{"id":66109,"date":"2020-11-16T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66109"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:40:41","slug":"de-royce-x-jay-dutch-x-biig-dreams-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/11\/de-royce-x-jay-dutch-x-biig-dreams-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"De Royce x Jay Dutch x Biig Dreams &#8211; &#8216;Groove&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Queens-based vocalist De Royce, with his confident, sweet, soulful, and subtle sound, is joined on his latest single, &#8216;Groove&#8217;, by two New Yorker emcees &#8211; the swaggering Jay Dutch, and Biig Dreams, with his witty, quick spitting rhymes.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trio have brought on board the talents of a producer who understands the fine chemistry between pop and hip-hop, and pays no heed to any genre limitations. Cheap Limousine has produced his fair share of rap records, and also knows his way around house, neo-soul, EDM, and chill electronica. He is able to balance all the glossy textures, propulsive beats, shuddering bottom end, and everything else in between.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Groove&#8217; isn&#8217;t the first collaboration for the three, with both Biig Dreams and De Royce appearing on Jay Dutch&#8217;s critical underground hit, this year&#8217;s full length album, &#8216;The Butterfly Effect&#8217;. It builds on that success, and their prior relationship, and the music video for &#8216;Groove&#8217; is a showcase for each of their personalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clip was shot during the first visit to Los Angeles for the trio, and shows all three are presiding over a pool party, where they&#8217;re not afraid to show their excitement and enthusiasm for it all, along with their innate self-confidence. The video is in a lot of ways a New Yorker&#8217;s impression of what Los Angeles is like &#8211; bikini-babes on skates, rolling down palm-tree bedecked streets, on a never-ending sunshiney day, with just the right amount of slo-mo, and brightly coloured buildings. It may be a bit of a fantasy, but there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that, and in these Covid times, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re all up for a bit of make believe &#8211; I know I am!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch the video for &#8216;Groove&#8217; below, and let us know what you think. You can find out more about De Royce online on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/DeRoyce_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_13417\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOZ1M-oKzek?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fOZ1M-oKzek\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens-based vocalist De Royce, with his confident, sweet, soulful, and subtle sound, is joined on his latest single, &#8216;Groove&#8217;, by two New Yorker emcees &#8211; the swaggering Jay Dutch, and Biig Dreams, with his witty, quick spitting rhymes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446,21449,640],"tags":[26389,26387,11069,26388,11720,77,370,1945,116,10677,22992],"class_list":["post-66109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-video-reviews","category-videos","tag-biig-dreams","tag-de-royce","tag-groove","tag-jay-dutch","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-review","tag-single-review","tag-video-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75381,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/05\/were-feeling-the-nrg-with-de-royces-new-release-featuring-alex-t-o-k-moca-generation\/","url_meta":{"origin":66109,"position":0},"title":"We&#8217;re Feeling The &#8216;NRG&#8217; With De Royce&#8217;s New Release, Featuring Alex (T.O.K.) &#038; Moca Generation","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"05\/05\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"New single, 'NRG', is a tropical heatwave, that sees De Royce collaborate with Alex, from T.O.K, and featuring Moca Generation. 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