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Images courtesy of Discogs, Acclaim Magazine, Our Generation Music, Lil Shine Youtube, and adamwieczorek Soundcloud By Oliviero Zanalda If you've ever been on the internet, you've stumbled across a song that is so interesting, so obscure, and so good that you try to show it to your friends and they, well, think it sucks (definitely not derived from personal experience). The internet is full of "bad" music, but music is subjective. In this article, I share 5 songs that I discovered through countless hours of scouring YouTube and SoundCloud. All 5 of these songs are unique, yet share something in common, the use of the internet to gain traction. These could be the best or worst songs you've ever heard. You might love these songs, and you might hate them. Nevertheless, I think there's ...

Seiji Oda is a rapper, singer/songwriter, and producer from Oakland, California. He began producing and creating music in high school. His big break hit when Seiji and his brother Nathaniel, or Lil Ricefield, released their viral hit “Trapanese,” a song that poked fun at asian stereotypes and referenced countless anime and other Japanese pop culture over a Seiji-produced beat. The song was remixed by local Bay Area rappers Daboii and Cash Kidd. But Seiji isn’t only an incredible producer, he can rap, sing, and songwrite just as well. In the past few years, he has worked heavily on his solo work, releasing one of my favorite albums of this year, lofi//HYPHY, an album that combines the two genres, the former being known for it’s chiller production and the latter known for its da...

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