Honey on bread, camel yellow
I was too tired to do the dishes so ate on a polythene
2017-04-11
Primary Genre - Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Secondary Genre - Smooth Soul, Hypnagogic Pop, Psychedelic Soul
Fav Tracks:
- Hush Money
- Jennah's Interlude
- Who Shot Luscious Lyon?
- Nappytex
- Fake Loathe
A group comprising of -
- Akua - Vox
- Jenna Bell- Vox
- Sam Wilkes - Bass
- Paul Cornish - Keys, Rhodes
- Paul Castelluzo - Guitar, Keys
- Jeff Gitelman - Guitar
- Dean Blunt - Keys, Drums, Guitar
- Phil Morris - Percussion
- Produced by Dean Blunt
Quite short but amazing production, really smooth like the old rnb. very catchy, lofi and groovy little soul album. Minimalism and lofi prod makes it really hypnagogic
Title can be mistaken for 2 different words:
- Hot EP
- Hotep meaning - to be at peace
- Hotep - Subculture: An African American subculture rooted in Black pride and Afrocentrism, drawing inspiration from ancient Egypt which can be a loose reference to Lauryn Hill's hotep inclination
Perfect for - lazy morning, evening, study, background soundtrack for peaceful walks
Album Cover features Lauryn Hill, image sourced from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
there was a press release from someone involved with blue iverson saying how the project was made as a response to the large amount of male dominated R&B/Soul music releasing around that time (2015-17) and how misogynistic it is. you can make your own conclusions of what having lauryn hill as a png file means in reference to that.
- two notes on the last four seconds of the song Who Shot Luscious Lyon? was sampled by Choker in El Dorado
- Luscious Lyon is a fictional character from Empire 2015-2020
- Jennah's Interlude samples: Let Me Down Easy - The Isley Brothers
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Theory - Connection b/w Hotep & Cypher
Blue Iverson's Hotep & Babyfather's Cypher have been rumoured to have some sort of connection
First track from Hotep is Coy Boy and there is a sample in Cypher of a boy saying "Coy boy" before the inverted audio track begins
the more connections (I think) I've made. For example, the first 2 tracks on Cypher and Hotep run at roughly the same length. I've tried playing them simultaneously and it sort of works sometimes but overall not really. Both albums are also about the same length, Hotep being just a little longer. Also, the singer on Cypher 8 is definitely the vocalist on Hotep
RELATED ALBUMS (directly and indirectly)
+ Harvest for the World - The Isley Brothers (1976)
+ Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill (1998)
+ Peak - Choker (2017)
+ The Stepkids - The Stepkids (2011)
+ Anchors & Elephants - Jennah Bell (2019)
+ WAHALLA - Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt (2017)
+ Them Spirits - AKUA (2019)
+ WILKES - Sam Wilkes (2018)
+ You're Exaggerating! - Paul Cornish (2025)
+ Holy Water - Hether (2025)