Choosey & Exile

Between gospel music in church and his grandfather’s role in the LA Latin Jazz scene, music has always been a factor in <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a>’s lineage. With four years passing since his debut, <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a> returns with Black Beans, an album conveying the less represented perspective of growing up Afro-Chicano.

Hailing from LA by way of San Diego, <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a> uses Black Beans to make important statements in favor of black and brown unity at a time when his voice is most needed. Sonically, it follows <a href="spotify:artist:4r4XYZJUeeKCcrkvi7voDP" data-name="Exile">Exile</a> produced masterpieces like <a href="spotify:album:2OnNdRdzqs0Xe6VU2uGdPe" data-name="Below the Heavens">Below the Heavens</a> and <a href="spotify:album:6FDI8sfT7i2Z10FS54xJMi" data-name="Boy Meets World">Boy Meets World</a> as his soulful beats have always brought honesty and introspection out of the Dirty Science crew. <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a> says “My biggest influences have been people who spoke from the heart, and what’s most honest about me is my heritage. There’s a stigma that Black and Mexican cultures don’t get along, but I wanted to show the beauty in being a product of both.”

Black Beans captures the feeling of the beautiful struggle while navigating life’s potholes throughout sunny Southern California. <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a> also honors family and his significant other while attacking society’s ills including police brutality and gentrification. Though Black Beans is consistent with <a href="spotify:artist:4r4XYZJUeeKCcrkvi7voDP" data-name="Exile">Exile</a>&#39;s sound, he uses a number of sources from an era that best reflects <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a>&#39;s story personally. “Oldies are a big part of Chicano culture on the west coast from the ‘50s to now. <a href="spotify:artist:6nHP3oypvfuYzb5bVFIMVm" data-name="Choosey">Choosey</a> is born out of that. So we wanted to unify that sound with Hip-Hop” says <a href="spotify:artist:4r4XYZJUeeKCcrkvi7voDP" data-name="Exile">Exile</a>.