A3C Hip Hop Festival Blog

Sore Losers performs a modern take on "Living For The City" plus two original songs exclusively for GRAMMY.com

Written by Lucien Wall | Oct 5

As a preview to their upcoming performance on "The Circus" presented by Couch Sessions on Saturday Oct 13th, Sore Losers performed a modernized version of the Stevie Wonder Classic "Living For The City". for an installment of The Recording Academy's ReImagined series. Linking GRAMMY history with the present, ReImagined is a performance-based series featuring artists interpreting an iconic GRAMMY-winning song, an interview and performances of original music.

Sore Losers- Living for the city

Sore Losers' self-described experimental hip-hop sound draws on influences such as Gnarls Barkley, Lupe Fiasco, Foo Fighters, MGMT, Nas, and N.E.R.D. The collective is comprised of Vincent "Encyclopedia" Brown (MC/lyrics), Greg Clark Jr. (drums), Aaron Hardin (music director/keyboards), Kyle McPherson (guitar), Jordan Hughes (percussion), and Dre Pinckney (bass). In 2009 Sore Losers released a digital EP titled Free Loaders — The Soundtrack featuring songs such as "Dope," " 8587 (Birthday)" and "The Epic Outro."