SOHH PICKS - Episode 1 featuring Darrin Grand, Elcamino & Block Party
The series premiere episode of #SOHH Picks featuring:
0:00 - INTRO
1:25 - Stoop - Darrin Grand feat. Moneywis3
[Video] https://youtu.be/e1DmVS-yPCE
4:30 - Same People - Elcamino
[Song] https://youtu.be/VTn6ziToSJw
8:30 - OMW - Block Party featuring Charger & Ajax
[Song] https://youtu.be/GOBSncYvoXQ
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0:00 - INTRO
1:25 - Stoop - Darrin Grand feat. Moneywis3
[Video] https://youtu.be/e1DmVS-yPCE
4:30 - Same People - Elcamino
[Song] https://youtu.be/VTn6ziToSJw
8:30 - OMW - Block Party featuring Charger & Ajax
[Song] https://youtu.be/GOBSncYvoXQ
Want to be featured on SOHH Picks?
Email us at social@sohh.com
OR
Tag your favorite independent artist below in the comments!
Make sure to check out our SOHH Picks Playlist on Spotify!
http://spoti.fi/364RF6U
Need your own SOHH Merchandise? We got you!
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Transcript
00:00 (logo chimes)
00:02 - Hey, what's up y'all?
00:03 This is JR.
00:04 - And I'm Steve from So.com.
00:06 - From So.com.
00:07 You see it right here, the merch, the swag.
00:10 We're out here.
00:11 We're on YouTube today,
00:12 'cause we're gonna be reviewing some music
00:14 that was sent to us.
00:15 - Right.
00:16 During these COVID times,
00:17 you know, people have been sending us a lot of music.
00:20 And I figured, why not?
00:21 You know, everybody wants a place to showcase their stuff.
00:25 - Yeah.
00:26 - So, since I get this stuff normally at social@so.com,
00:30 that's where you can write me and send me your stuff.
00:32 - Mm-hmm.
00:33 - You know, send it to me and I'll play it.
00:35 So, I'm gonna play you some things
00:36 that have been sent to me recently
00:38 that I thought were pretty good.
00:39 You haven't heard it.
00:41 - I haven't heard it.
00:42 - All right.
00:42 So, this is kind of like a first reaction kind of thing too.
00:45 And maybe in the future, we'll do different things
00:47 where you play me some stuff that I haven't heard.
00:50 You know, so.
00:50 - We'll see, we'll see.
00:51 - If you wanna be, so there's two ways to participate.
00:54 First is by watching this video on YouTube.
00:56 Of course, you should subscribe and like.
00:59 - You gotta do that, subscribe and like.
01:00 Hit the like button, hit the subscribe button,
01:02 all that, comment down below.
01:04 - Okay.
01:05 - Let's get right into it though.
01:06 - Oh, there's one more thing.
01:07 - Okay, one more thing.
01:08 - If you're on Spotify,
01:10 then you gotta look for the SoulPix playlist.
01:13 - Yes.
01:14 - And then you'll see the songs that we have already
01:18 in stock.
01:19 - Yeah.
01:20 - All right?
01:21 - There you go, man.
01:21 - So, let's go to the first thing.
01:23 - Check it out, so what you got for me?
01:25 - All right, this is a guy out of Inglewood.
01:28 I think it's two guys, actually.
01:30 The name is Darren Grand and Money Wise.
01:33 - Got it.
01:34 - And the song is called "Stoop".
01:35 All right, let's check this out.
01:37 - Y'all was good, Moe?
01:38 - Yeah, Moe.
01:39 - What's the deal for you?
01:42 - Who?
01:42 - The deal for you.
01:44 - I'm loving with you.
01:46 Fresh off the stoop.
01:47 - Fresh off the stoop.
01:48 - Shooter gon' shoot.
01:49 - Shooter gon' shoot.
01:50 - With the chick in the coop.
01:51 - With the chick in the coop.
