MC Yogi – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
I’m proud of this one. I created this track from some samples from an awesome act I’d recently recorded, The Ebb & Flow Possibility Show, with Evan McGown on the upright bass and Andrew Reissiger on the nylon (Bronkar Lee beatboxes on the original).
This track was birthed in a few hours and Yogi had some very inspiring words that he finessed into some powerful verses. We then poured through Obama speeches on YouTube and found the most inspiring one to be his speech at the DNC in ’04. At the same time, White Swan was preparing to print 10,000 of them for the DNC in Denver. I ended up scratching excerpts from Obama’s speech (which eerily fit into 16 bar phrases and at times sounds like he’s rapping too).