Artist of the Month: CYNE 'Cultivating Your New Experience'

[RuffDraft]

If you're a fan, want to know more or just wish to comment, please do. But take your time to listen to the tracks if you have the time, they're all great tracks and CYNE are a talented group that everyone who loves hip hop should be acquainted with. Props for reading :tu

 

[Food & Liquor]

A lot of quality tracks posted; out of those I'd say First Person, Arrow Of God, Up Above and Feather are my favourites. I think I'll give Time Being a listen in full some time in the not too distant future.

 

[RuffDraft]

A lot of quality tracks posted; out of those I'd say First Person, Arrow Of God, Up Above and Feather are my favourites. I think I'll give Time Being a listen in full some time in the not too distant future.

Good choices and props for listening, did you read it all? I'm conscious of the fact that I.C'ers generally don't want to read so much, but it's hard to fit an entire career into a small amount of words and still sell the artists to the readers...

I'm a big fan of the tracks that you like too, especially Up Above, Arrow of God and First Person. Have you listened to Evolution Fight? It's their best album, IMO.

 

[Food & Liquor]

Good choices and props for listening, did you read it all? I'm conscious of the fact that I.C'ers generally don't want to read so much, but it's hard to fit an entire career into a small amount of words and still sell the artists to the readers...

I'm a big fan of the tracks that you like too, especially Up Above, Arrow of God and First Person. Have you listened to Evolution Fight? It's their best album, IMO.

Yeah I read it which is why I wanted to go with the first album first, set the tone of it all. Didn't get chance to go through the albums yet so glad this topic came up. I think the thing that put me off with going with Evolution Fight first as well was the bit about the start being hit and miss but I'll still give it a try.

And yeah, get what you mean. There's only so much you can do with the space but it's enough to get you started with an artist/group.

 

[RuffDraft]

Yeah I read it which is why I wanted to go with the first album first, set the tone of it all. Didn't get chance to go through the albums yet so glad this topic came up. I think the thing that put me off with going with Evolution Fight first as well was the bit about the start being hit and miss but I'll still give it a try.

And yeah, get what you mean. There's only so much you can do with the space but it's enough to get you started with an artist/group.

Props, yeah, but don't forget that Evolution Fight could be mistaken for a Greatest Hits as well... I played that album for an entire summer on repeat, it's a great album and better than Time Being overall as the emcee's questioned everything, so it's a coming of age album in the same way that other artists debut's usually are.

It's good that you read it anyways, is a lot to read, so appreciate you taking the time and it's definitely worth it to do so as like you say, it puts you on to a new artist.

 

[renagade410.]

I found out about cyne in the essence a couple years back actually. Evolution fight was my first cd of them i got. If you have heard it then you know that shortly after i picked up time being lol. Couldnt give a favorite track tho, thats like giving a favorite album of all time. I'll prob listen to my cyne playlist tonight and drop my top 5(sorry thats the most i could cut it down to)

I would like to know who yall think is the stronger artist out of cise star and akin....i could never choose

 

[RuffDraft]

I found out about cyne in the essence a couple years back actually. Evolution fight was my first cd of them i got. If you have heard it then you know that shortly after i picked up time being lol. Couldnt give a favorite track tho, thats like giving a favorite album of all time. I'll prob listen to my cyne playlist tonight and drop my top 5(sorry thats the most i could cut it down to)

I would like to know who yall think is the stronger artist out of cise star and akin....i could never choose

Cise Starr!! I know what you mean though, I just like Cise Starr on First Person... I think he showcases his ability to create a classic track on his own... top 5's cool :tu

 

[supertitan]

I was lucky enough that a former IC member put me onto Cyne, Time Being and Evolution Fight are both 3.5-4.0 mic albums. I don't think that they have been able to duplicate the same quality since Evolution Fight though.

 

[RuffDraft]

I was lucky enough that a former IC member put me onto Cyne, Time Being and Evolution Fight are both 3.5-4.0 mic albums. I don't think that they have been able to duplicate the same quality since Evolution Fight though.

lol I think that might have been me, I've made loads of threads about them on the old I.C. But I think Big L RIP put me on to them and that's how I discovered Nujabes.

Know what you mean though, both of them were great albums, but since they are very experimental, but I put it down to the questions that they posed on those two albums in particular which made them great.

 

[supertitan]

yeah it was big l r.i.p. who put me onto them as well. I agree the inconsistency is likely just due to how much they experiment with their sound

 

[RuffDraft]

yeah it was big l r.i.p. who put me onto them as well. I agree the inconsistency is likely just due to how much they experiment with their sound

You not still think that it comes across as nice regardless though? I've found some of their recent releases really listenable.... just not as much as Evolution Fight (which I see as one of my favourite independent albums, period).

 

[traestar]

Absolutely Love CYNE! Actually the Florida underground scene is pretty solid!!
CYNE
The AB's (Therapy, Willie Evans Jr., J One Da, Base Boogie)
DJ Shotgun
¡Mayday!
Dillon V Maurer
Batsauce
Daisy

 

[RuffDraft]

Absolutely Love CYNE! Actually the Florida underground scene is pretty solid!!
CYNE
The AB's (Therapy, Willie Evans Jr., J One Da, Base Boogie)
DJ Shotgun
There is a group that I can't think of right now that are pretty sick
Dillon V Maurer
Batsauce
Daisy

Any of them sound similar to CYNE?

