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MC/producer D-Tension recalls ‘Young Love’ on a classic rock riff from Ghosts of Jupiter

Last week, Massachusetts underground hip-hip producer and MC D-Tension returned to form with “Godly”, the slamming first track off his upcoming Violence Of Zen album. Today, in anticipation of his Saturday appearance at ONCE Ballroom in Somerville with Masta Ace, Akrobatik, and others, we’re flipping the single over to get down with the companion track, “Young Love”.

D-Tension tells us that the song was inspired by “the ones that got away,” and in particular, an innocent fourth grade romance with a schoolmate named Sam — short for Samantha. “My first love,” the Lowell renaissance man tells Vanyaland. “I couldn’t believe this girl likes me. Then we moved. I was fucking upset. Then I saw her at Christian camp like five years later and she was making out with my mortal enemy.”

That’s life.

“Young Love” is aided by a sweet classic rock riff by Boston’s Ghosts of Jupiter. D-Tension first caught the band in action while judging the 2012 Rock And Roll Rumble; Ghost of Jupiter made it to the semi-finals, but lost out to Garvy J, who then lost to Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck in the final. The following year, Ghost of Jupiter released their Green Is Gold Vol. 1 EP, and the second track, “Evil”, is where you’ll find the foundation of D-Tension’s new jam.

“I immediately jacked it for ‘Young Love,’ says D-Tension. “With their blessing.”

Violence Of Zen, meanwhile, is the follow-up to 2014’s Secret Project record and is set for a December release, and features Diamond, A.G., Pace Won, Akrobatik, Tash of the Alkaholiks, and more.

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