Free MP3: Late Bloomers – Never Don’t Grow

While 2010 is a great year for hip hop music, with December coming up fans can already get prepared for 2011. The first announcement we’ve received in our inbox, is from Tres Records.

On January 18th the label will release a new EP by California-based crew Late Bloomers, called ‘Three Shades Of Brown’.

Music: Late Bloomers – Never Don’t Grow

Late Bloomers (Ahh:Zel, ReallyNathan & Nonstop) is the best known for its free ‘Growth Series‘ (1 & 2). Following up to that, they released a beat tape called ‘Songs For Suns‘ last month. All mentioned releases are really good, so that’s why we’re excited to hear that they are back with a new EP on Tres Records.

‘Never Don’t Grow’ is a track off the upcoming EP ‘Three Shades Of Brown’. It’s produced by both Ahh:Zel and ReallyNathan. The track is filled with soul, speaking on the importance or growth and development in society, and building/following one’s own path.

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Below ReallyNathan, one-third of the Late Bloomers collective, reflects on ‘Never Don’t Grow’:

“Our usual approach to making our tracks is that Ahh’zel and I would make beats on our own and send it to the group to see if we can work with it. For this track, it was different.

So for about 2 years or so, Ahhzel and I had been working on beats on our own, until the time we made this one. We didn’t really say much when making it, and we didn’t really know where to start after such a long hiatus of not working with each other. But when we were in the process of putting everything together we both kind of felt that this is what we were waiting for, it was a feeling that was as natural as can be.

While we were vibing out to the beat, i decided to try to find some acapellas to just mess around and scratch over while it was playing. I ended up picking out Erykah Badus “Cleva.” I started messing with the part “And it might not grow” and we both were diggin it, so we put that in as well.

This track was really the first time we all sang on the track as well, we don’t have access to a choir or crazy good singers, so we do it all ourselves. Up till this song, we haven’t really experimented with us singing on the track, unless it was us messing around for a future skit. It’s always a fun and spontaneous process for us. If we think of something, we just record it. If it sounds good, we’ll keep it, if it doesn’t we’ll go back to the drawing board.”

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Source: BeatnikOnline
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