Mistah Rapsey is my name..
staying underground is the experience..

I’ve been traveling since my youth searching for experiences of truth. An old soul back again to discover what I left uncovered. I love to love and live to laugh. Enrolled in a school called Knowledge of Self. Paying attention is my drug. Learning to live Life like music and flow with the rhythm, careful not to miss a beat. A renaissance man, Life is my art project. An habitual nomad, I roam to evolve. Music and cannabis are my constant companions. Interested in people, i’m always searching for my tribe. The beauty of the wilderness is the closest i’ve come to experiencing Truth.

music, graffiti, vinyl, treeplanting, & mixtapes..

Love is an Action. Love is the Answer. Love is the Movement.

TD4 Cru Jazz Graffiti Pieces

featuring Meres, Zimad,Sebs,Vik, Zimer

Meeting of Style’s, Montreal

Got this record in the mail today from my lovely friend Mica, I am so excited about having this LP in my crates, i have a feeling its going to stay in heavy rotation for the rest of my life.  Thank you Mica, you have my love forever! About Impulse Records and Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked record: “Impulse dragged jazz into the era of Black Power,” is one writer’s assessment, but Impulse did so much more than reflect a revolutionary age.  It also fit perfectly into the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late fifties to the seventies when more jazz players than ever before (or since), representing every era of the tradition, were all alive and active.  Think Armstrong to Ayler, the legends to the latest and loudest arrivals.With a collection of source material that includes George Russell, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, and John Coltrane, among others, the set is already moving in the right direction, but the inventive, sometimes radical reworkings by the likes of Prefuse 73, the RZA, Kid Koala, and Sa Ra put this a cut above your average pedestrian, lounge-vibed, electronica/jazz outing. Follow Mica’s awesome blog here, she is the dopest chicka in the world! Wikipedia info on Impulse! (very interesting history)

Got this record in the mail today from my lovely friend Mica, I am so excited about having this LP in my crates, i have a feeling its going to stay in heavy rotation for the rest of my life.  Thank you Mica, you have my love forever!

About Impulse Records and Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked record:

“Impulse dragged jazz into the era of Black Power,” is one writer’s assessment, but Impulse did so much more than reflect a revolutionary age.  It also fit perfectly into the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late fifties to the seventies when more jazz players than ever before (or since), representing every era of the tradition, were all alive and active.  Think Armstrong to Ayler, the legends to the latest and loudest arrivals.

With a collection of source material that includes George Russell, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, and John Coltrane, among others, the set is already moving in the right direction, but the inventive, sometimes radical reworkings by the likes of Prefuse 73, the RZA, Kid Koala, and Sa Ra put this a cut above your average pedestrian, lounge-vibed, electronica/jazz outing.

Follow Mica’s awesome blog here, she is the dopest chicka in the world!

Wikipedia info on Impulse! (very interesting history)

Currently..

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Israel Vibration- Licks & Kicks

Sorry disabelleonaire, it appears tumblrs are in the mood for the natty reggaeeee tonight mon! I love this track, it has such a dubby jazz influence, this is that classic reggae..


Talk to me about music..

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John Coltrane- Sun Ship

Recorded August 26, 1965, SUN SHIP is one of Coltrane’s most intense performances, and a testament to the maturity and resourcefulness of his rhythm section. With nearly four years of experience under their belt, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones had achieved a vital collective identity, yet each man was an innovator in his own right. When Coltrane evolved a metrically free style of rhythm and melody, the quartet’s basic rhythmic pulse and style of collective interplay evolved accordingly. Bassist Garrison and drummer Jones are featured on “Ascent” and “Attaining,” where they unveil bold new solutions for coming in and out of tempo and manipulating dynamics, while maintaining the amorphous ebb and flow of the pulse.

The opening track, “Sun Ship” begins auspiciously with a splintered chanting theme—a call to arms, as it were. Garrison and Jones regroup dramatically around the leader’s clarion calls, then rhythmically abstract the jazz pulse, moving away from strict tempos and linear swing, towards a furious implied pulse, as Tyner crafts a monumental solo full of crashing modulations and heated single lines. Trane re-enters at full tilt, alternating throttled upper register cries with crunching bass declamations, as the levitating rhythm boils around him.

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John Coltrane Interview

His voice is so silky smooth..

