Sol Songs
Sol - Dope
For most artists, the creative process includes hibernating in a studio until some real progress is made. While locking himself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers might work for Kanye, Sol prefers to get out...Read More
Sol - Sometime in April
Released in October 2012, Sol‘s last DJBooth feature found the Seattle repper reflecting on the permanent changes his ongoing world travels had wrought on his perspective, making the Old Him a thing of the past. Three...Read More
Sol - Old Him
Even when he’s “8,000 miles from home,” you can count on Sol to hold his fanbase down. Written on the night train to Bangalore, India and recorded in Chennai (while suffering from food poisoning thanks to an...Read More
Sol ft. Ray Dalton - Need Your Love
Being a woman has to be tough. Marketing and advertising firms are working around the clock to make women feel uncomfortable in their own skin and boost sales for their big name clients. Women are assailed by other women, as...Read More
Sol - Be Good or Be Careful
Washington emcee Sol is currently preparing to embark on a nine-month journey across the globe, funded by a Bonderman travel fellowship the artist received as an honors student at the U of W. By way of a goodbye letter to...Read More
Grynch ft. Sol - I’m Good
Sometimes, one little letter can make all the difference. Whereas The Grinch of Christmas-stealing fame is a misanthrope who can’t stand to see others having a good time, Grynch is an eternal optimist who wants nothing...Read More
Sol - Stage Dive
Though 2012 is still so young that, if it were a baby, it’d still be rocking that little umbilical cord stump, Sol‘s not letting a second go to waste. On the contrary, the underground rhymesayer’s jumping...Read More
Wizdom ft. Sol, Luck-One & Grynch - That’s Nice
When a talented emcee like Wizdom gathers up his mic-murderingest colleagues to craft a dope ensemble cut, what is there to say but “For sure, That’s Nice”? (That’s the luxuriant “That’s nice,” of...Read More
Sol - Albert Einstein
What does hip-hop have in common with the study of physics? Well, both are heavily concerned with bodies in motion—and, on a more relevant note, they both take serious smarts to do right. On the Washingtonian...Read More
Kyle Lucas ft. Sol - Let Me In
Knock, knock. “Who’s there?” Kyle Lucas “Kyle Lucas, who?” Kyle Lucas the Atlanta emcee and Vonnegutt frontman, here to tell you more about his personal struggles on a fresh EP leak. OK, so my knock-knock jokes...Read More
Sol ft. Grieves & Budo - The Times
To quote the great philosopher Andy Warhol, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Or, as This Sh*t emcee Sol puts it on his second Booth feature, “We all know that nothing...Read More
Sol - This Sh*t
Regular readers know that I have a propensity towards obscenity, so handing me a song titled This S**t is a pretty f**king solid guarantee that most of this write-up will be scattered with asterisks. F**k it, sometimes you...Read More