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Nowadays every rapper will swear to you on his (or her) mother’s grave that they are ‘Keeping it real’ as they proceed to tell you that they are harder than Mister T, have layed more women than Wilt Chamberlain, and have committed enough felony murders to get life with no parole 28 times over.  Something tells me that their ‘reality’ is a little out of wack.  On the other hand there is a group out there, Leroy Smokes, that is ‘keeping it real’ in more ways than one: real subject matter, real live performances, and…gasp…real instruments.  Damn this is too good to be true..[sob]..I need a moment..[sob]..can a brother get a tissue?!

I guess you’d have to describe Leroy Smokes as a ‘collective’ coming out of the Minnesota area.  I think they have probably worked pretty hard to defy conventional categorization because they have a whole lot of different flava rolled up into one super-group.  “Lo-Fi” gives a much needed chin-check to today’s glitz ‘n glamour rap industry letting people know that if they are into decidedly more gritty, lo-fi sounds like those of Leroy Smokes they just have to stay strong and keep hunting out the good music.  Hey that’s what we’re here for; Couldn’t have made a better commercial for Gigatracks myself.  Heh heh.

“Lo-Fi” combines a mellow, jazzy groove with a driving beat and organ riff.  When the organ riff kicks in is when the song hooks you.  It has the taste of some old-school hip-hop (actually I like to say middle-aged-school, old school, to me, is something else…but I digress) coupled with a soulful, jazz vibe that is always hip and new school no matter the era.  No matter where your hip-hop allegiances lie you are bound to like this one.