Refinement.
Poetic
Boom-Bap nuanced with fly elegance. For The Fly & Thee
Enlightened.
Born and raised in Hagerstown MD, in the middle of everything
unexpected, one of the most lyrically inclined MC's that you've never
heard of raises his flag. Elements of great flicks (like the character
of the kid from that movie Fresh), layers of knowledge &
literature, The 48 Laws of Power, The Alchemist, and every book ever
written by Malcolm Gladwell all dwell within the soul of what seems to
be the child hip-hop doesn't even know it birthed. This is how Wu
t-shirts end up standing behind podiums and how Nas's army jacket from
It Ain't Hard To Tell is found in business schools around America. How
the hood gets introduced to that fly shit. And how the world comes to
see that there's more to these rappers than meets the eye. The Fly
& Thee Enlightened x TheGreaterGood...
"Hiding
In Plain Sight is laced with soulful samples, intricate wordplay, and
thought piercing yet accessible content and songs. A nine song (37min)
journey through ideals vs. reality, moving onward, letting go of what
isn't for the possibility of what could be, and what that means. A
journey through past life and the growth that comes afterwards.
Evolution from the block to books, and from books to questions. The
dismantling of boxes and bullshit definitions of what faith is. Love
lost and the hopes for it's return. This is two years and two
heartbreaks in the making. One giant leap to leave behind loved ones
and all I've ever know to go somewhere I've never been. Stepping away
from comfort. Leaving the typical, the naysayers, and the chatter
behind to grow into my own man. The awakening of the mind, the closing
of my two eyes, and the opening of my third to see what's real and
what's not. Gracefully learning to let go. Graveyard shifts in a
warehouse, Uber driving through the city for studio money, way more
craft beer than any one man should ever consume, beautiful moments,
lonely nights, beautiful women, road trips with the homies, more firsts
than all of my previous years combined, mistakes, painful lessons,
wisdom acquired, and some of the dopest music I've ever made in my
life. Enjoy..."
- Maurice Daniel
