Amerigo Gazaway brings to life an imagined studio session between Chicago’s crowned prince of Hip-Hop, Common, and Motown legend, Stevie Wonder. A return to the soul meets hip-hop formula of his Marvin Gaye + Mos Def pairing Yasiin Gaye, Gazaway connects the dots between hip-hop and the genre’s predecessor with a musical history lesson […]
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Transcending space and time, Amerigo Gazaway‘s latest Soul Mates project envisions an extended studio session between living legends Stevie Wonder and Common. A return to the Soul meets Hip-Hop formula of his Marvin Gaye + Mos Def pairing “Yasiin Gaye,” Gazaway connects the dots between Hip-Hop and the genre’s predecessor with a musical history lesson
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In a follow-up to his 2012 track “Rosebud” (dedicated to Trayvon Martin) Amerigo Gazaway steps up to the mic for some real talk about violence. “It isn’t just the cops / It’s bigger than hip-hop / It’s propaganda and hatred / Perpetuated by Fox / It makes me sick to my stomach / It’s devastating to
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Under the Soul Mates Project Banner of “collaborations that never were,” Amerigo Gazaway’s latest imagines a recording session between blues great, B.B. King, and Texas rap legends, UGK. Aptly titled “B.B. & The Underground Kingz: The Trill is Gone,” the producer seamlessly bridges the gap between hip-hop and its predecessor, the blues. Crafting the album’s
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Under the Soul Mates Project Banner of “collaborations that never were,” Amerigo Gazaway’s latest imagines a recording session between blues great, B.B. King, and Texas rap legends, UGK. Aptly titled “B.B. & The Underground Kingz: The Trill is Gone,” the producer seamlessly bridges the gap between hip-hop and its predecessor, the blues. Crafting
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Happy Summer folks! In honor of the season for cookouts, sun-dresses, beaches and barbecues, Soul Mates’ producer, Amerigo Gazaway, put together an hour long continuous mix of laid-back summer jams, original mashups, and remixes. Stream “The Cool Out Corner” summer mixtape feat. tracks from Kool & The Gang, Prince, Anderson Paak, Tuxedo, Dam Funk, and
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Amerigo’s Gazaway’s B.B. King/ UGK project gets the Chopped Not Slopped treatment from OG Ron C & The Chopstars’ crew, DJ Blurray & DJ Whutitdew. Hear B.B. & The Underground Kingz – The Trill is Gone“like you’ve never heard it before below. Download: The Trill Is Gone (Chopped Not Slopped) Under the Soul Mates Records banner of
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Saturday, April 16 • 2:00pm – 3:30pm Experience Music Project Museum (Seattle) Across imagined and curated collaborations between Fela Kuti and De La Soul, Marvin Gaye and Yasiin Bey, and B.B. King and UGK (amongst others), Amerigo Gazaway and partner Rickey Mindlin bring towering individual voices into conversation, offering a new hip-hop and soul historiography.
This week on The Library, Tim Einenkel’s interview with the producer of The Trill is Gone, Yasiin Gaye, Fela Soul, & Bizarre Tribe; Amerigo Gazaway. Amerigo joins Tim to discuss what he calls “conceptual collaborations”. Gazaway talks about what inspires him to do mash ups, how he comes up with ideas and what happens when
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