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CityBeat: Mr. Brady, ‘Slumper Party’

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I wrote an article on Mr. Brady from Deep Rooted for this week’s issue of CityBeat (though I’d like to be clear that I hold no responsibility for the title, hah). Brady just released an EP with producer AbJo, Welcome To The City, which you can stream above. Thanks goes out to Brady, AbJo, and Christie for making this article possible. Full interview transcript to follow soon. For now, you know the drill. Read a snippet below and check the full article here.

When most 9-to-5ers are brushing their teeth before resting for the next workday, Brandon Crowel is just punching in. A rapper and producer better known as Mr. Brady, he sits in his makeshift bedroom laboratory late into the night, poring over stacks of records, chopping up samples, tapping out drum parts on his samplers and writing rhymes on a notepad.

“I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I didn’t make music,” Crowel says in an email interview. “It’s a lot of days I don’t even leave my spot and just make music all day and night. That’s pretty normal for me, honestly.”

A member of the popular local hip-hop group Deep Rooted, Crowel calls himself a “labaholic.” Deep Rooted has been on recent hiatus, but he’s kept busy. From July 2010 to May 2011, he released two full-length albums and two EPs. Now, he’s working on six more releases, including a second full length collaboration with LMNO, a member of L.A. hip-hop crew The Visionaries. He’s also working on the next Deep Rooted album, which he says will be completed this year.

This month, Crowel will drop Welcome to the City, a self-released digital EP that finds him collaborating with a young, untested local producer named AbJo. They see the EP as an ode to their hometown.