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Sometimes, overwhelming pressure can lead to reckless behavior, otherwise known as “crash-outs”. On “Crash Test Dummies“, emcees Devine Carama and Termanology are here to tell you that sometimes it’s best to just stay poised and keep your cool. The lead single from Devine and Hip-Hop producer Amaeus360‘s new collaborative album Guardians of the Boom Bap, “Crash Test Dummies” gets the visual treatment courtesy of director NYJtheOfficial. Unveiled today (7/11/2025) via YouTube, the music video was shot in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, following a Rakim show.
“This track is really ill. it’s basically about crashing out when others stress you out and keeping perspective of how crashing out ain’t worth it. My brother Termanology delivers his typical insulting and disrespectful witty lyrics. Devine’s poisonous pen lyrics left me scratching my head.” – Amadeus360
Watch “Crash Test Dummies” on YouTube here.
Stream/purchase “Crash Test Dummies” here.
Following his 2021 full-length collaboration with Termanology 360, Amadeus360 firmly etched his name as a modern torchbearer for raw, gritty Boom Bap with his 2023 magnum opus The MPC Jedi. In contrast to the throng of cross-generational spitters featured across that album’s 18 tracks, the self-proclaimed “Beat King” has, once again, locked in with one MC. This time, he’s tapped Lexington, Kentucky’s Emmy-winning Hip-Hop luminary Devine Carama for Guardians of the Boom Bap. Released on all major digital streaming platforms via Soulspazm on June 13, the new album serves as a full, concise body of work dedicated to the bare essentials of Hip-Hop’s “Golden Era”. “We want listeners to get that same feeling they got listening to hip-hop in the 90’s”, Carama explains. “Just beats, rhymes, and life.” As an activist, youth advocate, published author, and college professor, Carama’s socially conscious tenor shines throughout the album. “I am a sucker for a real lyricist, and Devine is an animal on the mic!”, says Amadeus. The album follows the fourth installment of Carama’s critically acclaimed Kingtucky series.
Stream/purchase Guardians of the Boom Baphere.
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