“Sometimes you gotta turn your hustle off… and slow your speed.”
No days off is a common modus of operandi for many in the music business, from artists, producers, engineers, fucking journalist/djs dudes that also teach at Columbia… While I love what I do and consider myself very lucky to be able to pay my rent doing what I love, I really agree with Oddisee’s sentiments on his new record, “Hustle Off”. Sometimes you just gotta unplug for a second and refresh in order to step back into grind mode. The song is off Oddisee’s forthcoming alum, People Hear What They See, which drops June 5th via Mello Music Group (pre-order on iTunes).
Check out Oddisee’s new song, “Hustle Off” as well as his thoughts on the album below.
“This album is about influence, inspiration, perception & reality. Every song was written in an outside environment, so that I could observe the subjects that would become my subject matter. All too often in Hip Hop, reality is limited to that of the artists own, actual experiences. People Hear What They See is my attempt to liberate the MC from those constraints & allow reality to be penned other than my own. Listening to congressmen & lawyers converse on the steps of the supreme court inspired ‘American Greed’, Watching a couple argue over the phone in a bar inspired ‘Maybes’. By having a visual representation of my subject matter, my hopes are that the listener will see them through the worlds & melodies of my songs.”