 

[stupot0607]

Here Ruffdraft im just wondering....

Your itunes must be canny full.... haha

your always suggesting new music (which im not guna complain about lol)...

I Got 347 (majority hip hop) albums, 6066 songs and counting.....

Btw im guna check out some CYNE sometime when i catch up on listenin to some stuff.... haha

 

[traestar]

Any of them sound similar to CYNE?

Mayday has that rock sound like them!
But CYNE still has that unique earthy sound that separates them from others.

http://maydayonline.com/
They recently came out with a digital album called Stuck on An Island

The Asamov crew are my favorite Florida group (representing Duvall County, Jacksonville)
Its the The AB's, the Smile Rays (Therapy, Batsauce, Daisy), and Dillon

 

[traestar]

[video=youtube;LMtIBwHDeAk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMtIBwHDeAk&feature=player_embedded#at=36[/video]

Here's a track

[video=youtube;qgySgUjFAog]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgySgUjFAog&feature=player_embedded#at=122[/video]
Here's one of members Wrekonize on a new track with Mike Beatz
and yes THE Wrekonize from MTV the Battle II

 

[RuffDraft]

Here Ruffdraft im just wondering....

Your itunes must be canny full.... haha

your always suggesting new music (which im not guna complain about lol)...

I Got 347 (majority hip hop) albums, 6066 songs and counting.....

Btw im guna check out some CYNE sometime when i catch up on listenin to some stuff.... haha

hahaha it is canny full, I have over 200 albums in CD format and a lot more on my Mac.

But I only know a lot of Independent Artists because it's all I've really listened to for 7 years or so... before that, I was listening to all the classic mainstream records, but once I ran out of listening to those, I delved into the Independent stream after discovering it here... most mainstream stuff I don't listen to at all... so my knowledge of it lacks... but most of what I heard is rubbish. I'll only check their singles, it's artists like The Roots that I'll always listen to though, who are mainstream.

Seriously though, check Evolution Fight, it's a great/classic album for Independent hip hop in my eyes...

Here's a track

Here's one of members Wrekonize on a new track with Mike Beatz
and yes THE Wrekonize from MTV the Battle II

Props Trae, I'll listen to this and be back later with my thoughts, can't listen at the minute :tu

 

[stupot0607]

hahaha it is canny full, I have over 200 albums in CD format and a lot more on my Mac.

But I only know a lot of Independent Artists because it's all I've really listened to for 7 years or so... before that, I was listening to all the classic mainstream records, but once I ran out of listening to those, I delved into the Independent stream after discovering it here... most mainstream stuff I don't listen to at all... so my knowledge of it lacks... but most of what I heard is rubbish. I'll only check their singles, it's artists like The Roots that I'll always listen to though, who are mainstream.

Seriously though, check Evolution Fight, it's a great/classic album for Independent hip hop in my eyes...

Ruffdraft you a geordie?? just saying canny hahaha, wondering if your a daft geordie bastard like me hahaa

Hahaha yeah man, i think im in a transitional stage with hip hop, i never really listen to anything mainstream anymore, ive gone off Jay, Em, Dre Ect..... i think Underground is more mature Hip Hop... and as im gettin older i relate to it alot more than the mainstream stuff.

I got a list of Cds to get (which evolution fight has been on for a while), And i wanna hear the New Raekwon and Saigon next (not got round to it) Lupe was on that list, but after everybodys negative reviews im guna put that back abit haha, then ill download CYNE.....

 

[RuffDraft]

Ruffdraft you a geordie?? just saying canny hahaha, wondering if your a daft geordie bastard like me hahaa

Hahaha yeah man, i think im in a transitional stage with hip hop, i never really listen to anything mainstream anymore, ive gone off Jay, Em, Dre Ect..... i think Underground is more mature Hip Hop... and as im gettin older i relate to it alot more than the mainstream stuff.

I got a list of Cds to get (which evolution fight has been on for a while), And i wanna hear the New Raekwon and Saigon next (not got round to it) Lupe was on that list, but after everybodys negative reviews im guna put that back abit haha, then ill download CYNE.....

No lol

Ahh it's good, you'll still have love for Jay and them as you get older, they make grown music too or sometimes you just wanna check something else, like I have all their CD's... but it's true, the underground, generally, is more grown.

TBH, I would say CYNE should be first on your list out of those... Saigon and Raekwon are still mainstream per se... they're still really good, but Evolution Fight touches on things, the CD pretty much crafted a summer for me and changed my perception on things due to the questions posed by the two emcee's.

Enjoy whatever you get though :tu

 

[Ounceman]

Yes i too discovered this group from the album evolution fight as well. and have been a fan ever since. i personally met them when they headlined a concert venue at the FAU campus. they are very chill and down to earth. Definately one of florida's best kept secrets