
A film about Northwest hip-hop from 2011
Bambu & Prometheus Brown
Walk into a Bar
Seattle hip-hop blog 206UP picked this record as one of the “Top 10 Albums of 2011,” saying that:
What began on mostly a freebie lark ultimately turned into this 10-track for-profit album with some of the best production value around. Prometheus Brown (known traditionally to Seattle as Geo, of course) and Los Angeles’ Bambu pay homage to their island origination on Walk into a Bar which was released on Bambu’s label (Beatrock Music) and aimed squarely at the Hawaiian Islands, a favorite performance destination for the two MCs. As per standard, Geo and Bambu choose their words carefully always using them to uplift and inform rather than degrade and dispirit. “National Treasure,” for example, is an important commentary on gender politics and features a beat from Vitamin D whose drums somehow always sound bigger than everyone else’s.
Walk into a Bar was created in 2011 and features appearances from: