February 2009

Illmatic Beat Contest: Week 6 [The Entries]

by Kevin February 8, 2009 Contests

Lots of new blood turned out to hop aboard this week! Should be interesting. 37 Beats submitted. Again, it’s gonna be tough for the judges. We got the streaming player going again, courtesy of Imeem. So feel free to stream or download them all below. Hopefully Trav and the gang will have a winner picked [...]

DJ Cannon Banyon: 36 Chambers – The Motion Picture

by Kevin February 8, 2009 Hot Download

Props to my man MIDIMarc for shootin’ this my way. I know we got a lot of Wu-heads on the site, so hopefully this one will be the soundtrack to start your week. DJ Canyon Banyon out of South Carolina put together this mixtape of old Wu-Tang joints, some new ones off OB4CL2, and some [...]

Illmatic Beat Contest: Week 7

by Kevin February 8, 2009 Contests

Let’s go ahead and start week 7. If you’re unfamiliar with the contest, please take the time to read up on the rules. Everyone is welcome to join in! I see we had a lot of new blood last week… should keep things interesting. One thing to note, that I noticed a couple people did [...]

Krumb Snatcha: Mind Power [prod by Large Pro]

by Kevin February 8, 2009 Singles

Brand new leak off of Krumb Snatcha‘s new album Hidden Scriptures, due out March 10. With previous leaks produced by Statik Selektah and Da Beatminerz, I’m really looking forward to this album. “Mind Power” is produced by Large Professor. Grab it after the cut…

The Inbox: Week 2

by Kevin February 7, 2009 The Inbox

Another week, another full mailbox. This new feature seemed to get a lot of love last week, so we’re gonna keep it going. I’ve decided to extend the inbox to anything that gets sent to me that I don’t put up, not just the unknown artists. There are cats that are leaking stuff every week [...]

Saigon & Statik Selektah: 24 Hours

by Kevin February 7, 2009 Around The Net

How dope is this? Saigon & Statik just did a whole album in a 24 hours period time frame. The name of the album is All In A Day’s Work. Not sure when we’ll hear it, but hopefully soon. Huge Statik fan here!

Pugs Atomz: The General

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Music Videos

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vS_wesPJFM I’m not big on posting a lot of videos on the site, but this one is pretty dope. Pugs Atomz is definitley one to watch out for. The track is alright (produced by Mulatto Patriots), but the video is what caught my eye. More cats need to do videos with an artists eye. Prop [...]

Wake Up Show w/ Keelay & Zaire & Supastitioin

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Around The Net

The versatile production duo, Keelay & Zaire, are not just whetting our appetites this month with their free EP Prelude to Drive, but are filling us up with goodies in anticipation of the full album drop. Gain some insight on how they got into the production game and the processors they were inspired by in [...]

K. Sparks: Soul Child [Freestyle]

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Singles

Yo Sparks, it ain’t Monday… but thanks for dropping this freestyle on us! K. Sparks goes in over a DJ Jazzy Jeff production. You all may remember this beat from Musiq Soulchild’s debut single “Just Friends”. The man Sparks does it justice and it’s a refreshing new take on the track. Grab it after the [...]

H.O.P.E: Love, Lotus

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Music Videos

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New music from H.O.P.E. as a tribute to Dilla, produced by Flying Lotus. The video here is just amazing. Download the mp3 of the song after the cut…

DJ Concept: One [Good Thing About Music]

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Hot Download

This really brightened my day when I saw it in my inbox. I love listening to some Bob Marley… had no idea it was his birthday. DJ Concept does it once again with an incredible mix. I’ll let him explain… “It’s Friday, it’s Bob Marley’s birthday – so I figured it was only right to [...]

Friday Hip Hop Report [2/6]

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Around The Net

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzrSpK3QDko I’ve been getting these the past few weeks from Jumpoff.tv and just passed it off as spam, but I just checked it out and this is a really great rap up of the past week in hip hop news and music. We’ll get these up every Friday from here on out! Hit the jump [...]

Cesar Comanche: Hands High [Video]

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Music Videos

The other day we brought you the premier of Cesar Comanche‘s new single, produced by 9th Wonder. Here’s the video which was shot in Wroclaw, Poland. Die In You Lap will be released on Feb 24, but is available NOW on iTunes!

Let’s Talk with Kagan McLeod

by Sean Deez February 6, 2009 Grafitti

Canadian Interviewer, Nardwuar, was interviewing some guy named Jay-Z when a piece of art caught my attention. Nardwuar brought out a poster, an amazing poster seen above, and Jay-Z was in awe. This poster featured a head shot of every MC you could think of (including some soul pioneers and important figures) and even had [...]

Foundation Fridays: Week 1

by Kevin February 6, 2009 Mixtapes

We all know that one of the foundations of hip hop is the art of sampling. It’s one of our favorite pieces of hip hop here at KevinNottingham.com, in case you couldn’t tell. The way a producer or DJ can take an old breakbeat or soul sample and flip it into a brand new track [...]

DJ BlacqueStarr & The Halftime Hip Hop Show

by Kevin February 5, 2009 News

If you’ve been following our weekly beat contest, you may be familiar with one of our judges DJ BlacqueStarr. So far, BlacqueStarr has been wildly impressed with the magnitude of production coming out of this site. As host of the Halftime Hip Hop Show on WUOG 90.5 in Athens, GA, DJ BlacqueStarr is constently looks [...]

DJ Mickey Knox & DJ Concept: Undefined [The Manual Labor Sessions]

by Kevin February 5, 2009 Hot Download

DJ Mickey Knox & DJ Concept got together to put together this mixtape of tracks from Army Of The Pharoahs, Outerspace, Sabac, Shabaam Sahdeeq and more. All tracks are produced by UNDEFINED for Crisis Center Productions / Manual Labor Music. Check it after the cut…

Diddy: Who’s Hurting Hip-Hop?

by Kevin February 5, 2009 Around The Net

Diddy done did it again. I was about to blog about this the other day, but my favorite white boy B-Dub beat me to it. Seems that Diddy has recently blamed hip-hop’s “recession” on the DJ. His rant sounds almost as ludacris as the photo above. Though there may be a tinge of truth in [...]

Big Boi: Ringtone [New Single]

by Kevin February 5, 2009 Singles

Big Boi messes with the Auto Tune on this first single from the upcoming Luscious Left Foot, due later this year. A lot of people are looking at 2009 to be the year for Aftermath, but I think it’ll actually be Outkast who will come out on top with solo LPs from both Big Boi [...]

Evidence: The Layover EP

by Freddie C February 5, 2009 Music Reviews

Most people who have flown on an airplane have experienced a layover. And most of the time, they’re no fun. But not all layovers are a hassle. Some are in nice airports with comfy chairs and full-service bars. It takes your mind off the fact that you’re still not at your final destination. The rap [...]

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