Ivan Ives (@thisisives) — “Higher” (ft @AaronMarshMusic )

Rus­si­an born/bred L.A. res­id­ent Ivan Ives presents the self-dir­ec­ted music video for “High­er”, the Aaron Marsh-pro­duced new single from his new album Stranger. Ivan Ives ori­gin­ally stepped into the hip hop world in 2007. Rolling Stone named him among the next 40 artists to watch; SPIN called him one of 8 top unsigned artists; and XXL said “don’t let his indie rock­er per­sona fool you — this guy can spit.” He’s worked with the likes of Cap­padonna (Wu-Tang), Tre Hard­son (Phar­cyde), Per­cee P & Oh No (Stones Throw), The Cool Kids, Black Milk, O.C. (DITC), Vast Aire (Def Jux), Ces­chi (Fake Four Inc), and many more. Hav­ing gone to film school, he dir­ects most of his own videos — which have racked up over a mil­lion streams on You­Tube without major dis­tri­bu­tion. “Aaron and I wrote the song at his stu­dio in Lake­land, Flor­ida,” says Ivan. “It’s a pretty weird song with altern­at­ing off-kil­ter time sig­na­tures, so it was really fun to work on. I wanted the video to reflect the unique­ness of the song, and so we tell a dis­join­ted story about an astro­naut lost in space or his own mind.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TINs707Cr08[/youtube]

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Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voiceless.

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