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Monday, March 22, 2010

Vitamin D Drops Free EP On His Birthday

Posted by on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:30 PM

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Seattle hiphop's unquestionable all-time MVP, the local production legend Vitamin D, celebrated his birthday today— by generously dropping this free 9-song EP on us, featuring that all-too rarest of birds: him rapping!

Vitamin D - Bornday EP


He popped up on 206Proof saying:

i recorded and produced most of this shit on my b-day.didn't have time to mix it tho but enjoy it anyway!

- which is all good with me. Peep this cut, "Worse Burfday":


Lots of MC's from around here (including myself) would tell you that Vitamin's old group Ghetto Children were their favorite crew from the 90's local rap boom. Still others would tell you that the unreleased Vitamin D solo album on Rhymesayers from a few years back (again, where he raps, not either of the classic Table Manners mixes he did) is a must-hear (though I have unconfirmed suspicions that some of the songs on Bornday are from that very same record, who put out this single in 2003).

This EP breaks from the gloriously ironic ignorance of the Stahi Bros. project (which perhaps flew under the radar of some of the crowd at the Shabazz show in January) he's been doing with Maineack Tubman and takes it back to the essence of Vita: slick, thoughtful streetwise raps (the dangers of Facebook macking, the evils of money, would-be 206-rap saviors) from a clever hood resident, immaculately flowed, over the kind of beats that, well, this whole city's scene was built on. In short, it's fucking terrific—the best straight-up hiphop release I've heard out of here this year. Anybody who's called themselves excited about hiphop from our region, or raved about rappers from here that rightfully have invoked Vita as a huge influence—had better download this with the quickness. (Unless your Comcast so-called high speed internet has you attempting to download it 20 goddamned times over the course of a day, as in my case. Nonetheless— totally worth it.)

UPDATE** Here's a promo clip for it, filmed in The Pharmacy by The Notework:

 

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Last Night's Mixtape 1
Classique.
Posted by Last Night's Mixtape http://lastnightsmixtape.com on March 22, 2010 at 11:38 PM
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love, love, love
Posted by Kelly O on March 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM
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BRILLIANCE!
Posted by sherpaco on March 23, 2010 at 4:06 PM
jonfredric 4
Aries is wahsssupppp!! thumped this shit when i was blowin out candles a few days later!!
Posted by jonfredric http://thepurplemountain.tumblr.com on March 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM

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