Los Angeles underground hip-hop staple music/strange-famous-oldboy-rhymes-taps-myka-9-for-jel-produced-liftoff/” goal=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Myka 9, who constructed a reputation for himself as a member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku d’Etat and Project Blowed, is again with a brand new collaborative album referred to as God Takes Care of Babies & Fools. 

Created in tandem with Blu and Mono En Stereo, the 14-track undertaking boasts options by a number of of Myka’s crew members/collaborators, together with Abstract Rude, Self Jupiter, Medusa and Ellay Khule. Additional contributions come from The Pharcyde’s Imani, Slimkid3 and Fatlip, A-F-R-O, Exile and Planet Asia, amongst others.

Blu, who’s lengthy admired Myka’s jazz-influenced, melodic rapping, jumped on the alternative to work with him.

“This is another very special album that I am proud to present to the world,” Blu tells AllHipHop. “Myka 9 being certainly one of my highest inspirations ever, and the main king of the Los Angeles underground, I’m greater than honored for the expertise we created. I attempt to make each certainly one of my albums totally different from each other and this album was no totally different.

“It is driven by straight raw lyricism and spiritual rap acrobatics. The organic production providing our museum of sound came from producer Mono En Stereo. The title of the album, God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools, means God looks out for us all, especially those who need him the most, being the babies and fools. And to quote Socrates, ‘To know is to know you know nothing,’ so we are all fools in comparison to the creator.”

Songs like “B-Boys” and “Growing Up In L.A.” transport the listener to Hip-Hop’s golden period and fire up recollections of Cali’s Good Life Café scene, the place artists like Freestyle Fellowship, Jurassic 5, 2Mex and Aceyalone honed their abilities all through the Nineteen Nineties.

Myka felt equally as blessed to have the prospect to work with Blu and Mono En Stereo. As he tells AllHipHop, “It was really an honor to work with Blu and Mono En Stereo. The ideas, in addition to the manufacturing and movies, have been coming collectively organically. I consider conceptually there’s a dynamic vary in materials.

“I appreciate the time and patience that we took along with our phenomenal guest features to bring this healing devotional together. It’s also meaningful to note that there’s been a lot going on in life, so it was a tonic to emotionally release some ideas.”

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With Myka 9 sticking to his rap ethos, the undertaking is simply one other demonstration of his otherworldly lyrical abilities delivered with a flawless execution. Coupled with Blu and Mono En Stereo’s additions, it bumps from begin to end.

“At times I’ve felt like a baby in this music art world with so many profound predecessors and also foolish in the mistakes I continue to learn from,” he says. “I’d say during the interim that indeed God takes care of babies and fools. It’s all love.”

Myka 9 and Blu are hitting the street in help of the album on October 10. Find the dates under.

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