{"id":143393,"date":"2020-04-15T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=143393"},"modified":"2020-04-15T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:51:08","slug":"skyzoo-dumbo-station-we-used-to-live-in-brooklyn-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/skyzoo-dumbo-station-we-used-to-live-in-brooklyn-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyzoo &#038; Dumbo Station &#8211; &#8220;We (Used) To Live In Brooklyn, Baby&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiV0C2xZ5Xw\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With Retropolitan, <strong>Skyzoo<\/strong>\u2019s most recent collaborative project with <strong>Pete Rock<\/strong>, he got to live out a dream, as two generations of legendary native New Yorkers aligned to create an album that was both a love letter and a wakeup call to the city they love.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with <strong>The Bluest Note<\/strong>, <strong>Skyzoo<\/strong> is checking another box on his bucket list. <em>&#8220;Since my debut album, I\u2019ve never released a project that didn\u2019t include a moment of jazz influence; with some sort of live instrumentation, something that connected my lyricism with the truest definition of musical lyricism; jazz&#8221;<\/em> Skyzoo commented. <em>&#8220;The Bluest Note is a testament to something I\u2019d been longing to do for as far back as I can remember.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Sky was touring in Italy and while there attended a show from a local nu-jazz band, <strong>Dumbo Station<\/strong>, and was immediately impressed. Shortly thereafter, those seeds blossomed into conversations and in June 2019 Skyzoo was in Rome writing, composing and recording music with the talented musicians.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s second single, <em>&#8220;We (Used) To Live In Brooklyn, Baby&#8221;<\/em>, pays homage to the Brooklyn of old while honestly exploring the Brooklyn of new.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"143394\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/skyzoo-dumbo-station-we-used-to-live-in-brooklyn-baby\/the-bluest-note-artwork\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?fit=1600%2C1600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Bluest Note Artwork\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-143394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Bluest-Note-Artwork.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Retropolitan, Skyzoo\u2019s most recent collaborative project with Pete Rock, he got to live out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-BiN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}