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"Sophisticated Ignorance" by Kung Foo Grip (download here)

Young, Redmond rap duo Kung Foo Grip is back with some mood-altering, S.A.D. lamp hip-hop. Isn't that what we need in December, when we keep getting ominous blizzard warnings on our phones? "Sophisticated Ignorance" looks ahead to another year on Earth, with lyrics about how good times will be balanced with bad, and large-scale successes depend on groundwork. Emcees Fish and Greg Cypher have always had that energy-drink flow — speedy and furious. But this song is hyper and also patient, smarter, wiser.