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The Video for Lake Oswego Rapper Wynne’s Debut Single Features a Damian Lillard Cameo

“Buzzer” is two minutes of straight bars over a menacing beat supplied by LA’s Aaron Bow and Teddy Walton, a producer on Kendrick Lamar’s “Love.” In the music video, Wynne raps while leaning out of a BMW that’s driving around the industrial Eastside, and in an pink lit room where Lillard just so happens to be hanging out. Lillard also get a reference in one of the song’s final bars: “My city know that lil hommie’s shooting from the three.”

The New Single from Black Belt Eagle Scout Confronts Housing Instability

Black Belt Eagle Scout is the moniker of Portland-based songwriter Katherine Paul. Paul’s last single “Soft Stud”—a yearning anthem that displays Paul’s grunge influences and delicate but bold vocals—got the attention of national outlets like NPR and Pitchfork. On “Just Lie Down,” Paul’s frenzied guitar takes on a meaner growl, and she sings over tense drums. But on the chorus, Paul delivers a gentle respite to the chaos: “Just lie down/Head on the ground/Sky looks blue/Just like you.”
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