Prefix Geo-Tags DMV Locations Mentioned In My Lyrics

View Oddisee's DC in a larger map, and please feel free to add & edit with additional locations.

Looking at this map, there's definitely a few more locations I can remember mentioning. Here's a few more:


Saint Marys County
Saint Marys county is the county in Maryland that half of my family originally come from berfor moving north to DC to find work. It's one of the area's Jay-Z used to hustle in, I've got cousins that remember him down there.
"I'm getting paid like Jay back in the day when he was moving yay round my way, down in Saint Marys" From - "I'm From PG"


Euclid ST. NW, DC
Euclid street is the street I would often walk down to get from Georgia ave to Adams Morgan.
"A Little way up the road, found he gold that they stole, around the next of Salvadorian's off of Euclid" From - "Gully"


Silver Spring
Silver Spring is one of the more well know suburban area's of the DMV. Sitting right on the line to the north of DC.
"My Silver Springs peeps yeah, riding on the Z2" From - "Propa"


Georgia Ave.
Georgia avenue is definitely one of the more famous avenues in DC. It's home to Howard university, the west indian day parade & is an overall center of black culture for uptown DC. It's so famous it's often simply referred to as "The Ave."
"Ery youngin on the ave. got my cised, good goddess" from "Delusional"

I'm sure there are more but that's all I can thing of at the moment. Feel free to leave more references in the comments.

Bars On Deck [BET Cypher]

 Inaugural cypher at PNC Radio with Oddisee, Das Racist, Final Outlaw, Homeboy Sandman, and Blu. (Season 2011)

Performance In Brussels

The gentlemen who shot the video for the "Blooming" attending our show in Brussels, Belgium. I didn't even realize they were filming this performance. Well done gentlemen!

Mello Music Euro Tour 01

I'm super late on posting photos from the Mello Music Group European tour, I know. I've been busy making music, good excuse right? To bad that's my excuse for everything.
Shout out to Apollo Brown, DJ Soko & Journalist103, you guys were great to tour with & I'm sure we will again.
Thank you to all the promoters that booked us, we hope you were pleased with out performances & that'll you have us again.
Most of all, thank you to the fans that came out each & every night!



Much respect to Dan & Timm of "MindFeederz" for booking an amazing tour. I'll be sure to work with them again.

Berlin, Germany

Zurich, Switzerland

Paris, France

Stockholm, Sweden

To view more photos from this tour, click here ---> MMG Euro Tour Pics

Day Trip To Cambridge

Last Sunday, some friends & I took a day trip to Cambridge, England. One of my friends is from there so we were lucky to have an amazing tour guide. We visited a few colleges & museums, had a famous Chelsea bun from Fitzbillies, visited the pub where Watson & Crick announced they had discovered DNA & even went punting. All in all it was an amazing day with weather to match. Nice to get out of London for a change.

MMG European Tour

September 29 to October 8th Apollo Brown, The Left & myself will be touring Europe. Dates below.

Sep. 29 - Linz, Austria [Kapu]

Sep. 30 - Zurich, Switzerland [Stall 6]

Oct. 1 - ST. Etienne, France [Le Fil]

Oct. 2 - Paris, France [Glazart]

Oct. 3 Brussels, Belgium [London Calling]

Oct. 4 - Cologne, Germany [Bogen 2]

Oct. 5 - Duisberg, Germany [High5 Club]

Oct. 6 - Berlin, Germany [Bohannon]

Oct. 8 - Aarhus, Denmark [Voxhall]

Politics As Usual

Back in London hanging out with my brother Eric Lau. When ever I'm here, I play basketball on Wednesdays with Eric, his friends & allot of the London music scene. Afterwards we always go for a bite  to eat & a shisha. Eric put me on to a new Turkish spot in Finsbury Park called "Leziz". Great food, great prices, lovely staff & great shisha.



