This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to Patsy Cline, Leonard Cohen to Phife Dawg, Amy Winehousue to Jim Morrison and 2Pac to Billie Holiday.
What I like as with the Kleptones albums is the attention to detail, the spoken word and news samples, the linking parts, this isn’t some throwaway hip-hop blend mixtape, a lot of care has been taken here to mix styles and genres, and say something deeper.
Here’s a short list:
“The Dead Poets Society includes:
2Pac, Biggie, Jimi Hendrix, Mac Miller, Kurt Cobain, Phife Dawg, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Eazy-E, Freddy Mercury, Bob Marley, Patsy Cline, Big Pun, Amy Winehouse, J-Dilla, Nipsey Hussle, Townes Van Zandt, MCA, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Left Eye, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Guru, Bill Hicks, Heavy D, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Sean Price, Havoc, Bradley Nowell, Big L, Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, Pop Smoke, Old Dirty Bastard, Leonard Cohen, Proof, Robin Williams, Nick Drake, Juice Wrld, Eyedea, Pimp C, Aaliyah , Mama Cass, Tom Petty, Michael Hutchence, Richard Pryor, Gord Downie, Little Walter, Sam Kinison, Chris Cornell, Hank Williams, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith and.. more”
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