January 2009

S.2: Low Cohesion

by Kevin January 6, 2009 Singles

KevinNottingham.com resident beatmaker S.2 dropped a remixtape a couple of weeks ago that any fan of our remix contests must check out. S.2 remixed songs from Pharoahe Monch, Immortal Technique, Murs, and Saigon amongst others. So check it out, and look for his beats in our current Illmatic Beat Contest!

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Soundtrack: Original Samples

by Kevin January 6, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Day 6 of our January Month of Samples brings us to 50 Cent and his G-Unit crew. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ wasn’t the greatest movie, but the soundtrack was pretty much on point. I mean, who didn’t love the soulful singles “Hustler’s Ambition”, “Window Shopper”, or “Best Friend”? If the sappy 50 wasn’t your [...]

K. Sparks: Purpose?

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Singles

Week 19 of K. Sparks‘ Manic Mondays… when will the madness end?!?! If you missed out on all of last years tracks, you can grab em all right here. This week’s song is “Purpose” produced by D Roof… “It’s a new year and a new grind…I accomplished what I wanted for 2008 and now in [...]

Ronni Moorehead Soul & Hip Hop Mix Show

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Around The Net

The homie Ronnie Rebel is back with his first mix of the year, and the man has done it up right! Kicking things off with Skillz‘s “2008 Rap Up”, then hittin’ us with People Under The Stairs, Trav Williams, Mick Boogie & Adele, and some unreleased Q-Tip all in the first hour! This is definitely [...]

A. Pinks: Spit Ya Game

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Music Videos

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A. Pinks gets the BET co-sign- check out his “Spit Ya Game” segment on BET. The homey Pinks also has his Will Rap For Food mixtape droppin’ this Friday, stay tuned!!

Let’s Talk with Akon

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Artist Spotlight

Chances are you will be hard pressed not to hear an Akon song on the radio at any given moment. The hip hop/R&B singer-songwriter and Grammy nominated record producer has literally been everywhere over the course of the last three years. Aside from his solo albums, Trouble and Konvicted, superstars such as Young Jeezy, Eminem, [...]

Shiest Bubz: Fistfullofmoney [prod by Cookin Soul]

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Singles

Cookin Soul is on the come up this year… here’s their latest production. DOWNLOAD Cookin Soul Online

Bun B: Southern Royalty [Re-Issue]

by Kevin January 5, 2009 Singles

Hevehitta and DJ Unexpected are back once again with another mixtape banger! Bun B – Southern Royalty (Re-Issue) features 20 tracks from the Trill OG himself. Including rarites, b sides, freestyles and features. For all Bun B / Texas Hip Hop fans!!

Mood Muzik 3: Original Samples

by Thomas January 5, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Day 5 of our January Month of Samples brings us our last Joe Budden sample set (at least until Padded Room is released next month). Mood Muzik 3 was released in basically 3 forms, the mixtape, the album, and then the 3.5 mixtape. We’ve compiled what we could get here. Hope you guys are enjoying [...]

Illmatic Beat Contest Week 2: The Entries

by Kevin January 4, 2009 Contests

Wow, 44 entries this week! Us judges really have our work cut out for us. Lots of new talent hittin’ up the contest this week and I also see a few familiar faces from past contests. As usual, we got all the beats that were submitted in a player to the right and you can [...]

Illmatic Beat Contest: Week 1 Winner

by Kevin January 4, 2009 Contests

I think I speak for all the judges when I say this week was tough! All week we’ve been listening to the beats everyone submitted as the opening intro to ILLTravis. Here are the results…

Illmatic Beat Contest: Week 3

by Kevin January 4, 2009 Contests

So far this beat contest has been hot, hot, hot! We just about have the winner of Week 1 determined… should have that posted today or tomorrow. Moving along into Week 3, we’re gonna recreate Nas‘ fourth single from Illmatic, “Life A Bitch”. Two samples were used for this track: The Gap Band‘s “Yearning For Your [...]

DJ Grain: Ear To The Streets [12/27]

by Kevin January 4, 2009 Around The Net

Here’s DJ Grain‘s Ear To the Streets report for 2008 on The Edutainment Hip Hop Show. The Movement Fam founder, Cee, also dropped by the show. Check that out…

Cold Legistics: Deeper Than You Think

by Kevin January 4, 2009 Singles

Got this really dope project in my email the other day from Praverb. Pra is supporting his homie The Admiral, who is part of the group Cold Legistics. The Admiral breaks it down like this… ”the whole project was inspired by Madlib’s Shades of Blue, I bought it on vinyl a few months ago and listened [...]

Mood Muzik 2: Original Samples

by Thomas January 4, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Day 4 and we’re stickin’ with Joe. We rarely do mixtape sample sets, but this samples in this set are just too nice. If you’re keeping up with our January Month of Samples, we’ve only just begun… at least 27 more sample sets to drop.

Little Brother: GetbackArmy.com Mixtape, Vol 5

by Kevin January 3, 2009 Singles

About a month and a half ago we posted Every Little Brother Track You Could Ever Want That Is Not on Any of Their Retail Albums, which included Volumes 1-4 of the GetbackArmy.com‘s Mixtape series. Well, GetbackArmy.com is kicking the New Year off right by releasing Volume 5 with not one, not two, but three [...]

Jay-Z + Radiohead = JaydioHead

by Kevin January 3, 2009 Singles

Honestly, when will the Jay remixes stop? I’m a Jay-stan as much as the next guy, but it’s gotten to the point where the originals are starting to sound refreshing. No diss to this project; I haven’t heard it yet. So please check it out. We need some new acapellas for people to remix though. [...]

Joe Budden: Original Samples

by Kevin January 3, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Day 3 of our January Month of Samples? Man I wish we could just unload them all to you at once… but what fun would that be? I actually think we have more than 31 sets ready, so we may double up a few days this month. Today brings us to Joe Budden‘s debut, self-titled [...]

JD Riggz: Times Up

by Kevin January 3, 2009 Singles

New heat for the New Year from JD Riggz… Masterpiece Theater droppin’ in February! DOWNLOAD JD Riggz on MySpace

Top 20 Verses of 2008

by Sean Deez January 2, 2009 Exclusive

This list should exemplify the massive talent an MC has in those 16-32-48 bars. Some are guest spots who stole the show and others have a guest spot, but made the orginal artist irrelevant. I really could’ve filled this list with Elzhi and Royce verses; I tried to expand though. Peep it. (Excludes any songs [...]

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