Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, Adeem has always cut an unlikely figure in the scrappy trenches of underground hip hop. Both his solo work and his collaborations with crews like Glue have established him as a potent voice in hip hop’s world of ever-changing styles and hierarchies. Combining a vast array of influences and styles, Adeem’s new album “The Volume in the Ground” is a startling and vigorous approach that will make him more difficult to categorize than ever.
The Volume In The Ground was recorded in the cold woods of New Hampshire and thick heat of Orlando, FL over a 2 year period with longtime collaborators and veteran producers MF Shalem, Chadeo, Maker, and Nobs, as well as vocalists Kaleigh Baker, Swamburger from Solillaquists of Sound and narrator Sherwin Sleeves. 20 musicians from all over the country lent their instruments and ideas. Distance played a key role forcing each contributor to create in their own world adding their own color and shape to an ever changing canvas. Adeem played the role of director pushing everyone towards the new sound while sorting through the pieces making them connect. The album, which follows a more melody-based style, marks a distinct stylistic departure for Adeem. Into a mix of blues, Americana, folk, and rock, he has injected his signature vocals, a rapid fire delivery that has won him many a rap battle. The result is a sound that takes familiar archetypes and turns them upside down. The album relates the tale of an aged grave digger wrestling ghosts of his own and others’ creation. The story format, not one usually embraced by MCs, allows Adeem to highlight the creative path he has taken since stepping back from the world of traditional hip hop.