And the free albums keep on coming! This one comes as a bit of a surprise though. Due out on Def Jux, South Carolina emcee/producer Danny! decided to drop his album Where is Danny? for free because of some other websites leaking the album. A retail version will be available later with some bonus tracks. [...]
West Coast lyricist Ras Kass is back and delivers his new street album Quarterly. The project features guest appearances by Killah Priest, Krondon, Mistah F.A.B. & more. Tracklist & link after the jump. You can download the project for free but can also name your price & support Ras.
4-Ize drops his brand new album Illuminated Animals and you don’t have to pay a dollar for it! The album includes guest appearances by Senor Kaos & eMC’s Punchline as well as production from Floyd The Locsmif, Rasta Root and Morgan & Cash. Full cover, tracklist & link after the jump.
Señor Kaos – “Funeral Of The Fro” from Señor Kaos on Vimeo. Senor Kaos cuts off the afro for the changing of the decade in this video by B Price. Friends share their memories of the fro and Kaos joins 4-Ize for a performance as well.
We may hate him as an artist, envy him as a millionaire, and even despise him as a person. Regardless, there is no denying how entertaining Curtis Jackson can be on a regular basis. Sure, he may craft an entire album titled Curtis, suggesting a more introspective look at the thoughts inside of the head [...]
I swear, New York gets all the hot shows. This one’s going down next Monday night and features Donny Goines, Emilio Rojas, Shawn Chrystopher, Rain and more. If you’re in the New York area and wanna go for free, hit the jump for a chance to win a pair of tickets!
Ryan-O’Neil (aka The One Hand Bandit) is back with a brand new project called Hyphenated & Apostrophed. I’m a huge fan of Ryan’s and was totally excited when I got the message from him on Facebook. We haven’t heard a full project from Ryan-O’Neil since his 2007 album with 100dBs: The One Hand Bandit and [...]
Hevehitta and Unexpected have brought back the Southern Royalty mixtape series, and who better to do a Southern Royalty than “The King of the South” T.I.. Hevehitta and Unexpected give you a story of Clifford Harris from his drugs day all the way up to his successful rap career. Heve and Un go outside their [...]
The rap collective known as Slaughterhouse release a second video from their self-titled debut album [review & sample set]. “Mircophone” is one of the albums strongest cuts with all of the rappers giving a great performance with Joell merking the track as usual. Clip directed by John Colombo with The Alchemist on the boards. Video [...]
For our Soulful Sunday bonus post, we have some good ish for any R. Kelly fan. The folks over at www.qt-online.nl put together a list of Kells promo tracks for 2009. Hit it after the jump and make it do what it do…Enjoy !!!
Soulful Sundays continue.. if you liked So Much Soul Vol. 1 [Download id not defined] by DJ Vinroc of the 5th Platoon DJs, here’s volume 2. So hit it after the jump and enjoy !!!
Once again it’s on… Soulful Sunday is in full effect! If you liked the previous mix from DJ Haylow, then you’ll love this one. It’s the Love Movement Vol. 2: Love From the Soul. Hit it after the jump and get cha love movement on !!!
Chaundon, the Bronx born/bred rapper and Hall of Justus member dropped his debut album Carnage on the Indie label Defend. Chaundon enlisted 9th Wonder, Illmind, Khrysis, D1, Foolery, and Analogic to handle the boards. Guest include Sha Stimuli, Torae, Skyzoo, Sean Price, MaG, and others. The set is incomplete as we all know 9th, Illmind, [...]
Kyle Lucas (of the Purple Ribbon band Vonnegutt) & Nobody Famous in the studio working on a track for It’s Always Sunny in Marietta. I had never heard of Kyle Lucas before, but apparently he’s signed to Big Boi’s label. Dude is nice with it. Good look Famous! The mixtape drops Jan 2010!
KevinNottingham.com, in cooperation with Wonka Beats and Redefinition Records, is giving you a chance to win a copy of the instrumentals to Y Society‘s 2007 debut album Travel At Your Own Pace! Two lucky winners will receive one copy each of the album on CD (not the vinyl shown above). Both the CD and vinyl [...]
One of my personal favorite producers, Damu the Fudgemunk, is releasing a new project next month called Kilawatt V1. The 6 track EP is comprised of mostly instrumentals, but also features Raw Poetic of Panacea on a couple of cuts. Hit the jump for a preview of the EP, as well as a free download [...]
Short on attention span but long in ultra-creative, psychedelic rhymes, Oakland trio iLL-Literacy has some ambitious plans for the next few months. iLL-Lit is aiming to reshape not only the way that music is made but the way it’s distributed. Emcees Drizzleton, Dahlak, and N.I.C. are proud to release the first part of three “chapters” [...]
New leak from K. Sparks‘ upcoming album, Soul Food: “Here is the third leak from Myself and Pajozo’s album Soul Food…this song is entitled The One…I got the inspiration from watching a throw back DVD of The Matrix when Morpheus was talking to Neo and telling him that he’s The One and no one in [...]
Now here’s a mashup I didn’t see coming! Mixtape DJ extraordinaire, Terry Urban, just released this new mixtape featuring production from 6th Sense, Apple Juice Kid, Double O and others. Lady Stardust is the name. Grab it after the cut…
Props to the Real Frequency (reppin’ the T-Dot!) for putting this compilation together after they interviewed Boi-1da for their “In the Lab” series. 1da has produced a ton of records for Drake, while collaborating with some of the biggest artists worldwide (including Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Eminem, The Clipse, Dr. Dre, Bun B, Little Brother, [...]