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John Coltrane- Afro-Blue (1963)


let it take you on a journey..

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Yusef Lateef // High Life

This song is dedicated to Que Lo Wat, his blog easily makes my top 10.


Mistah Rapsey presents, The Love Tapes: Into My Life The first chapter in a series of mixtapes made for love.. 1. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - The Game Gets Old 2. Aloe Blacc - Loving You Is Killing Me 3. Cee-Lo - I’ll Kill Her ft. ME & LOnan the Destroyer 4. The Black Keys - Never Give You Up 5. Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Selfish Gene6. Alton Ellis - You Make Me So Very Happy 7. Mos Def - The Boogie Man Song 8. Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark 9. Cool Calm Pete - Gitty Up Baby! 10. CunninLynquists - Wonderful ft. Devin The Dude 11. Carol King - So Far Away 12. Bob Marley - Turn Your Lights Down Low ft. Lauryn Hill TheLoveTapes: Chapters Into My Life Someone To Talk With Morning Yearning Spreading the love.. // ]] // ]] // ]]]]>]]>

Mistah Rapsey presents,
The Love Tapes: Into My Life

The first chapter in a series of mixtapes made for love..

1. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - The Game Gets Old
2. Aloe Blacc - Loving You Is Killing Me
3. Cee-Lo - I’ll Kill Her ft. ME & LOnan the Destroyer
4. The Black Keys - Never Give You Up
5. Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Selfish Gene
6. Alton Ellis - You Make Me So Very Happy
7. Mos Def - The Boogie Man Song
8. Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
9. Cool Calm Pete - Gitty Up Baby!
10. CunninLynquists - Wonderful ft. Devin The Dude
11. Carol King - So Far Away
12. Bob Marley - Turn Your Lights Down Low ft. Lauryn Hill

TheLoveTapes: Chapters

  1. Into My Life
  2. Someone To Talk With
  3. Morning Yearning

Spreading the love..

smoked a joint, then listened to “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” 5 times in a row while making this.. my new look, my new staying underground theme come explore..

smoked a joint, then listened to “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” 5 times in a row while making this..

my new look, my new staying underground theme

come explore..

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Joni Mitchell // Twisted

“They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening
I knew I was a genius…
What’s so strange when you know
That you’re a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be..”

Aretha Franklin at 18  (NYC, 1960) After signing with Columbia Records in 1960, Aretha Franklin was weaving her gospel musical roots into a jazz-influenced pop-oriented sound inspired by artists like Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington. In August 1960, when Don Hunstein took this early photo of the future queen of soul, Aretha Franklin was 18 years old, her lifetime of hits still on the horizon. (photo credit Don Hunstein)

Aretha Franklin at 18  (NYC, 1960)

After signing with Columbia Records in 1960, Aretha Franklin was weaving her gospel musical roots into a jazz-influenced pop-oriented sound inspired by artists like Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington. In August 1960, when Don Hunstein took this early photo of the future queen of soul, Aretha Franklin was 18 years old, her lifetime of hits still on the horizon.

(photo credit Don Hunstein)


Billie Holiday // Remixed & Re-imagined Remixed and Reimagined is the second entry in Sony BMG’s Legacy Remixed series. This entry features Billie Holiday recordings culled from her years on Columbia Records. Unlike Nina Simone’s entry in the series, however, there is no expanded edition available online.

Billie Holiday // Remixed & Re-imagined

Remixed and Reimagined is the second entry in Sony BMG’s Legacy Remixed series. This entry features Billie Holiday recordings culled from her years on Columbia Records. Unlike Nina Simone’s entry in the series, however, there is no expanded edition available online.

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Cannonball Adderley // Clouds

From the evidence on this record - beginning with Cannonball’s first soaring notes on the haunting Clouds - it would almost seem that bossa novawas created to be played by Adderley. Or at least to be played by him with the accompaniment he has here. And the key to the success of this intriguing merger is - from both directions - jazz. One notable feature of the vast popularity of bossa nova in this country has been the way in which it has been adopted by jazz artists, who have been its most effective exponents

(source cannonball-adderley.com)

this is the theme music to my day..

Signif // Lovely Imperfections

I just discovered this amazing music video and artist. Check out this young spitters flow, she’s nice.  Her jazz rap at the end is a thing of beauty. Support the underground..