I was listening to BBC 6 Music today and heard what I thought was some Old Skool Hip Hop. I did a quick search and found out that this was a brand new track out on Daptone Records. I was even more shocked when I found out 3 Titans were 5th graders! Check them out.
Out now on 45 and mp3 download!
3 Titans in the Dunham Studios recording their latest single “The Life of a Scholar”. Video directed by Matt Rogers, Matthias Roeckl–additional camera.
The 3 Titans, Khalil Jackson, Jorden Plaines, and Dallas Ifill, are rhythmically gifted fifth-graders with their sights set on higher education. On their debut 7 for Dunham Records, C-O-L-L-E-G-E b/w Life of a Scholar, the precocious eleven-year-olds trade rhymes about the benefits of going to college and the determination it takes to get there over two sides of old-school, hard-as-nails (and refreshingly sample-free) beats provided by the notorious Menahan Street Band.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist