January 2009

Top 10 Emcees of 2008

by Sean Deez January 11, 2009 Exclusive

In the late 1970s, the term Emcee, or MC (master of ceremonies), became associated with the role known as the rapper in hip hop music and culture. An MC uses rhyming verses, whether pre-written or freestyled, to introduce and praise the DJ he or she works with, to hype up the crowd, to pay homage [...]

Illmatic Beat Contest Week 3: The Entries

by Kevin January 11, 2009 Contests

36 beats in Week 3. The judge are still debating Week 2, so please be patient. I know how you guys are… make the beat and move on! And even though most of you are moving ahead to Week 4, feel free to talk about Week 3 here. The user poll is below and you [...]

Illmatic Beat Contest: Week 4

by Kevin January 11, 2009 Contests

Getting into Week 4 of the contest, things will not be getting easier. The contestants are throwing heat week after week, so you best bring your “A” game if you wanna get in on this. The great thing about Illmatic is that the production is near flawless. Every track on the album could be considered [...]

Artist To Watch: Melanie Fiona

by Kevin January 11, 2009 News

2009 is gonna see a host of new bright and shining stars, but none will be able to hold a torch to this young lady. Melanie Fiona, out of Toronto, will be the next big thing this year when her debut, The Bridge, drops later this year. Extremely talented and beautiful, Melaine will be a [...]

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Original Samples

by Thomas January 11, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Originally compiled by our homie Bulldog before his blog took a dump, Consequence‘s Don’t Quit Your Day Job was a must for us to recompile. Most Kanye fans will dig this set as it includes the samples for some of Kanye‘s best beats (“The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” and “Grammy Family”). This set marks [...]

808s & Heartbreak: The Instrumentals

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Singles

Major props go out to my man DJ Chew who put together these unofficial instrumentals of Kanye‘s 808s & Heartbreak. That’s right, these are unofficial, but they are the best unofficial, homemade instrumentals I have ever heard. Excellent quality and very difficult to tell that they aren’t the real deal. So until Kanye releases the [...]

Deams: State Your Game (feat Big Daddy Kane)

by Kevin January 10, 2009 New Music Releases

Here’s some new Big Daddy Kane for that ass! BDK is one of my Top 5 emcees, so I was real happy to see this in my inbox. The single is from an artist named Deams from Amsterdam, who used to roll with Gang Starr as part of their European extended fam, and will be [...]

DJ Concept: Three Kings [Skyzoo, Chaundon & Torae]

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Singles

Now this is a hella-concept! DJ Concept brings together selected joints from Skyzoo, Chaundon, and Torae on his latest mixtape, Three Kings. All three of these cats deserver their shine. Wouldn’t an album with these three be the shit? They should def hook that up!

Ill Poetic & Zone: 2 Dope Boyz

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Singles

Ill Poetic hit me up with some more heat the other day… “2 dope boyz” is Ill Poetic and his partner in rhyme Zone (that dude) (also heard on “City of God” off “The World is Ours” LP). Together known as Definition in the early 2000′s, they haven’t dropped anything as a group in a [...]

Colin Monroe: Piano Lessons [prod by Black Milk]

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Music Videos

Check this hot new video out. I’m not sure who this Colin Monroe guy is, but the video is interesting and the track is produced by Black Milk, featuring a verse from Joel Ortiz. Can’t go wrong there! Looks like BM is branching out his skills! Oh, this is off Colin Monroe’s Unsung Heroes mixtape, [...]

Thad Reid: The Reason

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Singles

Check out this track from VA emcee, Thad Reid, who explains his motives for doing what he does: for the good of hip-hop and to bring people together. Produced by B Keyz, “The Reason” is a positive-minded record that is proof that we all do it for the love.

Ghetto Millionaire: Original Samples

by Thomas January 10, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Day 10 of our January Month of Samples has us hittin up the samples of the 1997 classic from Royal Flush, Ghetto Millionaire. With production from Buckwild, L.E.S., and Da Beatminerz, you can’t go wrong with this album. This set is one of the larger samples sets we have for this month (yet, not the [...]

Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind on Vinyl

by Kevin January 10, 2009 News

Calling all vinyl-enthusiasts and FE-collectors! The 2xLP Gatefold edition of Leave It All Behind will be in stores this Tuesday, January 13th. This is a one-time pressing of only 1000 copies and there will be no future re-presses. Each copy is individually numbered. Phonte and Nicolay have signed a little over 80 copies to be [...]

Cookin Soul: New Skyzoo Track + Plus Kanye Remix

by Kevin January 10, 2009 Singles

Cookin Soul has been busy in the kitchen, cookin up some new jams. They just sent over a new Skyzoo joint, appropriately titled “On Fire”. As a bonus, they also sent over a DJ free copy of their remix of Kanye West‘s “Crack Muzik” which is off the Dj Benzi & Plain Pat : Sky [...]

A. Pinks: Will Rap 4 Food

by Kevin January 9, 2009 Singles

I’m trying my hardest to keep up with all the dope mixtape releases that have happened so far this year. I’m still missing a few good ones, but we’ll get em up eventually. A. Pinks comes out swingin’ for the fences in ’09 with the release of his latest mixtape Will Rap 4 Food. Mixed [...]

Scarface: High Note [NSFW]

by Kevin January 9, 2009 Music Videos

Have you all seen this? I’m a little late cuz I didn’t dare view it at work. For the illiterate, NSFW means “Not Suitable For Work”. So don’t play this at work! lol Face is going out with a bang ya’ll! I might need some alone time for this one…

Vote For Remot’s Remix of Whip Cream!

by Kevin January 9, 2009 Around The Net

There’s a new remix contest going on over at Indabamusic.com for the K-OS track “Whip Cream”. They’re in the voting stages now and This Is Hip Hop fam Remot needs our votes. He’s currently in second place, however the voting is going on until February 3rd. We all know how these remix contest are all [...]

Sha Stimuli & DJ Victorious’ 12 Mixtapes x 12 Months [Complete Collection]

by Kevin January 9, 2009 Around The Net

I gotta give 2DopeBoyz major props for this post. Just when I was about to post up Sha Stimuli‘s latest mixtape, I seen that the dope boyz did up a post of all 12 of his mixtapes from 08! Somehow we managed to miss every single mixtape that was posted each month, so this post [...]

Diddy Endorses Wax & EOM

by Kevin January 9, 2009 Around The Net

This is both hilarious and ingenious! According to an article over at Rollingstone.com, a letter from the Bad Boy office in Valley Village, California signed by Diddy, along with a picture and a pack of gum, found it’s way to the doorsteps of Rolling Stone pleading them to listen to Wax & EOM‘s new album [...]

At The Movies: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Sean Deez January 9, 2009 Movie Reviews

Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swindon, Taraji P. Henson, Julie Ormond Written by: Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich) Directed by: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac) Yes, it’s worth all the acclaim. I’ll say that off the bat to put everything at ease. It should and will win a bunch of awards. [...]

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