Kia ora,
I found a thread on a forum the other day, and it was offering up a track from a free EP by Auckland HipHop artists Home Brew. The Last Week EP was given away on forums like this for free, one track each day. It contains 7 tracks, Monday thru Sunday.
This is the EP, download it now:
- Sendspace: Home Brew – Last Week EP.rar – 39.92MB
- MegaUpload: Home Brew – Last Week EP.rar – 39.92MB
Now I’ve been making sweeping calls about this since I copped it, but this is seriously some of the illest New Zealand HipHop that I’ve ever heard.. Truth has just now been spoken.
Home Brew, as far as i can ascertain, is comprised of: Beatmaker Haz (Goonie Hodges), emcee Tom Scotch, and some contributions from DJ Truent.
What has struck me, and probably whoever else listens to it, is that it’s oozing realness. I try to make real music, and I have mad respect for anyone else that shares my sentiments. Home Brew pull it off, the beats are crazy ill, the concept of the entire EP is fuckin refreshing – Each track is about what these fellas (mainly Tom Scotch) did on the respective days the tracks are named after – and the rhymes/flows are on-point-as.
Props.
Must have been some quick work getting this EP done, it sounds slick, and some of the tracks are actually talking about what happened a few weeks ago..
“Watched the Warriors, Vatuvei got a hat-trick/Shit, 3 months ago he couldn’t even catch it”
Thats some prety quick turn-around: More props.
Theres heaps of other quotables aye, but just cop it and put this shit on repeat.
Excellently executed, I can relate to it heaps, beats are dope as, its a winner fellas. Mad props :D
I took the liberty of repackaging all the tracks and tidying up the ID3 tags, its mp3-player-friendly now too. The link is at the top of the page.
From Home Brew themselves:
Now don’t get me wrong, there ain’t nothing like a good old fashioned fatal stabbing or gruesome murder to help distract from the monotonous thrill lacking lump of shit that is life. And we all need a healthy helping of Home and Away once in a while when the only thing we have to look forward to is an afternoon shit. But who said music had be an episode of Law and Order or a Friday night out with Millie Holmes? Sure, I love a bit of Slick Rick as much as the next guy in an eye patch and I could listen to Nas talk about Queen’s Bridge till I gotta bite my ipod to get the battery working, but sometimes, just sometimes, when I’ve played Labcabincalifornia 3 times over on repeat and I’ve heard Necro rhyme crack pipe 17 different ways, all I wana do is chill out and listen to Q-Tip tell me bout the day he lost his wallet. Cause I can relate to that. I ain’t ever been to El Segundo, but I’ve filled out an application for a new eftpos card and that shit is frustrating.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is. Sometimes life is boring. It just is. So when you’re listening to the new E.P from Home Brew, produced by Goonie Hodges and DJ Truent, (who both have never sold crack cocaine or served time in San Quentin for crimes against humanity, although Haz did get arrested that one time for pissing in public, but he pled diversion in the end and only got community service) don’t be mad if the beats don’t sound like your favourite wrestlers intro music or make you want to head but a bouncer. And don’t be pissed because the lyrics on the EP aren’t as exciting as the Legend of Zelda or the near death experience you had that time on your old best mates bmx. Just turn it up, grab a beer or a wine or whatever the fuck it is you prefer to drink, smoke, snort or shelve to take away from the normal boring reality that is your life and relax.
‘Last Week’ won’t give you the same adrenalin rush shop lifting will and it isn’t as exciting as that dude you know who named all his kids after xmen characters. It’s just a normal 7 track EP about the normal boring reality that is our life. 7 tracks we wrote last week about.. well.. last week. And really bro. That’s it.
http://www.myspace.com/homebrewcrew
http://www.myspace.com/homebrewdark
http://www.myspace.com/homebrewlight
http://www.myspace.com/agentgoonmusic
http://www.myspace.com/djtruent
Anyway, thanks guys. This is a real fresh change from all the other bullshit that calls itself New Zealand HipHop..
Leary
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