Doomtree
Doomtree is an indie hip hop collective and record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The collective has seven members: rappers P.O.S, Dessa, Cecil Otter, Sims and Mike Mictlan, and producers Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger. The collective is known for incorporating a wide range of musical influences into their work with lyrical complexity and wordplay, and their annual "Doomtree Blowout" events held in Minneapolis venues to showcase their group performances and the Twin Cities music scene.
History
The name "Doomtree" is a made-up word that doesn't have a meaning, according to P.O.S, who says that it has come to represent "my people and my life's work so far." Members of Doomtree have described the group's formation as a gradual process. The initial lineup saw P.O.S and MK Larada, friends from high school, making songs with other local artists such as Cecil Otter and Beautiful Bobby Gorgeous. Soon enough Sims and Lazerbeak, fellow Hopkins High School alumni, followed. Mike Mictlan, having also attended high school with P.O.S, became an official member when he moved back to Minneapolis from Los Angeles.Dessa joined after having a chance encounter with P.O.S, who was living down the street from her at the time along with Sims, Turbo Nemesis and MK Larada.
Doomtree (album)
Doomtree is the first official album from Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released in 2008. After putting a series of False Hopes albums, the crew decided it was finally time to release a true album.
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Steve Zing
Steve Zing (born Steven Paul Grecco June 29, 1964) is an American drummer. He has drummed for Implosion, Mourning Noise, and The Undead before joining Samhain.
He graduated in 1982 from Lodi High School in Lodi, New Jersey together with Eerie Von and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein. Zing left Samhain in July 1985 shortly after the Unholy Passion EP was released. He was replaced by London May and returned briefly to The Undead in 1986. He later formed Chyna and played briefly for Rubella Umbrella in 1996.
In 1999, Zing returned to Samhain for the reunion tour, playing the first half of the show on drums, and the second on bass. He later recorded with Son of Sam, which included AFI vocalist Davey Havok, then-Danzig guitarist Todd Youth and former Samhain and Tiger Army drummer London May. The album featured guest appearances by Glenn Danzig and then-Danzig drummer Joey Castillo.
Zing fronts his own horror punk/heavy metal hybrid band, Marra's Drug. The band's first album Down Below was released on Long Live Crime Records, an indie label in Los Angeles. The band originally used the name Doomtree, but the name was changed due to legal reasons.
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ALBUMS
- Down Below released: 2005
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ALBUMS
- SXSW Sampler released: 2011
- No Kings released: 2011
- The Doomtree Standards Mixtape released: 2010
- Daytrotter Session released: 2010
- FH:XV released: 2009
- False Hopes 13 released: 2008
- Doomtree released: 2008
- False Hopes released: 2007
Daytrotter Session
Released 2010- Welcome to Daytrotter
- Kites
- 551
- If One of Us Was God
- If and When
- Welcome to Daytrotter
- Fire in His Palm / Rap Practice
- Like You Mean It
- Welcome to Daytrotter
- Demon Girl
- Rebel Yellow
- Sufficiently Breathless
- Let Me Tell You
- Welcome to Daytrotter
- OMG / Suicide Jimmy Snuffa
- Zero Kool Aid, Part 2 / Prize Fight
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Bangarang
by: DoomtreeMIKE (hook)
Doomtree Bangarang
All these rappers sound the same
Beats? Sound the same. Raps? sound the same.
Wings, fan the flames
Teeth, with the fangs
Ten years in our lane
Doomtree Bangarang
STEF
When it breaks...
When it breaks we'll know it's time
We'll know it's up to us to fix it
When it aches to make it's mind we'll pick it
'Til then we'll steer it
Get us near, we'll swim the distance
Fear after persistence
Kin by cuts with all decisions lived with
Can't live without by now, that's why we shout so loud
Couple down
All respect allowed the rest could never doubt
Options offered often
Toss 'em to the chop 'em block 'em hostile dodge 'em
Keep watch what I been rockin'
Whole team with a grip got it
No polish
(Hook)
CECIL
Now underneath this canopy
Crumbling insanity
Bellies rumbling hungering for the fantasy
Had to see something come from them
Had to be crushing savagely
Not your average everyday
Nothing short of a masterpiece
And the torches of the past are like a fortune for the future
We've been fortunate enough to know no borders, no rulers
No schools are out of session
No school's out of the question
No tools will go unused and no fools will go unmentioned.
And there's a tension in the air we're breathing
We breathe heavy
We breathe largely
Release the levy
Feel the tension in the air we're breathing
And breathe heavy
And breathe largely
Release the levy
(Hook)
SIMS
They hate, they petty
They say we too heady, too heavy, too many, too much punk
Much too drunk, too much luck, love too much
But we earned it all
All work 'til the curtain calls and our time is up
They ain't got enough
And it burns 'em up
Before tour and First Ave it was D4, T-Rock
And way more than I'll name drop
But I got y'all when I see y'all
And I'll keep y'all when the beat stops
I built more than a rap career
I got my family here
But some punks wanna jump up
With a sharp tongue and their fronts up
Like we got here by dumb luck
But they just wanna become us
That's what's up when you come up
I move like a dump truck
Too long on the road and I earn what I hold
But if you wanna let me know I can burn your flow like
Whoa.