December 2010

Danny Dance: House Music For the Motown Soul

by Kevin December 25, 2010 Downloads

Wow… I normally don’t post music that I don’t like, but this one is definitely creative. If you dig house music, you can bump this during holiday dinner tonight. Warning: it may piss off your parents and give everyone a headache. But hey, that’s just my thoughts on this genre of music. Dude really went [...]

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Roads-Art Productions: Special Gifts Vol. 2 [Holiday Beat Tape]

by Kevin December 25, 2010 Hot Download

Roads-Art gives us volume two of his Special Gifts beat tape series. If you get sick of Christmas music today, chill out to this… >

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4word Presents: A 4word Christmas

by Kevin December 25, 2010 Around The Net

Nastee breaks down some real Christmas facts behind the illusion. The truth about this holiday is usually obstructed by people thinking they are doing their good deed for the year. It’s really just about Capitalism! But there’s more to it than buying a material item, your buying into a dream engineered by people who want [...]

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Don Cerino: 12 Days of Christmas [Mixtape]

by Kevin December 25, 2010 Hot Download

We’ve been following Don Cerino the past 12 days with his 12 Days of Christmas series. Today he packages them all up nice in one mixtape download. So if you missed any of them, grab the whole thing after the jump. Oh, and Merry Christmas!!!

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D-Wirks: Time

by Thomas December 24, 2010 Singles

As I’m ready to shut down the net for the night the homie D. Schwartz sends a DM with a new D-Wirks track.  Beewirks gives Schwartz a bluesy guitar banger to spit over.  D’s second verse is that ish.

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Ghostface Killah: Apollo Kids (Tokyo Cigar Remix)

by Thomas December 24, 2010 Singles

The homie Tokyo Cigar sent through his remix to Ghostface “Apollo Kids” after being inspired by his new album of the same name. Hit the cut for the track.

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Ski Beatz: Moon Walkin (feat STS) [Music Video]

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Music Videos

Ski just sent this through on Twitter… brand new video featuring STS off of the upcoming 24 Hour Karate School Part 2!

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Carlitta Durand: Nostalgic Nights EP

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Hot Download

After a successful outcome of first extended play release, “Doug & Patty” last Christmas Eve, Carlitta Durand sticks to the tradition and releases her second EP, “Nostalgic Nights,” avaiable for free download. The “Nostalgic Nights” EP features production from Brooklyn producer Jay Sentine, France’s Swan Dito, San Diego’s Abjo and Doug & Patty and M1 Platoon [...]

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HiPNOTT Records Year End Sale: All Albums Available for $3.99

by Kevin December 24, 2010 News

To get into the holiday spirit, HiPNOTT Records has reduced the price of its entire catalog to $3.99 per album download. This includes some of our greatest releases from 2010, including: Cymarshall Law – Creator’s Kid K. Sparks – A Day In The Life Spectac & Amiri – Almost Famous Jermiside & Danny Diggs – Middle [...]

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Help Fund The Upcoming Hall of Justus + Tanya Morgan Tour!

by Kevin December 24, 2010 The Show

It’s the time of year to give and what better way to give than by helping your favorite rappers to go on tour! The tour has already been booked, but the guys are looking to raise $1500 by January 20th to help them along the way. KN.com has already donated $20 to the cause. Help [...]

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Joe Budden: Ordinary Love Shit Pt. 1

by Thomas December 24, 2010 Singles
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Random Joe Budden track floating around the net sporting a Sade sample. Joe‘s third verse is that ish. Another thought…..why is his putting out a new song and not promoting MM4? Just saying.

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Killer Mike & El-P Recording Collaboration Album x Snippet

by Justin December 24, 2010 Coming Soon

We already knew Killer Mike would be releasing his much anticipated I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind 3 in February but Maurice Garland has confirmed that Mike is working on another album entirely produced by El-P. If you follow Mike and/or El-P on Twitter, you’ve seen both mention recording together but we now know it’s for this collaboration project. R.A.P. Music (Rebellious African People Music) will be released [...]

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GhostWridah: To Be In Love [Music Video]

by Justin December 24, 2010 Music Videos

Here’s another music video from GhostWridah, this one for his single “To Be In Love” produced by Rem. The track appears on the Miami emcee’s street album In Love With My Future which is available now.

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Laws: Run Away [Music Video]

by Justin December 24, 2010 Music Videos

Laws drops some visuals for the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League produced “Run Away” off 4:57 PM project that was released earlier this year. The Florida emcee is finishing up his new Paul McCartney tribute mixtape entitled Yesterday’s Future.

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Rick Ross: Ashes To Ashes [Mixtape]

by Thomas December 24, 2010 Downloads

Rick Ross drops his new mixtape right before Christmas with all new tracks featuring Drake, T.I., Ludacris, Ne-Yo, Big Sean, and others.  Production comes from Lex Luger, Nasty Beat Makers, Clinton Sparks, Justice League, Boi-1da, and others.  I know its not popular to like Ricky, but I know yall will hit that link.  Tracklist and [...]

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Amor Jones: Weekend Warrior [prod by Nefarious!]

by Justin December 24, 2010 Singles

Amor Jones brings to you a new anthem for all of those who party hard on the weekend with the Nefarious! produced “Weekend Warrior.” The track will appear on Amor’s The Wake Up Show which drops February 8th and is presented by we here at KN.com as well as The Soul Dojo.

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Cookin Soul & Don Cannon Present Nas: The Lost Tapes 1.5

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Hot Download

Since we don’t know when or if Nas’ Lost Tapes v2 will be dropping, Cookin Soul and Don Cannon hooked up again for another dope mixtape.

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Statik Selektah + Termanology + Reks + Kali + JFK + Teyana Taylor: Christmas In Boston

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Singles

I’ve never been to Boston, but if I did I imagine this is what Christmas in Boston would sound like. Props to Statik Selektah and his Showoff Records for having a great year in 2010!

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Truck North: Ya’ll Know Who

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Singles

I’ve been on vacation most of the month and wasn’t supposed to be back until the first of the year, but I was up early this morning and bored so I decided to pop in and post a few things. Here’s a new joint from Truck North of the Money Making Jam Boys.

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The Artifacts: UndergroundHipHop.com In-Store Performance

by Kevin December 24, 2010 Around The Net

The recently reunited Artifacts made the up north trip to the renown UndergroundHipHop.com in Boston on Dec. 18th to rock an in-store before there performance at The Western Front in Cambridge. Check out the three-man trifecta of Tame One, El Da Sensei & DJ Kaos catch wreck and get the props! More footage after the [...]

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