Victoria Abraham defines one up and coming artist each week so you can impress your friends with your musical brilliance. This week, she tackles MellowHype, a hip-hop duo from Los Angeles.
MellowHype is yet another musical collaboration to come out of Odd Future, the American hip-hop collective from Los Angeles. If you haven’t heard of Odd Future you need to know two things: 1. It is headed by Tyler the Creator and includes Frank Ocean and 2. It’s pretty great. MellowHype brings a kind of measured, but club worthy hip hop sound that gets stuck in your head.
Origins: Los Angeles, California
Band members: Gerard Long (Hodgy Beats), Vyron Turner (Left Brain)
Known for: MellowHype are known for being a part of the Odd Future collective
Used in a sentence: As far as album titles go, these guys seem to save their creativity for the music and the videos.
File next to: Odd Future
Download now: “La Bonita”
Three fun facts:
1.Hodgy Beats and Left Brain met at a party.
2.Their song, “On Ya Mind” is featured on the soundtrack for the video game Madden 12.
3. Hodgy Beats is part of another duo called MellowHigh.
Timeline:
2010 They released their first studio album YelloWhite.
2011 They released their second album, BlackendWhite.
2012 The duo released one track a day for 7 days, titling the effort MELLOWHYPEWEEK.
2012 MellowHype released Numbers, their third album.
Notable lyrics:
The lyrics aren’t the greatest, but the beat is irresistibly catchy.
Lil’ mami got an ass like a mami do (mami do)/But I’mma spank that ass like a papi do (papi do)/You in trouble, la bonita, with that attitude (attitude)/Red lipstick with the tattoo (tattoo)/We in that ‘63 Impala bangin Big Pun (Big Pun)/My other la bonita rollin’ up a big one (roll up)/Sexy cholo baby ridin’ with that big gun/My Spanish model bitch, she a thick one (thick one)