01:52 ♪ And I'm closing the deal and I'm copping the coupe ♪
01:54 ♪ You give me one, I'll come back with a few ♪
01:56 ♪ Bought myself a little bitch with a scoop ♪
01:58 ♪ So I'm so up in my eyes for the juice ♪
02:00 ♪ And we in houses with veggies, judge you by your fruit ♪
02:02 ♪ Fresh out on the pavement, hit you in your roots ♪
02:04 ♪ No, I'm not conceited, but bitch, I'm the truth ♪
02:07 ♪ Bitch call me Bishop 'cause I got the juice ♪
02:12 ♪ Do do do do do do do do do ♪
02:15 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
02:16 ♪ Open my eyes and I'm truth to truth ♪
02:20 ♪ Bitch, I'm the truth ♪
02:25 ♪ Just to the script, just to the script ♪
02:27 ♪ Now I got the juice ♪
02:29 ♪ 'Bout to cop me a bird ♪
02:31 ♪ 'Bout to whip it to two ♪
02:33 ♪ So buzzin' up with the plug, it's what I do ♪
02:35 ♪ They show me love, I cop more than a few ♪
02:37 ♪ You know the rules, nobody knew ♪
02:39 ♪ If I seen it happen, then nobody knew ♪
02:41 - Who is that singing right now?
02:43 - I think it's--
02:44 ♪ Fresh off the stoop ♪
02:44 - I think it was Darren.
02:45 - Darren was singing, was rapping just now?
02:47 - Yeah, we didn't get to the Moneywise part.
02:49 - Yeah, I like that.
02:50 But what'd you think about that?
02:52 - Well, so far, you know, it's like,
02:55 it's not like the typical trap with like,
02:59 you know, like the super duper heavy 808.
03:00 It's like this, like the 808 you still,
03:02 you know, you hear it and everything.
03:04 But it feels like a in between,
03:05 like it's not too heavy, but it's, you know,
03:08 it's kind of softish, you know?
03:10 - Right.
03:11 - Which I like that, it really,
03:12 it's not mellow, but it's like, you know.
03:14 - Right.
03:15 I think what caught me on guard a little bit
03:17 was that he is from Inglewood.
03:19 - Yeah, yeah.
03:20 - And he was singing more of a,
03:21 you know, what's the guy, you like The Box?
03:24 - Roddy?
03:24 - Roddy, there you go.
03:25 - Yeah, right.
03:26 - I'm not up on all, sometimes I know the names,
03:28 sometimes I forget the names, but either way,
03:31 I was expecting more of a flow like that.
03:34 And he gave me more of a Griselda kind of flow.
03:37 - Yeah.
03:38 - You know, especially with that,
03:38 do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
03:40 - So, you know, like, what's he done?
03:43 Is he like, work with like Griselda or anybody like that?
03:47 - Nah, he has not.
03:49 That would be something though.
03:50 If this guy was to come to Griselda
03:53 and do like a Griselda West.
03:55 - Yeah, like he had the whole, do, do, do, do, yeah, yeah,
03:57 I see what you're saying.
03:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:59 - So, Derrick, we liked it.
04:02 - We like it a lot.
04:03 - We liked it a lot.
04:04 - I like it a lot.
04:05 You gotta make sure I get that
04:05 so I can put it on my personal playlist, you know?
04:08 - Yeah, what I liked too was the intro.
04:10 It was like a buildup.
04:12 - Yeah, sure it was.
04:12 I was expecting him to get right into it.
04:14 You know, like they do all the time these days,
04:16 just like, all right, four bar, okay.
04:18 Boom, we in it.
04:19 - But I was glad he didn't let me down.
04:20 - Yeah.
04:21 - You know, 'cause that buildup was so long,
04:22 I was like, yeah, you better not let me down.
04:24 - Yeah, better not be whack.
04:26 - Yeah, you better not be whack.
04:27 - Better not be whack.
04:28 - All right, so speaking of Griselda,
04:30 I'm gonna play this guy named El Camino
04:33 and the track is called "Same People."
04:36 - I haven't heard this one either.
04:38 ♪ We are different people ♪
04:39 - Okay, got a sample.
04:41 ♪ Different races ♪
04:43 - Woo!
