Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
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"Slow Burn" by Doomtree
Curated by: Parker Chenoweth
Spotify: bit.ly/SlowBurnDoomtree
Genre: #hiphop
Along with Brother Ali and Atmosphere, Doomtree has been at the forefront of the unique Minneapolis hip hop scene over the last decade. Doomtree is a collective consisting of seven members, 5 rappers and 4 DJ/producers, most of them friends from high school. They are one of the few examples of a functioning and successful grassroots independent hip hop label still standing today. Their music focuses less on the materialistic subject matter featured prominently in mainstream hip hop and often touches on less cliche, more personal topics. Gaining a cult following in the Twin Cities, they’ve helped define a unique sound for a city not typically known this genre.
Hip hop labels or crew albums are much rarer than they should be. I often compare rappers to superheros, each one having different strengths, weaknesses, personalities and a crew or label album is like an The Avengers movies, assembling all the superheros under one roof. The song Slow Burn is off of the 2007 crew label album, False Hopes #12. From Doomtree’s website, they explain, “False Hopes are records that we release to provide new music to our fans and family while we work on “real” albums…” This album is the first to feature the entire Doomtree roster and I would say one of the signature albums as part of that series.
The two featured rappers on Slow Burn are Sims and Mike Mictlan. Sims starts off with the initial verse using metaphors involving nature, my favorite one being “You can’t blame the seed for what the forest taught ‘em”. Mictlan comes in on the second verse swinging with intricate rhymes schemes, making it hard to predict where he will take the song with his flow. The first two verses drop into a poetic chorus with hard hitting horns, “I keep my eyes wide open as I’m allowed…”. Mostly due to the chorus, this song has been on my gym playlist for many years and I would refrain from playing it in the car as it may cause you to instantly accelerate to 100 mph.
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"Slow Burn" by Doomtree
Curated by: Parker Chenoweth
Spotify: bit.ly/SlowBurnDoomtree
Genre: #hiphop
Along with Brother Ali and Atmosphere, Doomtree has been at the forefront of the unique Minneapolis hip hop scene over the last decade. Doomtree is a collective consisting of seven members, 5 rappers and 4 DJ/producers, most of them friends from high school. They are one of the few examples of a functioning and successful grassroots independent hip hop label still standing today. Their music focuses less on the materialistic subject matter featured prominently in mainstream hip hop and often touches on less cliche, more personal topics. Gaining a cult following in the Twin Cities, they’ve helped define a unique sound for a city not typically known this genre.
Hip hop labels or crew albums are much rarer than they should be. I often compare rappers to superheros, each one having different strengths, weaknesses, personalities and a crew or label album is like an The Avengers movies, assembling all the superheros under one roof. The song Slow Burn is off of the 2007 crew label album, False Hopes #12. From Doomtree’s website, they explain, “False Hopes are records that we release to provide new music to our fans and family while we work on “real” albums…” This album is the first to feature the entire Doomtree roster and I would say one of the signature albums as part of that series.
The two featured rappers on Slow Burn are Sims and Mike Mictlan. Sims starts off with the initial verse using metaphors involving nature, my favorite one being “You can’t blame the seed for what the forest taught ‘em”. Mictlan comes in on the second verse swinging with intricate rhymes schemes, making it hard to predict where he will take the song with his flow. The first two verses drop into a poetic chorus with hard hitting horns, “I keep my eyes wide open as I’m allowed…”. Mostly due to the chorus, this song has been on my gym playlist for many years and I would refrain from playing it in the car as it may cause you to instantly accelerate to 100 mph.
