{"id":87910,"date":"2015-03-29T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=87910"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:59:34","slug":"klassik-summer-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/klassik-summer-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Klassik \u2013 SUMMER EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a little over a year of living in Los Angeles after having spent my entire life in New York City, I\u2019ve noticed that I\u2019m losing whatever it is of an edge I once had (or liked to pretend I once had). I blame this thawing of my once formidable exterior on the perma-summer of Los Angeles, a desert fantasy only occasionally broken up by the odd rainy day or 50-degree night\u2014both of which are met with the confused horror of masses facing a zombie assault.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic (or perhaps entirely too fitting) that a perfect soundtrack for life in Los Angeles would come from Milwaukee, a city that I imagine has lovely summers, but that I know has brutal winters (a factor that might necessitate an EP about the warmer months).<\/p>\n

Milwaukee rapper Klassik\u2019s SUMMER EP is the third of four releases in his SEASONS series. The EP, as he puts it, concerns:<\/p>\n

\u201cLong days, warm nights. Vibrant and full of life, the summer season is a time for celebration. Escaping from the glaring cold of Winter, and drying off after the \u201creign\u201d of Spring, Summer brings freedom and happiness. A creative climax in the artistic psyche, the sounds of this season are grander and lush; flowers in bloom or swelling strings, this is beauty epitomized.<\/p>\n

Play these at high volume, optimized for warm nights with windows or tops down. Things are heating up\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Its three songs clock in at just under 10 minutes, making for a concentrated breeze\u2014the perfect soundtrack as the winter months begin to thaw (if you live in a place where \u201cwinter\u201d is something other than an abstract concept that you once knew when you lived in New York).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n