Tame One - The Grudge

Tame One - The GrudgeAvailable on purple wax Were honored to reissue an album by a truly unique voice in hip hop and dearly missed friend, Tame One. The year is 2007, Fresh off collaborations with the likes of El P, Cage, and The Weathermen, Tame One one half of the Newark duo The Artifacts, was approached by a Montclair skateboard shop Division East, as he personified their East Coast new school culture of skating, graffiti, and MCing. This relationship gave way to

Stretched choral vocals and flickers of saxophone emerge

became a studio experience and viable collection of music after her friend Anthony Ferraro of Astronauts

along with many more shows on both sides of the Atlantic

the brief but brilliant strut of "Love Ya' Baby" shines brightly before the skipping funky-jazz of true highlight "Sunday-Goin' To Meetin' Time" demands both your attention and your dancing shoes

where the speaker claims that environmentalists are often called ‘radical’… ‘however

with the recently released EP

The despair and empowerment of these traditional tunes draw remarkable parallels with each group’s focus on championing people often cast aside in history

It's our one life

On this wonderful

and the people who inspired us

dark red wax

it seems to me that the listeners and the artist are having the same experience at once