The Night Took Us In Like Family, by L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae

The Night Took Us In Like Family

by L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae

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Thomas Ylvisaker This is true jazz rap/hip-hop. The lyricism reminds of classic gangsta rap and the production is stupendous. I definitely recommend this one. Favorite track: The Lineup.

sean baker There is something that relaxes me in the feeling of this album. This song in particular sets a mood of realism that hits me deeply. Favorite track: The Concrete Some Call Home.

Green Carlos So deep and smooth tracks, its a must have for hip hop heads Favorite track: Underworld.

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1.	Part One: Introducing A Conspicuous Man 01:08		buy track
2.	Do My Best To Carry On 03:03		buy track
3.	Ice Obsidian 01:52 video		buy track
4.	Underworld 03:27		buy track
5.	All I Need (feat. Gift of Gab) 02:50		buy track
6.	Part Two: God Complex 01:46		buy track
7.	The Concrete Some Call Home 02:45		buy track
8.	Ignore The Man To Your Right (feat. Homeboy Sandman) (free) 02:59	info	download
9.	Taken By The Night 03:09		buy track
10.	Part Three: The Damning 01:57		buy track
11.	The Lineup 02:10		buy track
12.	Kicking Glass 02:04		buy track
13.	Kind of Like Life 02:36		buy track
14.	Part Four: Revenge & Escape 01:33		buy track
15.	I Was Invisible Nothing 03:05		buy track
16.	Death Valley 02:26		buy track
17.	Starry Eyed Balcony Walkers 03:49		buy track
18.	Part Five: Macabre 01:30		buy track

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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-inspired 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.

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released April 21, 2015

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae

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