No big point explosion like is sometimes seen but Alluswe has been steadily moving up on thesixtyone.com. The R&B genre doesn’t seem to move as quickly as some other genres on the site.
The numbers:
Currently sitting with 72 points, 13 playlist adds, and placing at #39 of 61 R&B artists. There’s a big jump in points after #36 and a couple of other tiers as you go up. Alluswe is aiming to crack the next tier.
As far as ‘activity’ goes, Alluswe places 5 songs in the top 30 for R&B (Note: talking about ‘activity’, not points). Last week’s activity chart was crazy with 5 Alluswe songs in the top 6.
Out of the band’s songs, “So Good” currently has the most bumps
Lyrics: Kill A Man Where He Stands So its No Future/
Conceived it All in Advance So its No Flukes But/
Back Track To The Night before, When Life Was Pure/
He’s Staring At his Wife like Girl I Can’t Wait Til 2morrow!/
Or The Next Day, Til We Both Get Grey/
Ok, Flash Forward, Move Fast Toward, As The Blast For/
A Bullet Soars Thru More Than Flesh of Just One Man/
It’s That Brother on the Block Wit A Sun Man/
Its That Mother on The Clock Getting Funds Fam/
It’s That child Wit A Dream to Be Bigger Than What Anyone Conceives/
Closing His Eyez Just Hoping That He Never Bleeds/
Trapped in A Country Infested wit Disease/
Plaguing The Mind, Inherited Never To Leave
It’s Inevitably, The Undoing of The Unjust/
Never Need To Draw Heat, Cuz I Sun Trust/
They Gon Bust Til They Aint Got The Power Too/
I Hope The Words That I Spit Will Empower/
Don’t Let The Anger In Your Heart, It Devours You/
If Amadou The Bright Thing Like Diallo/
The Voice of The Truth Speaking Thru Them Drums Thats Hollow/
Radio Raheem Say Scream On Em!, Sean Bell Say Gleam On Em!, Pac Say King On Em!/
Turn Up The Light & Let The Beat Beam On/
Let The Heat Steam On!/
El Keter (rhymes with ‘better’ not ‘beater’ who knew? not I. knowledge is power folks) dropped a nice entry on the Sean Bell verdict. Good insights and reminders for turning our outrage into something productive.
The Roots ripped it on the Late Show with David Letterman. They performed Rising Up from the new album Rising Down. The song features Chrisette Michele and Wale. Both artists turn in great guest performances.
The crew repped justice by donning all black. ?uestlove sported a custom black tee reading “NOT GUILTY?!!!” Some members wore pins also.
The Late Show performance
Did the Roots kill this performance or what?
Official video
Cop that new CD! In stores, today!
Been bumping it since Saturday (pre-order copy came in the mail early, direct from the Okayplayer store).
Briefly mentioned this song ‘Inflation’ in the last blog and that it wouldnt be heard….well, here it is.
This is basically a demo we recorded on an iPod microphone in a rehearsal room, 4/15/07.
Lorne Behrman on guitar Terrence Jones on bass
Myself on the sloppy, drunken drums. Apologies to Kevin “TheGoodReverendDrJ” Nicholson who also drummed in this session. This was a recording we made before he got to the session. The recording we made with J had my scratch vocals all over it so couldn’t really use it.
Looped up and EQ’d what I could, added the keys this weekend and recorded a cleaner version of the lyrics (see previous blog).
Left the long intro so you could get a feel for the loose nature of this recording and also could sit in the session with us.
Emcees….there’s a blank 2nd verse there…. and the track is available for download from last.fm. Would love for you to collaborate and to hear you speak out on this situation.
Fermented Spirits is a band/project that we (myself and HajiHaj of Dumhi fame) started about 4 years ago. We started working on Demystification at that time. Demystification features guest appearances from Houston emcee Soulbrotha, Flud (dumhi, Imperial Poets), Monica Stephenson, and Von Pea and Donwill of Tanya Morgan.
We each had a number of things going on in life and other musical projects, but after many starts and re-starts, the project has now been pressed up. Here it is, in its entirety, for free. It’s also available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon if you’re inclined to show your support in that way. There are also physical copies available (see artwork below). I don’t want to fill up this blog entry with detail after detail, but….if you’d like to know more, please stop by the Fermented Spirits Myspace page.
And most importantly, I would love for you to comment on the music (good, bad, whatever)!
