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Acorns - Forming Roots

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In 2005 the Acorns (Blake9 and Mad Squirrel) first Dropped from the Trees. Four years later their much anticipated follow-up album, Forming Roots, marks the latest in a string of underground hip hop gems released under Blake9’s DC-based Candlewax Records banner. Over the last few years, Blake9’s renegade boom-bap production talents — sounding something like Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Mad Lib’s orphaned godson — have laid the groundwork for critically acclaimed collaborations with Count Bass D, Comel_15 (as the group Nine:Fifteen), Prego 3.5, Pasha The eMCee, and Ionic (as Yesterday’s Truth).

On this effort, Blake returns to the Golden Era hip hop sound he was raised on to unearth a succession of classic bangers, which set the perfect backdrop for Mad Squirrel’s mischievous adventures in the forest of underground hip hop wanna-be cats and buck-chasing ducks. From Clair to Joy, widowed soccer moms to Sarah Palin, Mad Squirrel moves through the subterranean hip hop dating scene with deft sensitivity and alarming disassociation, demonstrating that his unique storytelling abilities — honed within the cavernous reaches of the Bay Area underground — have the power to both amuse and unsettle, sometimes within the course of a single song.

The 13 track album also features a handful of run-ins with the likes of little league all-stars, sucker emcees, and Sesame Street understudies. In both their beats and lyrics, Blake9 and Mad Squirrel straddle the line between tradition and innovation achieving a balance that captures the best of each. To those who know, Dropping from the Trees is an underground hip hop classic. Forming Roots demonstrates the Acorns evolving maturity, not only from the first album but also in its climactic progression of songs.

The Acorns biography
The Acorns have been tearing up the DC scene for the past two and a half years. Here and there, whenever Mad Squirrel made it out-the-woods, if you were lucky enough to see them, then you know you saw some shit. At one show, Mad Squirrel lost his voice on a three song set. At another, Blake showed up minutes before they went on stage, thoroughly trashed. Simply stated, when the Acorns show up, shit’s bound to go down.

Mad Squirrel would not show up at the Candle Wax Palace without layin some shit down over some-a-them Blake9 tracks. Two and a half years of recordings are now available on one 12 song CD. And by any means possible, try and catch one of their shows.

Mad Squirrel is Forest Fires Collective Emcee. FFC/Mad Squirrel releases include the self-titled FFC CD and 12-inch, the "You Can’t See . . . " CD, the Fresh Air 12-inch, as well as the Bear With Me and Pinko underground tapes.Blake9 is DJ/Producer Extraordinaire. His production credits include two Nine:Fifteen 12-inches (Deluxe Laminated and Spilt Milk), the “Say What”/”Nah” 7-inch, collaborations with Stoerok, Dead Artists, and Olive Green, and various tracks on Blake9 mix CDs volume 1-4.
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