Bay Area Hip Hop staple Lateef The Truthspeaker has resurfaced with a new single called “Class War” featuring his Quannum Recordings brethren Gift of Gab and Lyrics Born.
The track is taken from his forthcoming Roots & Tings album, which intends to showcase the existing parallels between reggae and Hip Hop.
The Grammy Award-nominated MC linked up with Bay Area DJ and producer Jah Yzer as well as reggae artist Winstrong to bring the project to life. Throughout 2019, Lateef will roll out a new single every month accompanied by limited edition t-shirts and original artwork. Each release will also be available both on vinyl 45s and digital platforms.
“Roots & Tings came about as an organic evolution of an idea to do remixes for a mixtape, that led to more conversations and original ideas, which led to more songs,” Lateef explains. “The name Roots & Tings came from the idea that music should reflect the soul — or the ‘Root’ — of the music we were making, and all of the ways that we added on to those original ideas with new ideas and interpretations would be the ‘Tings.’”
Roots & Tings is expected to arrive toward the end of 2019.
In the meantime, watch the Ben Stokes-animated “Class War” video above.
Real message in this. Always good to hear Latyrx do they thing. Also Gift of Gab one of the dopest to ever do this. Video is lazy tho.
Dude on the left looks like a ps2 Mortal Kombat villian