I Dislike Your Favorite Team

I've long submitted Old School Videos for your appreciation; I hope you have enjoyed them.

I'm sneaking a local new school favorite of mine (and lots of others) now when I slide in some Doomtree. They are a hip-hop collective, from the Twin Cities. Some members have already gotten some national notice; some have gotten even the higher regard of being noticed by this here blog.

There's been a reaction, nationwide, of shock and surprise, that hip-hop could come out of the Twin Cities. Never you mind that R&B and then hip-hop has been an important of the Twin Cities scene for a long, long time. People always seem surprised.

The Doomtree collective is going to surprise some folks, even though their big brothers at Rhymesayers featured a very similar growth, and in fact, helped get Doomtree out there. So the exact same people who were shocked as shit that Atmosphere and Brother Ali and Eyedea and DJ Abilities came out of the same city (much less the same label) are maybe going to be surprised to see that P.O.S. and Dessa Darling (both critically lauded in their own right) have got a posse and that posse does great work.

So, please to enjoy: P.O.S. (who, let's be clear--would be the MC of the Midwest, hands down, if not for Brother Ali), Dessa Darling, Cecil Otter, Sims and Mike Mictlan with producers Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak