Oddisee has released two studio albums, several EPs, mixtapes and instrumental albums, and has over 23 million plays on Spotify. He’s been profiled by NPR, the Washington Post, praised by Pitchfork and Stereogum, performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk, Red Bull Sound Select and at festivals including Glastonbury and Sasquatch. ‘The Iceberg’ follows two releases in 2016, the ‘Alwasta EP’ and the instrumentals album ‘The Odd Tape.’ His 2015 full-length ‘The Good Fight’ was a Top 10 album on the iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap chart and he won the iTunes Music award for Best Hip-Hop Album of 2012.
Order the album here: https://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-iceberg + http://radi.al/pARwH3H
The album has been met with raves from Time Magazine, NPR, Stereogum, a powerful NPR Weekend Edition segment, a song premiere on Ebro’s Beats 1 radio show, opened the
2017 First Friday’s season at the LA Natural History Museum and much more.
Listen to his striking conversation with NPR’s Weekend Edition here:
Read Mic.com’s profile on Oddisee, “a voice for the voiceless”:
Stream the album:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2dEkjiUBO6Z2aeolcJ7sCy Bandcamp: https://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-iceberg Apple Music: http://radi.al/pARwH3H
RAVES FOR ‘THE ICEBERG’:
“He deftly uses his own experiences to reflect on the greater state of humanity, in all its beauty and flaws” – New York Magazine Vulture
“Oddisee dives deep, rapping blistering topical verses over a live band.” – Time Magazine
“A shrewd lyricist and observer, Oddisee has always been steadfast in his quest to expose uncomfortable truths” – NPR Music
“The DC rapper is underrated in every sense of the word and has been one of the most consistent cats to put it down, year in and year out” – Complex
“A scathing indictment of our current political landscape that still manages to sound smooth as f*ck” – Stereogum (on the song “Like Really”)
“One of the most intelligent, lyrically-gifted contemporary rappers” – Brightest Young Things
‘The Iceberg’ is a plea for understanding, an argument that once we peel back the superficial differences, we are not all that different from one another. It’s “art imitating life” says MTV, and a “reflection on the greater state of humanity, in all its beauty and flaws” (NY Magazine).
Read Oddisee’s extensive ‘The Iceberg’ Q&A with Time Magazine here:
http://time.com/4700135/oddisee-iceberg-nnge/
A driveway moment interview with NPR’s Scott Simon:
RAVES FOR ODDISEE AND ‘THE ICEBERG’:
“He deftly uses his own experiences to reflect on the greater state of humanity, in all its beauty and flaws” – New York Magazine Vulture
“A focused beam of live-band and hip-hop soul that rattles loudly in our present political moment” –
Pitchfork
“Snaking narratives and deft lyricism…a wonderful case of art imitating life, Oddisee is bursting with stories, concerns, and lengthy lessons” – MTV
“Oddisee dives deep, rapping blistering topical verses over a live band” – Time Magazine “A shrewd lyricist and observer, Oddisee has always been steadfast in his quest to expose
uncomfortable truths” – NPR Music
“The DC rapper is underrated in every sense of the word and has been one of the most consistent cats
to put it down, year in and year out” – Complex
“One of the most intelligent, lyrically-gifted contemporary rappers” – Brightest Young Things