Famed producer/emcee The Alchemist, and Oh No, the left-coast rapper/beatsmith are collaborating as Gangrene, to bring audiences the gritty opus Gutter Water on Decon. Over the course of three years and a myriad of emails, the two have built a project that celebrates their shared passion for dusty breaks and lurid wordplay as well as their distinctly different application of each.
Download the lead single, “Chain Swinging” here.
More details about Gangrene’s Gutter Water & full tracklisting below.
On Gutter Water, both Oh No and The Alchemist share production duties while trading verses over each other’s dense compositions. Both find themselves remarkably at ease amongst the threatening drums pounded out on endearing vintage equipment, flipping verses that run the gamut from literal to abstract, amounting to an incredible collection of head-nodders. A myriad of features include Raekwon, Evidence, Roc C, MED, Twins Gambino, Planet Asia and Fashawn.
Gutter Water Tracklisting
1. Intro
2. Boss Shit (Cuts by DJ Romes)
3. Not High Enough
4. Gutter Water ft Raekwon
5. Get Into Some Gangster Shit ft Planet Asia
6. Take Drugs
7. Chain Swinging (Cuts by DJ Romes)
8. Wassup Wassup ft Fashawn and Evidence
9. All Bad (Cuts by DJ Romes)
10. Breathing Down Yo Neck ft MED
11. From Another Orbit ft Roc C
12. Ransom
13. Standing In The Shadows
14. Brass Knuckle Rap ft Guilty Simpson
15. Not Leaving ft Big Twins
The Alchemist
Bio
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It’s almost an overwrought subject to mention the power of names; the idea whether they choose us or we choose them and if, in reality there is any difference. Religious converts, celebrities, super heroes–they all take on names that fit their attributes, their ideas of self. Malcolm X. Marilyn Monroe. Superman. Mudfoot.
Doesn’t sound right. Not for someone who envisioned himself, in his mid-teens, as being an acclaimed and respected underground hip-hop producer. Well, okay. Maybe Mudfoot does work for that. But it doesn’t stand as totally representative for someone who transforms old soul, classical soundtracks and hard rock into gritty, dirty, pounding hip-hop numbers.
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