Chosen Few feat. Opio - Elevation (Music Video)

West Coast/Midwest trio Chosen Few (Cold Showda x Charles "Chop" Cooper x Unjust) are preparing to drop their highly anticipated Hiero Imperium Records debut New World Symphony on April 6th. The first official single featuring Souls of Michief's Opio, entitiled "Elevation," hit the streets (and iTunes) earlier today, and the crew have been hard at work finishing their chilled-out, yet heavy-hitting new video to go along with it. Shot up close and personal with the emcees spitting to the camera, the video takes place in a small and shadowy room - representing feelings of isolation, confusion, and loneliness that so many can relate to feeling at some point or another. But on the flipside, despite the track's dark and almost bleak feel, listen closely, because the message is one of motivation rather than misery. [Audible Treats]

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Opio - Triangulation Station

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It's hard to find anything to front on within the three sides of "Triangulation Station." Opio strikes the perfect balance between playful fun and verbal skills, never going too far over the listener's head but not refusing to dumb down the lyrical and musical presentation. With seventeen tracks and almost an hour of well thought out and well put together hip-hop dopeness, it's not at all hard to see why an album like Opio's "Triangulation Station" can sell 150K with no radio or video airplay easily.

01. Viva Main Vein!!! feat. Roc Raida
02. Dream...But Don't Sleep
03. Confederate Burning feat. Casual, Rasco & Roc Raida
04. Things Do Change feat. Shake The Mayor & A-Plus
05. Fist Full feat. A-Plus
06. Granite Earth feat. Pigeon John
07. What's Wrong With This Picture feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
08. Take My Chances
09. Roxanna
10. For Those Who Don't Know
11. Mind, Body, And Soul
12. Drivers Wanted feat. Souls Of Mischief
13. Talk Dirty feat. Pep Love
14. Perseverance
15. Soundtrack To My Thought Process
16. The Grassy Knoll feat. Planet Asia
17. Puppet On A String

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Opio - Vulture's Wisdom Volume One

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Vulture's Wisdom, Volume 1 is a challenge to bloated hip-hop. With production solely from Oakland-based The Architect, whose production credits include early Stones Throw releases, Coolio, Planet Asia, and Encore, the album has a deliberate focus on Opio's rhyming and artistry. With fourteen songs under 39 minutes, the album is a short and sweet collaboration of golden-era rap polished to a 2008 sheen. While current artists such as Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West have been appropriating the classic mid 90's sound, Opio says, "People are trying to tap into that energy, whereas I am that energy." This is no braggadocio. In fact, it is an honest self-assessment of what Opio represents in the world of hip-hop; he is a living legend that has been recording and touring consistently for more than fifteen years.

The idea for Vulture's Wisdom came about in conversations between The Architect and Opio after they met while sharing neighborhood studio spaces. The conversations sparked a flood of creativity from Opio, and as fast as The Architect could supply beats, Opio was penning lyrics. "We embody the energy that people are trying so desperately to recapture or reconnect with. We never fell prey to all the trappings of materialism. Our music has stayed true to the art form and this album is a tribute to that."

01. Guilty As Charged

02. On The Outside Lookin' In

03. Some Superfly Shit

04. Chaotic Erotic

05. About Love

06. Don Julio

07. Stop The Press

08. To The People

09. Vice Versa

10. Original Lyricist

11. Cali Girls

12. I Need A Money Tree

13. The Prize

14. With Or Without You

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