Hip-hop is alive and well on the east coast...

Lushlife - in soft focus

Hailing from Philly, Lushlife front-man Raj Haldar wrote that his goal with this album was... “to take hip-hop to different places. The major conceptual basis was classic hip-hop – I wanted that sentiment – but I also wanted a record imbued with the spirit of indie experimentation, as well as pop accessibility.” And that's exactly what he did here.

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