I swear, New York gets all the hot shows. This one’s going down next Monday night and features Donny Goines, Emilio Rojas, Shawn Chrystopher, Rain and more. If you’re in the New York area and wanna go for free, hit the jump for a chance to win a pair of tickets!
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Ryan-O’Neil (aka The One Hand Bandit) is back with a brand new project called Hyphenated & Apostrophed. I’m a huge fan of Ryan’s and was totally excited when I got the message from him on Facebook. We haven’t heard a full project from Ryan-O’Neil since his 2007 album with 100dBs: The One Hand Bandit and Slum Computer Wizard [read review]. That was one of my favorite albums from 2007 and still gets constant play on my ipod today. After a brief listen, I’m sure this EP will soon join its rank, with production from DJ Mark 1, Sir-Real, and 100dBs himself. Don’t miss out on this gem… download it after the cut!
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Hevehitta and Unexpected have brought back the Southern Royalty mixtape series, and who better to do a Southern Royalty than “The King of the South” T.I.. Hevehitta and Unexpected give you a story of Clifford Harris from his drugs day all the way up to his successful rap career. Heve and Un go outside their circle this time around and holla at two talented production teams (Hook and Eye Productions & nVMe Productions) to help remix a couple of T.I’s hit songs. Like they say at the Diggers Union, “enjoy and be educated!”
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The rap collective known as Slaughterhouse release a second video from their self-titled debut album [review & sample set]. “Mircophone” is one of the albums strongest cuts with all of the rappers giving a great performance with Joell merking the track as usual. Clip directed by John Colombo with The Alchemist on the boards.
Video from OnSmash.
Don’t forget to check out: Street Hop review, SH Prequel, and SH samples.
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For our Soulful Sunday bonus post, we have some good ish for any R. Kelly fan. The folks over at www.qt-online.nl put together a list of Kells promo tracks for 2009. Hit it after the jump and make it do what it do…Enjoy !!!
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Soulful Sundays continue.. if you liked So Much Soul Vol. 1 [download] by DJ Vinroc of the 5th Platoon DJs, here’s volume 2. So hit it after the jump and enjoy !!!
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Once again it’s on… Soulful Sunday is in full effect! If you liked the previous mix from DJ Haylow, then you’ll love this one. It’s the Love Movement Vol. 2: Love From the Soul. Hit it after the jump and get cha love movement on !!!
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Chaundon, the Bronx born/bred rapper and Hall of Justus member dropped his debut album Carnage on the Indie label Defend. Chaundon enlisted 9th Wonder, Illmind, Khrysis, D1, Foolery, and Analogic to handle the boards. Guest include Sha Stimuli, Torae, Skyzoo, Sean Price, MaG, and others.
The set is incomplete as we all know 9th, Illmind, and Khrysis sample heavy. However, I’ve been slacking on the sets lately and wanted to clear this out my “incomplete folder” [see month of samples]. Plus, the soulfulness of Teddy P, Anita Ward, and Dexter Wansel should hold you all over until we id the rest of the songs.
Whatever is missing hit the comments up. Everything after the cut.
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Kyle Lucas (of the Purple Ribbon band Vonnegutt) & Nobody Famous in the studio working on a track for It’s Always Sunny in Marietta. I had never heard of Kyle Lucas before, but apparently he’s signed to Big Boi’s label. Dude is nice with it. Good look Famous! The mixtape drops Jan 2010!
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KevinNottingham.com, in cooperation with Wonka Beats and Redefinition Records, is giving you a chance to win a copy of the instrumentals to Y Society’s 2007 debut album Travel At Your Own Pace! Two lucky winners will receive one copy each of the album on CD (not the vinyl shown above). Both the CD and vinyl can be purchased via Redifinition Records’ online store, but hit the jump for your chance to win a copy of the CD!
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One of my personal favorite producers, Damu the Fudgemunk, is releasing a new project next month called Kilawatt V1. The 6 track EP is comprised of mostly instrumentals, but also features Raw Poetic of Panacea on a couple of cuts. Hit the jump for a preview of the EP, as well as a free download of one of the cuts, Wonka Beat 1.
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Short on attention span but long in ultra-creative, psychedelic rhymes, Oakland trio iLL-Literacy has some ambitious plans for the next few months. iLL-Lit is aiming to reshape not only the way that music is made but the way it’s distributed. Emcees Drizzleton, Dahlak, and N.I.C. are proud to release the first part of three “chapters” for their new album iB4the1 (pronounced I Before The 1). Confused? Don’t be. It’s just the future.
iLL-Literacy will be releasing iB4the1 in three chapters. The first, Chapter 1 (iB4the1.1), is available now. Because iLL-Literacy believes that traditional means of marketing and distribution have become obsolete, they are releasing all three chapters for free on their website. In an effort to further obliterate the mold, iLL-Lit has partnered with street fashion legend C+ Jewelry to create USBiLL (pronounced “Us Be iLL”), a line of custom limited edition flash drives. A convenient and reusable alternative to CDs, USBiLL will be the primary physical form of the complete iB4the1 trilogy of releases.
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New leak from K. Sparks‘ upcoming album, Soul Food:
“Here is the third leak from Myself and Pajozo’s album Soul Food…this song is entitled The One…I got the inspiration from watching a throw back DVD of The Matrix when Morpheus was talking to Neo and telling him that he’s The One and no one in The Matrix could fuck with him…the beat knocks so it motivated me to come with solid punchlines and flow…myself and Pajozo are aiming to release Soul Food very shortly…it will be available at all digital retailers…props to everyone that supports” -K. SPARKS
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Now here’s a mashup I didn’t see coming! Mixtape DJ extraordinaire, Terry Urban, just released this new mixtape featuring production from 6th Sense, Apple Juice Kid, Double O and others. Lady Stardust is the name. Grab it after the cut…
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Props to the Real Frequency (reppin’ the T-Dot!) for putting this compilation together after they interviewed Boi-1da for their “In the Lab” series.
1da has produced a ton of records for Drake, while collaborating with some of the biggest artists worldwide (including Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Eminem, The Clipse, Dr. Dre, Bun B, Little Brother, Dwele) in the process. This compilation features his biggest records, along with some records from Toronto that you probably haven’t heard featuring the likes of Kardinal Offishall, Saukrates, Rich Kidd, JD Era, King Reign, Famous, Frankie Payne, Andreena Mill, Jack Flawless, Page, & more!
Hit the jump for the link, plus the “In the Lab” interview where they talked about everything from samples vs. original compositions, the situation with Kia Shine and “Best I Ever Had”, other producers that he looks up to in Toronto and worldwide, who he was most proud of having on “Forever”, and why Kardinal Offishall had a similar version of the song out previously…. and more!
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