April 2009

D-Nice presents True Hip Hop Stories: Sadat X

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Music

Another edition of this dope series from D-Nice. Sadat X discusses the origins of his name, Brand Nubian, and his recent incarceration. Lot of jewels in this video. Props to Manifest for sending over the video. Enjoy!

The Plague: Atlantis

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Music Videos

The Plague releases their first video, “Atlantis” off of their new EP, The Plague Co. [Download id not defined]. The project is executive produced by L.T. mOE. Enjoy!

Fokis In Studio with Olu Dara & Dahoud Darien

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Music Videos

Fokis seems to be a man forever on his grind. Peep the video of him in the studio working with Dahoud Darien and Olu Dara who happens to be Nas’s father. Enjoy!

Jermiside Remix Contest Entries

by Kevin April 8, 2009 Contests

The last couple of weeks we have held a remix competition for a couple of Jermiside‘s new tracks. We finally have them all here for download for you all to check out. Final results should be ready this Sunday, but you know how these things go. Grab the remixes after the cut and let us [...]

ArtOfficial: In Your City [New Video]

by Kevin April 8, 2009 Music Videos

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If you’re not up on ArtOfficial, check these guys out! We should be getting a new mixtape from them soon, but for now if you want more ArtOfficial, download their Stranger EP after the cut…

Eternia: Girls Rights Tour

by Sean Deez April 8, 2009 Misc

About 3-4 weeks ago, after doing managerial stuff, I got in contact with who I felt has been Canada’s most prolific and most skilled femcee since Michie Mee, the lovely Eternia. I use “lovely” only to describe her persona off the microphone, the girl is about as fierce as it gets, kicking it on stage [...]

Hevehitta x DJ Unexpected: Southern Royalty [UGK Edition]

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Mixtapes

Hevehitta and DJ Unexpected are dropping another bangin mixtape. Southern Royalty (UGK Edition) is twenty tracks of classic, rare, and original UGK songs. Tracklist and link after the jump…

DJ Concept & Lefty: Gangland 3 [The Young Misguided]

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Mixtapes

DJ Concept hooked back up with his partner Lefty (1 half of the bay area hip-hop group, the Bash Bros) to bring you the latest installment of the Gangland street album series. They describe Volume 3, The Young Misguided, as “a fresh, original take on hip-hop. With so much repetitive music nowadays, it’s good to [...]

Handcancel Presents: Sampeloco

by Thomas April 8, 2009 Singles

Handcancel dropped off his most recent project for your listening pleasure. I’ll let the man himself describe the project: “Well I (Handcancel) have completed my new compilation Handcancel presents Sampeloco. No mashup here- this is created from the ground up by me using some samples, live players and me programming keyboarding, and pressing record on [...]

Rhymefest: The Manual

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Mixtapes

Rhymefest’s anticipated mixtape features updated versions of classic Hip Hop songs. Guest include CL Smooth, Sadat X, Gregg Nice, Queen Latifah, Haffa, and Nature. The majority of the production is handled by Scram Jones, but Blick, Animal House, DJ Premier, and others come through on the boards. After listening to this I’m eagerly awaiting Fest’s [...]

Has-Lo: You Can Live Thru Anything If Magic Made It

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Exclusive

Has-Lo has dropped a new remix project where he remixes some classic tracks by Nas, Cormega, Big Pun, O.C. and others. If your not up on this talented brother, check the two dope projects he dropped last year: F*ck Has Day and Small Metal Objects. Props to Trav over at WYDU for dropping this exclusive [...]

Jon Hope: Something Kind of Wonderful

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Singles

Jon Hope drops his free EP Something Kind of Wonderful on Illroots.com. He’s someone I’ve been checking for since his verse on last years “Destined to Shine” off of Statik Seletah’s Stick 2 the Script. Production is handled by LJC, Surefire, Statik Seletah, and Taktix. Link courtesy of Illroots.com….

The Sistah: Brooklyn Was Beautiful

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Singles

New Soul artist The Sistah releases her first single “Brooklyn Was Beautiful” from the as yet untitled EP. The beautiful acoustic ballad was produced by The Aqua League. You can follow The Sistah on Twitter. Link after the jump.

Crooks & Castles Presents Diz Gibran: Soon You’ll Understand

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Singles

Diz Gibran and producer Moonshine team up for a dope project called Soon You’ll Understand. Diz Gibran out of Los Angeles and Moonshine from Queens, New York are releasing the project in conjunction with Crooks & Castles. You can download the whole album at www.Diznmoon.com and have a chance to win a limited edition Crooks [...]

Thad Reid: Commonwealth Muzik

by Thomas April 7, 2009 Mixtapes

The homie Thad Reid sent us his new project: Commonwealth Muzik. We did an artist spotlight on Thad [read] a couple of weeks ago after we posted his track, “The Reason”. If your not up on him now….its not to late to get on the bus. Tracklist and link after the cut…

Jazmine Sullivan: Dream Big [New Video]

by Kevin April 7, 2009 New Music Releases

Here’s the new video off Jazmine‘s debut album, Fearless [read review]. Fearless was one of my favorite R&B albums last year, but I’m not so sure about the decision to pick this song as a single. Let us know what you think. This is what Jazmine has to say about the new video, “My journey [...]

New Black Milk: Mo Power + Dreams

by Kevin April 7, 2009 Singles

Never one to shy away from the mic for too long, Black Milk recently leaked a brand new web-exclusive track entitled “Dreams”, and now delivers the more experimental “Mo Power“, which finds Black weaving in and out of a jazz loop that few emcees could handle. We missed out on posting “Dreams” when it first [...]

Classified: Never Say Never Tour in Europe

by Kevin April 7, 2009 The Show

Here’s some footage of Classified with D12 and Royce Da 5’9″ on the European leg of his Never Say Never tour, coutesy of the homie Greg! Class has a winner picked for the Beatin It Remix Contest already and we should be announcing that as soon as we can get Class to shoot a little [...]

Big Daddy Kane: Live in Toronto…The Review

by Sean Deez April 7, 2009 The Show

First and foremost, I have to send big shouts to Samantha and Neil of the Substance Group for hooking me up for access to the show and for hooking up the contest winner, Mayan, with two tickets to the show. Secondly, big thanks to Trickey for helping out on the photography side of things. I [...]

Kero One: When The Sunshine Comes

by Kevin April 7, 2009 Music Videos

Kero One has been keeping himself busy lately and lucky for us, we get to reap all the benefits. Today, we get two healthy helpings from Kero: His sophomore effort Early Believers is out today and we also get to peep his second music video, this time for the follow-up single “When The Sunshine Comes” [...]

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