Indiesent Exposure: Rasheed Chappell Drops Two Bombs on The Indie Scene

Posted On: August 21, 2010
Posted By: odeisel
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By DJ Fusion

What’s up Planet Ill fam!

It’s time once again for the latest Indiesent Exposure installment, Planet Ill’s weekly music column where I drop some FREE music downloads & info about quality independent music artists of different genres who deserve serious credit for keeping things lively & original in the music world.

Indiesent Exposure is set to give your ears some respite from some of the daily audio wackness, that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio’s definitions of Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, House, World Music, etc.

If you like what you hear & download, PLEASE support (monetarily and otherwise) these artists as much as you can in the future – hit up their websites, purchase some product, go to their shows, etc.

This week’s Indiesent Exposure music selection features an extremely talented MC whose latest two Hip-Hop projects sounds are both modern & bring listeners back into the memories of the lively NYC indie Hip-Hop scene of the 1990s (R.I.P. to the legendary Fat Beats locations in NYC & LA).

Whenever you have the chance, please let all of the talented Indiesent Exposure artists and the Planet Ill crew know what you think of the music in our comments section!

Let’s get it in – download, sit back, relax & hoping you enjoy the grooves:

Passaic, New Jersey’s (a.k.a. “Project City”) own Rasheed Chappell has put in serious work in the indie Hip-Hop performance and media circuit as both a MC and writer (not just lyrics, but books of stories & poetry) during the past decade.

With his first official full-length music project Future Before Nostalgia dropping in the near future through Ill Friction & Strictly Rhythm plus serious cosignage from O.G. Hip-Hop luminaries such as Kenny “Dope” Gonzales, DJ Clark Kent and Biz Markie on the production boards & beyond, Rasheed Chappell could easily coast just off props if he wanted too for a minute.

Thankfully for the music audience who is slowly getting immune & jaded to the stereotypical 21st century Hip-Hop artist PR moves (9876 YouTube videos, illegitimate cosigns, crass Twitter flooding of links that make cats think zShare is their label, meh UStreams, etc.), the brother comes correct big time with his musical output.

The Future Before Nostalgia EP and The Chappell Show: The Lost Episodes Vol. 2 display an MC who harkens back to the the late 1980s – mid 1990s glory days of high grade NYC-style Street Hip-Hop where a cat could be multi-faceted in doing lyrical, honest,

emotional and balanced reportage from the project rooftops while respecting the B-Boy side of the craft.

The Future Before Nostalgia EP and The Chappell Show: The Lost Episodes Vol. 2 are a boom bap lover’s dream that doesn’t sound dated or as a crass bit of previous MCs in the game.

Rasheed Chappell’s animated flow is straight forward and hard-edged overreally well done soul-tinged production, with a style kind of reminding me of a mix of Big L & early-era Prodigy of Mobb Deep.

There’s no wack dummy rap on any of the tracks on both releases, but the content isn’t too over the top to be seen as boring backback thesaurus BoHo bulls***.

Check out more of what’s good in Rasheed Chappell’s world o’ music & musings over at his official MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/RasheedChappell and tag him on the Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/RasheedChappell.

Rasheed Chappell – Future Before Nostalgia EP (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. Building 8 *
2. I Know
3. Dope Muziq *

* Personal Favorite Tracks

Rasheed Chappell – The Chappell Show: The Lost Episodes Vol. 2 (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. Money Is King
2. Drug$ Feat. Lady Luck
3. Exhibit B *
4. Exhibit C
5. My Freedom feat. Mishal Moore
6. They Gone Learn feat. Jamal Brown *
7. Man Inside
8. Soliouqy
9. Resurrection *
10. Who I Am
11. STANCE
12. Soul Posession feat. Raye Sheen *
13. Tuff Talk *
14. Live This Way
15. AmeriKKKa’s Own *
16. Enjoy The Vibe *

* Personal Favorite Tracks

Music Video #1: When Giants Meet Presents: Rasheed Chappell – Intro

Music Video #2: Biz Markie, Kenny Dope & Rasheed Chappell (Maleet Studio Footage 2008)

Fill up your iPod and Catch up on the all of Planet Ill’s Indiesent Expsoure article series & FREE music downloads at anytime – click here to get details of the great Indie Music artists we’ve already covered!

DJ Fusion’s E-Mail: djfusion@planetill.com (Back Up: fuseboxradio@gmail.com)

DJ Fusion is the creator and co-host/mix DJ of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast (hit up http://FuseBoxRadio.podomatic.com for the radio show archives) and the website BlackRadioIsBack.com, two areas trying to fight audio B.S. one day at a time…check folks out around either way when you can. 🙂

Also feel free to touch base with a sis on the Twitter Expressway at http://twitter.com/FuseBoxRadio.

If you dig the music vibe I’m on & want to download some free mixtapes from the FuseBox Radio/BlackRadioIsBack.com collective, hit up the constantly updated Bandcamp page over at http://FuseBoxRadioBroadcast.bandcamp.com.

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