Nothing says “time to hang out with my friends” like a new album from People Under The Stairs.
This is the group that, for me, revived hip-hop in the early 2000s when it was for all intensive purposes, dead. Coming out of L.A. and bringing all of laid back sunshine, chill vibes, and green smoke you’ve come to expect from the easy-livin land to the west.
PUTS (Thes One and Double K) came out in the late 90s with The Next Step and 5 albums since have been regarded as one of the top acts in underground hip hop along with other acts such as Aesop Rock, Hieroglyphics, Digible Planets, Pharcyde. and so forth.
In short, this is what hip-hop is supposed to be. Smooth, melodic instrumentals, carefully crafted beats, and rhymes about nothing else than hanging out with friends, sipping on some cold beverages, examining the green documents, and seeing where the night takes you. And so, a People primer for the weekend.
Chronologically, the choicest cuts:
From the People’s debut The Next Step
San Francisco Knights
Mid-City Fiesta
Los Angeles Daze
Time to Rock Our S**t
The introspective, jazzy Question in the Form of an Answer
The Cat
We’ll Be There
O.S.T., the album that got me hooked
Empty Bottles of Water
Tales of Kidd Drunkadelic
Montego Slay
Acid Raindrops
The Breakdown
Roadbeaters
Yo
LA Song (Sensitive Mix) –> My favorite
Back on the Block (Thes One Remix)
Their newest album, Carried Away
Much Too Much
Come On, Let’s Get High
Down In LA
Intelligent Hip-Hop? It exists.
Enjoy the weekend…
Duchov
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