Title: ONE FIFTY - Ethel Cee & Dumhi Lyrics and Music Video [2013-03-30]
ONE FIFTY is featured on the new Ep from Ethel Cee Dumhi Seven Thirty available NOW via Dumhi Radio edit of ONE FIFTY is available here for FREE download dumhi bandcamp track one fifty radio single Lyrics Vocals by Ethel Cee Produced by Haj of Dumhi Videography by Joe Sick Six Painter Animation Design by Adam Monkey Toed Abu Wiesen Additional Engineering by Primus Luta ONE FIFTY was one of the beats I made for DJ Ambush s Behind the Break Fela Kuti beat battle I was a part of in March 2012 Basically Am sent a bunch of us 8 Fela songs to sample and then we linked up at the Arts Garage and battled it out TrueSparta style c o Vex Meanwhile the day after the battle Ethel Cee was like send me that aggressive one I knew what she was talking about Later that week we were in the basement finishing up our Ep I threw it on and she proceeded to destroy it despite the early stages of a nasty Spring cold Two days later and there was no doubt that we had to add it to our project The idea for the video was to simply make the album cover come alive The first step was to capture the main video portion We recruited our friend Joe Sick Six Painter for this part Joe is super talented I first met him years ago when he was just starting his plunge into the world of emceeing I may be wrong but I THINK I was actually the first person to record him A few years later had had not only polished up his rapping style but he taught himself how to make beats engineer record photoshop and became a great videographer I mentioned he is super talented right We knocked out the shoot in about an hour and the next day Joe had sent us the edit Next we recruited Adam Monkey Toed Abu Wiesen Adam is a very old friend of mine from NYC He did the artwork for some of the first Dumhi projects and we once made a few episodes of Food Guys a project in which we basically went around NYC and Philly pigging out on video Good times I had initially asked Adam to simply scroll the lyrics and add a count down clock to the video He took it to the next level with all of the animation and design work It is always a great pleasure to work with such talented friends on our little art projects This one eclipsed any of my initial expectations I am very proud of all of them and of this video and the Seven Thirty project And of YOU for being here to check it out Thank you guys so much and we all really hope you enjoy it Peace Haj
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