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    Oddisee Mourns America's Lost Innocence In New Video For 'You Grew Up'

    In the new animated video, the emcee critiques how society socializes us from innocent adolescents to lost, even monstrous adults.
    by Rodney Carmichael Oct 03, 2017 2 minutes
    Oddisee, "You Grew Up"

    In times like these, smothered by so much cultural discord, the United States often resembles a tragic oxymoron. That irony isn't lost on Oddisee, whose keen observational eye fuels his latest LP, . In his latest video from the album, he distills America's

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