Shot and directed by Art Morera, Mynd Over Mayhem: The South Central Thynk Taynk Story explores the origins of Abstract Tribe Unique, Project Blowed, and the surrounding world of LA’s underground hip-hop scene, centering the legacy of the album South Central Thynk Taynk and its lasting impact
Featuring (in order of appearance): Abstract Rude, Zulu Butterfly, Fat Jack, Myka 9, Ben Caldwell, Aceyalone, Eyedea
Lyrics:
Yo I be getting lit, sitting back listening to Sun Ra
Early George Benson on down to Hampton Hawes
Steve Kuhn, George Cables on the Fender Rhodes
Cedar Walton and Herbie Hancock drop the heavy load
Gene Harris and the Three Sounds for soul-jazz listeners
Bobby Hutcherson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver, (“Bill Evans”) to Terry Gibbs
On the vibe Gary Burton and album archives like Donald Byrd
George Duke and Lee Morgan
Shirley Scott, Groove Holmes and Jimmy Smith up on the organ
Gene Russell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Innovators like Michael White push out the Cal Tjader
Classic shit like Weather Report or Max Roach
Laid back like Freddie Hubbard trumpet notes
Cannonball Adderley, Eddie Harris, Milt Jackson
Like Ron Carter’s basslines will beat you like a backspin
Yeah, like a backspin
Jazz
We got the jazz my man
Yo
Yo, who’s got skills like Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Or conduct like William Fisher, go to work with the swisher
Bumpin’ John Coltrane up in my headphones
Gary Bartz, Mister Rub produce Lovetones
Even Kool and the Gang got jazz for that ass
Modern Jazz Quartet always got the A class
Johnny Hammond met Carl Saunders
Paul Bley, Thelonious Monk and Norman Connors
Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner
Dizzy Gillespie is presented by Don Sebesky
I be cranking mad jazz, got mad stacks of cool-out
You know we pull the smoke tool out
I give props to Blue Note and Black Jazz
Impulse, CTI Records and Plusga
Verve to Milestone, Atlantic and Muse
There’s plenty more that I could name but ya’ll won’t put them to use
TAYDOE Productions
Director: Alexander Suvorov
Executive Producer: Dontay “Taydoe” Kidd
DOP: Alexander Suvorov
Edited and directed by Alexander Suvorov
Producer: Bogdan Tsivilyuk
Backstage operator: Sergey Ivanov
Script Supervisor: Ilya Sin
Lighting: L.A. Assistance
Founder and Gaffer: Sergey Ivanov
Lighting designer: Sergey Starostin
Gaffer: Tikhonova Alina
Lighting assistants: Evgeny Gridin and Alexey Gridin
Coordinator: Nakonechnaya Maria
Sound on the playground: Andrey Kuznetsov and Artyom Malakhin
Location: BONKERS Studio
Stylists: Alexandra Tarverdyan and Elina Volkova
Stylist asst: Elena Buyukli
Makeup artist: Anastasiya Abbasova
AI artist: Ushakova Ekaterina
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