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Music: Green Tea – Beautiful Weirdo

While the ‘Beautiful Weirdo Mixtape‘ marks Green Tea’s first appearance on my music radar, she has been on the build for a while opening for acts like Slick Rick, Kindred the Family Soul, Dead Prez, Chuck Brown, Fertile Ground and Anthony David.  She has already put out two LPs ‘Have A Cup Of Green Tea Dosage 1: Shades of Green‘ and ‘Dosage II: Choices‘, efforts I will be exploring off of the back of ‘Beautiful Weido‘.

On first listen two aspects of the music stood out; first GT’s smooth, ambient vocal at times carrying hints of Jill Scott while remaining undoubtedly her own.  Second was the use of Outkast samples, on the opening track Here I Am, Rose Coloured ...