TiRon & Ayomari

Have you ever had a guarantee from an artist that his/her music will guarantee happiness? I mean, an explicit guarantee and not just an assumption. The new EP from TiRon and Ayomari may be the closest thing you’ll get to a fulfillment of such a promise. The two emcees have consistently put their hearts and souls into their music and as a resul have consistently provided music that most of us average folk can relate to. And for that, we thank you, TiRon and Ayomari. The production should probably be classified as everything but hip-hop without the lyrics but when you add the words, you can’t help but be glad that this is the direction of hip-hop they’ve been pushing. Enjoy the humidity and heat outside with this new EP.

The EP is available on Google Play and iTunes. But as you can see in their message below, sharing the project and spreading the happiness may get you a free copy.

THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL IS INTENDED FOR ALL. IT WAS NOT DESIGNED AS BITS & PIECES, DOSES OR FRACTIONS. IMMERSION IS A NECESSITY, ENJOYMENT IS A BYPRODUCT. SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE INTENSE VIBRATIONS OF POSITIVITY. ROAD TRIP TESTED, FAMILY APPROVED. THIS IS FOR GOOD — USE ONLY. ZERO RIGHTS ARE RESERVED, EXCEPT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE FREE. THE DEFINITION OF GOOD — USE EXCLUDES CHEATING, STEALING, GREEDINESS, SLAVERY OF ANY KIND, VIOLENCE, SELF DOUBT & CONCEIT. THE MUSIC HEREIN IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL LOCATIONS UNDER THE SUN.ANY UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, EDITING, EXHIBITION, EXCHANGING, LENDING DIFFUSION &/OR BROADCAST OF THIS IS STRICTLY ENCOURAGED AND ANY SUCH ACTION SHALL RESULT IN A FREE COPY OF THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL. HAPPINESS IS GUARANTEED. ☂ - The Source

Emerging Los Angeles duo, TiRon & Ayomari (aka T/A), have received nods from Q-Tip, Complex and RapGenius for their refreshing philosophical music that transcends merely reveling in the joys of their youth to instead spark dialogue about the real life issues that matter the most.
Yahoo Music is on board and proud to premiere the 7-minute video for their song “All We Are.”
Part melodic, thought-provoking hip-hop track, part documentary, “All We Are”’s lyrics find support in the interview clips from everyday people explaining their ideologies about acceptance, work, success, passion, finances, creativity, and the quest for inner peace.
Below, preview T/A’s The Great New Wonderful album on The Cafeteria Line that features “All We Are” and several more gems. - Yahoo Music

L.A. duo TiRon & Ayomari have been criminally slept on for quite some time. Beginning with what can be dubbed the “condiment series”—Tiron’s Ketchup (2009) and MSTRD (2010), and Ayomari’s The PB&J Solution (2010)—the duo has been consistently dope with their brand of prime samples and breezy-yet-lyrical flows. They’ve only improved since officially linking as a duo for the T&A: Prelude to ASFP EP, and A Sucker for Pumps still gets a good number of bumps in the crib.
Their latest offering, The Great New Wonderful, is of the same quality, but again they aren’t eating the way they should be off of it. The video for the lead track, “All We Are,” is perhaps a venting of frustrations. TiRon & Ayomari directed the clip, tapping friends and collaborators to speak on pursuing their passions, their views on failure, and overcoming obstacles. Surrounding those heartfelt testimonies are various quick clips that range from meaningful moments in history to seemingly throwaway stock footage, but it all coalesces into something greater than the sum of its parts.
Damn, these dudes deserve some more shine. It’s cool that they just keep pushing.
The Great New Wonderful is out now on The Cafeteria Line. - Mass Appeal

One of the most quietly consistent emerging Hip-Hop artists of the last five years is TiRon & Ayomari. Whether together or apart, this Los Angeles, California pair makes far-reaching, dynamic music that speak to issues most people live through. Today (June 12) marks the release of T&A’s fifth album, The Great New Wonderful, on their own The Cafeteria Line imprint.

