{"id":34807,"date":"2015-09-14T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=34807"},"modified":"2015-09-14T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T19:33:14","slug":"meet-apollo-brown-the-best-producer-in-underground-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/meet-apollo-brown-the-best-producer-in-underground-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Apollo Brown, The Best Producer In Underground Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detroit, MI\u2019s Apollo Brown<\/b> has released a substantial amount of music over the past few years. He\u2019s not an emcee, but the beats he produces are among the finest you can\u00a0hear in underground hip hop. Apollo Brown lets the needle hit the record on his beats and just lets the static it creates flow through the tracks. Sampling from blues, Motown, gospel, and soul, Apollo Brown creates beats that bring back the feel of 90\u2019s hip hop while keeping it fresh and new for today. As his legend grows, so does the quality of emcees\u00a0contributing rhymes to his music. If you are not familiar with this man\u2019s work then prepare yourself; an embarrassment of riches awaits you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My introduction to Apollo Brown\u2019s music happened as many musical discoveries often go: I was checking out something on Youtube when a recommendation on the sidebar caught my eye. It was the cover of The Left<\/strong>\u2019s Gas Mask <\/i>album. I was initially drawn to it because the cover resembled Nasum<\/b>\u2019s Inhale\/Exhale<\/i>\u00a0which\u00a0<\/i>features\u00a0a crowd of people all decked out with gas masks. I\u2019m the type of listener that has low expectations, yet I\u2019m gullible enough to engage in a potentially fruitless endeavor. Upon starting the track \u201cGas Mask\u201d, the bluesy crooning from O.V. Wright<\/strong>‘s “I Can’t Take It”\u00a0<\/a>lays the foundation for the beat followed by a brief movie sample before giving way to the drums, bass, horns, a snippet of female gospel vocals, and piano.\u00a0 All these elements coalesce together to create a beat that sounds more like it has heart and soul as opposed to being programmed on samplers. Of course all of this was created by sampling sounds and creating a beat, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve encountered anything in hip hop that resembled the kind of energy and emotion you get when hearing a band with live instruments. One thing leads to another and I was instantly hooked on Gas Mask<\/i> and spent countless hours listening to it. Get some feels and rock \u201cGas Mask\u201d below. The whole album is worth a listen, but if you are strapped for time, tracks such as\u00a0\u201cChokehold\u201d ,\u201cCaged Birds\u201d and \u201cReal Detroit\u201d should grab your attention.<\/p>\n