Blue Scholars released their first album 10 years ago, today. They celebrated with a release party at Vesper Lounge. I opened up, along with
Cancer Rising. I also remember
Macklemore was in attendance, and he played me songs from his upcoming "
The Language Of My World" album in the car that night. I remember tripping off the quality of everyone's work, including the
Abyssinian Creole album we were still working on at the time. A little later in the year, I remember rolling with
Geo (aka Prometheus Brown of Blue Scholars) to Teal's place to record his feature that ended up on that Abyssinian Creole album. We had on KEXP in the car, (I think just for a split second while changing CD's) and a Blue Scholars song came on. This was a big deal because it wasn't a Sunday Night, and before Blue Scholars, I don't remember KEXP playing local Hip Hop outside of Street Sounds. If I'm not mistaken, it was the first time Geo heard himself on the radio outside of a Hip Hop specialty show too. That was one of many doors Blue Scholars were able to kick down, and Hip Hop in Seattle has never been the same. Sending love, respect and gratitude to Blue Scholars on 10 years since that first record!
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