East Orange, NJ duo Hash-N-Haze is immensely talented, but their evidence doesn’t come from the blind accolades from “yes”-men or out-of-touch industry bigwigs: their skills have enabled their prosperity where it counts.
“Where we’re at, when you first start rapping, it’s all about being nice,” Haze says. “So when we first started rapping, we didn’t start going to the studio, we just rapped around the way. Rapped in school, rapped in the hood, rapped on the block. So before the beats, before the studio, if you ain’t nice, no one wanted to hear you.”
Hash and Haze met in high school, when they were introduced to each other through a mutual friend who liked both of their music. They formed a friendship, and Haze invited Hash to a studio session he had booked so Hash could rap on the song. Another up-and-coming emcee in the area hopped on the track as well, and the trio formed the group SWAT based off of their immediate chemistry. But the third member moved to Las Vegas, so Hash-N-Haze continued making music as a duo.
Even though it wasn’t the plan, they’ve fared well as a pair. Performances in artist showcases on Park Avenue in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and with Rap Fanatic in the Bowery District have helped them establish a street buzz as live performers, and they’ve capitalized with well-received songs on mixtapes by notable Jersey DJ Trigga. Their three-part Hash-N-Haze mixtape series has shown that they can hold their own a artists: so much, in fact, that the pair has gotten a personal cosign from Treach, hometown hero and a member of the group Naugthy By Nature.
The art of the hip-hop duo—previously found in superstar pairs like Mobb Deep, OutKast, Clipse and others—is about more than two emcees rapping. It’s about complimenting each other, and Hash-N-Haze has this down pat: with Haze drops the conceptual gems and poignant lyrics, while Hash specializes in the slick braggadocio and clever punchlines. Together, Hash says that they’re the complete musical package—and since they naturally encompass so many areas, no faking is necessary.
“We can make a song that can make you laugh, we can make a song that’ll make you cry,” Hash says. “We can make a song that people in their late 30s, early 40s can feel. We can make a song that young teenagers would feel. We can make beef. We can make a party song. We can make a song talking about girls. We can make a positive song, we can make a street song. We’re just so talented, we can touch so many different subjects and maintain our sound and our image.”
Their latest, Hash-N-Haze Vol. 3: Soldiers Die Once, sees them showing this teamwork to the tee. They use Jay-Z’s subdued beat of “Momma Loves Me” to vividly recount their upbringings and musical journeys, while “Take The Pain Away” sees the pair giving respective, personified odes to alcohol and weed to help them maintain through their struggles. Meanwhile, tracks like “Welcome To Jersey” and “My Money Gang” sees them spitting the hardnosed, street-savvy rhymes that the East Coast scene is rooted in.
Their upcoming effort, Gone In 60 Seconds, ends their Hash-N-Haze mixtape series and jumpstarts what the duo says will be the beginning of a newly-extended fan base. While they are ready to see what opportunities it will open up, they’ll never forget where their buzz came from in the first place.
“We stay ourselves – 100% us. Every song, every mixtape, we stay us – we never change our style of music.” The fans, new and old, would have it no other way.
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