Surprisingly, Main Attrakionz and Green Ova didn’t get their start at underground Oakland venues like East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club or Sugar Mountain - I heard about them from the blog Altered Zones, Pitchfork’s lo-fi baby brother. The collective shares a neighborhood, a personal history and, most importantly, a keen ear for music composition that defies genre classification. The duo belongs to the collective Green Ova, which also includes Dope G, Lolo and Shady Blaze.
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Like the previously mentioned rising artists, Main Attrakionz and their other project Green Ova bypassed big labels and radio hits to get attention, spreading their music through free album downloads and eye-catching music videos.įirst, let’s get the basics down: Main Attrakionz are Squadda B and MondreM.A.N., two 20-year-olds whose raw rap style and psychedelic-dreamland beats (which have been labeled cloud rap) set them apart from the current players of the industry. While acts like Lil B and Kreayshawn have made it out of the Bay and into the international spotlight, somewhere in North Oakland, five long-time friends spend their days holed up in a cramped bedroom - constructing beats, perfecting rhymes and watching their music blow up like fireworks online. Perhaps because of this general dissatisfaction, the past year has seen the rise of many new rappers and producers: Twitter-savvy, genre-crossing pioneers of a new wave of hip-hop, all of whom have barely come of age. The days of ’90s gangsterism have crystallized into tales of legendary producers and MCs hyphy is dead and buried and with a few exceptions, pretty much everyone is sick of the top-40 bullshit.
Virent Ova Viret Perna is yet another Dr. Virent Ova! Viret Perna!! (Green Eggs and Ham in Latin.