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As much as I’m out of the loop when it comes to knowing all the new HipHop coming out these days, I do make sure to keep my eye on some artist who always deliver great HipHop music! Oddisee is one of those artist/producers that I always check out when he drops new music. I’ve been waiting to hear his new album “The Good Fight” ever since he dropped that fire single “That’s Love” and now it’s here! “The Good Fight” is the best HipHop album I’ve heard this year, so many songs to put on repeat. Oddisee blends Boom Bap HipHop, Soul R&B and commercial Rap together perfectly enough for it to still have an Underground HipHop Feel, this is really good music! I can go on for days on how much I love this album but you can judge for yourself and play the entire album above.
Imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness, The Good Fight is virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop.For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. It’s our ambition and greed warring with our sense of propriety – a list of paradoxes we all face when living and striving.
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats. The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit
