ialive Returns from it's all down south from here. Tour with Darko The Super & Torito with "ACURA (back in my bag)" Ahead of East Coast Dates Along with Oddisee & kidDEAD
<a href="http://ialive.bandcamp.com/track/a-c-u-r-a-back-in-my-bag">A C U R A (back in my bag) by ialive</a>
"I was feeling a little overwhelmed and burnt out with doing shows and being a wack promoter, so I decided to sit down at my funk machine and do a jam; this is the result. I did all of this in a few hours—beat, rhymes, record, and mix. It's all about the music and it always has been about the music. THANK YOU! <3
and I leave for a short run of shows this Thursday,"
Philly
beat-maker, emcee,
Rap-singer
/song-writer
ialive
wrote within a recent
post.
ialive
is of course, one half of
The Hell Hole Store
with fellow rapper-producer buddy
Darko The Super
and his latest single,
"A C U R A (back in my bag)"
is his first since April 2016's
.
ialive
further details that he doesn't tour as much a some of his road dog friends, but steadily maintaining a 40-hour a week schedule at his day job, booking shows for his rapper friends throughout
Philly
, and upkeeping a somewhat regular existence, he understandably gets tired rather easily, as most of us often do. "I focused on the feeling of thankfulness and gratitude I felt while on tour with
Darko
and
Torito
two weeks ago. I [wanted] to focus on that and not feeling rundown."
"A C U R A (back in my bag)"
is largely anchored around a muffled sample that proclaims, "WHEN I'M ON TOUR, FOR'REAL..." to which
ialive
quips, "I'm not on tour!"
ialive
just recently got back from the it's all down south from here tour with
The Hell Hole Store (Darko) & Torito
—they even came "BACK IN THE DAMN ACURA" and is headed back out this week on a 6-date
East Coast
jaunt along with
kidDEAD
: 5/26 at
Legion Bar
in Brooklyn NY, 5/27 at
Oxbow Brewing
in Portland ME, 5/28 at
Shaskeen
in Manchester NH, 5/29 at
The Hollow
(opening for
) in Albany NY, 5/30 at an unspecified venue in Allentown PA, and finally, 5/31 at
The Pharmacy
in Philly PA.
Darko, ialive & Torito
triumphantly returned from said tour with a stack of
Homeboy Sandman
-esque
it's all down south from here. (Tour Tapes)
available on either band-made
or Name-Your-Price digital download. I recently heard from a little birdy that
ialive
and
Darko The Super
have reunited as
The Hell Hole Store
for a proper follow-up to their self-titled 2016
album,
Return to The Hell Hole Store
, will be out this upcoming June 23rd. They've already released one
Das Racist
-sampling teaser single from their second album,
"Mellow Yellow 2"
to help whet your appetite and even went as far as to perform their very own
"NPR Tiny Desk Concert"
submission.
