Mei kuch logo se jitni bhe naraz ho jaon, agar wo mujhse sirf aik baar piyaar aur narmi se baat kar len to mein saari narazgi aur ghussa bhula ke un se baat kar leti hun. Asal mei kuch log hamare liye itny he important houte hain, ke dill unko foran maaf kar deta hay. [via - Hazel Clouds]

“…In’Sha’Allah I survived.”

Tracklist : 

Asal Hazel - About it (ruff)

Jayd Ink - Stuck on earth

Iaingotacluebruh - Playing games

Jordan Ward, Joyce Wrice - Sidekick

Amaka - Cruisin'

wntr. - Blind

Terri Walker - Finally over you

Full Crate - The Blk Lt$ - The river

Kennedy Rd. - Do it

Enny - 2am in Central

Enny - U shld Heal

Bri Steves - GAF ft. Guapdad 4000

FTP - Snooze in the rain (SZA edit)

King sis - Day 1

Jaz Karis - Therapy

Duncan Gerow - Ari Lennox + South Circle = Waste my time

Kiezin - Heyyy Tems

Jean Deaux - Comin over

Jean Deaux - When I dip

Jaz Karis - Side of you (Soulchyld edit)

Ginge - Sololove

Hunter Rose - What you wanna do? (Remix)

Tayah - Hotel suite 31

Sholah Ama - Not us

Kaisha - Crossroads

Kaisha - Back to me

Enchantée Julia, Astronne - J'apaise

Ntjam Rosie - Space of you

Peter Somuah, Latanya Alberto - Moonlight

Merges - Cool

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Asal Hazel grew up in Los Angeles, CA. Her mom Shideh and Dad Siamak, both of Persian descent. Asal speaks both English and Farsi. She has two younger sisters- Sadaf with a 4 year age difference and Sayeh,13 years. Asal attended a performing arts middle school called Milikan, before then attending a performing arts high school, CHAMPS Charter High. Despite this, Asal was described as reserved throughout these years and did not participate in offered performing arts courses. Additionally, her family was not keen on the idea of her pursuing music as it is not traditionally encouraged in young women of Persian/Jewish culture. Once Asal’s parents split up in 2010, followed by financial struggles and messy divorce details, Asal began exploring the idea of pursuing music. Growing and learning alongside artists such as Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals, MNDSGN, Knxwledge, and so on, she was looking for a way to express her inner frustration as a woman coming from a closed-minded background and into a judgmental career. “I love pop music so much. Specifically pop-r&b. But I didn’t want to come right out with that, I felt like I had to prove something to my family and culture first.” She goes on to say she wanted to prove a point about what women are capable of and that she didn’t have to “sell out” right off the bat to do it. With the independant release of her first project, a ‘tape’ titled Like Water in 2018, she did just that. “I had no idea what I was doing, I didn't promote my project at all and it even took me forever just to put it up, everyone thought I was crazy.” Her track UTMT with it’s almost painfully nostalgic feeling, she’d made the difference she seeked to make and felt heard. Touching messages of support flooded her socials as she shared them publicly. “That was my favorite one. Probably always will be. Never ask me why haha. That and Lust ”. About a year after the project release, some Ariana Grande Fans attempted to pass off a clip of Lust as an Ariana Grande Snippet titled ‘You’ on Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. “I had to literally go correct people and explain that that’s me and mine... Most bizarre experience. You can still see so much confusion in the comments under Lust on Youtube.”

To this day, Asal has written every word of her music. “I didn’t have anyone to go to or I might’ve.” She describes recently going through being courted by an Interscope JV record label and having to turn it down when in talks of a deal because it wasn't favorable for an artist/entertainer who is also a lyricist. She is still friends and fans of the team and is exploring writing with them as well as writing with and for other writers/artists. “I’ll have some other writers on these next songs and project it won’t be only me anymore.” We are waiting idly for that and some fashion work she’s involved in. Find her everywhere including Spotify, Apple, Bandcamp, IG, Twitter, Youtube, Patreon, etc.! 

