The Third single of "Groove In Downtown" and their self titled album is actually an A-side single which brings the two tracks featuring Liyah, the hip hop singer worked with the duo in the pop track 'Dope' and the underground electronic music 'Free Spirit', both tracks are going to be released, but in different markets, the first one 'Dope' was sent to radio stations and streaming meanwhile 'Free Spirit' will be available digitally and streaming but also it will be promoted by a variety of DJs who are remixing the track and playing it on their sets.
There is a short film to promote the track, this short film features three songs, the last single with Kidd Amaze and the other two tracks released in this A-side single. The film will premiere next Sunday on MTV Hits. 'Groove In Downtown is currently touring the world.

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Song: Dope
Writer(s): Drake Anton Zaslavsky, Nate Alexander, Liyah, Lilly Stuart, ElectroLightz
Producer(s): Groove in Downtown, ElectroLightz
Genre: Electronic, electropop
Length: 3:31
Vocals: Liyah

Production and Songwriting

‘Dope’ is an up-tempo electronic and electropop song. It is accompanied by a New Wave-inspired beat and incorporates dance synthesizers and a bass line, it is reminiscent of music from the 1980s. Liyah’s vocals were extremely well produced and are no doubt the highlight of this track adding so much personality and irony to the acid lines. The verses of the track are performed in two forms, most of the part Lyiah speaks the lines as if she was thinking loud but as the pre-choruses and choruses of the track arrive, she let her R&B vocals shine over the new wave beats of the track.
This track is the most mainstream of the entire album, don’t mind if it will be choose to become a single. The synth beats and bass line altogether with the drums are fun, groove, and witty, there’s additional backing vocals performed by Nate Alexander but Liyah is the main vocalist of the track. This is also the first time we hear a track that Liyah sung produced by Drake, after the reports of them working together last year.
The lyrics might take some media coverage due to its controversy. It’s another character driven track. The subject of music is on his/her day off work at home, suspecting smoking weed, so this character is basically singing about typically lazy day with marijuana until someone calls the police and the chorus of the track comes to be the conversation this character is having with the officers in an attempt to not get arrested. Despite the track might sound fun and silly, it has a deeper meaning of a social criticism which might be respect other people by not disturbing the public order. Acid rhymes remember the lyrics Lilly Stuart used to do with ElectroDeath, but Liyah, Drake and Nate took part on the writing as well and even the producers trio ElectroLightz which clearly leave their mark in the production of the track, just take a listen to the synth beats of the track and you’ll perceive their signature electropop influence. Even though the controversy the lyrics of this track might cause in the more conservative people, the incredibly catchy chorus will infect you making you sing it along for quite a long time.

Lyrics

(Dope)

I’ll sing ‘bout loitering
‘cause I feel like doin’ nothin’
If I put my hands inside my pants
Just cause I’m horny singin’ this verse

I’m just kiddin’, but what’s the matter
If I want to lay down all day and sleep
‘Cause ain’t nothin’ better
Than thinkin’ ‘bout nothin’, hidin’ in my shelter
But I hear screams outside, oh now the cops arrived

Sir, this smoke don’t come out of my mouth
(eyes drops, drops, to disguise the red eyes)
Sir, this small three belongs to my grandma
(eyes drops, drops, to disguise the red eyes)
Don’t think I have dope, just cause I’m stoned
I just got a free day from a temporary job I got yesterday
Sir, don’t arrest me, misunderstood me
‘cause I felt like spendin’ day and doin’ nothin’


(Dope)

Brought the hookah, this room’s fog
It leaves me in the best mood, no worries to disturb my laugh
Red eyes staring the window, my neighbor smelled the weed
Oh no that crappy bitch! She called the police

Sir, this smoke don’t come out of my mouth
(eyes drops, drops, to disguise the red eyes)
Sir, this small three belongs to my grandma
(eyes drops, drops, to disguise the red eyes)
Don’t think I have dope, just cause I’m stoned
I just got a free day from a temporary job I got yesterday
Sir, don’t arrest me, misunderstood me
‘cause I felt like spendin’ day and doin’ nothin’

(Dope)

Don’t think I have dope, just cause I’m stoned
I just got a free day from a temporary job I got yesterday
Sir, don’t arrest me, misunderstood me
‘cause I felt like spendin’ day and doin’ nothin’

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Song: Free Spirit
Writer(s): Drake Anton Zaslavsky, Nate Alexander, Lyiah, The Vibrator
Producer(s): Groove in Downtown, The Vibrator
Genre: Alternative Electronic Music, Techno House
Length: 6:20
Featuring Vocals: Liyah

