listen, I never had a pot to piss in/ Not to mention a block that ain’t hot to pitch in.”
this shit is mainey to me. in under 2 months, this video has over 110k views.
it’s mainey bc of, well, numerous reasons:
1. this song was recorded, and a video was shot, all within a 1.5 week time frame.
2. i made the beat bc i was digging the aphex twin sample, but also bc i thought kanye’s “blame game” concept didn’t have to end at love/relationships. i love the kanye version, but i just think that making love songs is easy, and the “blame game” concept could go beyond that and touch on some real issues folks are dealing with. davinci made a name for himself last year (2010) by dropping a debut album that touched heavily on the gentrification of his neighborhood, sf’s fillmore district. he went in on the subject, and writers/critics loved him for it. he wanted to move on in 2011, onto other artistic angles for his music…but i knew he would kill this “blame game” concept, and he did. on top of that, it was black history month, and he felt like he wanted to get some shit off his chest. “stole from the poor and gave it back to the rich, on some backwards robin hood shit, robbin’ hood shit.”
3. this is the first music video i ever shot and directed. i shot the footage over to my brother to help put it together, so this was also our first collaborative effort.
4. i shot this on my toy camera. literally a toy camera. it’s the size of my palm.
1 YEAR AGO TODAY, WE DROPPED DAVINCI’S DEBUT ALBUM, THE DAY THE TURF STOOD STILL.
1 yr ago today, a lil start up indie label SWTBRDS (Sweetbreads) from the Bay dropped SF emcee DaVinci’s debut album. Since the release, we’ve taken the show on the road to major cities such as LA, NY, and ATL, received critical acclaim on major publications such as Wax Poetics, Pitchfork, SF Weekly, URB, XLR8R, The Smoking Section, HipHopDX, XXL, Ozone, & many more—there’s literally too many to name.
Thanks to everyone who has supported in the past, present, and those who will continue to support in the future. Thanks to all those who have played a direct hand in the creation of this label, this album, and everything else in between.
2011 is going to be an even bigger year—I promise that. And if I see you in Austin next week for SXSW, tell me to buy you a drink. I will gladly do so.
Stole from the hood & gave it back to the rich, on some backwards Robin Hood shit—robbin’ hood shit.
— DaVinci breaks down gentrification into one single rap line. Genius. From the song “Blame Game”.
