{"id":65300,"date":"2020-10-07T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=65300"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:58:43","slug":"ray-lugar-the-collective-force-paper-chae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/10\/ray-lugar-the-collective-force-paper-chae\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lugar & the Collective Force – ‘Paper Cha$e’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore’s Ray Lugar grew up completely immersed in music, with his father putting a bass guitar in his hands before he was barely big enough to hold it. His mother, a Black Collector’s Hall Of Fame inductee, had got him involved in stage production before he was even 10 years old. Basically, Ray was always going to pursue music as a career, and over time he’s collaborated with some of the best, including GhostFace Killah, Cappadonna, Nice & Smoove’s Smoove B, R&B chart-toppers Ruff Endz, and Dru Hill’s Scola and Jazz.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

His latest venture, The Collective Force, has seen him aligning world renowned artists in both the studio and on stage, and the project stands as a powerful voice for all people. Their most recent single, ‘Paper Cha$e’, sees Ray and The Collective Force share how they believe the current culture of money can and must be changed.<\/p>\n

Ray Lugar & The Collective Force stand at the forefront of the quest to change the world, and they grab their guitars, drumsticks, and microphones on ‘Paper Cha$e’ and roar through with hard arm punk rock tactics – slashing on guitar and bass, and with a sinister riff tearing through the track on repeat. Even the chorus has a slightly wicked vibe, the vocalists sounding ever so slightly like fallen angels, with their taunting melody. The track is a taste of their latest album, ‘Force Of Nature’, which pulls no punches and leaves no stones unturned in their quest to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

The video for ‘Paper Cha$e’, directed by Lugar himself, is a performance clip which captures the band united as one against the forces of evil. Wearing masks of the former US presidents, and rocking it out against a white background, it’s not immediately clear who they’re doing battle with but Lugar explains that it,<\/p>\n

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“was inspired by longtime social and political practices used by society to manipulate the people into the culture of money.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Outside the live show, we see the world of commerce and criminality, working hand in hand. Money changes hands on street corners with a certain amount of stealth, while law abiding citizens go about their business; meanwhile men dressed in Scream hoods rob people down the barrels of their guns. It’s all part of the whole however – it’s just one big ‘Paper Cha$e’.<\/p>\n

Find Ray Lugar & The Collective Force online on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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