Production and Songwriting

Percussion, bass and harmonies introduces this track in a very soulful way. During this first half minute of the track the Techno influence of this song is already being incorporated on it with electronic elements and ambient sounds, soon as the drumming kicks in, Liyah performs the first verse of the track with R&B vocals. The track is building up its own full shape as Lyiah sings the lines other elements are added to the main structure of the track till it progressively builds to a techno turn while Liyah’s vocals are used with other harmonies and effects until it breaks into a Techno House beat with drumming, bass and synths.
One minute and a half into the track and it already transformed into a dance alternative club hit. Drake and The Vibrator used freestyle turntable synth beats and other distortions and elements to make the sound fluid and fresh, even though there’s a remarkable drum and bass base on the background of the track setting the tempo for it. That’s when the alternative electronic music influence appears, in this switching of elements and effects used above the techno house base, what is actually even better is the fact that the soulful tone of the first verse of this track is still within this complex mixture of beats.
After two minutes and a half slowly the song resumes to its introduction melodies, for that the DJs kept the drumming but started to resume the other elements into ambient sounds, vocals harmonies and effects such as echoes and synthesizers, a little further Nate Alexander keeping the same soulful tone to his voice sings the second verse of the track. His singing ends in a half turn moment of the track where it seemed that another breakdown would come, but in fact the DJs decided to literally resume the track to a atmospheric and sensorial breakdown before they release the tech house beats. This sensorial moment is composed of ambient sounds and another verse performed by Lyiah, this being the very last singing part of the track. Right after this break come the techno house beats, just like before. For the rest of the track its drum, bass and freestyle DJ until the track fades.
Lyrically it is the only ‘love’ themed song of the entire album. It is clearly talking about the end of a relationship and the person noticing someone that it cannot be trapped into any form of censorship or behavior because of its ‘free spirit’. It also reveals that this character suffered a betrayal and hurting this person encourages itself to move on and to be far away from that abusive relationship. In the end its revealed that there’s a good chance for this person to love again, because it has not lost hope in love.
Finally reaching the end of the album, the dense and heavy beats for clubs seem to be the objective with this few three last tracks, obviously we already heard ‘can I exist’ and comparing it to this one, it’s clearly perceived the heavy bass that both has, Groove in Downtown will end this album groovier than anything.

Lyrics

If you walk out that door, make sure it’s all over
‘Cause I'm not accepting you back, no more
The days of loneliness won’t last, no longer
You cannot redeem of your infamous sins
You cannot stop a spirits who’s free

I’m a free spirit, I’m a free spirit
I’m a free spirit…

Free, free, free

Far away as I may go you cannot reach me
There won’t be trails for you to follow me
This is the voice of my heart speaking through me
The years of repression were so long ago
I’m finally brave to face what’s unknown

I’m a free spirit, I’m a free spirit
I’m a free spirit…
I say what I want
With all the air in my lungs
I’m a free spirit…

I don’t care the atrocities of human attitudes
I know how people can be mean, and terribly cruel
I’ve been told this, ever since I was born
And scars of your harms made me strong like stone
While I kept in my heart pulsating blood
I didn’t give up on love…

But yet, I’m a free spirit…
Free, free, free

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Groove In Downtown Featuring Kidd Amaze
Song: “Without A Cause”
Album: Groove In Downtown
Directed by: Tony Petrossian
Studio 60

Before the video starts, Drake appears in a black background and say some words...

"All the children in this video are actors and any violent representation is just for entertaining as criticism to what really happens in the world with children and their education, Groove In Downtown has donated all the funds received from the royalties of this single to children's causes. Sorry for the late post of this video"



In a kindergarten a teacher (Kidd Amaze) is sited in the middle of a circle with his students surrounding him, kids average age of 5 and 6 years old. The classroom has newspaper printed on the walls, despite the childish style of the furniture, the news on the newspapers posted on the walls are quite tragic, hungry African kids, terrorism, homophobia and a lot of other issues receive some close ups of the camera, but they are short, it’s quite impossible to read them except their tittles, while all of this is filmed, the track already started out. Kidd in the middle of that circle coordinates his students as a maestro, so they start to sing the chorus of the track. After one or two lines sung, the scene shifts to the kids taking weapons such as slings, water guns, rainbow arrows plastic and other toys simulating weapons, this scene happens the same time the kids group themselves as if they were some sort of Army, Kidd Amaze seem to be their general.
The song keeps going with its first part which are, the kids singing the chorus of the track getting ready to fight, the scene is very atypical, Kidd looks like a kid in an adult body, he seems to enjoy the experience of the video, moments before he starts his rap, the kids get out of their classroom and the plan to dominate the school starts. For the following scenes, Kidd appears singing in the same classroom he left with his students, but he’s alone, this scene is interchanged with the domination scene and the domination scenes are somehow violent.
The first place to be dominated is the principal’s room, the army of students arrives in front of the door, while Kidd is behind them rapping, they call the principal out of his office, but the man didn’t come out, obviously he’s afraid inside his room holding a briefcase with the student profiles. The students place some bubble guns in the door of the principal office, they take some steps backwards and one little girl faking she’s holding some sort of detonator, gives an evil smile and “press” the imaginary button. The explosion happens, the door is blown up as if the bubble guns were real bombs, and the students kidnap the principal and take him to the cafeteria.
On the cafeteria, other teachers of the school are tied in the middle of the room above one lunch table, all the army of students are surrounding them, in another table there are a group of students wearing adult clothes, one of them seems to be a judge, other two are lawyers, the scene is very hilarious, some sort of trial is happening, the lawyers are also showing a bunch of hilarious evidences of the teachers crimes, such as pictures of them sleeping on the classrooms, practicing abuse of power, bias and etc… The trial seems to end negatively to the teachers and the principal.
While the judge reads the sentence, Kidd Amaze enters the room as the executor; he shows a place in the corner of the cafeteria where there are seven desks, each one with the name of each teacher, these desks simulates electric chairs and they are connected to some wires that leads to a control held by Kidd Amaze, while he is finishing his rapping, the teachers sit on their respective chairs, he gives an evil look to the camera and press the button, but instead of frying the teachers, confetti are thrown over their heads, the whole students starts to cheer and so Kidd.

