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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.
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Download the Feast or Famine EP here:
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➜ RCRD LBL: DaVinci - Beer, Bitches & Bullshit (Ft. Roach Gigz & C Plus) [Prod. Al Jieh]
i made this beat. rcrdlbl featured it today.
we dropped our follow up release to davinci’s debut album the day the turf stood still. its an ep called feast or famine.
hope yall enjoy it. please spread the word for us small timers. #thorobred #swtbrds
Davinci - Feast Or Famine EP (SWTBRDS, 2011)
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everyone go download this album. this is one of the best albums of the year. hiphop on another level by oakland’s squadda bambino and mondre man. proud to say i got to work on this album. my man ammbush mixed it, and i mastered it. shout out to soft money and walkmaster flex too.
Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes 2 (Bandcamp, 2011)
On first listen this is sounding like the most mature and cohesive effort to date from MA to date. But it’s also entirely possible that they dropped seven albums that I missed last month and that one or more of those could be even more mature and show greater cohesion. The world may never know…
jiehhh, my new music video, c/o max capacity.
Video Premiere: Al Jieh (Drums & Ammo) “Love Mind” | XLR8R
check out my latest video! and on XLR8R even
and check out Al Jieh on tumblr: straightmaxin.com
Frequent DaVinci producer and SWTBRDS collective/label crew member Al Jieh has teamed up with pixel artist Max Capacity for a video that takes scrambled “Skinemax” to the next level.
drums & ammo, vol. 1: extra clip (ep)
new drums & ammo ep dropping tmrw. called ‘extra clip’…think of it as a supplement to our vol. 1 instrumental album that we dropped in april. the ep is full songs, not instrumentals…all produced by us (ammbush, 6fingers, rel, & myself).
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new song i produced. my boy rae rosero on the sanging, davinci on the rappings. song will be on our new ep, extra clip.
Rae Rosero - Addicted (feat. DaVinci)
produced by Al Jieh
this is a new video for our drums & ammo album. i’m too lazy to type out the backstory right now, so i’m just gonna copy and paste the official press release.
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Listeners might remmeber this song from DaVinci’s debut album last year, The Day The Turf Stood Still. “This beat was always one of my favorites—real straight-forward, hard shit—so I wanted to include the beat on the instrumental album. On top of that, I always wanted to do a video for this song when TDTTSS came out, but we never got a chance to,” explains Al Jieh, expanding on the Drums & Ammo video series, by adding, “We’re not content with just being beat-makers; we’re producers. That’s why all of the music videos for an insturmental album showcase the finished song.”
Arguably the darkest single in the series, “‘Round Me” is a dourly realistic visual. The video, directed by D&A’s REL (Ariel Nuñez), was shot partly in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. “DaVinci always talks about ‘hustling hard, like an immigrant,’” says Al Jieh. “Chinatown is all hustlers, and it’s a big part of San Francisco history. REL thought it would be fitting to also have him in front of a the US flag mural out there, because there’s no bigger hustlers than our government.” Adding to the theme, director REL also captured other iconic symbols of hustle, so he pieced in scenes of SF’s Financial District. Indeed, it was, as DaVinci’s whispery flow and the video’s shadowy slow-mo shots ultimately compliment Al Jieh’s haunted instrumental perfectly.
Next month, Drums & Ammo will be dropping an EP that will serve as a supplement to Vol. 1 and will include the songs that have been featured as a part of the instrumental album’s music video series, and more.
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.
hola. i dropped a new album today, along with my muchachoas ammbush, 6fingers, and rel. it’s called DRUMS & AMMO, VOL. 1, and it’s an instrumental album, 100% beats. slumpers. blaps. d/l on to your slaptop for free, then burn on to cd so you can here them 808s thump in the whip.
click the pic to download from our site. (or, there’s the direct bandcamp link and soundcloud link too.)
we’re gonna be dropping our first instrumental compilation soon. we = drums & ammo, a production crew made up of ammbush, 6fingers, rel, and me. this is the cover.