04:45 ♪ Different aspirations ♪
04:48 ♪ Different feelings ♪
04:49 ♪ Yo, uh, yo ♪
04:51 ♪ I made a block on my own ♪
04:53 ♪ Nobody taught me a thing ♪
04:55 ♪ My house wasn't a home ♪
04:56 ♪ My whip wasn't a rake ♪
04:58 ♪ My kicks wasn't a cheese ♪
05:00 ♪ All I had was a gun ♪
05:01 ♪ I'm still stuck in my ways ♪
05:03 ♪ I'm always smokin' the blunt ♪
05:05 ♪ I'm always shootin' the gun ♪
05:06 ♪ I always been a nigga to give the people what they want ♪
05:10 ♪ Being broke made me humble ♪
05:11 ♪ Now I got no trust but the stuff ♪
05:13 ♪ I stayed down on my 10s for long ♪
05:15 ♪ I fucked up my ones ♪
05:16 ♪ I could've been had it end ♪
05:18 ♪ What I was doing was dumb ♪
05:20 ♪ Spending more than I made ♪
05:21 ♪ That's how I fucked up my ones ♪
05:23 ♪ I done stacked up a fortune ♪
05:25 ♪ I could get all my sons and my daughter ♪
05:27 ♪ How could I fall off when I'm working on water and Thames ♪
05:31 ♪ Riding around, listening to myself on the bench ♪
05:34 ♪ I remember when I didn't have a quarter ♪
05:36 ♪ Now I'm a six-figure nigga ♪
05:38 ♪ I work out and D8 doors ♪
05:40 ♪ Survival of the fittest ♪
05:41 ♪ I'm a lion in the forest ♪
05:43 ♪ Shooting dice with the killers ♪
05:45 ♪ From the streets, now we corporate ♪
05:47 ♪ Still got pounds for the load ♪
05:48 ♪ But that's just a nail in the coffin ♪
05:50 ♪ Still keep wanting to hate ♪
05:51 ♪ And I'm eating wrist and the cartridge ♪
05:53 ♪ We used to run the streets ♪
05:54 ♪ Now we rich, so we be jogging ♪
05:58 ♪ We are different people ♪
06:01 - Interesting.
06:03 You know what's funny is,
06:06 he's from Buffalo, New York.
06:11 Um, I think here, let me--
06:14 - Can I just ask, is there a drop to that?
06:17 'Cause like--
06:18 - Nah, I don't think so.
06:19 I think that's--
06:20 - It's all right if there's not,
06:21 but you know, like sometimes, you know,
06:22 you got them sample-based songs,
06:24 they come in real smooth, kick and snare, all that.
06:28 - Right.
06:29 - And then it's just like,
06:30 (hums)
06:31 Just something wild, you know,
06:32 you're like, oh, shit, he flipped it on his head.
06:35 - I think he was relying more on his storytelling abilities
06:39 to really carry us through the song.
06:42 You know, so, makes me wonder why he's,
06:45 well, I know he's done a couple of things with Benny.
06:47 - Yeah, wait, for real?
06:48 - Yeah, yeah, he's got some stuff with Benny.
06:50 And it's funny because he's on this album,
06:53 the album is out, this album,
06:55 I don't know why he's not promoting it at all.
06:59 It's called "Walk by Faith"
07:01 and you can find that on Spotify.
07:03 And look, it's looking at all these tracks and whatnot,
07:05 you know, but there's no other like appearances on it
07:08 by anybody else, so I wonder what that's all about.
07:11 But at the end of the day, "El Camino,"
07:12 yo, that was hard.
07:14 - That was pretty good, that was pretty good.
07:15 I really liked that.
07:16 I mean, I don't wanna compare both the tracks,
07:18 'cause they're very different.
07:20 I would say they're in the same sphere though,
07:22 like with that "Grizzella" stuff,
07:23 like they both are in that same area where it's like,
07:28 I would say the first one sounded like,
07:30 more like contemporary, like newer,
07:34 like it even gives it like a drill vibe, you know?
07:37 Like just a little bit, just a tiny bit, you know?
07:39 - Right, right.
07:40 - But the second one was like,
07:42 like it really get like, you know,
07:44 of course it's got the samples, very sample-based,
07:46 you know, just, you know,
07:48 the sample running through the whole track and everything.
07:50 - Right.
07:51 - So, you know, I wouldn't wanna compare them or anything,
07:55 but you know.
07:55 - Right, right.
07:57 All right, and then the last track we got is called--
07:59 - Oh, we got one more, okay.
08:00 - Yeah, one more.
08:01 It's by, they're from California, I believe.
08:05 And this one is "Block Party"
08:08 and the name of the song is "OMW",
08:11 which I'm assuming means "On My Way".
08:13 - Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, "On My Way".
08:14 - You know, when you hit my age,
08:15 sometimes the acronyms don't--
08:17 - It's okay, you gonna get there.
08:18 - I'm gonna get there one day.
08:20 - One day.
08:21 We gonna get there.
08:22 (laughing)
08:27 (gentle music)
08:30 All right.
