TRACKLIST
Saylo
Can’t Take the Hood to Heaven
Attack of the Dreadlocks (feat. Rae Khalil)
Lynn’s Lullaby (Interlude)
Brownskin Cinnamon
Grey Seas (feat. Reaper Mook)
Cowboy Leather (feat. Pink Siifu)
Overseas Sam
Bullets from a Butterfly
Pearly Gates Playlist
Things Grandma Told Me
Bygones
Lagonda (feat. Goya Gumbani)
The Card Players (feat. Jayellz)
When I Met Rose
DESCRIPTION
-Cream & Orange Splatter vinyl, limited to 300 copies.
-First LP with drink sum wtr, which follows the digital EP ‘Afros in The Wind’ released in 2023 on drink sum wtr.
-The album includes features by Pink Siifu, Goya Gumbani, Rae Khalil, Reaper Mook, and Jayellz.
-First three singles “Can’t Take the Hood to Heaven”, "Saylo", and “Pearly Gates Playlist” total over 120,000 streams on Spotify.
Seafood Sam is a futuristic artifact. If that description might sound confusing at first, it matches the eclectic dualities found in true originals. With his effortless cool and timeless style, the North Long Beach native defies convention and exact comparison. He’s a virtuosic rapper, a stop-you-in-your tracks singer, and a symphonic producer. Welcome to the lavish life of a laid-back transcontinental man of mystery, rolling in old school Cadillacs, eating caviar with a blade in his pocket, and making plays in vintage Pelle Pelle gear. A blaxploitation icon for the Instagram age, blessed with the bars of a ‘90s legend and 23rd century swagger. Seafood Sam is a true hero of modernity.
On his full-length album debut for up-and-coming label drink sum wtr (Kari Faux, Deem Spencer, Aja Monet) debut, Standing on Giant Shoulders, Sam splits the difference between Snoop Dogg and D’ Angelo, Curren$y and David Ruffin. The songs reveal a forward-thinking sensibility rooted in ancestral soul. He creates spiritual hymns for the streets that tap into universal ideals and irrepressible groove. In an era plagued by short-term thinking, his ambitions reveal a crate-digging depth of music history and a meticulous ear for detail.
The giant shoulders in the album’s title refer to James Brown, Bobby Brown, and Miles Davis – the holy trinity who inspired Sam’s process. From the Godfather of Soul, Sam took a perfectionist’s rigor and focus. The example of Bobby Brown lent an unshakeable confidence and self-belief. While the constant artistic left turns of the trumpeter that birthed Cool offered an aspirational archetype.
Standing on Giant Shoulders is the evidence of a master, a young sensei in the model of Quincy Jones. All rhymes, singing, production, and arrangements were handled by Sam – with an assist from his close Long Beach kinsman Tom Kendall from the group Soular System. It’s hard-edged and lyrical enough for disciples of Larry June and Roc Marciano, but orchestral and melodic enough for fans of Anderson .Paak and H.E.R.