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New Video: Errol Eats Everything Teams Up with Furious Evans and Blu on a Brooding, Hard-hitting Remix of “Beyond Yonder”

Errol Eats Everything is an emcee and Black entrepreneur, who’s actively trying to reshape the music landscape while enacting positive change in the community.

Released earlier this year, his self-titled album is a bold manifesto, which seems him addressing systemic injustices, personal struggle and the continuing fight for freedom and equality with the album’s material voicing the bitter frustrations of a society that routinely fails its marginalized and struggling. His work demands listeners confront the harsh realities of their life and then asks them to find the strength and resilience to raise about them, reaffirming hip-hop’s enduring power to challenge, uplift and transform.

For a period of time, the emcee and entrepreneur stepped away from music to focus on community-building, creating solutions that have positively impacted the lives of young Black people while solidifying a hard-earned role as a visionary leader.

The Beyond Yonder Remixes EP sees Errol Eats Everything collaborating with Blu, Don Von Jovi, Rome Streetz, Planet Asia, Brother Ali and a lengthy list of others on a series of remixes of Errol Eats Everything LP track “Beyond Yonder.”

While the album version of “Beyond Yonder” sees Errol Eats Everything spitting righteously conscious bars delivered with an MF DOOM-like flow over a DJ Premier-like production featuring a lush and soulful sample paired with tweeter and woofer rattling boom bap. The Furious Evans remix of “Beyond Yonder” features Errol Eats Everything and Blu trading bars over a production that retails the tweeter and woofer rattling boom bap of the original, but places it all within a brooding It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot-era DMX-like production.

Directed and edited by Marquan Ford, the accompanying video for “Beyond Yonder (Furious Evans Remix, feat. Blu) is set in a world of sex and vampires, inspired by Blade and Vampire Tales.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

 

Last year, I wrote quite a bit about the Massachusetts-based hip-hop duo DJ Manipulator and Louie Gonz — and as you may recall, the duo has frequently collaborated with each other throughout the years; however, 2014’s Private Stock was the duo’s first as a cohesive unit. Their 2017 sophomore effort The Loops was released as a bold reintroduction to the act, whose sound draws from golden era hip-hop — with sincerity and soulfulness.

Earlier this year, DJ Manipulator released The Synth Tape, an album that featured tweeter and woofer rocking instrumentals and beats, including “ARP,” a track centered around a minimalist production featuring shimmering and fluttering synths, thumping beats. Now, you might remember that DJ Manipulator, Louie Gonz and Los Angeles-based emcee Blu teamed up on the soulful and gritty street banger “This Sound” off Louie Gonz’s and Manipulator’s sophomore effort — and “ARP Revisited,” a reworking of the original track on The Synth Tape finds the trio teaming up again to similar, attention-grabbing effect. In fact, the track finds Blu and Louie Gonz effortlessly trading gritty, street shit verses and bars over a murky and menacing production featuring brief flashes of sunny synths.

 

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New Video: DJ Manipulator, Louie Gonz, and Mr. Pacheco Team Up on a Jazzy and Soulful Bit of Real Hip-Hop

Now late last month, I wrote about the Massachusetts-based hip-hop duo DJ Manipulator and Louie Gonz and “This Sound,” the silky smooth, looped jazz flute and xylophone-based first collaboration with renowned Los Angeles-based emcee Blu off the duo’s recently released sophomore effort together, The Loops. And with their sophomore effort the duo intends it to be a bold re-introduction to hip-hop heads everywhere while further cementing their reputation for a sound that warmly draws from golden era hip-hop while not resorting to mimicry. The Loops’ latest single, “Who Want It,” is a collaboration with frequent collaborator and friend Mr. Pacheco, and much like the single’s predecessor, the latest track continues in the same vein — no frills, no bullshit hip-hop in which two emcees trade ridiculous and fiery bars over a soulful production consisting of looped, stuttering and twinkling xylophones and warm, jazzy guitar chords. 

The recently released video was shot on grainy and warped VHS tape, further emphasizing the stuttering sample. 

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

DJ Manipulator and Louie Gonz are a Massachusetts-based hip-hop duo, who have recorded together in a variety of ways over the years; however, 2014’s Private Stock was the duo’s debut as a collaborative unit.  With “This Sound,” the silky smooth, looped jazz flute and xylophone-based first single off the duo’s highly-anticipated, soon-to-be released sophomore effort The Loops, the duo intends for the single and the album to be a bold reintroduction to the duo, whose DJ Manipulator-based production draws from golden era hip-hop while being a slick and self-assured collaboration with renowned Los Angeles-based emcee Blu.  It’s no bullshit, no frills hip-hop — two dope emcees adeptly trading quote worthy bars over a slick and soulful production.

 

 

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New Audio: El Da Sensei and DJ Devastate “Show Stoppa” (J57 Remix)

Last year, Brooklyn-based indie hip-hop label Coalmine Records celebrated their tenth anniversary with the release of the Unearthed compilation, which featured the label’s most popular artists and a virtual who’s who list of contemporary underground […]

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Earlier in the year, MED and Blu collaborated over Madlib beats on The Burgundy EP; however, MED, Blu, Madlib, and Mayer Hawthorne are all teaming up for the Stones Throw Records Alumni All-Star EP, The Buzz which […]

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Los Angeles, CA-based rappers M.E.D. and Blu team up on an EP that Madlib produced titled, The Burgundy EP which Stone Throw Records will be releasing on burgundy colored vinyl. The first track from the EP, “Burgundy […]

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Producer Exile and emcee Johaz are teaming up as Dag Savage, and they’ll release their first EP together through Dirty Science Records on January 13th. But they’ve recently released the Salvation mixtape which includes guest appearances by […]