19/06/2025
Itâs Juneteenth and we figured what better holiday for us to hit yâall with something for the Day Ones. âď¸â
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Backwoodz Studioz is excited to announce the upcoming release of ELUCIDâs Valley of Grace and Osage on vinyl for the first time! We have pressed both records together as a double EP, in a gatefold jacket, with the original art for each included in the design. There are only 500 units pressed, so this is extremely limited.â
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When itâs all said and done, ELUCID is going to go down as one of the greatest rapper/producers of all time. We know this. We also know that when it comes time to examine his career, his evolutions, his groundbreaking work, his impact, it wonât just be about the big ticket albums and high profile collaborations. To really understand Gutta as an artist, you have to get in the weeds.â
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If you ask us for two under-the-radar records that are essential to the ELUCID canon, we would go with 2016âs Osage and 2017âs Valley of Grace. Both projects are entirely produced by ELUCID (with the exception of âHousekeysâ on Osage, produced by Ohbliv) and as such, are his earliest complete works as a beatmaker. The timing of these two is also crucial, as they bookend his Backwoodz debut album Save Yourself. They also mark the beginning of ELUCIDâs ENY era, when life events upended a comfortable situation in Fort Greene and landed him in an empty East New York row house. Both Osage and Valley of Grace were produced without any label involvement, and as such they highlight an artist following his own instincts and inspirations, without regard to form. The two EPs are not similar; Valley of Grace was created during an extended time spent in South Africa, and Osage is a cathartic communique from the edge of New York Cityâs map. But together they capture a moment, both in linear time and in ELUCIDâs artistic practice, that acknowledges all that came before and sets the stage for everything that follows.â
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STARTS SHIPPING NEXT WEEK!
