Fairly essential piece of SMS history, the origins of the ‘W2 boy’ movement, now up on bandcamp for easy streaming and downloading. If you only know Kristmas via the W2 Boy album or DB49/SLO, you need this.
DOWNLOAD: Kristmas – So Gifted (2008 Mixtape)
A little late on this but it’s too funny to miss. #IKNOWCLOVA
DOWNLOAD: The S.L.O. – Stony Montana
Little something from The S.L.O. to get the week off to a good start. R.Dot of the Block Beattaz on the boards.
Full length project from The S.L.O. titled No Hooks coming on 09/27.
DOWNLOAD: The S.L.O. – Tour Bus (Produced by R.Dot of the Block Beattaz)
No time to write up properly, but here’s the gist: The S.L.O. is essentially DB49 under a different name with slightly less drunked debauchery. Their album is gonna be crazy, take my word for it. Cannes on the beat.
DOWNLOAD: The S.L.O. – Purple Onion
via FADER
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I believe this was recorded during the sessions for W2 Boy but didn’t make the actual album.
DOWNLOAD: Kristmas – Believe Dat
The expectations for this were high and the album lives up to them. 13 tracks of affable egotism balanced with genuine and honest expression of Kristmas’ personality and mindset, aggressively earnest and serious but still often extremely hilarious. Going into further detail about the content feels pointless, as the album feels written specifically to explain the author to the audience. It’s part personal manifesto and part sales pitch, and it does both effectively with considerable showmanship, all while riding on scholarly 26s. The production matches the quality of the lyrics, as is by now is expected from a project overseen by the Block Beattaz (R.Dot’s contributions are a standout.)
Stream/Buy the album via Kristmas’ bandcamp:
Just an appetizer, main course coming later in the day.
Did Bentley just steal a chair?
DOWNLOAD: Kristmas – Somethin Wrong Ft. Codie G (Prod. By David Sanders)
No words necessary, just watch. The album drops tomorrow.
via HSVINTERNATIONAL, created by John Turner Jr/Lawrence & Clark.
The first single from Kristmas’ upcoming W2 Boy album, to be released on April 15th. I feel like this (selectively edited) Encyclopedia Britannica quote describes what Kristmas does here pretty well:
“The orator need not be a first-rate logician, though a capacity for good, clear thought helps to penetrate into the causes and results of tentative premises and conclusions and to use analogy, generalizations, assumptions, deductive–inductive reasoning, and other types of inference… Oratorical greatness is invariably identified with strong emotional phrasing and delivery. When the intellectual qualities dominate with relative absence of the affective appeals, the oration fails just as it does when emotion sweeps aside reason. The ideal orator is personal in his appeals and strong in ethical proofs, rather than objective or detached. He enforces his arguments by his personal commitment to his advocacy.”
This orator persona is only one side of Kristmas, W2 Boy is going to be this AND a whole lot more.
DOWNLOAD: Kristmas – Somethin Wrong Ft. Codie G (Prod. By David Sanders)
Ethereal R&B-tinged jam about the best things in life – sweet loving and good weed.
