Little Brother has stirred up anticipation for the 20-year celebration of their debut album, The Listening, by releasing two new singles.
On Tuesday (September 19), the duo comprising Phonte Coleman and Big Pooh dropped some contemporary cuts: “Wish Me Well” and “Glory Glory.” The two-piece comes lower than a month earlier than their Made In Durham: A Little Brother Block Party, which is scheduled to happen on October 7.
About the brand new releases and any attainable broader implications, Coleman informed HipHopDX: “No album. We just talkin’ our shit and having fun.”
Check out the music video for “Wish Me Well” under:
The pair’s year-long social gathering to commemorate The Listening will culminate in Durham, North Carolina subsequent month with Big Ok.R.I.T and The Cool Kids enlisted to headline the celebratory occasion. The gathering can even function Zo! & Tall Black Guy, Hourglass, Wally Sparks and Sam Jay.
When Little Brother’s debut album LP was launched on February 25, 2003, the 20-something school college students have been unknowingly swimming towards the Hip Hop tide. The trio of rappers Phonte Coleman, Big Pooh and ninth Wonder crafted a soulful homage to their foundational heroes like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Slum Village at a time when commonplace bearers of the underground like Common and The Roots have been pivoting into extra experimental territory sonically and the South as a area was dominating with splashy, high-BPM, escapist honest designed for radio and membership consumption.
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Not to say a man named 50 Cent was casting an extended shadow over the whole trade along with his Lazarean mythology and bullet-riddled boasts backed by two of the largest names in music: Dr. Dre and Eminem.
“I didn’t know what the hell was going on, man,” Big Pooh mentioned throughout an unique interview with HipHopDX. “We were having fun. It was some work element to it, but it was fun. I really had no expectation for anything involving making that album, other than we think it’s dope. We think what we’re doing is dope. But just that time, man, you can never get that time back.
“There were no expectations. We were just trying to do what we thought was right, and having fun doing it, and just that it was so innocent. I’ll use that word. It was innocent. You can never get that moment back, no matter how much you try. We know too much now. We’ve been in The Matrix. We were all naive, to a certain point, and just going in there trying to make the best [music].”
“We actually thought the music business was a meritocracy,” Phonte added. “[But] it’s so much politics and shit that ain’t got nothin’ to do with music.”
The Listening was Little Brother’s first and final album on ABB Records, leaping to Atlantic for his or her follow-up, The Minstrel Show. The group have gone by way of a number of modifications, each business-wise and personally, within the a long time that adopted, however their core has remained intact by way of all of it.
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