Sports & Leisure, by Jeff Markey

Sports & Leisure

by Jeff Markey

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iativos If you're looking for some good hip-hop, check this project out. It's really gritty, dope NYC hip-hop littered throughout with plenty of mind-bending Sports references. This shit is fire y'all 🔥

In all realness, though, I'm more of a Leisure fan than a Sports fan

The whole project is nice

If you like this, make sure to check out Markey's project with SKECH185 that came out earlier this year on Backwoodz

Peace y'all ✌️ ☮️ Favorite track: Floaters (featuring billy woods).

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1.	Island Time-Lapse 01:02 video	buy track
2.	90's Dunks on VHS 01:01	buy track
3.	Tasted Ink (featuring PremRock) 01:42	buy track
4.	Mo Lava 00:57	buy track
5.	Pryor and Wilder (featuring Defcee and Fatboi Sharif) 02:01	buy track
6.	Sports & Leisure 00:59	buy track
7.	First Warm Day 01:42	buy track
8.	Floaters (featuring billy woods) 01:25	buy track
9.	Quick Realignment 00:50 video	buy track
10.	Tribute (featuring Shape) 01:12	buy track
11.	Clouds 00:51	buy track
12.	2 Crowns 00:51	buy track
13.	Six Armed Scriptures (featuring Fatboi Sharif) 01:54	buy track
14.	Re-planters 01:13	buy track
15.	Bud Billiken (featuring Skech185) 02:40	buy track
16.	Head Fake 00:49	buy track
17.	Inner Groove (featuring Googie) 03:16	buy track

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Sports & Leisure is the new project from producer Jeff Markey. Primarily an instrumental album, it also features artists billy woods, PremRock, Fatboi Sharif, Defcee, SKECH185, Googie & Shape. Markey started working on Sports & Leisure in 2021, as pandemic restrictions eased and a longterm relationship came to an end.

“I intentionally went back to basics a bit and made my life pretty simple. On my days off I would go to the courts and shoot, then walk to the record store and grab vinyl, then bring it home and rip samples while I smoked weed and watched sports,” Markey explains, “It was essentially that, playing Madden and working. It felt like just getting back to the things I had always loved most- Sports, weed and music”

Markey is a longtime Backwoodz collaborator but while his contributions have always been memorable, they have also been few and far between. The credits tell the tale; there he is producing the very first track- “Native Sun”- on Half Measures, the very first Armand Hammer mixtape (2013). That same year he did “Black Ark” on the duos debut LP, Race Music and then doesn’t pop again on anything Backwoodz related until 2019 when he co-produced billy woods first single for Terror Management, “Western Education is Forbidden” featuring Fielded. In 2022, Markey and Fielded made it 2-for-2 with the slinkily fun “Halloween Fell On A Weekend”, a track on Armand Hammer’s vinyl-exclusive WHT LBL.

While he has put out a few other projects over the years and has an equally long history with Reservoir Sound, the arts collective founded by producer A.M. Breakups, Markey spent most of the past decade on the periphery of the NYC indie scene, as likely to drop heat as he was to disappear for years at a time. Sports & Leisure represents the beginnings of a new era for the Akron-born producer who moved to New York City in 2004. The pandemic gave him the time and mental space to re-dedicate himself to music and, with more stuff coming in 2023, this project figures to be the tip of the iceberg.

“I wanted to make beats that were rugged yet had really warm textures. Previously, I had been making such complicated and left-field sounding shit that I wanted to make something closer to normal rap beats,” Jeff says, “I wanted to make shit that was special because good choices were made within an already existing framework rather than completely changing the framework”.

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released December 25, 2022

Produced by Jeff Markey
Mixed by Steel Tipped Dove
Mastered by Willie Green
Cover photo by Alexander Richter

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Jeff Markey is a producer/beat maker from Akron, Ohio. Now living in Brooklyn, New York.

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