Search Their Bated Breath Archive Their Bated Breath Archive Categories Categories Follow Blog via EmailĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Note: Photo from the artist’s tumblr page. Follow Jean Deaux at soundcloud, twitter and tumblr. The arrangement is Birth of Cool cool and the hook drips with pretty vocal sensuality. Off his last record BLKSWN, tracks like Anita had the bounciness & groove of a classic record in the making. I first learned about Cam from Noname’s deeply personal, fraught, but sublime classic Telefone from 2016, a bonafide classic record of startling intimacy. On this album he explores Jazz/Funk/R&B/Rap sometimes all in one song. It opens with a child proudly going through the beginning of the ABC’s before Deaux delivers her own unique style of rap: “Imma toss you the fee / Ain’t no refunding that / I’m giving you fevers like summer back / Surfin ya hands like it’s summer jam / I got the bass for the drummer pack / I light a match to the dumbest gas / You would think it was a bum in class / Roll with the wolves in the highest grass.” Deaux’s music is smooth, elegant, sophisticated, playfully random and immensely re-playable. Some of you may have heard of Cam O’bi already, but remember the name. He holds this ability to rhyme anything, making him this fun artist that you can put on anywhere. Gilles Lellouche and Tahar Rahim star in this international drug thriller from screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri ('A Prophet') and director Julien Leclercq. The combination of Smino’s vocals and production is one that can put you in a trance.
The song calls to mind what D’Angelo and Kendrick Lamar have been touching on lately, blending a kind of flexible soul with old-school familiarity and just enough modernity to keep every second fresh. Noir is an album that you can enjoy in a room full of people or when you feel like taking moments to really appreciate different aspects of music production.
“XYZ” is a slick downtempo jam that wouldn’t sound out of place on Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun. Everything hip-hop, R&B and Future Beats The latest mixtapes, videos, news, and anything else hip-hop/R&B/Future Beats related from your favorite artists.
Smino needs to be more well known to everybody, hip hop fan or not. Louis rapper Smino and produced by THEMpeople. blkswn was my AOTY, currently listeing to NOIR. Lots of people don’t really seem to get him when they first listen, but almost everyone who gives him a full chance can appreciate what he creates because it’s pure and extremely unique. Chicago’s Jean Deaux is streaming her latest track, “XYZ”, via soundcloud and it’s a beauty - featuring St. Smino is one of my favorite musicians right now, and I share him with a lot of people I meet.