We discussed the possibility of Eric releasing a record on Mello Music over complimentary fresh mint tea & baklava. Eric just left to China for a gig there & then he's off to Thailand. (Lucky bastard)

Stereogum Gives Rock Creek Park Mix-Tape Of The Week

Mixtape Of The Week: Oddisee Rock Creek Park

Only two weeks into this column, and I’m already cheating. Oddisee’s mostly-instrumental pastoral soul-rap opus is a couple of weeks old already, and it’s only a mixtape by the most liberal definition possible. There’s barely any rapping on it, it doesn’t use any other people’s beats, there’s no DJ bellowing over it, and, most damning of all, Oddisee’s actually asking you to pay him for it; it’ll run you $8 at this Bandcamp page. And yet I’m taking this opportunity to write about it anyway, mostly because it moves me way more than any mixtape I’ve heard this week.
As a member of the Diamond District crew, Oddisee is one of the most important figures on Washington, D.C.’s underground rap scene, even though he doesn’t come from D.C. exactly, and he doesn’t live there now. Oddisee’s a recent Brooklyn transplant, and he’s originally from suburban Upper Marlboro, Maryland, just outside the District. He named Rock Creek Park after a wooded expanse on the D.C. border where he used to ride his bike as a kid. Which is to say: This is an instrumental rap album about being a kid and riding your bike through nature. If you look at it from a certain angle, it’s practically chillwave.
There aren’t any diffuse underwater synths here, though. As a producer, Oddisee has long been in a the neo-traditionalist boom-bap camp. His beats for Diamond District and other D.C. types owe a lot to Pete Rock; they’re all neck-snap snares and floating horn samples. And more than most of the modern-day producers who work that sound, Oddisee’s got a sense of cinematic grace in his style. The lived-in warmth of orchestral ’70s soul is an actual aesthetic basis for this guy; it’s not just a source of sounds for him to chop up in ProTools. His beats always sound heavy and full, not thin like those of so many other producers, which is the main reason why he’s able to put together a full-on instrumental album without letting things get boring.
Only one track on Rock Creek Park features vocals: Opener “Still Doing It,” which has a verse from fellow Diamond District member yU. After that, it’s all impressionistic drum-ripples and dizzy soul strings. There are samples in there, but Oddisee also used live-band arrangements. The production walks a tight-line, staying away from looped-up monotony on one side and session-player gloss on the other. And so the whole thing breezes by in 43 ridiculously pleasant minutes. Oddisee’s named the tracks after specific local geography (“Beach Dr.,” “Clara Barton”) or specific memory-trigger phrases (“Skipping Rocks,” “All Along The River”). And even though it’s not generally wise to read too much emotional connection into instrumental music, the album really does evoke the beauty and solitude of being a kid alone in a park, and traces of the clatter of the city around it also creep in. It’s a deeply pretty and thoughtful piece of music, and it deserves your $8, or at least your 43 minutes.
Stream and/or buy Rock Creek Park at this Bandcamp page.

TiRon & Ayomari - A Sucker For Pumps

The homies TiRon & Ayomari have recently released their latest project "A Sucker For Pumps". It's a concept album about love & relationships & it's amazing! I produced "Fin", the outro track for this album. I'm extremely proud to be apart of such a complete record. Don't take my word for it, give it a listen & if you like it buy it.

Purchase

Bandcamp | iTunes

Came Through With The Chopper & They Got My Man

Working on music today & looked out my window to see the city taking down this tree. Now you'll be able to see completely into my place, thanks.

Mattered Much Feat. Olivier Daysoul

Went ahead & put some vocals on "Mattered Much", a track from my "Rock Creek Park" album. Olivier Daysoul is featured on the chorus.



Rock Creek Park is now available on CD today, click on the links below to order it. It's also still available on iTunes

Brothers On Bikes

photo by W. Ellington Felton

Amazing day riding around DC with some good brothers.

Uptown XO ft. Diamond District "Told You So"

Listen/Download XO's new album Monumental II

Daily Bread "Elephants" [Oddisee Remix]

Producer Apollo Brown & gifted MC Hassaan Mackey recently released an amazing collaborative album entitled, "Daily Bread" on Mello Music Group. Here's a remix I did to "Elephants" off their album, check it out.

Daily Bread "Elephants" [Oddisee Remix] by Oddisee Music

You can purchase "Daily Bread" on iTunes.

Rock Creek Park

Rock Creek Park is now available to purchase on | Bandcamp | iTunes | Fat Beats | UGHH | Amazon |

Rock Creek Park Will be available on vinyl September 27th.