Jazz Hiphop fusion

I'm starting to see a wonderful trend in music in which artists are starting to put jazz behind their rhymes or in the case of BADBADNOTGOOD making jazz versions of hip hop songs. Check out these songs and tell me what you think.


Kids These Days are a huge group with a bunch of musicians, some vocalists and some rappers. Check them out for sure as I expect they will get some more attention in 2012

 Darling by Kids These Days Band

 Kids These Days by Cody Kazarian

BADBADNOTGOOD are a jazz group that does covers/re imaginings of hip songs in addition to some more original stuff. This is them covering NAS' "The World is Yours" and ODB's "Brooklyn Zoo". They are also known for doing some ODD Future covers. Big up to my man Savestheday for hippin' me to them.

 Bad Bad Not Good - The World Is Yours/Brooklyn Zoo by silenciador

 Bad Bad Not Good - Mass Appeal / Transmission by GrafikWar

This is cool

Sunday Girl - Where Is My Mind by Sunday Girl

Excited for this album too

Islands released their first single off of their upcoming album to be released on Valentines Day. Got a waiting for the world to change feel to it. I saw it twice live, quite good.

Islands - "This Is Not a Song" by CHARTattack

I'm excited for this album.

Cults hip-hop remix of their first album? yes please.

Singers singing for different bands

This is Mister Heavenly- Bronx Sniper. I thought it was appropriate for my neighborhood. This band is made up of Nick Thorbun of Islands, Ryan Kattner of Man Man, and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse. And they are awesome, Michael Cera sometimes plays base for them too.

This is Alexander Ebert aka Ima Robot Aka the lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Say what you will about this guy but he makes some kick ass music. This is off an album titled Alexander. It's really good.

Finally we have Middle Brother. This is nbsp;John J. McCauley III of Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit. Middle Brother is Perhaps the most excellent of the three bands I have on here. I really can't get enough of them.

Lastly I love how the songs change the lyrics in their choruses and how the three excellent and unique voices go together.

Some good one's I've been listening to

 high & low by kissed her little sister 

You can stream the whole album here, but I recommend "Cocaine" and "My Dreams are Televisions" first.