Uptown XO has teamed up with the Creative Junkfood team to create his newest visual piece – an animated video for the standout track “Everyday” (produced by and featuring AB The Pro).
Directed by Creative Junkfood
iTunes: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO
Uptown XO – Everyday ft. AB The Pro [video]
30 05 2013Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Uptown XO – Needs & Wants [video]
29 04 2013DC artist Uptown XO (of Diamond District) continues to bring on the visuals for his latest album Colour de Grey. This time the universal relationship track “Needs & Wants” gets the treatment with some beautiful shots. For anyone who’s ever had something good, and wanted something extra, XO lays the narrative out. AB the Pro produced the emotive track while XO and his team at Secret Society put together the video.
iTunes: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO
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Substantial – Home Is Where The Art Is [Instrumentals]
25 04 2013
Baltimore emcee Substantial released his Oddisee executive produced album Home Is Where The Art Is late last year and quickly garnered acccolades from his strong worldwide fan base. Since then, Substantial has toured with yU (of Diamond District), seen the vinyl release of his record, performed at the Smithsonian in DC, and released a wildly successful tribute album to Jill Scott titled “Jackin’ Jill”. Today, Substantial wanted to share the entire collection of instrumentals from Home Is Where The Art Is with his fans. The complete instrumentals will be free for a week before heading up on itunes, so be sure and grab them now. Beats by Oddisee, Eric Lau, M-Phazes, Algorythm, and more!
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Uptown XO – Evolution [video]
8 04 2013Diamond District’s Uptown XO has been stepping his visual game up with the help of director Backie T and his newest, Evolution produced by and featuring AB The Pro, is yet another rung on XO’s climb to the top. Get down if you know what’s up.
iTunes: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO
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yU – Good ft. XO [audio]
3 04 2013
This was supposed to be part of a project i was doin w/ Usef Dinero in ’07. We ended up scrappin it.. but i thought yall should hear it
produced by Usef Dinero
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Uptown XO – Spread Love [video]
29 03 2013Uptown XO’s new album “Colour de Grey” continues to makes it’s rounds and gain attention. Today DC MC XO spreads love with his newest video directed by Jay Gregory of Cool Kids Forever Films. The ultra crisp, high def drive through the nation’s capital features Uptown XO rhyming over AB The Pro production tackling karma, politics, consumerism, and knowledge.
iTunes: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO
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Uptown XO – XO Skeleton [mp3]
29 01 2013
DC’s Uptown XO releases his MMG solo debut today, “Colour de Grey.”
To give people a glimpse of the range within the Diamond District emcee’s new record, we wanted to share the second single “XO Skeleton.” The track lays bare XO’s thoughts over soul-stirring piano keys. Ever progressing, XO continues to hone his skills as both a narrative storyteller and a captivating vocalist.
Used to listen to Mos most of all,
Listenin’ to Jigga wasn’t why I had Os for y’all,
It was my back against the wall,
Lived on my paws,
Dog, sold in the snow and fog,
Summer nights in the city, smelt like smog.Colour de Grey combines braggadocio with quotidian detail that creates a window into a life within the nation’s capital, all capped with alluring veracity.
iTunes: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO (Bandcamp)
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Uptown XO (of Diamond District) “Colour De Grey” [album stream]
28 01 2013
Stream: Uptown XO (of Diamond District) “Colour De Grey” [Mello Music Group]
Uptown XO is DC through and through. Born as Jamaal Walton, XO grew up immersed the District of Columbia’s music and culture, leading to the formation of his acclaimed group with Oddisee and yU, Diamond District. Now XO is ready to unveil his Mello Music Group solo debut, Colour De Grey, which features lead single “Finding My Way.” In addition to rhymes from XO, the 14-track project comes complete with guest appearance from Messiah, AB the Pro, Docigapom, Benji, Danni and U St. Face. AB The Pro also provides production throughout the album with the exception of If I Should Die, which is produced by Drew Dave. “Get down if you know what’s up.”
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Uptown XO – Flowers [video]
18 01 2013Uptown XO continues to offer raw emotive rhymes that open windows to his world. The cold, gun toting exterior often belies the humanity behind it all. XO offers a story not unlike many with scarface dreams born of section 8, but fresh in its minutia the way only truth can be. The disection of this textured story’s cycle from evictions as a youth to the echos from the fridge; from the sales of kush in orange bubbles, to the understanding of how it employs the lawyers, the judges, the DA, and the jail workers; – all poignantly wrapped in the phrase “damn, ni&&as just didn’t want to flip burgers.” Earnest reflection over ill production. The sometimes morbid take on life culminates with the mantra “I got mouths to feed till they put flowers on me.”
AB The Pro produces the haunting track for Uptown XO to reflect and lay relish over, while director Backie Thomas creates stark visuals, brilliant in color, framing, and movement. It’s all prelude to the new album “Colour de Grey” coming from Mello Music Group Janaury 29th.
PreOrder: Colour de Grey – Uptown XO
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Uptown XO – Finding My Way [mp3]
7 01 2013
Diamond District emcee Uptown XO teamed up with MTVhive today to release the first single from his upcoming solo album “Colour de Grey”. The track, Finding My Way, was produced by A.B. The Pro and features a percussive funk loop that finds XO in an introspective mood – lyrically exploring all he’s been through – from childhood evictions and lost memories, to the battle for his soul: “Lost erything in life and had to start all over / I had to cope with the pain, no I can’t stay sober”
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