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66notes expresses his daily struggle with racism and responds to Jesse William’s inspiring speech at the 2016 BET Awards.
Lush, classic boombap music by BenOaks.
66notes and Benjamin Oaks (The Numinous) have been making music together for over 10 years now- even though they have never met in person. They are both members of the international music & arts collective Bones Culture.
66notes & BenOaks were in a triphop group called The Numinous. The Numinous released an EP & a full-length album CHAPTER ZERO. You can find them on Spotify, Apple, etc. After The Numinous disbanded, 66notes & BenOaks have continued as a dynamic duo releasing over 5 albums together in just about 10 years. Did you know THEY HAVE NOT yet met in person??
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Bones Culture drops “Money” today on Spotify (and all other digital music providers like Apple, Google, Amazon, Tidal, Pandora, etc) with an insane verse from special guest Ren Thomas- Bar Fight League & World Freestyle #battleRAP champion. Ren Thomas was also on VH1’s Signed.
New Jersey bred, Philly & #backpack rap fave Ren Thomas had a legendary performance on Sway!
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“Money” has a soulful hook from Lancaster, PA based singer/songwriter Jefferson Ambrose.
66notes originally created the concept for this hiphop throwback beat by Benjamin Oaks aka BenOaks fka V1TAL of The Numinous.
66notes expresses a timely empowering message with his new single “Black Power”. He shares his experience with racism & modern day civil rights.
“Let’s get high, and never come down” words sung so emotionally by multi-talented artist 66notes. At the end of this song 66notes asks, “You ever want to fly away? Far far away, and escape this reality?” The reality that he speaks of is the constant turmoil pertaining to racism/discrimination/prejudice that has continuously destroyed not only this nation, but the whole world. It is because of this reason, he along with so many others like him would like to get higher than the clouds, and never come down. 66notes is a humanitarian and advocate for social equality, ‘Never Come Down’ is one of many of 66notes’ songs that points out the negative attributes associated with the various forms of hate in our world. He hopes by producing more and more songs with these types of messages, that it will spark much needed awareness to deal with these growing issues.
I’m excited to share two new acoustic based triphop tracks from The Numinous – a triphop / electrosoul / grime / urban electronica / alternative hiphop / PBR&B music project (and production team) from artist/songwriter/rapper/singer/producer 66notes & I. This project also features midwest songbird Devy Dev Dev & rapper/producer Daytym fka LDK fka Lawrence Day-Knightly.
The 2 new songs, ‘The End is Here’ and ‘Neighborhood DBoy’, sound like they’d fit in right along the debut album by The Numinous Chapter Zero.
The soundscape returns to an atmospheric, drone acoustic guitar & piano based instrumental. Unlike the powerful, epic heavy synth based grime (trap + grime + crunk + EDM + electronica + detroit techno) sounding work of the past year from 66notes and I’s ALLiWANT sessions and similar bass heavy work from my upcoming BASSisOurWeapon solo LP.
And there is also an actual b-side with similar sounding synths from the ‘Chapter Zero’ (song) instrumental sessions with V1TAL & V!CE called ‘Beyond the Frame’ which was previously unreleased.
We’ve got some more news from The Numinous–
Before we let you go, checkout this new track from Devy Dev Dev & Daytym produced by yours true.
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