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“I think it’s safe to say Jeremiah Jae is one of my favorite artists of his generation. For years now I’ve been a witness to the incredible progression of his craft. This album has a complex dedication and honesty that I search for in myself with my own art. Underrated and understated, Jae is ready to show these muhfuckers what’s really good. Believe in Jeremiah Jae.” – Flying Lotus

With that statement I was set in motion for what has become my favorite hip hop albums in years: Jeremiah Jae’s latest Brainfeeder full length Raw Money Raps. Having a plethora of lyrical styles like Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan, Jeremiah Jae is one of those mc’s who can stretch his limitations from song to song, not just album to album. Originally from Chicago, Jeremiah Jae now inhabits the Los Angeles region, home to his Brainfeeder famly.

Raw Money Raps culminates raw gutter music, existentialism, morality, scientific thought, the human spirit, 21st century wild styles, conscious raps, psychedelic voyages and LA’s beat scene swagger. Dusty analog beats mold around electronic fixtures of synthesized heaven as juxtaposed worlds become more and more interconnected. Nothing is taboo on Raw Money Raps and a persistence towards duality is felt the entire time because of it.

At the heart of Jeremiah Jae’s style is a word play in which displays a modern style of story telling that is missing in a lot of today’s hip hop. Most lyricist set you in a specific mode but Jeremiah Jae’s content walks across a multitude of lines I can’t even begin to describe. The beats are just as diverse and complex. The sample work surrounding many of the songs on Raw Money Raps is as illustrious and wild as a Madlib or MF DOOM production, giving the record a level of escape from the music itself that keeps the album really strong every moment. The highly introverted lyrical musings from Jeremiah Jae’s mind is incredible on so many levels and something I can’t believe sounds as futuristic as it does with his at times simplistic phrasing patterns. Alpha Pup couldn’t have summed it up better, “skipping from rapid, focused deliveries to surprising melodic sing-a-longs then chopped-and-screwed slump and stream of consciousness brainfloods“.

One moment, Raw Money Raps feels like a Madlib invasion, then a Gonjasufi inspired track comes forth and then next it sounds as if Lil B is on the album. With ranges of influences that extend to so many styles and of course areas far beyond music, it’s a beautiful mystery this album sounds as cohesive as it does. The entire record shifts in scope constantly, a state of modern music that is more common place than an entire record sounding the same from front to back.

Raw Money Raps is huge in every sense of the word and I can’t get over how raw each beat and rhyme is. It’s the type of record that makes me feel good as hell about where hip hop is going. Jeremiah Jae’s Raw Money Raps is for the adventurous listener and is filled with so much content it’s tough to even wrap my mind around a collected train of thought about what Jeremiah Jae achieved. Pressed on 2xLP colored vinyl, CD and digital formats, this is one highly recommended album from Sound Colour Vibration.

-Erik Otis

Order from Brainfeeder here: 
http://www.brainfeedersite.com/2012/07/23/jeremiah-jae-raw-money-raps/

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“Money” by Jeremiah Jae (Brainfeeder) | Directed by Steven Ellison (Flying Lotus)