Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra Creates A Nipsey Hussle Tribute

 
orc.jpg

Meet Taiwanese-Australian musician and activist Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra. Matt Hsu continues to work with remarkable artists and create valuable and impactful pieces. This track pays homage to Nipsey Hussle who was an incredibly influential community leader and rap luminary.

Last Time That I Checc’d (Nipsey Hussle Tribute) highlights a variety of artists from First Nations, Sikh, Zimbabwean, Egyptian and Taiwanese backgrounds, featuring local hip-hop stars alongside new voices. Matt Hsu commented that he sought out bold voices in the Australian artist community. He wanted to find people who he felt carried the flame of Nipsey’s independent spirit and community-minded thinking. Take some time to enjoy streaming Last Time That I Checc’d (Nipsey Hussle Tribute) and get your body moving.

TRENDING NOW

Featured
Jonah Roth’s “C’mon Love” Lets Warmth Back In After a Difficult Season
Jonah Roth’s “C’mon Love” Lets Warmth Back In After a Difficult Season

Jonah Roth’s “C’mon Love” is shaped like an open window after a difficult season, letting warmth back into a room that still remembers the cold. The USA artist builds this feel-good alt-pop single from heartbreak…

Read more →
David Wimbish & The Collection’s “Sermon” Finds Freedom Beyond Inherited Rules
David Wimbish & The Collection’s “Sermon” Finds Freedom Beyond Inherited Rules

A choir does not always need a cathedral; sometimes it only needs a room full of people brave enough to clap in time. With “Sermon,” David Wimbish & The Collection deliver a feel-good indie folk single that turns personal rebellion into communal warmth. The song is rooted in coming-of-age memory, shaped by the tension…

Read more →
dee holt Turns Uncertainty Into a Poised Indie-Pop Meditation on “figure it out”
dee holt Turns Uncertainty Into a Poised Indie-Pop Meditation on “figure it out”

A compass is most honest when it trembles before choosing north. With “figure it out,” Canadian indie-pop artist dee holt returns with a melancholic yet quietly soothing single that treats uncertainty not as failure, but as a necessary interior weather….

Read more →
With Her latest single “Ugly Heart,” Noble Makes Leaving Feel Like an Act of Healing
With Her latest single “Ugly Heart,” Noble Makes Leaving Feel Like an Act of Healing

A flower does not argue with the hand that bruises it; eventually, it turns toward kinder weather. With “Ugly Heart,” Australian artist Noble crafts a soulful folk pop single about that precise moment of recognition, when affection gives way to clarity and staying begins to feel like self-betrayal. The song moves with a mellow, laidback temperament, but…

Read more →
Canadian Artist Matt Storm Pushes His Warm Alternative R&B Sound Into Unsettled Territory on “system breaks”
Canadian Artist Matt Storm Pushes His Warm Alternative R&B Sound Into Unsettled Territory on “system breaks”

Matt Storm’s latest single “system breaks” breathes like alternative R&B with a quiet burn, carrying the familiar warmth of his sound while pushing it into more unsettled territory. The Canadian artist builds the track around layered acoustic and electric guitar riffs, with fingerpicked patterns giving the song a handmade pulse before the wider textures begin to blur the…

Read more →
Canadian Artist TEHYA Builds a Piano-Led Breakout Moment With “It’s You”
Canadian Artist TEHYA Builds a Piano-Led Breakout Moment With “It’s You”

TEHYA’s “It’s You” is a delicate alternative pop single that turns restraint into its sharpest emotional tool. The Canadian artist frames the song around an unspoken love for a best friend who is getting engaged, creating a story that feels intimate without becoming…

Read more →
With “jAGUAR,” Cloudy June Makes Nostalgia Feel Stylish, Intimate, and Revealing
With “jAGUAR,” Cloudy June Makes Nostalgia Feel Stylish, Intimate, and Revealing

Cloudy June’s “jAGUAR” is built like a small room with the door left open: intimate in origin, but charged with the faint electricity of a much larger stage. The German artist’s third self-produced release sharpens her pop rock and alternative pop instincts into something raw, reflective, and quietly magnetic. Written from a place…

Read more →
Dominic Donner’s “smoke. burn. run.” Finds Clarity Inside Exhaustion and Escape
Dominic Donner’s “smoke. burn. run.” Finds Clarity Inside Exhaustion and Escape

Dominic Donner’s “smoke. burn. run.” is a laidback alternative pop single with a bruised emotional pulse. The German artist and producer, originally from rural Brandenburg and now based in Potsdam, frames the track around sultry, raspy vocals that feel close to the microphone and heavy with aftermath. Lofi guitar riffs give the song…

Read more →
Ayola’s “Bout U” Feat. Amakah Blends Yoruba Roots, Canadian R&B, and Open-Road Intimacy
Ayola’s “Bout U” Feat. Amakah Blends Yoruba Roots, Canadian R&B, and Open-Road Intimacy

Ayola’s “Bout U” is a soulful Afro Soul duet that opens with poignant guitar riffs carrying a subtle Folk and soul influence, giving the track an immediate sense of distance, ache, and open-road intimacy. Featuring Amakah, the single grows from…

Read more →
Mathias Julin’s “Where We Are” Finds Young Love Outside the Rules of Social Performance
Mathias Julin’s “Where We Are” Finds Young Love Outside the Rules of Social Performance

Mathias Julin’s “Where We Are” is a clean, emotionally direct alt-pop single that turns romantic escape into something quietly defiant. The USA artist builds the song around two people who feel out of place in a room obsessed with image, status, and social performance…

Read more →
 

CONNECT WITH US

Submit Music

FEATURED

Featured
Discovery: Five (5) Singles To Enlighten Your Week-end
Discovery: Five (5) Singles To Enlighten Your Week-end
Discoveries Of The Month.
Discoveries Of The Month.
Discoveries Of March 2020
Discoveries Of March 2020
Top February Discoveries
Top February Discoveries
10 Canadian Songs To Discover This Week—End
10 Canadian Songs To Discover This Week—End
Hip-Hop, Written By Samme G.Sam Gainesuraniumwaves, Uranium Music, Uranium Waves, Uranium Weekly, Uranium music, uwaves music, canada music, canada artists, canada blog, Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, L-FRESH The LION, Nardean, Mack Ridge, Sachém, Blaq Carrie, SOL CHLD, Music Discovery BlogComment