In this segment we’re giving life to the leagues of music being dropped every week during this trying, yet, interestingly enough, personal time. We at Nefarious Supply want you guys to always have a new underground project or creator, either on your mind, on your playlist, or on your feed in some way, shape or form. In this instance, we’re doing this on an episodic basis and deciding to write on all the new music coming in through this station, five tracks at a time.

Our first episode sees artists like Charlie Monroe and Tromac Pineapple make a comeback into our rotation, as well as Rosery Hills, along with some new contenders, such as Cadeem LaMarr, and the Underdog gang from up in the North.

Let’s dive in. 😈

Dory

Dory is Cadeem LaMarr’s first time on the Nefarious blog, crashing with hard-hitting 808s and bass drums, meshing together for an overall heavy banger. The song features a familiar face within the DMV’s underground scene, Tromac Pineapple, as well as fellow underground artist, Vlad. The lyricism is heavy at certain parts and light on others, however, the flow is always changing the vibe is consistent. The three meld into the veins of the track and ride every change in production like a surfboard to water. We can’t wait to hear more from Cadeem.

Storm

Staying within the streets of the DMV, we check in on Charlie Monroe, a veteran interviewee and an upcoming trap artist in the area. Her new track Storm, Charlie simply has fun and asserts her dominance as an artist and individual within her community. She raps about her wealth, her focus, her apprehensiveness for to much attention, and her need to always secure her bag.

Vibe with You / Takes Two Outro

Rosery Hills slows things down with this sensual and submerged outro, letting the production swell and encompass his voice like a blanket. He sings about a girl and their compatibility, as well as their ability to vibe through everything. The second half of the track strikes and strikes deep. The more staccato-esque beat is only further amalgamated by Rosery’s confident line “To tango girl, it takes two.”, he talks of a summer night, getting drunk, going home with a girl, and I’m sure you know the rest. This is a fan favorite track of ours, by far.

OK

OK is the new track produced by Fabestar and written by Underdog’s heavy hitter, Black$tar, featuring other top UDE dogs, Mayal and Kuya. The three endlessly switch between verses, throwing never-ending, no-look, lyrical alley-oops to the next player. The three swim well in the same pool and dominate the production in their own unique way. It is a light-hearted bouncy, head-bopper that makes you wanna move.

Highway

Highway is much less a song, and more so just beautiful production. The beat was created by beatsbycryptic and houses instruments such as 808s, violin, what seems to be a sitar-esque string instrument being plucked and many more. The melody, undertone, and beat production are amazing and deserves to be on the list purely off of its infectiousness alone. Be sure to hear more from beatsbycryptic on our blog!

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Tromac Pineapple is an upcoming producer and curator making is mark within the DMV area. Through the answering of these automated questions, we’ll give you an inside look into his creative process and the influences behind his reasoning for becoming a full fledged artist in this industry.

Check it out below!:

Who is Tromac Pineapple? What are the themes and experiences that formed the curator that you have become today?

I'm just a dude from Laurel, a town on the tip of PG county, who found out music was the best thing ever. In high school, I met one of my closest friends who goes by Vlad, a fellow artist also from Laurel. He introduced me to music on a surface level when he showed me his songs he had on his old YouTube channel. from that, I started making beats, then rapping, eventually DJing.

What do you think is the most important aspect of creating music? What are personally your favorite parts of the process?

An important aspect of creating music to me is knowing what your doing, not necessarily what you want to make or where you're going with it, but knowing what how to do what you're about to do. personally I love watching Youtube videos of people playing with hardware that I own or intend to buy to give myself an idea of whats already possible so I can feel motivated to try the impossible.

My favorite parts of making music is the unexpected, like when you and your manz making beats and you hand the controls over to him and he do some wild shit to the sample or lay down some wild keys or hard ass kicks or some shit. or when you do something completely different from what you were trying to do and it hits even harder than what you thought.

Love it.

What do you think differs you as an artist from your peers in this industry? What relationships have you made or experiences that you’ve gone through that have molded you differently?

Me and my friends just be having fun with it.

The thing about the scene where I’m at, Baltimore, D.C, etcetera, everyone is really good at what they do, so when we combine and collab its even more amazing, that’s the beauty.

You have good ideas? Just do it. A lot of people in the industry, from my understanding, are like make believe, living like semi-false lives because they have to fit in a standard or appease a certain group of people and shit. I don’t do that and I don’t think i will.

I do what i want, who gon' beat me up?

yall remember how long january was in 2018? shit feels like yesterday but here we are. these are my updated events for the rest of the month starting tomorrow. got my new laptop (thank yall again❤) so im gonna have some new beats and remixes for these joints so dont miss out! this january feels like its going by at normal speed to me. wbu?

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What artist would you like to collaborate with the most?

Honestly I would die if the legend Lil Wayne were to ever hop on one of my beats like that’s my favorite rapper. But if I could have a room full of artists, I would love to sit down with like Pharrell, Monte Booker, have like Kelela or somebody in there for some vocals, Childish Gambino too, and then just bring in my homies cus' they some of the most talented people in the world to be honest.

What do you feel is the best track you’ve ever produced?

i couldn't tell you, I change my opinion on that every month, not even just when i make new shit but I will listen to some of my older beats and be like damn this is it.

But if I had to pick right now, i'd say I went off on my Drip Too Hard remix, which is on my Soundcloud right now titled "Drippy".

If you weren’t a musician, what do you think you’d be doing at this point in your life?

I probably would have moved to New York or something by now. Just because. Probably be working some random $13 an hour job so I could pay rent with some random roommates. I'd probably be doing graphic design and photography still.

Take us through the day in the life of Tromac. What do you get up to daily?

Are there days where you need to take a break from it all?

Well I work, because I ain't shit yet.

But let's describe an off day, a weekend. Lets say its a Friday, I wake up around 9 or 10 depending on if I did anything the night before, freshen up, shower, get dressed all that good stuff and head out. Usually I have plans already like smoking with a friend or going somewhere to make beats or something.

Literally all i do is make beats, spark gas, and do like creative shit.

Might go see a movie or get some food with a friend or something. At night I’m either doing a show or at a homies show or some event but if not then I might be at the homies crib sparking or making beats or both of course. I started going to the gym more often lately, I find that I enjoy writing while working out, like on the treadmill, I tend to write verses on my phone.

Its like working the body which makes the mind work more or something? I’m not sure. but most of the time I am at home sleep.

Lastly, is there any advice you’d give anyone who wants to start the process of becoming an artist/producer or curator in any form?

Wild out, bust down, do that shit, spend that bread, cop that laptop or midi controller or whatever, no regrets don’t look back, just dive in do the shit and make it good.

Don’t let anyone make you feel bad for following dreams or having ideas.

And fuck school, that shit is wack and cost mad bread and niggas be down bad afterwards and that’s dead, unless you're good at it and have dreams that can be obtained easier with schooling. in that case, bust down.

probably in a black tee shirt. i do what i want. @3SIDEmusic #3SIDE Contact ▶ TromacPineapple@gmail.com

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