Hip Hop Today Red Cup Radio Smoke Worthy Joint Of The Week Yasiin Gaye By Amerigo Gazaway

Yasiin Gaye project by Amerigo Gazaway is feel good music for the soul.  With 13 amazing tracks from Side One Called The Departure combining the spiritual smooth essence of Marvin Gaye with the hip hop renaissance of Yasiin Bey makes for something different and very much needed in the world of hip hop today. 


Amerigo Gazaway’s new *Soul Mates* ser
ies continues the theme of his previous work in creating collaborations that never were. On the series’ first installment, the producer unites Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and soul legend Marvin Gaye for a dream collaboration aptly titled “Yasiin Gaye”. Building the album’s foundation from deconstructed samples of Gaye’s Motown classics, Gazaway re-orchestrates the instrumentation into new productions within a similar framework. Carefully weaving Bey’s dense raps and Gaye’s soulful vocals over his new arrangements, the producer delivers a quality far closer to Gaye’s famous duets than that of a “mashup” album.


My favorite tracks are "Inner City Travelin Man"," Ms Fat Booty," "Peculiar Mathematics," but  all the 13 tracks I've heard are dope and I highly recommend this musical masterpiece by Amerigo Gazaway and I look forward to hear Side Two from this classic masterpiece.

Cick The Departure  to download Side One

Producer Amerigo Gazaway will join Hip Hop Today Red Cup Radio Friday March 21st @3pm est www.tenacityradio.com