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fresh pickup, would yall consider this hype williams or an independent release from dean and inga

Can anyone help identify some of the equipment used in this live set. Does anyone know how the equipment changed between projects like from Hype Williams to Blue Iverson & more recent projects?

for two years i was deciding which of his albums to get tattoed and ended up choosing the iconic Zushi Dragon ( my fav album is The Narcissist II)

need more songs that feel like this

Been listening to Dean blunt since the beginning of this month I heard zushi first then black metal then black is beautiful loved all of them the narcissist made me really love his music then about the redeemer heard a lot about it didn’t clicked at first now is my fav project this song is my currently favorite but still Don’t know what to listen to next.

Rn my ranking is
1-the redeemer
2-the narcissist II
3-zushi
4-black metal
5-black is beautiful

Fav songs
Brutal
Demon
Caught feelings
Galice
The pedigree
The redeemer
Papi
10(zushi)
11(zushi)
50cent
Blow
Lush
100
Slacker
5(zushi)
2(zushi)
5(bib)
(Not totally in order)

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)

this blew my fucking mind lol, this makes me so happy i hope they're getting insanely breaded off of these songs

Was played at the antagonist tour DJ set

Prolly another alias

untitled - hype williams LP alt cover. 10 of the original 300 presses of this vinyl had a damaged cover, so they were given this alternative cover. this is 1 out of 10 in the world!