08:33 (gentle music)
08:34 (indistinct)
08:37 - I think I've heard this before.
08:40 I'm not sure.
08:41 ♪ On my way, way, way, way, way ♪
08:44 ♪ Money keep calling for me ♪
08:49 ♪ On my way, way, way, way, way ♪
08:54 ♪ She falling for me ♪
08:59 ♪ On my way ♪
09:00 ♪ Let's get down, babe ♪
09:02 ♪ She ain't got no time for the chain ♪
09:05 ♪ I be getting loose, getting wavy ♪
09:07 ♪ I ain't got no time for no game ♪
09:09 ♪ Say you want a verse, call my pay ♪
09:11 ♪ I be jumping around on the stage ♪
09:14 ♪ Room full of smoke, looking hazy ♪
09:16 ♪ Sipping on some fine wine and grapes ♪
09:18 ♪ I'm a little younger for the baby ♪
09:20 ♪ She look shorty for my age ♪
09:23 ♪ I been hitting licks on the block ♪
09:25 ♪ Can't speak, I'ma shoot, hold the case ♪
09:27 ♪ Couple back, what's back when I blaze ♪
09:29 ♪ Put the gap to the head when I aim ♪
09:31 ♪ Feel like Michael in his prime in my chase ♪
09:34 ♪ I'ma be on my way, way, way, way, way ♪
09:38 ♪ Money keep calling for me ♪
09:43 ♪ On my way, way, way, way, way ♪
09:48 ♪ She falling for me ♪
09:52 ♪ Sitting there silent ♪
09:54 All right, so that was, I realized what I messed up.
09:56 So, Block Party is the name of the collective
10:00 and Charger and Ajax are the actual people on it.
10:04 Now, I don't know who is who.
10:06 And of course, if you guys wanna hear the whole song,
10:08 you should just go to our Spotify account.
10:11 - I'm sure we'll be linking it in the description.
10:12 - Right.
10:13 - They can check that out in the description.
10:14 - Exactly.
10:15 So what'd you think?
10:16 - That was, it's very different from the other two.
10:20 I like the, on my way, way.
10:25 Now that part's a little cool, I like that, that's sick.
10:27 - Yeah, I can't wait to play that in the car.
10:30 - You think it's gonna go hard?
10:31 - I think it's gonna sound really nice.
10:32 'Cause it sounds really, really clean.
10:34 - It does, right?
10:35 - You know, and--
10:36 - But it sounds very minimal.
10:38 - Yeah.
10:38 - Like, you know, we both do it,
10:40 we dabble in production a little bit.
10:42 So, you know, it really sounds like
10:43 they didn't use too many instruments or anything like that.
10:47 It's very, very simple.
10:49 And even the patterns, like the BPM is pretty slow too.
10:53 Like, it's definitely not a very fast song.
10:56 - Right, right, right.
10:57 - It's like really chill.
10:58 It's really, really chill.
10:59 I like that, I like that.
11:00 - Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be listening to that
11:02 a couple more times this week.
11:03 - Yeah, all those songs, you gotta give 'em to me.
11:05 I really, really like 'em all.
11:06 - Right, so if you like 'em all,
11:08 make sure you go to our Spotify channel.
11:10 - Yeah.
11:11 - Look for SoulPix.
11:12 - Show some support.
11:13 - And thank you for coming through to YouTube today.
11:16 - SOHH merch, check it out.
11:18 - Yep, check that out.
11:19 - Check that out.
11:20 - Got the old school logo, new school logo.
11:21 - Yeah, that's my favorite, that's my favorite hoodie.
11:23 I'ma just plug it real quick.
11:25 Like, it's so nice and warm and thick and everything.
11:28 - Right, right.
11:29 - I'ma just be real, you know, it's a great hoodie.
11:31 It's my favorite hoodie right now.
11:33 - So, quality matters.
11:34 - Quality matters.
11:35 - So.
11:36 - Quality matters.
11:36 - We taping, yo, you gotta get up outta here.
11:39 You know how this is, man.
11:41 COVID, man, we taping.
11:43 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:43 - Anyway, so that's it, yo.
11:45 We'll see you next week.
11:46 Make sure you-- - See y'all next week.
11:47 - If you have any tracks that you wanna submit,
11:49 make sure that you send 'em to social@sohh.com.
11:53 - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
11:55 I'll see y'all later.
11:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]