Urban Method just made its national TV debut last night on NBC's The Sing-Off in it's 3rd season featuring 8 groups (of 16 total) from around the country. The bracket for Urban Method had The Yellowjackets, Delilah, Afro-Blue, Fannin Family, The Cat's Pajamas, Kinfolk 9, and Vocal Point. What a crazy good bracket! Maybe the show is just that good! Maybe this year's viewing public is in for a real treat. Seriously, from the opening number to the preview of the next show, we were amazed at how good the show really is!
I think from being a part of the taping, and hearing the show from the monitors in the group box (and seeing the groups from the side), you sort of have a diminshed view of the product being put forth (though still amazing from where we were!).
We had a viewing party here in Denver, CO at Lannie's Cabaret theater...she is a good friend of the group and we had the place full of people drinking and having a good time. The crazy thing is that there are a number of people who joined us not as hip hop fans but as friends and family. What we hope will happen over the show is that we can bring new fans to hip hop that may not have otherwise liked the genre (or for that matter fully understood it). Truth be told, hip hop has carries the weight of some heavier real-life issues and much of the genre comes from a place that the populus does not understand. That is fine, and maybe by beatboxing and singing bass and having it all done vocally will make it accessible to people who might really relate to the message within. There is so much emotion and passion in hip hop and by sheer math, the words spoken in rap outnumber the words in pop music quite simply because there is so much to say. Why not use music to say it and why not use whatever instrument you possibly can?
It is our way of bringing the genre out of the studio and into people's lives.
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