Hip-hop is becoming - or I should say has become - a truly
global game, and almost no one group embodies the culture's more
expansive future than Fly Gypsy, a crew made up of the Russian-born
Alexei and Jamaican-born Kom. Now living in the DMV region
(when they're not traveling the globe), Fly Gypsy sat down with
RefinedHype to talk about how their international roots have
influenced their music, detail their favorite cities worldwide
and talk about their upcoming debut album "Change for a Dollar".
http://flygypsy.com/
http://flygypsy.com/
http://flygypsy.com/
Our first album, "Change for a Dollar", drops December 1.
A lot of folks have been showing it mad love, from HipHopDX
to DJBooth.net to okayplayer.com. The album is a little
more serious and introspective than our last release,
"The Vodka & Rum Mixtape", but it has some fun moments as well.
In fact, it's very diverse. "2 Step," our first single,
is a feel-good head-nodding radio-friendly club banger,
while our second single "You" is both a nod to both old school
hip-hop and an ode to Black women. "Give It 2 Me" and "Get
That Money" are club bangers, fun and sexy. Then you got "Go,"
which is a rock anthem. And I'm not talking Limp Bizkit rock-rap
hybrid either. I'm talking real rock mixed with real hip-hop.
"Look for You" is what we call a hip-hop-folk classic - an
acoustic and really soulful track. Then you have "Strengthen Me," which is very rich lyrically and very moving.
premiering in the next couple of weeks, first on okayplayer.com,
then on MTVu and VH1 Soul. We shot the video in Jamaica with
Ras Kassa, the director who did "Welcome to Jamrock" for
Damian Marley and a lot of other videos for Sean Paul,
Beenie Man, and even Willie Nelson. We had a great time
shooting it and are excited to share it with everyone.
It has a lot of eye candy. And while we're on the subject,
we would like to ask everyone to vote for the video when it
premieres on MTVu. We will need the votes to get the video into
general rotation. Go to our website, flygypsy.com, sign up for
our mailing list, and we'll let you know when voting starts.
And if you really want to support, shoot us an email
(contact info on the website) and we'll tell you how you
could help organizing voting parties. Check out the website
for free music and all up-to-date information. Thank
you for supporting good music!
global game, and almost no one group embodies the culture's more
expansive future than Fly Gypsy, a crew made up of the Russian-born
Alexei and Jamaican-born Kom. Now living in the DMV region
(when they're not traveling the globe), Fly Gypsy sat down with
RefinedHype to talk about how their international roots have
influenced their music, detail their favorite cities worldwide
and talk about their upcoming debut album "Change for a Dollar".
http://flygypsy.com/
http://flygypsy.com/
http://flygypsy.com/
Our first album, "Change for a Dollar", drops December 1.
A lot of folks have been showing it mad love, from HipHopDX
to DJBooth.net to okayplayer.com. The album is a little
more serious and introspective than our last release,
"The Vodka & Rum Mixtape", but it has some fun moments as well.
In fact, it's very diverse. "2 Step," our first single,
is a feel-good head-nodding radio-friendly club banger,
while our second single "You" is both a nod to both old school
hip-hop and an ode to Black women. "Give It 2 Me" and "Get
That Money" are club bangers, fun and sexy. Then you got "Go,"
which is a rock anthem. And I'm not talking Limp Bizkit rock-rap
hybrid either. I'm talking real rock mixed with real hip-hop.
"Look for You" is what we call a hip-hop-folk classic - an
acoustic and really soulful track. Then you have "Strengthen Me," which is very rich lyrically and very moving.
premiering in the next couple of weeks, first on okayplayer.com,
then on MTVu and VH1 Soul. We shot the video in Jamaica with
Ras Kassa, the director who did "Welcome to Jamrock" for
Damian Marley and a lot of other videos for Sean Paul,
Beenie Man, and even Willie Nelson. We had a great time
shooting it and are excited to share it with everyone.
It has a lot of eye candy. And while we're on the subject,
we would like to ask everyone to vote for the video when it
premieres on MTVu. We will need the votes to get the video into
general rotation. Go to our website, flygypsy.com, sign up for
our mailing list, and we'll let you know when voting starts.
And if you really want to support, shoot us an email
(contact info on the website) and we'll tell you how you
could help organizing voting parties. Check out the website
for free music and all up-to-date information. Thank
you for supporting good music!