[Video] Aleon Craft: "Look Twice" (prod. SMKA)
Atlanta/Outerspace native Aleon Craft presents us with the first video off of Mothership Decatur, set to drop this April. The video accompanies the first and only leak off of the album, and while it is quite short it gets me excited for the Southern MC's newest project. Aleon Craft was once a part of Da Backwudz but the group broke apart after releasing only one album. Now he is blessing our ears with music that sounds other-worldly. Keep an eye out for Mothership Decatur and check out the video after the jump.
RH First Look: Aleon Craft
Last fall I made a trip out to Atlanta. While I was in town I asked a few people about artists that were "bubbling" as the tastemakers say... One name was repeated a little bit more than others, and I got a real vision of things when this young man's music came on at the club... Everybody went nuts. The person I speak of is Aleon Craft, who retooled the spelling of his name a little bit, the direction of his music, and the mentality of his hustle from the harder way to the smarter way. Craft says, "I've more so just started moving smarter and strategically.... I have grown and matured, mentally and musically."
That growth was in part manifested by a unique collaboration with Atlanta's Symphony Orchestra, a musical partnership that was perhaps as unexpected as musical partnerships go. Craft spoke to us about working with the symphony, his not so out of this world partnership with SMKA, and more in this new RH First Look.
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Aleon Craft: "Botanicals"
"Where my keys at?"
Here's another leak from SMKA's The 808 Experiment: Vol. 2. "Botanicals" is pretty much what we thought it was (does that make sense?). You can download the Aleon Craft joint here, and look for the full project coming next week.