Jordan Chude, Fletch Raise the Glass on Smoothed Out “Here We Go”

Oh how we have been slacking.

It’s true. We’ve made sure our world-famous NY hip hop event calendar has been fully stocked. And we covered a few big happenings. Couple good interviews. And we’ve posted a few releases here and there.

But our bread and butter has always been sifting through the muck and mire of the multitude of material that is being created and distributed by our NY-area hip hop brethren. The good, the bad, the hot, the not… All pass through our e-gates, and for a while, we’ve been a bit overwhelmed with behind-the-scenes work to take the time to pull out some gems.

Plenty has come through that has almost forced us out of our slump, but today’s entry was the well-produced catalyst to get back to doing what we’ve always done, better than most: Highlight good stuff, particularly from artists you (or we) might not have already been familiar with.

“Here We Go” is the fourth release in Jordan Chude’s #NoMoreAmateurRecords series. Chude is a student at NYU, studying Music Business, and interns at Mass Appeal, as per his Twitter bio. We’re not sure who Fletch is, but we now have decided we like both artists, particularly on this joint, so they are both now on our radar, for whatever that’s worth.

Why? Well, here’s how “Here We Go” went, in our collective mind, on first listen:

The music instantly drew us in. Already can tell this is well-produced and mixed. Huh? Who the hell is Ian? Whatever. Meh, “bottles” talk. Oh. It’s pronounced Jordan SHAWD? Ok. Intro, intro, yeah yeah, let’s go… OK. Raps time! Voice, nice. Flow, cool. Hm. Another song rapping about rapping. Grr. Well, not bad though. Not like a bitter Bahhh-I-gets-no-respeck-the-industry-is-wack-I’m-real-hip-hop MC. Not bad t’all. Chorus time… Singing on the chorus. OK, we get the bottles reference now. Hm. This all sounds nice. Pretty good vibe. It all works well together… OK. More raps time! Bah, repping Baltimore… OK, repping LES, that’s better. (We tease)… Ok. This joint’s pretty smooth. Let’s write it up.

Anyway, since you know we don’t really like to do the review thing, you be the judge.

LISTEN: Jordan Chude ft. Fletch – Here We Go (Produced by OSYM BEATS)