L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Taken By The Night by Mello Music Group published on 2015-03-02T20:59:41Z from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family" Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340 Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/ About the Album: Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family." Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic. The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed. Genre L'Orange Comment by kjellbarry KUNST 2022-09-24T23:30:39Z Comment by kjellbarry allmost* done ;) 2022-09-24T23:29:17Z Comment by jos Hey! If you are in mood check please my first mix with this song https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Hu8evyg7TjTvQM6L9 ❤️ 2022-04-26T15:42:44Z Comment by OG don't get taken by tha night 👿👿💥🔥🔥🔥⛽⛽💯💯 2022-01-25T14:56:18Z Comment by WTFisJOHNNY? Dis instrumental is sick. Hip hop finest 2019-06-01T01:08:28Z Comment by JazzDee smu mo yo 2016-08-12T16:06:42Z Comment by GಉENIPLΌḑΌҚបS This urban and jazzy warmth... The hip-hop I love <3 2016-07-15T03:25:14Z Comment by tayler hittin 2015-12-18T07:44:53Z Comment by Unknown Pleasures http://unknownpleasures.net/2015/09/23/lorange-jeremiah-jae-the-night-took-us-in-like-family/ 2015-10-23T18:07:44Z Comment by L. S. D. @T_Tcompany 2015-09-19T20:38:56Z Comment by p u z z l e d . yeess! 2015-07-23T16:11:00Z Comment by DANYAL music to eat breakfast 2 2015-05-30T23:36:44Z Comment by Ghost of Young Michael Yasso! 2015-05-28T19:26:21Z Comment by LST da phunky child great production!!! 2015-05-21T07:59:52Z Comment by Blesst Beats my favorite track on the album...Shit is off the hook 2015-05-20T04:57:01Z Comment by String_Story @ChangeTip: send 1000 bits of <3 for creating awesome music 2015-05-14T04:32:52Z Comment by Spiderhound Nice Beats! 2015-05-05T00:06:49Z Comment by The Jack of Diamonds the rap does not live up to the beat. :/ 2015-04-22T01:40:01Z Comment by simich Geniously rolled Rap, Big Thank's for this pease of pleasure. 2015-04-18T12:02:03Z Comment by sto the last lyricist. so smooth all around. 2015-04-07T21:38:50Z Comment by Michelle Krogh Nice 2015-04-06T18:41:53Z Comment by Oliver Jones Shits hard! 2015-04-06T10:01:10Z Comment by stufog Truth 2015-03-30T06:52:56Z Comment by eli That Freaking Piano Riff Makes Me Cry 2015-03-30T00:25:03Z Comment by Bulikão d+ 2015-03-29T13:50:20Z Comment by Marvillous Beats woooo! hear that funk!? 2015-03-28T18:20:12Z Comment by Joe Black 75 Yeah this bangin 2015-03-27T22:13:51Z