MP3: The Outfit, TX – “Wild Turkey”

After Hitting the Road With Run the Jewels On the Red Bull Sound Select Tour in 2014, The Outfit, TX Debut New Single via Complex

04.22.2015

Critical Praise for The Outfit, TX:

“The Outfit, TX is… mixing Texan traditions with a wide range of influences from New Wave to punk to vintage boom-bap.” – Noisey

“…the best thing in rap today that nobody is talking about yet.” – MTV Hive

“…positively perfect.” – Complex

“The Outfit, TX is one of the best rap groups in Texas.” – PassionWeiss

“This is definitely a song I’d like to hear blasting out of a car.” – EARMILK

“Restrained but intricate screw-meets-funk delivery.” – The FADER

The Song:

After hitting the road with Run the Jewels on a Red Bull Sound Select tour during the 4th quarter of 2014, Dallas-via-Houston trio The Outfit, TX are back with their first release of 2015, “Wild Turkey.” Debuted by Complex, “Wild Turkey” is an ode to the Kentucky bourbon with The Outfit, TX delivering amped-up bars and melodies over a menacing beat. It only takes a 2 or 3 drinks of Wild Turkey 101 to be sauced up. That, in addition to it being cost efficient, is how the Kentucky-made bourbon became “one of those ol’ country staples,” explained The Outfit, TX rapper/producer Mel to Complex. “My PawPaw (Grandfather) put me on to Wild Turkey. He’s a retired truck driver, and Wild Turkey was his liquor of choice that he took with him on the rigs.”

“Wild Turkey” exists as an illustrative piece, detailing an evening and a sentiment that any young “whippa-snappa” going hard and living life to the fullest can attest to. “Gotcha dawg with you? Check. Gotcha full cup of that 101 Proof? Check. Gotcha 2 finely brushed wild mares with you? Check. Got enough weed for the entire night? Check. Now the only question remaining is ‘WHERE WE MOBBIN TO?'”

The Outfit, TX is rapper/producer Mel, rapper JayHawk, and rapper/producer Dorian. “Wild Turkey” features raps from Mel and JayHawk, and is the first single from their forthcoming album. The album is the Texas trio’s follow-up to 2013’s Cognac/Four Corner Room, which was a double album – Cognachighlighting rap and production by Mel and Four Corner Room highlighting rap and production from Dorian. The project landed the group an interview with NPR’s Microphone Check and earned them a spot in SPIN’s Best New Artists feature.

Listen to “Wild Turkey”: https://soundcloud.com/theoutfittx/wild-turkey

Check out the Complex premiere: http://www.complex.com/music/2015/04/the-outfit-tx-new-song-premiere-wild-turkey

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The Outfit, TX Background:

Born and raised in Dallas, producers and rappers Dorian, JayHawk, and Mel make up the hip-hop band The Outfit, TX. After forming while in school at University of Houston in 2006, they returned to Dallas to continue to work on their patented brand of “Cooly Fooly Space Age Funk.” Individually, each has their own respective sound and together, they expertly blend their unabashed Southern credo of smooth synth bass, moogs, 808s and synthesizers.

TOTX has performed with the likes of J. Cole, Wiz Khalifa, The Clipse, and Kendrick Lamar. They headlined their first sold out show at Warehouse Live in Houston, TX in March 2013, then hit the road, performing at several music festivals including A3C’s “Best in Texas” Showcase, and Spune’s Index Fest in Dallas, TX. The future holds much more for the three Southern gentlemen that comprise The Outfit,TX, who recently relocated back to Dallas from Houston. They might have put it best, describing their artistry as “one small step for Texas, one giant leap for Southern kind.”