Bringing in new audiences, the pair innovatively took the new album—early at that—and edited into a 30-minute film. Lovers of found footage, old time TV, and ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s pop culture will especially dig how this footage plays against the group, whose lyrics, sounds, and vibes are a gestalt of their own. - Ambrosia for Heads

Under-the-radar rapper TiRon Jeffries was nervous about approaching dream hampton, first female editor of The Source and co-author of Jay-Z's Decoded. But like a freshman boy in high school who somehow had a shot with the most untouchable senior goddess, he wavered while his friends urged him. Just ask her to be on the album! "Even though we'd shared a few pleasantries, I didn't know her. Finally I thought, I'm just gonna ask, all she can do is say no. I was soooo nervous," he remembers.

But she said yes, and that's how a couple of rappers in Los Angeles got the girl. But hampton didn't give TiRon and Ayomari just a line for their latest album, A Sucker for Pumps, which was released September 13th. She gave them an entire spoken word piece. "You can adore someone from a distance and with little action, but lovin' somebody is an up-close job," hampton says over delicate strings and crashing waves on "Denouement." Leave it to hampton to so succinctly summarize the dilemma that rules the entire album.
Why was recruiting hampton so important to them? Ayomari explains that they didn't want to be the kind of rappers that speak at women, reducing them to purely sexual beings. He and TiRon wanted to go beyond stilettos and silk sheets to the heart of relationships.

"I didn't want to give you a Trey Songz album, I wanted to give you an album about struggling human beings in hopes of finding out what it is to be a woman or a man in America," TiRon explains. "'Baby I love you, I'll take over the world for you,' 'I get bitches, I fuck mad hoes.' Okay, I get it, but is that real??"

While pop-loving teens have proclaimed Katy Perry to be a feminist leader, TiRon thinks there's a void for women who listen to hip hop. "Lauryn [Hill] isn't around, and Nicki Minaj's hyper-sexualized image isn't the strongest for making the average woman feel comfortable," he says.

It's a variation on the "sensitive rapper" theme, but in "Perfect," over snippets of plastic surgery and restaurant advertisements taunting a bulimic girl struggling to fit into the vixen role Minaj epitomizes, they redirect Q-Tip's question to Bonita Applebum -- "Why you wanna go and do that, love?" That's followed by "No Wonder," in which the guys describe the various ways they diss a girl, then ask "Wonder why she don't like me now?"


This might be a little too heavy in less capable hands. But TiRon, who's originally from Kankakee, Illinois, and Ayomari, who's from Georgia, manage to explore themes intellectually while maintaining enough colloquialism to keep it relatable.

Besides, the sound of Sucker, courtesy of producers like Exile (who was just in the studio with Snoop) and Iman Omari (seriously, watch out for this one), alternates between soulfully spaced-out beats and lush, jazzy orchestrations.

Still, as everyone from ancient philosophers to Nora Ephron has discovered, the conversation always comes back to the male-female dynamic. Sure, Ayomari and TiRon might not have it totally figured out, but they're in good company. - LA Weekly

oolah, throwing it up high for what?/We ain’t celebrating, just trying to party up”—Ayomari
If the Notorious B.I.G.’s career-making “Party and Bullsh*t” was hip-hop’s Generation X anthem to 40-oz.-and-blunts excess way back in 1992, then TiRon and Ayomari’s “PRTY N BLSHT” is Gen Next’s very-over-it stoner hangover. In a recent interview about the song and its Cynical Smile-directed video (off their free 2013 EP, The Wonderful Prelude, TiRon (née Tiron Jeffries) breaks it all down.
“You know, Black people have ‘Black conversations.’ Not excluding nobody because it’s obviously humanity that we all care about. [After one of these conversations], I got to thinking about it. I was like yo, we are definitely encouraged to ‘turn up’ for no reason, you know what I’m saying? Like, it’s not Christmas, you know what I’m saying? It’s not St. Patrick’s Day, it’s ‘turn up’ because why? Because it’s Friday, you got off work, but is that really a reason to just get sh*t-faced and ignorant for no reason?”
TiRon & Omari “Ayomari” Allen (or T&A) were already well-known solo MCs, from L.A. and Chicago respectively, who decided to join forces in 2009 to form a two-man team as The Cafeteria Line. T&A paints their rhymes over a canvas of jazz, soul, blues and funk-sourced beats reminiscent of Native Tongues-era cool, but uniquely Left Coast in vocal delivery. And, like fellow travelers Kendrick Lamar and Lupe Fiasco, T&A are socially conscious and sick talented enough to make the medicine in their messages go down easily.
“Black people party way more than we celebrate,” says TiRon. “We wanted to make a bittersweet turn-down song.”—Sun Singleton


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