The Green Tape matches up two of Portland, Oregon’s brightest talents – Illmaculate & up-and-coming producer, G_Force (aka Calvin Valentine, producer for Kweli’s Blacksmith label, Strong Arm Steady, Planet Asia, TxE & more), as they re-work soul legend Al Green’s 2008 comeback album, Lay It Down, originally produced by ?uestlove & James Poyser of The Roots – song-by-song with G_ sampling the originals & flipping them into completely new works while Illmaculate provides the rhymes
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Illmaculat?e x G Force – What More (feat. Epp & Theory Hazit)
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