Elaquent’s latest Mello Music Group soul endeavor, Rediscovery is the latest immersive world built by the Canadian producer, who has enlisted an Avenger’s universe worth of rap assassins including Chester Watson, Skyzoo, Sonnyjim, Brainorchestra, and Namir Blade. This is both a time capsule from the past and a touchstone encapsulating his last few years – bridging virtuosic production mastery with the playful creativity of pre-adolescence.
“The record signifies a return to form. I wanted to rediscover the things in my life that make me happy and help me find my inner child,” Elaquent says. “Martial arts movies, pro wrestling, video games, collecting action figures, traveling – all things that I grew up loving that at some point I fell out of love with – the one’s that over the last few years, I really started falling in love with again. I wanted to dedicate the album to that feeling.”
The new single, “Hoes Mad” finds Brittney Carter and JazzStar creating something slyly taunting and hilarious, a classic slab of rap braggadocio with a neo-soul coda that sounds like a lost classic from the Soulquarians.
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“Hoes Mad” featuring Brittney Carter & JazStarr