MICAH FREEMAN, "WALK THE LINE"

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Baltimore-born, Atlanta-based artist and Awful Records affiliate Micah Freeman presents the Los Changos Dorados-produced music video for "Walk The Line", the new single from Micah's forthcoming EP I Wasn't Born Yesterday. "Walk The Line" is produced by REO, the Grammy-award-winning beatsmith behind tracks like "I Am Sasha Fierce" for Beyoncé and Lil Wayne's "Mirror" as well as cuts for Chris Brown and Bruno Mars. Freeman's 2015 EP The Red featured Father on the title track (stream the music video via Complex). Matt Martians of The Internet says Freeman is "where R&B should be right now. It's forward thinking with a soul.” Freeman says his new track is about "multiplicity, intersectionality, and identity itself, about navigating in-between worlds, like the stag in the video. I, like many others, have always been multi-dimensional, and that’s okay. Instead of boxing yourself in or clinging to some illusion of who you are, you can take the roles you play less seriously, whether you’re the killer or the healer.” I Wasn’t Born Yesterday will drop this fall on Freeman's own Everpresent imprint.

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J.LATELY, "RUN"

J.LATELY “RUN”

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Bay Area, California emcee J.Lately presents "Run", the new single from Tuesday, his forthcoming album produced entirely by Space Cadet. The new album will also feature appearances from The Grouch (stream "Clean"), Blimes and Khyenci. Space Cadet is also the beatsmith behind half of Lately's 2017 album Be F*cking Happy (watch the "Papayas & Blunt Smoke" music video). Last year J.Lately released the "Fun's Up" single (Soundcloud), "Free" (Soundcloud) and "By My Lonely" (listen) featuring fellow Bay Area emcee Locksmith. Hailing from Sebastopol, and having split time between Oakland and Southern California, Lately has toured with Andre Nickatina, Zion I, Locksmith, and A-Plus of the Hieroglyphics, and his previous releases include "Save Yourself" featuring Blu (Soundcloud) and visuals for "I'll Be Living" ft. Demrick (Youtube) and "Breathe" (Youtube). Lately says "Run" is about "getting out of your own head and just going after what it is you know you truly want. Me and Space Cadet made this beat together the first weekend that we started working on the album. It was one of like 10 beats that we made that weekend, and I started writing to like 3 or 4 of them. Later that week I just ended up combining all the songs on this beat because I realized I was talking about the same thing in all of them. It was just really like exactly where I was at the time, and I had to get it off before I could move on. After that the whole album just kind of just flowed together from there."

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STARSCREAM THE GIANT, "MY DOMAIN"

STARSCREAM THE GIANT

“MY DOMAIN”

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Austin, Texas-bred and current Washington DC resident, rapper/producer Starscream the Giant presents "My Domain", his new self-produced single featuring Jojo Circus. The track will appear on Dope Ballads On Mount Pleasant, Starscream's forthcoming album also featuring guest appearances from BIGBABYGUCCI (stream "Tropical" on Spotify), EROz and Marcus Riley, as well as production from DJ Smooth Operator, ZYXO and Valibeats. Starscream's first full-length was his 2016 mixtape Come Thru, It's Lit (stream "White Bronco" on Spotify). "I wrote 'My Domain' when I was back in Austin hanging out with a couple friends in a hotel at the Domain (a local shopping/residential center)," Starscream says. "The song taps into the feeling of coming back to your hometown, showing the girl you like what you can offer, and then just trying to swag on everyone that you used to know."

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UKNOWSCOTT, "INTERLUDE"

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Bronx rapper UKnowScott presents the Ayomoments-directed music video for "Interlude", the Roman RSK-produced single from Resilience, Scott's new EP out now. "Hit" features a guest appearance from Staccs and is produced by Hozay, the beatsmith behind tracks for Dotarachi, Lil Tjay, Lil Zay Osama, NLE Choppa and Lil Poppa. Resilience also features an appearance from singer AMT as well as production from So Special, Digitlix, DRK and Roman RSK. Scott recently released visuals for Resilience single "Hit" (Youtube) as well as single "Saints" (Soundcloud) and visuals for "Betrayed" (Youtube). "This beat is unconventional and I was sitting on it for a long ass time," Scott says. "I didn’t have anything to write to so I dug in the archives. I started off just playing with it, kept going and spit the first verse to someone and they insisted I finished the record. The style of the record, and first 4 bars are inspired by Jay-Z's “Public Service Announcement”. I called mine 'Interlude' because in sequence on my EP it might catch you off guard. Just have to remind y’all that I got bars."

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MANI DRAPER, "MADE IT WORK"

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Richmond, CA rapper Mani Draper presents the SLVTR Films-directed music video for "Made It Work", the new P-Lo-produced single from TV Babies, Mani's new album featuring IAMSU!, YMTK, Iman Europe, Kevin Allen, Aneessa Strings and Ryan Nicole. "Made It Work" follows on the heels of visuals for "Blood In The Water" (watch) from his previous album Mercy (Spotify). Mani has several albums under his belt including The Unauthorized Biography of Ella Mae, Last Marauder and RAWK (Mani on Spotify) and has collaborated with Jake One and Terrace Martin. Mani has composed original music for Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas and Calvin Klein, and was the narrative voice on IAMSU's Sincerely Yours album. Mani co-founded the Brave Area collective and partnered with Bay Area boutique label At The Ave Records in 2017. “'Made It Work' was made in a space of highlighting our resourcefulness and creativity of always adapting and thriving no matter the circumstances," Mani says. "Being in the studio with P-Lo, he challenged me to deliver that messaging in a way it could be received by a larger group of people. Sonically leveraging what our region is known for all the while pushing the bar lyrically. Not a compromise but a challenge to find a more creative way to deliver."

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