Los Angeles based collective of musicians/ artists / production team creating music inside The Botanica Lab, in Highland Park, CA that have come together to create a psychedelic / hip hop sound, heavily influenced by 60’s psychedelic music such as the Animals, and Cream to 70’s funk , such as Sly and the family Stone, Funkadelic, Jazz Fusion, Herbie Hancock, going into 80’s and 90’s underground hip hop break beats like Native Tongues. Cosmic Botanica takes listener on a cosmic journey through space/ time with their psychedelic/hip hop/ funk vibe and transforms their various musical Influences into a new listening experience.
Black Shakespeare, lead vocalist, and lyricist of Cosmic Botanica has a diverse style and contagious energy, and poetically conscious lyrics who has performed with artist such as Lee Skratch Perry, Soja, The Lions, Kanye West, John Legend, Janes Addiction, Sly And Ravi, and KRSONE.

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