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L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae
12+ albums
Hip-HoprapMello Music Groupunderground hip-hopunderground rap
about
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their opus, The Night Took Us In Like Family. Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with "Part One: Introducing A Conspicuous Man", L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like "Ice Obsidian" says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks t
top songs
albums
The Night Took Us In Like Family
Complicate Your Life With Violence
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hello
Dead Battery
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The Night Took Us in Like Family [Explicit]
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Rough Trade Hip Hop 2015
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L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae
Ignore The Man To Your Right
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The Night Took Us In Like Family (LP)
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The Night Took Us in Like Fami
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The Ordinary Man
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