July 2010

Don Cannon Presents Hollyweerd: Edible Phat 2.0 [Mixtape]

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Mixtapes

And the mixtapes keep coming…. this one comes courtesy of the good people at DJBooth.net. We’ve featured Hollyweerd on the site before, so I’ll be checking this one out. Atlanta foursome Hollyweerd have joined forces with DJBooth.net to bring fans their long-awaited new mixtape, Edible Phat 2.0. Hosted by heavyweight mixtape DJ/radio personality Don Cannon, [...]

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DJ Vex & Jon Quest: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Mixtapes

Here’s another mixtape from the inbox that caught my ear, from Pittsburgh emcee Jon Quest.

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Cayoz: Mixed Vibes [Mixtape]

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Mixtapes

It’s a slow day so I’m going through the inbox. Never heard of this cat before, but I previewed his stuff on Bandcamp and liked what I heard. 21 year old Cali Native Cayoz serves up another offering in the form of “The Mixed Vibes Mixtape” a solid 20 track effort put together late 2009. [...]

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Quake: Closer [Music Video]

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Music Videos

Here’s a new video from Atlanta emcee Quake (not to be confused with the Canadian rapper of the same name). This track is pretty hot. If I can get a hold of the audio, bet it’ll make next month’s ipod mix.

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Chris Read: BBE Mixtape Competition 2010

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Coming Soon

Chris Read, a DJ who has seen all of his mixes posted on this site, has a brand new mixtape comprising a selection of cuts from the consistently impressive BBE Label (some time home to artists including Dilla, Pete Rock, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Spinna, Marley Marl and producer of great compilations from the likes of Kon & [...]

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J. Cole Reveals 3 Tracks That Made The Cut For Debut Album

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Around The Net

J. Cole sits down with SoulCulture to talk about three tracks that will appear on his debut album, due this October.

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Commoners And Kings: Resurrection

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Singles

Commoners And Kings, the spoken word collective from Long Beach, CA just finished recording their sophomore album Until Tomorrow. Here’s the first leak, “Resurrection”. You can also check their Bandcamp page for other downloads. Every so often a generation is blessed with an elite group of artist that push there craft beyond the limit, a [...]

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The Away Team: Independence Day [Mixtape]

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Hot Download

Khrysis and Sean Boog dropped a new Away Team mixtape out of nowhere yesterday in celebration of our nation’s birth. Can’t go wrong with a new Away Team mixtape!

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SMKA & Whynatte: ATL Stargazing Tour – East Side Lounge Recap

by Kevin July 5, 2010 Sponsored Events

As previously mentioned, we are co-sponsoring The Atlanta Stargazing Tour, presented by SMKA & Whynatte. So as the tour goes on, we will be providing you with recaps, photos, music, video, etc from the events. The first show was this past Thursday at East Side Lounge. Here’s what went down: The first stop of the [...]

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Ro Spit: A Different Arrangement (According to Ro Spit)

by Thomas July 4, 2010 Downloads

I’ve given this more than a few spins since it dropped during the early part of June.  The Michigan emcee provides rap vocals to Mayer Hawthorne‘s extremely dope, A Strange Arrangement album.  I’ll let Ro explain the project. The return of the Fly Emcee is upon us with a slightly different approach. Arriving June 8th [...]

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Twone Gabz: Hip Hop vs. Gucci

by Thomas July 4, 2010 Downloads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Q4s_ZdvAQ”>”Lemonade”

Second Twone Gabz post of the day. This mixtape dropped in February with Twone and his cohorts rhyming over Gucci Mane instrumentals. I’m only familiar with Gucci‘s “Lemonade” song (I like this song), but other than that I avoid his music. With that said I’m pretty sure Twone and crew destroy Gucci lyrically on his [...]

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Twone Gabz: Bully [Music Video]

by Thomas July 4, 2010 Music Videos

Fresh off his show stealing verse on Rhymefest‘s “Truth on You” from El Che [review] Twone Gabz comes with a video for “Bully.”  The Will Gates produced clip is the presumably the lead single to his forthcoming mixtape/album of the same name.  Twone plans on dropping the project sometime this summer.

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Charles Hamilton Releases Six New Mixtapes

by Kevin July 4, 2010 Downloads

I’m not much of a Charles Hamilton fan myself, but this is pretty unbelievable. Spotted over at 2DB, after Charles released his new mixtape Well This Isn’t Akward: Winner Takes All, Hamilton leaked 5 other mixtapes that he has been working on since we last heard from him. More info can be found on his [...]

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DJ Jazzy Jeff + Mick Boogie: Summertime [The Mixtape]

by Kevin July 4, 2010 Hot Download

Happy Independence Day! If you’re like me, you’ll be gettin your BBQ on this afternoon and catching the fireworks tonight. Thanks to the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie, we have a Summertime mixtape to use as our 4th of July soundtrack. The tracklist looks extremely dope and you know these 2 DJs cut [...]

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Black Milk: How Dare You

by Thomas July 4, 2010 Singles

Here is another track that WONT be on Black Milk‘s forthcoming album, Album of the Year.  Another heater from Black with all his standard greatness:   knocking drums, sharp lyrics, and instrumental outro to close the track.  Sample clearance has to be the only reason this isn’t making the album, has to be.  Album of the [...]

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Kenny Dope: Soul Trippin’

by J. Rizzle July 4, 2010 Soulful Sundays

Here’s a bonus post that from the legendary Kenny Dope (Raheem DeVaughn & Rasheed Chappell) that all crate diggerz will enjoy. Link after the jump.

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DJ Manie: The Baby Makin’ Mixtape

by J. Rizzle July 4, 2010 Soulful Sundays

Here’s a mixtape for setting off your own personal fireworks, so hit it at the jump and enjoy!

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Dwele: W.ants W.orld W.omen Mixtape

by J. Rizzle July 4, 2010 Soulful Sundays

It’s Soulful Sunday and today we are gonna kick it off with Dwele‘s mixtape spotted at Soulified. The mixtape contains three of the sixteen tracks found on his latest album, W.ants W.orld W.omen album (“What’s Not to Love,” “How I Deal (Youtube Version),”  and “My People”).  Hit the jump for the tracklist and link. W.ants [...]

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What’s On the iPod: July 2010 Edition

by Kevin July 3, 2010 What's On The iPod

Yup, looks like this series is back… at least for the time being. If you wore out last month’s ipod playlist, this one should be a good addition. Most everything here has been featured on the site, but it’s stayed in constant rotation on my iPod. Check it…

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Show Tufli: Can’t Fight the Feeling/Give it Me

by Kevin July 3, 2010 Music Videos
http://vimeo.com/moogaloo

I’m not up on this dude, but Danimal recommended it in the cbox. This is definitely one cat that I’m gonna look up. Really dope music. He did his thing over that “Brown Sugar” beat. Check this video out!

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