May 2009

The Inbox: Week Ending 5/9/09

by Kevin May 9, 2009 The Inbox

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You would think the more I post during the week, the lighter my inbox would get. That just doesn’t seem to be the case. Another blogger recently asked me, “how do you get through all the emails people send you?” Then he noticed this Inbox series and was like, “ah, ingenious!” So don’t be surprised [...]

Melanie Fiona: Island Boy

by Thomas May 8, 2009 Around The Net

New song from the lovely Melanie Fiona presumably from her album The Bridge out this summer. Props to OnSmash for the link.

Reflection Eternal In The Studio

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Around The Net

http://vimeo.com/moogaloo

I meant to get this up the other day, but if you haven’t seen this and dig Reflection Eternal, check it out. Kweli & Tek crack jokes in the studio, taking a break from working on the new album Revolutions Per Minute in Cincinnati. Props to Tunji!

Kanye West: Amazing [Video]

by Thomas May 8, 2009 Music Videos

http://vimeo.com/moogaloo

This has been floating around for a while. Nice video and one of the better songs on 808′s and Heartbreak. Spotted at Metal Lungies

Classified: Up All Night

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Singles

“Up All Night” is the next single off Classified‘s Self Explanatory [our review], which is out now! The single will be shipped to Canadian radio next week and Class will be shooting a video to it soon, as well as a video for “Quit While You’re Ahead”. Grab it after the cut. Shout out to [...]

Pee Duble: Lark On My Go Cart [Freestyle]

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Singles

My man Pee Dub hops on Asher’s track and does it quite well. Check him out after the cut…

Cassie or Rihanna?

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Around The Net

Ok, you all have seen the pics. This poll is for my dawgs out there… let me apologize in advance to the ladies on the site. Anyway, who’s your pick? Personally, I gotta give it up for Cassie. I hear everybody raving over the Rihanna pics, be that girl just don’t do anything for me. [...]

New Mixtapes From Busta, The Cool Kids, Red+Meth, etc

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Mixtapes

This week was a pretty solid week for mixtape releases, starting off Monday with the release of Busta Rhymes‘ I Bullshit You Not and shortly thereafter with a new Cool Kids mixtape. We also saw mixtapes from Raekwon, Redman & Method Man and many others. A lot of you may have already grabbed these from [...]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

by Sean Deez May 8, 2009 Movie Reviews

Directed by Gavin Hood (Tsoti) Starring Huge Jackman, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am Has any series been as weirdly developed as the X-men series? The first one was good to build up a sentimental and in depth plot, but lacked any cool action and development of some of the most memorable cartoon and [...]

Tanya Morgan: The Story Behind Brooklynati

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Coming Soon

No one is more excited for May 12th to arrive than the dudes from rap trio, Tanya Morgan, as they finally get to move to Brooklynati. With their bags packed and the album dropping on Tuesday, here’s a short video of Von Pea, Ilyas, and Donwill opening their finished CDs for the first time. Watch [...]

Melanie Fiona: Give It To Me Right

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Music Videos

Mos Def: Casa Bey

by Kevin May 8, 2009 Singles

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Here’s some exclusive new Mos Def; the title track off his new album, Casa Bey. The album drops June 9th and features guest spots from Talib Kweli and Slick Rick and production from Oh No, Chad Hugo, Mad Lib, Mr. Flash and the late J. Dilla, among others. “Casa Bey” is a song based on [...]

Efil4zaggin: Original Samples

by Thomas May 8, 2009 Diggin' In Da Crates

Props again to Onez for bangin this set out. Efil4zaggin (known as Niggaz4Life) is the final album from N.W.A. before Dr. Dre left the group for Death Row Records. The album reached number one on the Billboard charts in its second week without much radio/television backing. Many familiar samples with a few new ones from [...]

DJ Mickey Knox: Love Is… A Homage To Al Green

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Hot Download

Love Is…. Whatever you make of it. In this case, DJ Mickey Knox shows his love for music with this ill homage to Al Green. This is straight chill out music, so relax and let Mr. Green & Mickey take you away.

Soulstice: Beyond Borders (feat Supastition & Angelina)

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Singles

After leaking the first track (“Unfold” f/Oddisee) last week from his forthcoming LP, Beyond Borders, today Soulstice has unveiled the title track and had this to say about its creation. “It wasn’t until we were a few songs into recording “Beyond Borders” that I came up with the name and concept for the album. After [...]

Scratch: The Man (feat Estelle & Terri Walker)

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Singles

Here’s an unreleased cut off Scratch‘s new album Lost 4 Wordz, which drops on May 26th. The former Roots member enlisted UK’s Estelle and Terri Walker to help him out on “The Man”. The new album looks promising as it includes features from Kanye West, Consequence, M.O.P, Damon Albarn, Talib Kweli, Peedi Crakk, Musiq Soulchild, [...]

Hip Hop Blogs I Check

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Around The Net

Aight, so this whole Vibe Top 50 list has a lot of people going nuts on the Internet. It’s just a list, people. But anyway, I just wanted to share with you all what site’s I personally check on the regular through my Google RSS Reader. I don’t think anyone else has disclosed this type [...]

Eminem: Relapse Intro + Insane Preview

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Singles

The faucet is on as a couple more tracks from Eminem‘s Relapse slowly leak onto the Net. We won’t be contributing to the problem, because we aren’t one of “those sites”. But we will give you a sneak peak of the album’s Intro and a track that has not made it to any other site [...]

Vibe Magazine’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Blogs

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Around The Net

Spotted this over at IllRoots. Someone had told me that Vibe created a Top 50 list of hip hop blogs. I almost picked the magazine up out of curiosity and to see if we made the cut. Unfortunately we did not. I ain’t mad… these lists are usually biased anyway. Illroots did make. Neither did [...]

New Kool G Rap: Dopeman [prod by Cookin Soul]

by Kevin May 7, 2009 Singles

Brand new track from Kool G Rap! You may have heard a version of this song floating around the Net with Pusha T and Nikki Manj. Kool G has had this beat for over a year now from them Cookin Soul cats and he said, “the hell with it, let’s leak it now”! Major props [...]

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