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  Doomtree Reveal How They Levitated in 'Beacon' Video

  June 11, 2012 – Underground hip-hop crew Doomtree debuted their black-and-white noir video for "Beacon," a song off last year's No Kings LP, last week on MTVU. In the clip, MCs Dessa, P.O.S., Cecil Otter, and Sims rap in ’20sish garb in foggy, candlelit rooms and dingy industrial factories, following tubes and pipes down dark hallways in a way that recalls the disorienting industrial landscape of the Terry Gilliam flick Brazil. …
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  Doomtree Take Over the Austin Streets

  April 13, 2012 – Minneapolis's noisy Doomtree collective lives at the bleeding edge hip-hop grind and punk rock's get-in-the-van ethos. In March, their two month tour landed the crew in Austin for SXSW, and SPIN followed the posse around with some video cameras (thanks to helpful sponsors ABSOLUT Vodka). Watch P.O.S., Sims, Dessa, Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan and Paper Tiger get totally overwhelmed by Austin and wax philosophical about truck stops. …
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  First Spin: Hear Doomtree's 'Beacon'

  November 10, 2011 – "Beacon" is a bull-rushing, shape-shifting cut from No Kings, the second "all-crew" release from Doomtree, a Minneapolis hip-hop collective that shares ties with Upper Midwest yacht-rock family Gayngs. They're releasing the album themselves on their own self-titled label November 22, a move as organic and democratic as what you'll hear here.  …
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