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Emerging from the tight-knit Los Angeles Funk\/Soul community, the 7-piece live band deliver a sound on “Head Above Water” that’s as inspired, realized and refreshing as the city landscape and culture that the musicians reside within.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSide B, as noted on the “buoy-themed” donut as COAL SIDE, represents a coast-to-coast Hip-Hop flight as DZA kicks things off by putting on for his hometown of Harlem in a major way. His verse is pure braggadocio-tinged flames and brimming with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebars, among them his NY Jets-referencing closing line of “I’m Broadway Joe with my mink on drag.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Rev shreds the first hook chock full of quotables from Mos Def, Nas, M.O.P., 50 Cent, AZ and more, Mutant Academy’s Fly Anakin picks up right where DZA left off and delivers a relentless stream of rhymes. 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