This remix album features studio-engineered duets between Bob Marley and hip hop luminaries. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bob Marley: Chant Down Babylon (1999) But when I heard Section.80, I heard the live instrumentation – but it didn’t sound like they were mimicking the drum machine at all… It’s so organic and artful.” 2.
A lot of the music that I had been making or writing was pretty boilerplate rap – not anything fancy or different, or genre-bending. “ Section.80 was really the beginning of my reintroduction to the use of different genres in hip hop – mainly jazz at that point. Section.80 is Kendrick Lamar’s debut studio album. Kweku says: “What’s so great about Section.80 is that it’s so cohesive but each moment could be taken out of the context of the whole project and still stand on its own as an amazing work of art – which is really the mark of any great album, but this one especially, because it was so different than anything I had heard up to that point.” Here are ten albums that had a profound impact on Kweku Collins. I spoke with Kweku for a feature that was intended to be ‘Five Albums that Changed My Life’ – but the list just kept growing, so we doubled its size. It’s that wellspring of genre-hopping style that makes Kweku’s influences so fascinating to probe. Pitchfork recently called Collins a “hip hop misfit” with “adventurous taste” in its ‘Rising’ feature on the artist. Hinton literary allusions as a generation of emo bands (Collins’ song ‘The Outsiders’ even quotes the same dialogue as Lifetime’s ‘Ostrichsized’).
The rapper, poet, and producer recently released Nat Love, a record that overflows with soulful vocal melodies, a playful romanticism akin to De La Soul (De La invoked daisies Kweku’s got ‘Stupid Rose’), and the same S.E. Kweku Collins makes breezy, soulful hip hop with a colorful array of stylistic influences.
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