Friday Night Music! "Beacon" from the 2011 album No Kings by the Minneapolis hip hop collective Doomtree. An examination of failing relationships, the song's propulsive electronic beats and production pairs well with the cool AF steampunk video.
Dessa, Bury the Lede, 2023 on Doomtree Records
Dessa is a part of the hip-hop collective Doomtree out of MInneapolis – great collection of artists and she is (for me) one of the standouts. She was also cohost of the Deeply Human podcast in 2021-2022.
My copy is a signed red-vinyl “Collector’s Edition” via Waterloo Records in Austin TX. Unfortunately my copy did not include the Custom Dopp Kit or the poster.
#2020s #2023 #AustinTX #Dessa #Doomtree #HipHop #MinneapolisMN #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WaterlooRecords
This week's #PopMonday theme is #WhatsMyName: Post all your favorite kpop or pop songs with people's names in the title.
Dessa "Dixon's Girl" (Official Music Video)
Doomtree, False Hopes, 2007 on Doomtree Records
Doomtree are a hip-hop collective (and record label) from Minneapolis, including Dessa, Cecil Otter, P.O.S., Sims, Mike Mictian, Paper Tiger, and Lazerbeak. False Hopes came out (on CD) before their “debut” album, self-titled Doomtree, in 2008.
There were many other “False Hopes” CDs of individual artists. The bandcamp for this release claims “This is the eleventh (or twelfth) False Hopes. It is also the first to feature the entire Doomtree crew*” but the asterisk notes that’s “not technically true” so who knows. Their own bandcamp lists only 4 other “False Hopes” releases, but there are many more in discogs.
My copy is actually a 2018 Tenth Anniversary Vinyl Reissue, via Down in the Valley in Golden Valley, MN
#10thAnniversary #2000s #2007 #2018 #Dessa #Doomtree #DownInTheValley #GoldenValleyMN #HipHop #MinneapolisMN #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
Live from the haunted north
In the woods where the fire roars
#doomtree #midwestcoast #hiphop
#TuneTuesday theme #FireAndBurn
Dessa - "Fire Drills" (Official Lyric Video)
Good luck on your week ahead everyone.
I don’t drown
Or stay down
Heat finds a way to rise, somehow
#Dessa - Five out of Six #Doomtree #hiphop #midwestcoast 
NWS Lyrics
https://youtu.be/3WauMPwyW5s
In the freezing cold
you all keep chilling
