Oddisee's breakthrough album: Imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness, The Good Fight is virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George's County, Maryland artist has created a record that reminds you that it's music before it's hip-hop.
For Oddisee, "The Good Fight" is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It's music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It's a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. It's our ambition and greed warring with our sense of propriety - a list of paradoxes we all face when living and striving.
Oddisee's production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he's really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats. The Fader's compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his "grandiose and symphonic sound" and "relevant relatable messages." Pitchfork praised his "eclectic soulful boom-bap."
1.That's Love 2.Want Something Done 3. Contradiction's Maze (feat. Maimouna Youseff) 4. Counter-Clockwise 5. First Choice 6.Belong To The World 7. A List of Withouts 8. Book Covers (feat. Nick Hakim) 9.Meant It When I Said It 10.Fight Delays 11.What They'll Say (feat. Gary Clarke Jr, Maimouna Youseff) 12. Worse Before Better (feat. Tranqill)
- Genre: Rap & Hip-Hop
- Format: Vinyl
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- Format Detail: LP Ultra Clear Vinyl, MMG Discobag, Alt Cover Art
- Released: 10/27/23
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