Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia have delivered their first album No Requests. The New York City-bred radio legends both curated and executive produced the project for 10x-Grammy Award winning pianist Eddie Palmeiri and his label Uprising Music.
Comprised of 10 tracks, the multi-dimensional project fuses jazz, Latin, Go Go, instrumental Hip Hop and other various flavors into one cohesive gumbo with the help of The M19s Band. Guest features include vocalists Mireya Ramos, Maimouna Youssef, José Parlá and Rich Medina.
Stretch and Bobbito spoke about where the The M19 Band name came from and the concept of the album in a recent interview with HipHopDX.
“Bob grew up on the Upper West Side of 97 Street and I grew up on the Upper East Side of East 96th Street, and the M19 was the name of the bus that linked those two neighborhoods together, via 96th street through Central Park,” Stretch said. “Metaphorically, the M19, like our album, is our desire to have it build bridges and bring people together, just like that bus did.”
Bobbito added, “It’s not just like, ‘OK, here’s the Jamaican song or here’s the Latin song. It’s like within the Jamaican song, there’s Latin music and within the jazz song, there’s African music and within the rock song … we assume our audience has sophisticated musical ears. We’re down to challenge them.”
Check out the No Requests album stream, cover art and tracklist below.
- Anna From Woohside (Beat Suite)
- Voices Inside My Head
- Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
- Festival Song (Bam Bam)
- Magnificent Dance f. Rich Medina
- Que Se Sepa f. José Parlá & Mireya Ramos
- The Mexican f. Mireya Ramos
- I Know You, I Live You f. Maimouna Youssef
- If You Really Love Me f. Maimouna Youssef
- Baby I’m Scared Of You
Sadly no one has commented let’s you know how screwed up hip hop is right now.
Mumu Fresh is a beast …albums is not typical hiphop but like the Stevie Wonder cover
voices in my head sounding krisp
Fucking white boys culture vultures gtfo!!! No bodys!!
Nah, you just stupid & def ignorant… Stretch & Bobbito are hip hop royalty fool, go do your homework.
If you don’t know anything about Stretch and Bobbito, I guarantee you know nothing about 90’s underground.
Wow. Bobito Garcia is a whiteboy? LOL. All of those white doll from Puerto Rico…
Learn yo culture before u look like a idiot, these guys helped launched the careers of important hip hop acts like the Wu Tang Clan in the early 90s, its sad but true but black label execs and djs in them days wasnt playing real music only that water down commercial shit so if their show wasnt around we wouldnt got to hear these artist use their style that they are promoting we would have nothing but artificial products made by corporations
If everything you pick up from another race makes you a culture vulture, you better stop watching TV, throw away your smartphone, never use the water tap anymore and never use a western toilet. Better yet, stop using electricity altogether. Stop using cars and anything else with an engine too. See how stupid you make yourself look with that bullshit?
Yo these white bois saw an opportunity to get money off black culture and they did, not because they respect it or even like hiphop only because they wanted to get money black folks shoulda been gettin
Sounds cool.
LEGENDS. Thanks to these dudes, Hip Hop’s Golden Era occurred. Not to mention the artists they broke – From underground to the top of mainstream Hip Hop.
Its Mgk and Eminem in 10 years telling kids about there beef
White beard = white boi, dont @ me if you don’t even know how races work you eminem dickriders