- Passion_HiFi - “Return of The Soul Rebel” Mixtape available at DatPiff.com
Here’s whats dope about when hip-hop meets social networking meets various recording technology… In 2008 I released “The Storybook Adventure”. Just before the release I got at my man Tall Black Guy, who produced a joint on the album, about having his group, The 80’s Babies, perform at my release party in Chicago. We made it happen, the show was a smash and on the way back to LA I listened non-stop to The 80’s Babies LP. I was caught up by the melodious sample heavy bangin beats and the fly lyricism from my man Shogun aka Dee Jackson. Not only was Dee droppin jewels with the lyrics but he had a few other impressive Emcees featured throughout the album. Savant of RareBreed is one of those emcees.
At some point, Dee Jackson, Savant and I began communicating via myspace. Soon we’d exchanged info and ideas and beats and we began the process of a collabo… one of which has yet to materialize (btw we got work to do fellas). Still from that exchange I was turned on to Passion HiFi, UK producer / DJ, when Savant asked me to get on a song he was working on called “Say Your Prayers” that happened to be produced by Passion HiFi. The song was to feature Savant, myself - Phashara & Longshot. Long story short… I got the beat, wrote the rhyme, recorded the verse and sent the wavs to Savant. Savant repeated that process with Longshot and when he was done with his own verse he proceeded to shoot it all over the wire to ‘Passion’ in the UK.
Time passed and here we are in 2010. I got an email from Savant with the finished song attached. The song had a dope new Passion HiFi track and was already mixed and mastered and available for download on DatPiff.com as a part of Passion’s new mixtape “Return Of The Soul Rebel”. The song is fresh-to-def from the track to the rhymes to the razor sharp cuts and when all is said and done…. I have yet to meet Passion, Savant or Longshot in person. You gotta love hip-hop and technology.
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In 2004 Passion HiFi released his first ever mixtape on the Evil Twin label. An amazing 165,000 worldwide downloads later and it time to do it again, this time bigger & better. With guest UK & US MC’s Phashara, Savant, Longshot, Apathy, DZK, Genesis Elijah & SoHo amongst others plus the usual exclusive remixes you know this is gonna hit hard! Dope beats, slick MC’s and twisted turntablism for the soul…
Peep the joint below… download it here http://bit.ly/cPF0CL
Get at any of us on twitter @Phashara @SavantRAREBREED @MCLongshot @Passion_HiFi
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