Raw Money Raps

This L.A.-via-Chicago producer/rapper's debut comes courtesy of Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint. It's a daring release that finds Jae sublimating his voice to the experimentally minded production.

A psychedelic, multi-layered, intentionally awkward piece of work, Raw Money Raps is the direct descendent of Madlib and Dilla’s groundbreaking freeform approach to hip-hop. Rapper / producer / artist Jeremiah Jae blends avant garde song structures, wilfully esoteric samples and weirdly-pitched, abstract rhymes to produce a hazy, mesmeric witches’ brew of noise, beats and poetry, which only coalesces into coherence with repeated listens.

Jerimiah Jae is an annoyingly talented, not to mention well connected upstart haling from upstate New York and is an extremely welcome breath of fresh air in this current climate of hip-hop filled wit