Stoni - Gold Rangz
La Doña - Can’t Eat Clout
Fat Tony, Tia Nomore & Studio_Dad - Sauce
Basi & Mikos Da Gawd - Supernova
Studio_Dad - Endless Summer Vol. 1
Ricky Lake - Altered
Madge, Taifa Nia & Studio_Dad - In My Side
Stoni - FTB
TallBoy - Lyra
Stoni & Jammy - B.W.A.
Studio_Dad & Siri Seiko - Tropical Bird
Anjali Asha - Vitals
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The Y Axes - Slide
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Drew Banga - Shake feat. Sasha Go Hard
Ricky Lake, Themobsjedi, Studio_Dad - NEUTRALMILKHOTEL
Mikos Da Gawd - Get It In, Vol. 1
Loco Tranquilo - New Sensation
Bobby Renz - At Last I am Free
The Y Axes - I Would Die 4 U
Heaven the Dude - Volume 2: Club Fusion
Horsepowar - Drink Juice
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Ricky Lake & Stoni - Brand New Feeling
Ricky Lake & FVBE - Do My Dance
Drew Banga - Get Rich feat. Dcmbr & Iamsu!
Tia Nomore & Stoni - Skirmish
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The Y Axes - Burning Out
Tallboy - 709
Tallboy - Lonely
Amen - Solo Dolo
Jay Casio - Hot Chips feat. Justin Loans
Bobby Renz - Eat A Rainbow
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Bobby Renz - Always Be Loved
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Basi & Drew Banga - We Up
Bobby Renz - Grapefruit Juice
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nenci - lydia
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Bobby Renz - Sunday Water
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nenci - underneath the moon (Komak Remix)
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nenci - underneath the moon
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Same Girls - Embarrassment Of Riches
Genuis - Unheard
Horsepowar - Brown Angel
Vanessa Bley & Tavahn Ghazi - Last Time First
Tallboy - Tallboy
iamhill - Stupid Girl
Same Girls - Body Language
Ricky Lake - Saving Ricky
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Same Girls - Void
iamhill - The Fall (Live Studio Verison)
Tallboy - Feel
Same Girls - Duster
Same Girls - Libido
iamhill - Cannonball
Ricky Lake - Pacific Palisades feat. Yung Skrrt
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Undine - Idle
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Ricky Lake - Wobbles (Chopped Not Slopped Remixes)
Olivia Prado - No Sides
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The Y Axes - How We Begin (Studio_Dad Remixes)
Baybs - Introvertigo
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Olivia Prado - Type of Way
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Ricky Lake - Wobbles EP
Baybs - Drifter
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Ricky Lake - MDMA
Ricky Lake - Fall Out Boy
Alexandria - Journey
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Baybs - These Things in My Head
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Mikos Da Gawd - Awakening
Alexandria - Ain’t Polite
Bobby Renz - Eyelids
Bobby Renz - Dream
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Ricky Lake - What I’m On Tonight feat. WADE08
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Jordan Blackmon - 2 Songs
Ricky Lake - Last Summer Sucked
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WADE08 - Luv Files
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Ricky Lake - Apple Maps (feat. MVCK)
Sam Johnson - Classics
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Sam Johnson - Lifeline
Ricky Lake - Subtweets For You
WADE08 - bar 4 bar
Mikos Da Gawd - RED
Sam Johnson - Too Good To Be True
Ricky Lake - What I’m On Tonight feat. WADE08
Jordan Blackmon - Porcelain
Drew Banga & Basi - Pumpfake
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Amen - Real
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nenci - tomorrow, for sure
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Olivia Prado - Feel
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nenci - nothing complicated
Amen - McCormick Ave
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Tia Nomore - Level
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WADE08 - BLAP
nenci - no sleep
Tia Nomore - Terminator Froze
Amen - Shots
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Olivia Prado - Hey You
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Tia Nomore - Nu Chain
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Michael Sneed - Days We Lost
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The San Francisco Bay Area’s vibrant music culture has produced more than its share of legends and continues to deliver some of the most diverse and eclectic new artists on the scene. We interviewed up-and-coming Oakland rapper Michael Sneed about the release of his first mixtape, his love for his hometown, and the wide swath of musical inspiration behind his signature sound.
On "Lil Nihilist or I get Angry at God", the oft-joyful Oakland rapper Michael Sneed Jr. is shaking his fist at the sky: "I talk to God sometimes, but he don't talk back," he says on the track off his newest project, Days We Lost out today. Sneed, a Howard graduate, looked to the soulful stylings of producers Wax Roof and Grandbanksss to help bring his childhood musings to life on his playful and wonder-filled hip-hop, but "Lil Nihilist" in particular encompasses Michael's greatest lesson and message about growing up: Without the darkness, there cannot be light.
When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory.
Trying to sort out the next step, student loans clapping back harder than Twitter trolls, he began working as a Starbucks clerk in a Safeway. After completing his course of study, graduating, then being saddled with the financial burden of that achievement, amid pressure from family to find a “good” job made him disappointed with where he was in life.
If you didn't know any better, you might think The Y Axes' "Slide" had emerged at some point on the early-'90s indie underground. On first listen, it sounds like a bright-eyed guitar-pop band like Throwing Muses borrowed some dark clouds from British shoegaze contemporaries (think: Slowdive, Lush) and ran headfirst into a rain shower