{"id":265729,"date":"2025-05-09T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backseatmafia.com\/?p=265729"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:21:50","slug":"news-blue-w3rd-returns-with-bold-new-ep-gods-amongst-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/?p=265729","title":{"rendered":"News: Blue w3rD Returns With Bold New EP \u2018Gods Amongst Men\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Philadelphia-based Blue w3rD returns with the new EP\u00a0<em>Gods Amongst Men<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanning nine tracks, the project delivers a compelling mix of elegant alternative musicality with a blend of lo-fi electronics, well worked sampling and live instrumentation to create track with depth and beauty under the sharp lyricism and elegant rap flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the stripped piano, distant vintage hisses, lo-fi beat and field recordings of the opening title track, to the neo-soul, psychedelic feel of &#8216;Hibiscus Blue&#8217;, to the vinyl crack and elegant sampling of &#8216;No Enfafa Mas&#8217; the album offers some inventive and musically rich backdrops for the restless, fast paced, emotive rapping that Blue w3rD delivers effortlessly above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far from a conventional drop,&nbsp;<em>Gods Amongst Men<\/em>&nbsp;arrives as a multidisciplinary effort. Each track is accompanied by a visual art piece created by Blue himself, presented collectively in a digital album magazine. With production by Kayin, the EP marries sample-driven instrumentation and experimental flair, establishing itself as both a musical statement and a work of visual expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue explains: <em>\u201c\u2018Gods Amongst Men\u2019 brings supreme lyricism and sample-driven instrumentation. To me, this is fine art: hip-hop and spirit rap, blending the essence of street knowledge and spirituality to present an exploration expressed through beats and rhymes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Within the project, each song is married to an art piece with song lyrics in the form of a digital album magazine. All of the art was made by me, with the beats courtesy of Kayin\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen below: <\/p>\n\n\n<p>[bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=4085796295 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-based Blue w3rD returns with the new EP\u00a0Gods Amongst Men. Spanning nine tracks, the project delivers a compelling mix of elegant alternative musicality with a blend of lo-fi electronics, well worked sampling and live instrumentation to create track with depth and beauty under the sharp lyricism and elegant rap flow. From the stripped piano, distant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharp-agnesi.109-228-47-29.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}