Specs Wizard, Silas Blak and Able Fader; Three real-life friends, OGs in the game and frequent collaborators, illustrating the "Seattle-Sound" of Hip Hop like no one else can. Bona Fide.
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released August 4, 2017
Specs Wizard - Vocals
Silas Blak - Vocals
Able Fader - Production
Mastered at Legion of Dume By Dume41
Dusted beats and super-evocative rhymes from the lowkey brilliant rap renaissance man. Specs' beats are always on some conjurational magic - gliding, droning, bumping, incorporating environmental noises, etc. Rhymes are most powerful here on The Question - a beautifully melancholy memory drift through old Seattle in the face of the city's gentrification - "First avenue used to smell like Afrosheen". Add his casual-precise delivery and great voice and The Question thumps me hard in the soul. beforeihadapager
"The Wizard" has an easy-speaking, back-to-basics delivery and a smoldering voice, covering topics from the fallacy of success, dissing fakers, and comic books. (All three coming together in "Giant Man vs Ant Man") The beats recall Bomb Squad production, combining wide-ranging musical sample textures and dialogue with sirens and harsher sounds. Gary Campbell