Asal Hazel 

2020 wall poster.  photo by Jerald Johnson

Asal grew up in Los Angeles, CA. Her mom Shideh and Dad Siamak, both of Persian descent. Asal speaks both English and Farsi. She has two younger sisters. Asal attended a performing arts middle school called Milikan, before then attending a performing arts high school, CHAMPS Charter High. Asal was described as reserved throughout these years and did not participate in offered performing arts courses. Additionally, her family was not keen on the idea of her pursuing music as it is not traditionally encouraged in young women of Persian/Jewish culture. Once Asal’s parents split up in 2010, followed by financial struggles and messy divorce, Asal began exploring the idea of pursuing music. Growing and learning alongside artists such as Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals, MNDSGN, Knxwledge, and so on, expressing her inner frustration as a woman coming from a closed-minded background and into a judgmental career. "I felt like I had to prove something to my family and culture.” She goes on to say she wanted to prove a point about what women are capable of and that she didn’t have to “sell out” right off the bat to do it. With the independant release of her first project, a ‘tape’ titled Like Water in 2018, she did just that. “I had no idea what I was doing, I didn't promote my project at all and it even took me forever just to put it up, everyone thought I was crazy.” Her track UTMT with it’s almost painfully nostalgic feeling, she’d made the difference she seeked to make and felt heard. Touching messages of support flooded her socials as she shared them publicly. “That was my favorite one. Probably always will be. Never ask me why haha.” About a year after the project release, some Ariana Grande Fans attempted to pass off a clip of Lust as an Ariana Grande Snippet titled ‘You’ on Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. “I had to literally go correct people and explain that that’s me and mine. You can still see so much confusion in the comments under Lust on Youtube.” 

To this day, Asal has written every word of her music. “I didn’t have anyone to go to or I might’ve.” She describes recently going through being courted by an Interscope JV record label and having to turn it down when in talks of a deal because it wasn't favorable for an artist/entertainer who is also a lyricist. She is still friends and fans of the team and is exploring writing with them as well as writing with and for other writers/artists. “I’ll have some other writers on these next songs and project it won’t be only me anymore.” We are waiting idly for that and some fashion work she’s involved in. Find her everywhere including Spotify, Apple, Bandcamp, IG, Twitter, Youtube, etc.!

Asal Hazel, Young Career ‘19

A young Asal Hazel, went to a performing arts middle and high school in Los Angeles, more specifically Champs Charter High, where she was shy and reserved about her artistic interests and abilities in comparison to her friends and schoolmates. “Pretty sure nobody knew I sang.. let alone that it was my whole life. I was under a lot of cultural/family pressure and felt I had to hide.” After graduating high school and moving onto college with a lack of focus on anything besides music and fashion, “I aced calculus, I aced psychology.. but overall I couldn’t handle school because I didn’t feel like it was really about learning, just about a piece of paper. [I] felt like my time and effort was being drained for the wrong reasons. And I knew what I was really supposed to be doing.” Later on, she began working out of the studio of Arizona-native, Callum Connor, DJ and drummer of Anderson .Paak ‘s band The Free Nationals, during the time that Paak’s early Venice album was released and so forth. Simultaneously working with some friends from school. She named some close friends / producers alongside her while she was growing into her musical identity. “..writing to beats by Raman Dlamini.” (brother of Amala Dlamini, who you most likely know as Doja Cat.) Asal speaks highly of her schoolmates, and after some research we can see why. Some more talent coming out of Champs Charter High : musical artist H.E.R. , Brandon Santell of Mad Decent, child actor Chelsea Tavares, Disney Channel Star Blaine Miller, KITTEN the band, along with some highly successful dancers for Pharrell, Ariana Grande etc., filmmakers, writers, and the list goes on. She spent the summer of 2015 writing songs on a daily basis. Posting a couple snippets online in the process, her vocals caught the attention of Stones Throw heavy hitter, Knxwledge. Soon after, she met Mndsgn with whom she hit it off and proceeded to give us collaborative favorites like U Say U Do & UTMT. Additionally, around this time we got Windows with Callum Conner and another friend, Zacari, who was then newly signed to TDE. Hazel seems to be constantly creating in secrecy. It’s apparent that we’ve only heard a few out of the hundreds of Asal Hazel songs that may never see the light of day. But she assures us that there is new music coming.

Asal Hazel, Young Career ‘19 by V.G.

Tracklist 

Ojerime - Often Enough

Laya - On Sight

Ricki Monique - No Time (Freestyle)

Asal Hazel - Brokenright (Unfinished)

Thrice Groove - Pipe Down In A Million

Bria Seed - Mary Go Round Ft. TMaree

Blaccmass - Neo4ever Ihate2001

Mary J. Blige -Here With Me Ft. Anderson Paak

Tomi Agape - Full Moon

Lyrica Anderson - Guilty

Snoh Aalegra - On My Mind

Neen Bowen - I'm Waiting

SunRhé - Fresh Air

RSCO - From Time (Rsco Edition)

Moily - Wondergirl

Angel + Dren - Diamond

Ayanda Jiya - Falling For You Ft. AReece

Brivon - And Ever

Jacquees - Bed Friend Ft. Queen Naija

Summer Walker & Ari Lennox - Unloyal

Amaria - Lose Control

HER - Process

Lala &ce - Dodo&ve

Melonyx - Melanin Queens

NDO - Tell Me

Evil Needle - Liquid Light Ft. Quin

Talia Goddess - Fantasy

Zilo & Devin Tracy - Company

MOZZ! - Call Me

Ramya Pothuri - Essence (Cover)