You just got that sound.’ It was mind-blowing. He told me that I needed to grasp the concept of service and sacrifice. He doesn’t say a word, just looks at me. The above scenario is a reality for Groove, the 28-year-old Durham, North Carolina producer behind the song “Sacrifices” found on Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers III compilation album. Without him, this song doesn’t exist. I got a couple of sons, a couple of guns Cole is only known to have one son. For this to be my first placement, it just means so much to me.
“Monte Booker’s energy is just so powerful. He has the interface and can record the session on his laptop. The placement becomes the electrifying outro on one of the year’s biggest rap albums. Olu and I go up the street to Flying Biscuit. I’m like you, I’m from the hood too. There was a reason why J. Cole ended the song with an ode to his wife…, “Huggin’ the block, huggin’ the block, okay, She gave me the gift of my son, and plus we got one on the way, She gave me a family to love, for that, I can never repay, I’m crying while writing these words, the tears, they feel good on my face, hey”. I happen to walk in at the perfect time. I’m such a fan of them. "She call me daddy like grandmama baby/If this Sunday dinner, my hand on her gravy/I been on the craziest wave, if I'm on the stage/An M is my minimum wage/This ain't no kennel, behave/Niggas is with all that barking, we send 'em a stray/So in a way we the dogcatchers/How many bullets your dawg catchin'?" No need to listen to verses get recorded if I can be making more shit. Smino on that motherfucker. Cole taps me and gives me one of those crazy faces. Groove, who currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, is a DJ, collaborator, and a close friend of the multi-talented artist and frequent Dreamville colleague Childish Major. Everyone is writing. It’s just fucking amazing. He only knows Monte and Smino, so he comes straight to 222. Man, that’s my brother. “By the time Olu starts rapping his verse, I’m gassed. He’s an incredible recording artist, but he always has a producer mind. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. But what I mean when I say, “make this life count” is to make sure that when God calls you home one day, you can walk home proud. To this day, every time I see him, I think ‘Hits Only.’. It’s been over a week since Dreamville did the world of hip hop a favor and dropped the record label’s third collaboration album, Revenge of the Dreamers 3.This album featured a number of both mainstream and rising artists from all parts of the country, all strategically meshed together to engineer a collaborative masterpiece. This is why we love hip hop. Following in the footsteps of "Sleep Deprived" and "Sacrifices," Dreamville unleashed another visual from their Revenge of the Dreamers III compilation album on … General CommentI think this song is about being tempted to have an affair - 'when the scent of her lingers and temptation's strong' and 'into the boundary of each married man sweet deceit comes calling. Vision. GoldLink is there. Every song. Sooner than you think it’s going to be your responsibility to help another brother just like I helped you.” —Simuel St. James, Soul Food, 1999. Monte and Smino get to Tree Sound early as hell. If we are all looking to strengthen our relationships with God, then wouldn’t it kind of be a no-brainer for us to spend time in His word each day?…, It is for all those reasons I fret not and I know that I am free through Jesus Christ, but what about my neighbor downstairs who lives in fear because she doesn’t know what I know, or even your neighbor? Get your rewind buttons ready. – not because it had the best chorus or the best artists on it, but the message is centered around – sacrifices, which is what I wanted to touch on in this editorial. I hate when I can’t go out because I have homework or company work to get done. Updated July 7, 2019 “Under the Sun” is a track which garnered headlines more due to it being the first collaboration between DaBaby and Dreamville than for its innovation.
The first beat I play is ‘Sacrifices.’. The only reason I didn’t cry is that 50 niggas were in the room. There were beats with hooks—like almost whole ideas—but if a nigga walks out of the room, with so much going on at the studio, that shit will get lost. Dreamville like Marion Jones on the steroids Y'all niggas slow as a heroin high Y'all had a year, y'all had a year Y'all had a year, but you let it go by Yee [JID:] I was just fucked up, I was just down, down bad I had to tighten the fuck up, but I'm here for the crown, crown (Oh, shit) I … I open it. Saba’s verse was so amazing, I had to walk out of the room. Then Saba records his. Just ask J. Cole, who has spent the better part of the decade recruiting prospects while building his Dreamville Records roster into one of the most formidable units in hip-hop.