Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: Axiom, Born I, Born I Music, Ghostface, Godfather Sage, Imani Beats, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, The Born Identity Mixtape, The Clipse, The Hoodfellas, Tomorrow Is Today, Tupac Shakur
![neonsweb Born I Music: [Interview Part One] – Get Familiar. Afro Asian Electro Hop.](http://www.hipsterwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/neonsweb.jpg "Born I Music: [Interview Part One] – Get Familiar. Afro Asian Electro Hop.")
Photo by Paola Angelino.
First thing’s first, we love exciting artists. Born is exciting to us. Venturing into new, refreshing and explosive areas of hip hop & electronica from the flows to the instrumentals. When we listen to Born I Music, it’s as though Tupac Shakur has passed and been reborn as “The Born Identity.”
We’re not all that spiritual, but Born I Music inspires us to get our meditation on more and to truly “meet ourselves.” We think that if you took Shakur, Ghostface, Kanye, Kid Cudi & The Clipse, put them in a blender and applied some of what Born’s production team (Godfather Sage, Imani Beats, & several others) calls “Afro-Asian Electro-Hop”, you’ve gotten a taste of what this man is doing.
On the heels of his latest release “THE BORN IDENTITY MIXTAPE” which you can download free here. We sat down with Born to learn about the man behind the music, his dad’s cooking and how Born manages to create bass-heavy, spine-tingling songs that just make you want to max out your car system and bob your head. Get Familiar.
Born I Music: You rang? Yo. What’s poppin’ G?
Hipsterwave: Not too much. I’ve actually been listening to your new album for like the past few hours non-stop. We also tweeted about it.
Born I Music: [laughs] Cool. Okay, no doubt. You caught it to the end?
Hipsterwave: Yup. Yeah, man.
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Posted in Alternative Hip-Hop, Featured, Grime, Hip-Hop, Interviews, Jazz, Music, Producers, Soul
Posted on 02 May 2010. Tags: G-Mix, Gangsta Luv, Mayer Hawthorne, Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg – “Gangsta Luv (Mayer Hawthorne G-Mix):”
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Posted in Former Songs of the Week, Hip-Hop, Music, Producers, R&B, Soul
Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: A-Side Worldwide, Buff1, Dream Streets
Buff1 – “Dream Streets:”
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Posted in Alternative Hip-Hop, Former Songs of the Week, Hip-Hop, Hipster Rap, Music, Soul
Posted on 07 April 2010. Tags: Fly Lo, Flying Lotus, Lose My Fuse, Musinah
To us, this is a good example of an artist (Flying Lotus, in this case) exercising restraint. The end result has brought vocalist Musinah to life with beats and that oh so lovely synth that comes in at 50 seconds.
Posted in Abstract Hip-Hop, Electronic Music, Experimental, Hip-Hop, Music, R&B, Soul
