Your Old Droog & Edan Join Forces for Episode 1 In KitchenAid'ed WITCH IN THE KITCHEN Series (Sampling ZZ Top's "Cheap Sunglasses")
"My kitchen got more ZZ Top records in it than yours... Link to 5+ minutes of elite rhyming by my brother @yourolddroog in The Bio..." Edan (@edanexists) posted on his Instagram page yesterday afternoon. "Witch In The Kitchen" (Episode 1) is just the latest collaboration from reclusive, yet extremely prolific rapper/producer/DJ Edan and Brooklyn-bred Ukrainian-American emcee Your Old Droog. Edan previously produced/co-produced four tracks on Droog's 2017 major label debut, PACKS for FatBeats. Edan, also, played guitar on the RTNC-produced title track from Your Old Droog & Wiki's 2017 collaborative EP, What Happened To Fire? While the original track was produced by recent Bun B collaborator Statik Selektah, there's video online of Your Old Droog, Wiki & Edan rehearsing "Vigilantes" together before a June 2017 Red Bull Sound Select Presents performance at The Knitting Factory. However, it appears as though "Witch In The Kitchen" was recorded in the same place as said "Vigilantes" rehearsal clip, Edan's apartment, more specifically, his kitchen.
Edan's kitchen/home recording "studio" was previously chronicled within photographer Eilon Paz's coffee-table book, Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting, as well as a 2014 Wall Street Journal feature entitled Vinyl's Record Resurgence Fuels New Book. For what appears to be the first in a series of on-going "Witch In The Kitchen" episodes, Droog ferociously rhymes over a live-cut beat Edan lifted directly from ZZ Top's "Cheap Sunglasses," which oddly enough, you can see the record it's from, Degüello, on the shelf right over his shoulder. I'm really diggin' Your Old Droog's shout-outs to Billy Gibbons, Jeremy Piven, Ginger Baker, etc. and the underlying Classic Rock vibes throughout; it, actually, reminds me of Droog's phenomenal Rock-themed 2015 EP, KINISON, and I hope this ushers in a proper full-length release from Edan & Your Old Droog. Edan's latest EP, Humble Pi, recorded with sharp-tongued emcee Homeboy Sandman is now available on Stones Throw Records. While Your Old Droog's latest V Don-produced single, "RST" Feat. DOOM & Mach-Hommy—YES, DROOG ALONGSIDE DOOM & MACH-HOMMY!!!—is now available on streaming platforms, along with a string of post-Looseys loosies.
"That revolutionary concept of having a camera capture what you would already be doing, if there weren't any cameras around.......... Witch In The Kitchen - Pilot Episode
Turntable Virtuosity, Record Collection, Blender: @edanexists
Rhymes, Gas Pedal, Deep Breaths Between Verses, As a Result of Pre-holidays Chain Smoking: @yourolddroog .................................................. Watch the goof in its entirety on the Link In Bio #witchinthekitchen"
- Y.O.D. (yourolddroog)