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C. Scale x dj_brilliant - Through the Wormhole

Tune in and Get it Understood.  From Little Rock, Arkansas to the Mountains of Vermont come some tailored turns that have traveled and tripped through the wormhole.

C. Scale x dj_brilliant - Give Me a Wide Load

C. Scale x dj_brilliant - Streets Aint Got No Heart

C. Scale x dj_brilliant - Paper Chasing

C. Scale x dj_brilliant - Born Again

In these modern times of ours most rappers and entertainers act like they're perpetually in their lates teens / early 20's, well past the time that its still remotely appropriate. This becomes especially noticiable if you're a consistant and loyal fan of hip hop and can rember your favorite artist when they were literally in their actual youth. This silly facade creates the environment when its natural to assume that nearly half of the rap assautling the internet is populated by worldstar/youtube tough guys and studio/twitter gangstas with about as much sincerty and 'realness' as a carny or your favorite pro wreslter.

G-Side was never that.

Along with their production team, the Blockbeataz, the more you listen to them - the more you become impressed with their willingness and smartness to grow both as humans and as musicians. No longer held down by the youthful ignorance of their hood being the circumfernce of their worldview, they are now realizing there is an entire actual world out there that is begging to be explored and exploited if you hustle and work. G-Side always dreamed big with their “fuck this world we finna go to space instead” attitude, but until they for real lay foot outside of the southern United States, it was all just super clever boasting. So when they went legit international by booking their own shows and blowing up the blogs from NYC to Europe, instead of bragging about their apparent success, they were talking and making music about how humbling and crazy it was to go from the Alabama ghetto to Scandinvian venues for such two southern and proud youth of the ghetto.

And this is the soundtrack of that journey. I can still remeber how impossibly hyped I was for the Huntsville International Project to finally drop and how it was (and still is) one of the few times my outrageous expectations and excitement level were both simultanuous met. I also recall selfishly feeling a little down because I was 110% certain it was going to blow them the fuck up onto everyone's radar, and consequently my favorite unknowns were going to be co-oped by the overhype machine into superstardumb and shitty Snoop Dogg collabs. I cant and wont ever really understand how or why that is not what happened.

Alas, HIP/Code Black was made over 5 goddam years ago and they still sound better than 90% of modern rap hop with these talentless anorexic muppets covered in prison tatts dressing in white girl clothes.

This shit is timeless and we who knew were blessed.

dj_brilliant x G-Side - Almost Famous