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A Cautious Legislature, Locked In The Capitol, Played It Safe - Honolulu Civil Beat
A Cautious Legislature, Locked In The Capitol, Played It Safe
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But the Hawaii Legislature remained locked in a Capitol building that was closed to the public during the pandemic, and its leaders behaved as if they couldn’t hear all the noise outside.
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Introduce yourself to our readers! Let them know your name, where you’re from & the name of the project you’ve just dropped!
What’s going on man? My name is Chase Fetti out of New Jersey. I just dropped my project called Top of The Red fully produced by 38 Spesh. Out now on all Platforms so go check that out.
Chase – Your album Top of the Red has 11 tracks. Tell the Hip Hop Weekly readers a bit about the features and the vibe of this album.
Yeah- well for starters, I got a feature from 38 Spesh and a feature from Benny the Butcher. Oh shit how can I forget – Boldy does the intro on this album. Boldy, that’s my D Time player. I just been blessed to have been placed around these guys. No pressure really. The vibe – it’s funny because I just had this conversation with 38 Spesh the other day. We said ‘” There’s a million artists making music in the world like us except- we make music for guys like US.” The vibe- It’s that old school Ne