Calm. is a hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 duo composed of rapper Time

Time (rapper)

Time, born Chris Steele, is an American independent hip hop artist, who was brought up in north Denver, Colorado. He is one of the original members of Dirty Laboratory Productions. He is also one half of the hip hop group Calm.-Rap career:...

 and AwareNess

Awareness

Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...

. They released their first album, Anti-Smiles, in 2006. They are currently working on their second album, Ain't We Music.

Bio

The duo of Time and AwareNess met in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

. Time was a frequent at hip-hop battles and AwareNess

Awareness

Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...

 had been producing beats for artists all over Denver.
Their first collaboration was in 2002 on Time's "Meditation of Thought" album entirely produced by AwareNess

Awareness

Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...

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In 2004 Time released his solo album with Litterture with five songs produced by AwareNess
Anti-Smiles was released in 2006 and was deemed the intellectual hip-hop album of the year by Hip-Hop Linguistics
Anti-Smiles charted at #23 in the nation on the CMJ charts in 2009. The Westword named Anti-Smiles one of the best releases of 2007
AwareNess produced five tracks on Time's release of The Fantastic Reality in 2008
Time and AwareNess also collaborated on eight tracks for the 2009 release of Naked Dinner

Naked Dinner

Naked Dinner is the third full-length album by Denver hip hop artist Time, released on August 25, 2009 on Dirty Laboratory Productions in association with Hip Hop Vinyl. It features appearances from C-Rayz Walz of Def Jux and Sole of Anticon. In early 2010 Naked Dinner charted at #19 in the...

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Studio album

Album information
Anti-Smiles Released: October 24, 2006 CMJ 200 chart position: #23 Singles: "Get My Mind Right", "Treat Me Like a Villain", "Depression 200 MG"

Appearances as Calm

• "Treat Me Like a Villian" (appears on the Offbeaters Vol. 3 compilation, 2006)
• "Depression 200 MG" (appears on the Calderas of Mind compilation, 2006)

Other Collaborations

• "We, Myself and I" (appears on Even's Dead: The Chronicles of an American Waster Extra Kool, 2010)