Alright, I’ve been getting requests to post this from all parties, but I wanted to figure out some background information before I did so. Let’s get into it.
This track is a mystery, plain and simple — and if you follow music blogs, you’ll notice it’s been getting a ton of love recently. Following The Weeknd’s marketing campaign, there is nothing about One Room available on the internet, other than a boring Twitter account and the video above. Nobody knows who exactly the artist is. The Knocks keep tweeting and throwing Facebook status updates left and right about it, and Earmilk claims that One Room = The Knocks, but I’m calling them out, because it’s not accurate.
First off, the vocals sound nothing like either JPatt nor B-Roc (collectively The Knocks). There’s no chance in hell that B-Roc sounds like that (I don’t think he really sings…), and it doesn’t sound like JPatt in the slightest. That doesn’t mean that the NYC duo didn’t have a hand in the production however. Is it someone in their Heavy Roc Music camp? Let’s go down the line and see who’s in their crew. They roll with Alex Winston, up-and-comers St. Lucia, and Samuel (the dude behind “I Love NY”). This is a pretty easy process of elimination, considering we’re only working with three acts; but I’m confident in saying that the song isn’t by anyone in their current camp. One Room is currently unknown to the music world, but he won’t be for long.
To get extra CSI with it, the zoomed-in shots of the faces in the video look eerily similar to B-Roc (he denies it’s him…) and Samuel. Clearly they’re having some fun with the mysterioso marketing campaign, and it’s working.
Final conclusion: One Room is a new member of Heavy Roc Music, coming out of the Lower East Side in NYC. “I Want You” is the only track we know from him. The Knocks probably had something to do with the production of the track in some way, shape or form. Those are B-Roc and Samuel’s faces in the video…well, at least Samuel’s. I am a motherfucking detective.
Download: One Room – I Want You
