Hi-Life Soundsystem Gets All West Coast With New Single "So Flagrant"
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Yeeaaahh" is the note of approval you might be hitting when you hear that the new Hi-Life Soundsystem track is some trunk-rattling G-funk. The beat is deep-bore undulation and low-pitch lazer-gun effects, and a strange synthesizer siren in the background that also says classic West Coast. The production by Crispy and cuts by Sebino are all on point, and at just under three minutes, it's a quick-hitting track perfect to toss in the middle of your DJ set.
"Posted on the block, 35th and I'm holdin'/G-boy stance, left hand on my scrotum/Light on the light, yeah that's medical I'm smokin'/I'll pass on that blunt, but keep them zig-zags rollin'." The lyrics from B Flat and Khingz are a nod to the careless Long Beach City lifestyle, although the ever-conscious Khingz can't help dropping in lines like "I'm Third World hungry," and "For all the people the President fail to serve..." every now and then to keep things real.
The feel of the track as a whole is a high-speed trip down the freeway at night in something shiny, spliced with moments of rolling slow through town with a hand at 12 on the wheel, making exaggerated open-palm turns. Either way, I envision a bossy car in the video, if one were to ever materialize.
The Hi-Life gang came strong this past February with their debut, self-titled full-length, and "So Flagrant" hints at good things to come (which, according to the group's website, is something called Langston Hugh Hefner... Love, Weed & Other Vices). It's the [Hi] Life.
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