Unrehearsed Music Group, from left, Daniel Grijalva (Dsmoke), Eduardo Zuniga (3DWon) and Luis Vasquez (OddBall AKA Yung OB) released their debut album last week.
The Unrehearsed Music Group released their debut CD “Split”, which was launched as a mixtape five years ago. With all of their free time due to the COVID shutdowns, the trio decided to buckle up and create a full album.
What started as a mixtape five years ago turned into the debut album by Tucson’s Unrehearsed Music Group.
The rap trio – Daniel Grijalva (Dsmoke), Eduardo Zuniga (3DWon) and Luis Vasquez (OddBall AKA Yung OB) – released “Split” on all major download platforms last week, two weeks after recording and mixing with it the producer Mario Bolanos had completed ZonaZ Zero Recording Studio.
Six of the album’s 16 songs were written last year when the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in homework assignments, which made the perfect excuse to revisit the mixtape they’d been working on years earlier, Grijalva said.
“Once COVID started and everything closed, we had more time,” he said. “After we recorded ‘Pressure’ and ‘Squad’ we started from there. … It was fine, we have this.” done … let’s move on. Everything got aligned somehow. “
“Pressure” and “Squad” were two of six songs, including “Capitol Hill,” inspired by the January 6th Capitol Uprising released by the Unrehearsed Music Group last year. The songs reflected the social unrest throughout the summer and in Tucson last summer, as well as the political climate in which friends and foes were alike partisan.
Other songs on the album were in various states, from thoughts on a page to partially or fully recorded, Grijalva said. The theme song was inspired by the 2016 horror movie M. Night Shyamalan. Grijalva said the idea is to conjure up the “happy voices in your head”.
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