Coming off one of the most flattering awards any artist can win (because it was a write-in only category) -- "Best Disk We Missed" in this year's 88Nine Radio Milwaukee Listener Choice Awards -- ¡Oye! has released his newest musical effort, "The Brown Bomber."
The EP is more of the type of music that people have come to expect from ¡Oye! as the tracks deliver a quality message over party-ready grooves. For this EP, the Milwaukee South Sider has tapped HitMayng, Man Mantis and frequent collaborator Klassik for the production on the EP; that is, when he's not handling the production himself.
The previously released single "Party Hard" that is produced by and also features Klassik continues to be a standout track when packaged with the rest of the songs, but it is the fabulous "On The Menu" (featuring UNOM) that steals the show on this project. It's a great collaboration track that creates visions of warm weather and Lake Drive cruises.
With a feature from Prophetic and Oakland's Daveed Diggs, there is a fair amount of diversity on the project, and though it isn't perfect, it's certainly very pleasant and definitely deserves a spin, if not for "Party Hard" and "On The Menu" alone.
The best thing about ¡Oye!, and coincidentally his buddy Klassik, is that whenever he releases something, even if it's not exactly a 100 percent hit all the way around to my ears, it's always a breath of fresh air and that's something that's very welcomed in an often stagnant artform.
Listen to the album here and then go and grab it from his Bandcamp for free.
Born in Milwaukee and raised in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer, Concordia University Wisconsin alumnus Poppe has spent the majority of his life in or around the city and county of Milwaukee.
As an advocate of Milwaukee's hip-hop community Poppe began popular local music blog Milwaukee UP in March 2010. Check out the archived entries here.
Though heavy on the hip-hop, Poppe writes about other genres of music and occasionally about food, culture or sports, and is always ready to show his pride in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
