Dirty Science presents a Fake Shore Drive exclusive premiere. This film is dedicated to the misguided and fallen sons in the struggle. “Danger Us” is a story about the reality of what happens when you come up young and wreck-less. Day in and day out we lose our youth to street dreams and misguided ambitions. As an Englewood (Chicago) native I have been aware of the cycle my whole life. I’ve lost friends to the streets, either by way of the gun or the cell, and I watch the path be glorified through tv, internet and music. You hardly ever see anybody talking about what the outcome really is though. This piece does. Coming from a city where violence is at an epidemic level, like so many other cities in America, it seems so important that video as a dominant means of communicating with the youth, should be used to awaken them to the realities of their decisions and offer them a perspective that doesn’t tell them that walking a destructive path is cool.
The songs message itself was originally conceived by Chris Kramer of Tensei when the group produced the track. Through the writing and singing gift of Yaw Ageyman , the metaphor of the zombie was given birth, it refers to the sometimes absent state of mind that you can have in your youth, when there is very little thought between action and reaction. In some cases that instinctive exuberance is deadly and the fact that you can be desensitized by an environment that has been tragic long before you got there…. doesn’t paint the picture of a positive outcome. The ghetto is not savage, its lost. The stick up kid in this video (Darius Johnson) is a character like so many of our lost sons and brothers, his life is turmoil, his conscious is compromised and his actions are vicious. He victimizes for survival, not oblivious to his wrong but not aware that he has alternatives. As with so many stories his ends in retribution, another sacrifice to a cycle that never seems to end.
Filmed and Directed by: ADaD
Camera and assistant director: Keith Purvis
CAST
Stick up kid
Darius Johnson
Victim
Christopher O’Neal
The O.G.
Scott Sangster
Man on the street
Christopher Kramer
-ADAD
“2018 IS ABOUT TO BE AN ACTIVE YEAR
Starting with this release, a single from a six song EP entitled “Danger Us” that I created with Tensei on production. Its a strong jump for the new year, music from deep in the catalog when i first found that i could stretch my wings and do new things youre not used to hearing from me. It will be available JANUARY 12 2018 accross all streaming platforms and you can support directly by naming your own price on my Bandcamp page.” -Adad
Check out the video to the single “Walk into the night” below:
Blame One and hardworking producer J57 are back with their first release together in over four years. Titled “These Days,” the track also features Blu and Canadian singer Jaclyn Gee.The song comes ahead of the duo’s forthcoming sophomore album (the follow-up to 2013’s Walk In The Sun), and is co-produced by J57 and G Koop. Koop has co-produced massive hits like Migos’ “Bad & Boujee” and DJ Khaled’s “I Got The Keys.”
Blame One and J57’s project is expected to arrive sometime in 2018.
Returning with another soul-speckled original, Blu and Exile share the lovingly animated “Sold The Soul” video. A charmingly dusty, piano-led boom-bap track, “Sold The Soul” concerns the conflict between commercial appeal and artistic vision. Creatively dramatizing the central battle between Blu and his soul with gothic animation, the “Sold The Soul” video is a cosmic delight, grounded by Blu’s lyrics, which appear onscreen throughout the video. Directed and animated by Justin Herman
Ten years out from the release of their modern classic, Below the Heavens, and on the heels of their ten-year anniversary BTH tour and the just-dropped Before the Heavens album, Blu and Exile cap the year off with “Christmas Missed Us”. The duo’s Christmas single is vintage B&E, packed wall-to-wall with Blu’s signature flow and the sort of soulful, swung beat we’ve come to expect from Exile.
This holiday season, grab your copy of the single on picture disc 7″ vinyl, backed by the instrumental, and limited to 300 copies — available only at FatBeats.com.
“Christmas Missed Us” appears on the Amazon Original Playlist “Christmas Soul.” Listen at amazon.com/christmassoul
