LA’s hip-hop vets Dilated Peoples today released their first album in eight years, Directors of Photography.  We’ve had the single from the album, Show Me the Way, on repeat for an embarrassing amount of time this past week.  On this track DP has smartly combined with Seattle’s Jake One to produce the track and hooked into Aloe Blacc for the hooky-chorus.  We love the above-the-morass verses, piano/horn-blaze and everything about it.  Check it out now (below some excerpted verses below), and go get Directors of Photography HERE.

Inspirational Verses:

“The harder the work well the longer the day
Easy may come but it sure don’t stay
Tryin’ to cope, boy I hope and I pray
Show me the way”

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“Ride the wave like the world is a beach
Learn more I teach
I was raised by NWA and stayed CA
All day, same story different briefcase”

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“I’ve been through some pitfalls that knocked me down
Made it through close calls and lost some ground
It’s a hell of a price I pay
Somebody show me the way
Somebody show me the way”

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“On a planet in regression in a loft at the summit
Air is much clearer, catch me on the high road
Some fight to live, others settle for survival
It’s your world, you can write the line you live your life on
It’s heavy but you’re strong just hold on until that light dawns”