BY JACOB "34" KOERTGE • MAY 4, 2019

After meeting in the early 2000s, Los Angeles, California MC Blu and fellow native producer Exile recorded and released their first studio album in 2007 with the critically acclaimed, Below The Heavens. One album (2012’s Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them) and a decade after, Blu and Exile collected a stack of unreleased singles and B-sides with their most recent release, In The Beginning: Before The Heavens. That is not where this incredible chemistry ends though.

Blu and Exile have officially reunited with their latest single, “True & Livin.” Over Exile’s soulfully scratched boom-bap instrumental, Johnson Barnes dives into familiar territory with slick vibrations, “There’s something you call spectacular out of this freaking world / The most common denominator between boy and girl / The highest set of standards that’s ever been established/ Redistributed to the masses for your satisfaction / We only come in peace to preach about the next comin’ / The first Black President, what if the next is a woman?”

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