Red Tide
Fear & Loathing in Florida
© 2004 Red Tide (802114141224)
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Red Tide mine the same creative landscape as likeminded artists Anticon, Mr. Lif, Aesop Rock, Buck 65, and Awol One. Their music represents an outsider's perspective that's caught the attention of disaffected kids who are tired of the sameness. Check it.
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The wait is over!! Florida indy hip hop veterans RED TIDE have released a new project. The "Fear & Loathing" EP offers a taste of the upcoming full length album from the boys. Lyrically poetic, radically forward thinking, this six song EP is nothing less than a statement of purpose and a call to arms for every hip hop head who has tired of the sameness and crass commercialism that has blanketed the mainstream for far too long. Red Tide ride the crest of hip hop's new wave. Abandoning tired cliches, rejecting recycled concepts and uninteresting production: B.C., Skoolz, 2% and Lazy offer both a look back and a glimpse into the future. While the more close-minded denizens of the underground rally the wagons 'round dubious ideals like "purism," Red Tide acts as music's true vanguard, patently ignoring any and all sonic segregation to mine precious jewels heretofore unknown. Some of the tracks have been previously released on vinyl while others will be included on the new album. Expect the unexpected from a group hell bent on making an impact. Ask for the record in stores, online and at their unbelievable live shows or contact Peripheral Records to pick up a copy.
St. Pete Times article:
"RED TIDE - MOVING, SHAKING: If you're a lover of underground hip-hop, know that the best act going may be from the local music scene. Tampa's Red Tide makes some of the most fun, funky and brainy hip-hop music out there. The group - frontman/lyricist BC, dj Lazy and 2% who creates sonic pastiches on laptops and other electronic equipment - is joined by a second mc, Skoolz.
The band refuses to label itself as "intelligent" hip-hop, for fear of insulting other acts. "We consider ourselves hip-hop's New Wave," says Lazy, who adds that Red Tide is more concerned with being artistically true to itself than being groundbreaking. "We want to educate people, too, of course, that hip-hop is more than what you're seeing on MTV."
BC, who studied art at the Ringling School of Art and Design, is recording Time Pieces, a solo project. He has also laid down tracks with the poet Saul Williams. Lazy is host of WMNF's Hip Hop Flavors at 1 a.m. on Tuesday nights. Lazy also plays a large role in bringing in "underground" rap shows by bands on the Def Jux label (Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, El-P) as well as hip-hop notables outside the mainstream such as Prince Paul.
Red Tide is recording its first full-length CD, to be released in 2004. Fans of the band will tell you, however, this is one rap act that shines in the live setting. Anyone who caught them opening for Aesop Rock last month at the State Theatre can attest.
Picture BC grooving out front, swinging an arm in the air, dreadlocks swinging as he's freestyling on his mic. BC's spouting lyrics about history and pop culture, up to and including Japanese anime. A few verses into a tune and you've detected: This cat is S-M-A-R-T, freaky smart. BC's brain locks it all in, his lips spit it out, rapid-fire quick.
Look to BC's right and observe 2% fiddlin' with his laptop, pausing only to snap Polaroid pics of the crowd. Behind both is Lazy, this tall Paul Bunyan-looking fella, with - huh? - a long, red ponytail? Lazy looks like he's in wax-spinning bliss, watching his records go round and round, blurting into his mike the occasional witty response to a statement by BC, Flavor Flav to BC's Chuck D.
'Twas a beautiful thing.
-Gina Vivinetto is the St. Pete Times pop music critic.
"BC, Skoolz, 2%, and Lazy have been bringing a rare, raw, pure, and beyond unique form of Hip Hop for a very long time in Tampa...Trust me when I tell you, Red Tide has been, and still are ahead of their time." universalelements.com
"Red Tide represents Florida, the underground and Hip Hop. Period." The Source
"Every now and then a group comes along that reaffirms one's belief in underground hiphop...Red Tide is one of those groups." Truehiphop.com/atak
"Red Tide takes a decidedly underground approach to hiphop, spinning out intelligent rhyme cascades and polysyllabic verbal fusillades. The tracks are seductive, engrossing and bode well for the future." The Weekly Planet
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/05/Weekend/Catching_up_with_Red_.shtml