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Our new shit! This track might have the fastest turnaround from creation to release we've ever had. Which is dope cause the last song was probably more than five years old. Think about that. That shit's ridiculous. I made this beat after deciding that none of the songs we have stashed were the "right" song, which means it was a furious session (in either late january or early february - whatever) fueled by wine, weed, and ghosts. I recall pretty much finishing it (80%)  before i either got discouraged or bored, which despite sometimes being the same thing, in this case was not. It does occur to me the absurdity of making such a fine distinction when i don't remember which one, but here we are. I left the studio and cast the whole ordeal aside and by the time i showed up to the studio the next morning jay had pretty much written this whole shit right here. If you're wondering what the sound effects at the beginning and end are, let me set the scene...

1. Snowstorm

2. Space

....

3. Imploding into a black hole

4. Snowstorm again

Also, if you're wondering if the track is available for purchase somewhere, motherfucker it's available for purchase everywhere. 

in

Oh sh*t, the dream stomping on these motherf**kers. I'm not going to front, I think we all know that one instrumental break shouldn't have made the cut, I'm definitely going to make myself an edit without that. This sh*t is still great though. He's embracing the current ideology of not having the most polished takes which adds a dope rawness to it. There's just something beautiful about "Ima love you, all the way to my tomb, ima love you all the way to the moon" over some sci fi metallic brass band sh*t. Plus it really sounds like he means it on the "if we don't make it that'll be tragic" part.

in

If this isn't beautiful then I don't know what the f**k is. Is it a song about manual sex? Is it a song about masturbation? you'll have to come to your own conclusions about all that. If you're still feeling it at fifty four seconds then goddamnit are you in for a treat. I wish I could say more but it's hard to concentrate while I keep playing it. I think I might go full fifty cent/busta rhymes/lil wayne and jump on this motherf**ker.

in

Maryland sh*t.  This is a jam right here. Beautiful stuff really. The sample is crazy. The rapping is a+. Not to be confused with "the rapper is a+"*

* I used to love this joint. Which was hard for me cause I was hella tight over a+  being only a couple years older than me with a record deal. I was tripping as an eleven year old. Also check az dropping "quebec" in it, though he mispronounces it like a motherf**ker.

in

When I said I don't usually get into instrumental music I made a point of specifying "instrumental rap music" because I f**king love instrumental music. I'm not familiar with much of black milk's discography other than the track "I guess" which is a goddamn banger. I don't want my ignorance to sound like a reflection on his music because that wouldn't make any sense, like I said, I've never really checked for his music. Truthfully I avoided it after reading things about him that made it seem like he was pretty heavily on that dilla sh*t. This is nothing like that dilla sh*t, though I did read/hear that dilla was a huge fan of brasilian music, which would have probably been our conversational common ground. I love this sh*t. It reminds me of being a little dirty faced mulatto kid in neon patterned shorts running around the slums of sao paulo with my cousins eating corn starch out of tins like f**king post apocalyptic orphans. That was around the same time my uncle gave me a tambourine, which after his death from cancer I've restructured in my personal mythology as him recognizing musical genius in a six year old. Looking back objectively though, it was probably because of the michael jackson curls I was rocking. There's a strange green tint to all my memories from that time. I wonder if that's indicative of something. Or was it just the heat from the jungle mixed with heat from all the tightly crowded bodies mixed with the heat from the pollution mixed with lesions in my brain. Who knows?

in

I have no idea where I came across this right here but this sh*t is a heat rock as your mother allegedly used to say. All I know is that he's from arkansas and he's got a f**king hilarious moniker. These guys have to be on tour in this video, that's pretty much what our first canadian tour looked like. Except we had a bunch of south americans with us and everybody looked dead from consumption and sleep deprivation.

in

Oh sh*t. I've been hearing about this kid but sometimes it's just too much, you know what I mean? two new rappers a day, each one supposed to be the dopest one yet, and then you hear it and it's all the exact same middling crumb sh*t. All that to say, this track is dooope. It all comes together on this one.

in

You know with all the stuff going on between meek and drake, it really kind of makes me think about how similar they are. Or at least how similar my experiences(/relationships?) are with them. I smoked weed and watched drake grow up on degrassi and I smoked weed and watched meek grow up rapping on youtube. I have a feeling that part of what meek can't stand about drake is a sensitivity that he might recognize in himself, kind of like how marvin gaye's father was probably a repressed homosexual and killed marvin because he thought he was waving around his freak flag too much. Meek is a street dude and as a street dude you can't really let everyone know everything is hurting your feelings, unless you shoot sh*t up all the time. When you're trying to rap you can't shoot sh*t up all the time, rapping on corners leaves you hella exposed. I knew a dude once who loved the original "slippin" and I always clowned him for it. That may have been more me than him though. This sh*t is everything I like about meek mill and one of my favorite versions of future.

in

Try this sh*t out. Next time you're watching the aux cord as if it's a snake about to fall off a cliff and you finally get your chance, come back and play this joint right here. Halfway through, your people will probably say "oh shit, who is this?" and you'll say "tree". Next time you find yourself with that aux in your grubby hands again, come back here and play this track again. If your people say "oh shit, who is this?" don't f**k with them no more.

in

ooohhh sh*t, kano's back! I remember when I first heard kano, in the days when you had to be searching for a british rapper to ever hear a british rapper. I'm telling you it was not easy to find a british dude that wasn't rapping double time, and I was officially over that around then. Jay z had recently cemented his position as the f**king best to ever do it and they were calling him "the uk's jay z" and so you know, that was a good cosign. Eventually he rediscovered his grime/garage? roots and I discovered guitars and that was that, until jay lindsay put me on to the tv show "top boy" in which he had/has? a principle role. If you haven't seen that shit you're bugging. It's been three years since the last season but there were two years between the first two, so who knows. The british are wild with their tv shows man, 3 episodes a season, years between seasons and all that crazy sh*t, absolutely no respect for the audience. That's all whatever though cause IT'S 2016 AND THIS SONG IS CRAZY! kano's still rapping double time but I've come to terms with it. My own issues man, my own issues.

in

This is the first track we released as DEEPHEAD. Drugs part one is a lil kim song from the hardcore album. We all loved the original song when we were kids, but it's one of those joints, the f***ing nineties man, where the first verse keeps going, and going, and going and it loses hella steam. You're pretty much about to hit that dreaded fast forward button and sit in silence for thirty seconds when then the hook kicks in and it's f**king amazing again. I'm not saying ours is better, I mean there can't be a part two without a part one and all that, but ours doesn't lose any motherf***ing steam.

in

Highly Anticipated. UZI Vert "LUV Is Rage"

How come no one told me about this song? this sh*t is dooooope. It sounds like the best versions of weezy, fetty, and cudi all at the same time. On the mixtape there's a song featuring young thug. I can't check that sh*t, my brain will f**king explode.