Having released three singles of their self-titled album, Groove in Downtown released the fourth and final single of it, especially for airplay clubs and digital markets. The song "Substitute Love" was being one of the most played tracks of the duo on clubs and electronic music festival around the world since it was released in January of this year. Drake and Nate will end the promotion of their debut album in August, they also say that after the tour ends, they'll take a break, where Drake is going to focus on his solo career, but certainly they intend to comeback with Groove in Downtown in one year of two. As for now, you can download or ask the track for your favorite DJ to play it as many times it pleases you.



Song: Substitute Love
Writer(s): Drake Anton Zaslavsky, Nate Alexander, Lilly Stuart, The Vibrator
Producer(s): Groove in Downtown, The Vibrator
Genre: G-House, Nu Disco
Length: 5:53

Production and Songwriting

Kicking off with heavy kick drum , this new disco track was made to put its listeners to dance. Seconds inside the track there’s a low key bass line adding a house element to the disco drums, keeping a progressively growth, synth beats break in the track setting a hip hop mood to the track transforming it into a G-House smash. Nate gives his best vocal performance of the entire record, there are not so much effects on his voice and Drake knew what he was doing by letting Nate’s clean falsettos shine over that choruses.
Despite its heavy dance approach, this track can really be a radio hit as well, the structure is much alike any other hip hop or R&B track that’s on the airplay, but this one doesn’t sound predictably because e of the house elements it has. Backing vocals are also performed by Nate and during the verses of the track there’s a surf rock guitar riff which totally makes the difference adding such funk style to its dance melodies.
After the second verse the song has a hook moment where Nate vocalizes, this structure is much alike to pop tracks, that’s obviously the big commercial appeal of this song, later comes another verse and a freestyle singing pre-chorus, all this elements make this track unusual and pleasant the same time, it has a sense of style that will make people bounce on the dance-floor. The highlight of this track is undeniably the vocal performance by Nate, he sounds sexy and appealing. To end the track Drake and The Vibrator decided to make it progressively lower and slower till the only element playing is the bass and in a sudden it fades away.
It seems that these last two tracks of the album will be talking about the anxiety and mysteries of the human mind. The identity crisis in this track is almost the same talked about in ‘Can I Exist’ but here we have a discussion on where is the good of mankind, because it seems that nature has its beautiful places and even among the bad things the good can always appear. Through this search of happiness there’s the failure of human beings to substitute love in their own ways, like doing drugs or anything like that, there’s a deep message of overcoming sadness and hardness in this track, smartly written.
Like we analyzed before the album is walking to end in dense hardcore house beats, even though they all have their own particularity sounding unique due to a bunch of mixing and weird sounds that work properly, Groove in Downtown has only a single common thread among these music which is the groove and the opportunity for its fans to bounce in high gangsta hip hop style.


Lyrics

A flower
Sprout amidst the trash
The rain
Washed away its petals
It can mean anything
It may even go unnoticed
But it makes me wonder
Simple things are life’s wonders

Substitute love
Living on days of fun
My substitute love
No sweet but bitter
The void inside
Grows each time
This troubled life
Darkens my bright side

In the middle of the dross one naked man of his hatred
Asking a penny
While walkers passing by wearing their suit and ties
No one looks aside
No one can see after its own pride
No one can help him
He was deceived by greater lies

Substitute love
Living on days of fun
My substitute love
No sweet but bitter
The void inside
Grows each time
This troubled life
Darkens my bright side

Ohh Ohh Ohh
Substitute Love
Ohh ohh ohhh

Along the way (Hey)
The beginning became his last attempt
In the fatigue of trying
He decided to give up on two horizontal lines
“Hey this is not the way…”
“My friend, It’s not the best way out!”
“Surrender, won’t bring you the answer”
“For your heart”
That was said
By “the liar”
He was lost

Substitute love
Living on days of fun
My substitute love
No sweet but bitter
The void inside
Grows each time
This troubled life
Darkens my bright side

Substitute love
Substitute love
Substitute love
Substitute love
Substitute love
Substitute love
Substitute love

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