Izzy Strange - Izzy Duz It @ishestrange

Pennsylvanian emcee Izzy Strange lets lose his first official project of 2018, the 11 track "Izzy Duz It" mixtape.

Thus far, we'd seen two singles birthed prior to the mixtape. The first single, titled "Just Me", found Izzy alongside 2009 XXL Freshman Blu trading lyrics speaking on self-dependence and the need to continue pushing forward no matter what. Sara Fox also contributed to the track with a powerful burst of soul and the chorus. The second release placed Strange on a haunting Nate Fox production named "Halfway Crooks". Mick Jenkins joined Izzy to speak out against half-assing it through life. 

Production comes from a wide assortment of producers that Izzy came across via YouTube but he does however give us a song each from his go-to beatsmiths, Nate and Casa Nada. Also guest starring on the mixtape are Nacho Picasso and Tedy Andres, who appear on the latter half of the presentation. 

"Izzy Duz It" provides a close look at the multifaceted talent of the artist as he goes from storytelling tales to spitting bars and even playing the singer role on "Something I Said" with supporting vocals from Sara. Along with that angle, Izzy's potent poetical penmanship shines brightly on the mixtape. Top highlights of this statement can be found on tracks like "Even A Broken Clock", "The World Can Wait" and "Robert Johnson".

Since his first single from his sophomore album, "A Good Day 2 B The Bad Guy", Strange has made it a point to provide conceptually fueled content that's plays easy on the ear. Though a Hip Hop artist, the east coaster pulls in heavy influence from genres such as blues and jazz. If you were looking for some type of label to attach to "Izzy Duz It" you could call it "thinking man's music". He's not afraid to expose his faults and it's thru that type of fearlessness that makes the mixtape such an incredible project to digest time and time again.

"Izzy Duz It" is now streaming on Soundcloud and YouTube.

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Izzy Strange Ft Mick Jenkins - "Halfway Crooks" (Prod. By Nate Fox) - @ishestrange

Izzy Strange unleashes a barrage of aggressive ammo aimed at anybody thinking of trying to size him up on the Mick Jenkins featured, Halfway Crooks". Over a Halloween-esque production from Grammy Award winner Nate Fox, the pair leave shook crews running, like they're supposed to.

There's no doubt that the Pennsylvania emcee has been working in overtime mode since he began delivering music from his sophomore album, "A Good Day 2 B The Bad Guy".  It's been about 2 years now since that album's first single debuted, a collab track titled "Fall Back" featuring Eligh. Since that time, Izzy has presented songs alongside artists such as Blu, Open Mick Eagle and Mick Jenkins. Strange and Mick collaborated on AGD2BTBG on the jazzy uplifting, "No One But Me", that premiered on HHDX.

On Halloween, Izzy's unleashes his "Izzy Duz It" mixtape that features the duo's second meeting, "Halfway Crooks". Let's be honest, you ought not talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. However, there are many people out there pump faking. More so, you may know one of these falsifiers. On "Halfway Crooks", Strange is in prime form as he snipes away his opponents one by one. Wordplay is extreme as Iz spits:

Izzy Strange, product placement / Where's the payment but be patient / Takes time to be the greatest / I've been studying the ancients, so I can be replacement

Mick Jenkins enters the track at the halfway mark and continues the potent alphabet massacre with lines like:

while the chain still chokes you up / don't chalk it up, to sleep / I'm woke as fuck / was out here in these streets, just broke as fuck / and dodging all police, what they on with us? / on the cusp of something great, you can't relate

Both emcees build up their deliveries as the verses play out, giving us a dual climatic experience thru audio. DJ Halo, who did the cuts for "No Commercials", also returns to put the needle of the record and close the song out and a Hip Hop purist plateau.

Mick Jenkins has a new album coming out on October 26th titled "Pieces of a Man". "Understood" is it's lead single and was produced by KAYTRANDA. Izzy's mixtape, Izzy Duz It", arrives on October 31st and will also feature Blu, Tedy Andreas, Nacho Picasso and Sara Fox. Stay tuned for both projects and definitively make sure to check out the nineties fueled "Halfway Crooks" on Spotify.