Veteran producer/rapper Exile has had his share of noteworthy collaborations. Among his more heralded works are the underground favorites, Below the Heavens and Boy Meets World, on which he teamed up with rappers Blu and Fashawn, respectively, producing each work in their entirety. From these well-regarded collaborative projects, as well as his recent solo albums, [...]
Sadistik hit me with these dope visuals for he & Kristoff Krane’s single “Higher Brain” off their upcoming album Prey For Paralysis. The duo’s LP with instrumentalist Graham O’Brien is scheduled to drop November 22nd on Crushkill Recordings, but pre-orders (along with a limited edition t-shirt) are available now on the Seattle emcee’s site and the [...]
DJPremierBlog.com premiered the music video for Showbiz & A.G.’s single “Suspended Animation” off their upcoming album Mugshot Music. Show & A are one of my favorite duos of all-time & with the high quality of these tracks they’ve released so far, I’ve got very high expectations for their comback LP.
After months of leaks & previews, Drewtradition finally drops his debut album Carry On Tradition presented by ShopTradition.com & 2DopeBoyz.com. The producer’s debut project features 15 original cuts with an all-star lineup of guests including B-Real, Apathy, Planet Asia, Sick Jacken Ras Kass, Chace Infinite, DaVinci, Freddie Gibbs, Hawdwerk, Krondon, Ryu & El Prez. Although the LP [...]
Second Generation Dungeon Family & The 5ive member Shred The Verbal Tongue drops his new solo project Shred Season & it’s absolutely free. The Carolina born, Atlanta-based emcee’s solo work includes 12 tracks featuring guest appearances by The 5ive, Collie Buddz & Coco Jones with production handled by Illastrate, Spittzwell (of Beat Gods), Team MF’N, Mr. Enok & [...]
Killer Mike & Talib Kweli join Houston’s own Cory Mo on his latest single “Gettin To The Money” produced by Don Cannon. The track will appear on the UGK affiliate’s upcoming mixtape Country Rap Tunes Vol. 1 hosted by DJ Smallz, which drops November 11th. Props to DGB.
Wais P lays down some more of his signature pimp rhymes on “So Bad” produced by DJ Concept. Look out for the veteran emcee’s DJ Premier produced Premo Pimpin EP, which is coming soon.
During his recent European tour with PremRock, Willie Green crafted the third edition in his instrumental series Four Seasons. Fall (Movement 3) sees Green take his production into colder tempos and more melodic sounds. Don’t forget to cop PremRock & Willie Green’s self-titled album, which is available now.
Has-Lo enlists the help of the Low Budget Crew’s own Kev Brown for the new version of “Never Was Yours” off Conversation B. The Philly emcee’s re-envisioned version of debut In Case I Don’t Make It drops November 15th and is available now to pre-order via iTunes.
Portland emcee/producer Sapient releases the final visual for his Tusks! album with the “Inglorious Days” music video. The Sandpeople member will continue his Eaters series shortly, but you can pick up Volume One right now.
As Lil’ Dee explains at the beginning, the filming of this “Heart Listens” video ending up getting the New Orleans emcee & his crew arrested. Despite that setback, Dee got the job done & delivered some dope visuals for the track. The song is featured on his mixtape The Spokesman Vol. 2, which was released earlier [...]
Here’s a dope rendition of Tyler, The Creator’s “Seven” as the Odd Future leader gets some help from Canadian jazz fusion trio BADBADNOTGOOD. The original track appears on Tyler’s debut album Bastard, which dropped back in 2009.
With Halloween right around the corner, Blue Sky Black Death put together this video for Nacho Picasso’s “Bad Guy” (which they produced). BSBD & Nacho have also re-released their collaboration project For The Glory with the instrumentals and an exclusive remix by Blockhead on NachoPicasso.com.
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Jones Andrews but the North Carolina emcee returns with his new cut ”All Alone” produced by Equinox Productions. The track is the first single off his upcoming The Jones Andrews Experiment EP, which is scheduled to drop on December 6th.
Potholes In My Blog put together an instrumental compilation consisting of tracks from Al Jieh, D.L.O., Danny!, Paul White, J57, The Super 3, and others. Tracklist and link underneath. Via PIMB
Pusha T uses some Ric Flair (and Killer Mike) as inspiration for the latest leak from his Fear Of God Part 2: Let Us Pray EP. The EP drops on the 8th of November.
The LA native will be dropping his new album, The Stratosphere this coming Friday (10/28). No other details on the album, but we’ll update everyone once we receive additional information.
Rakaa releases a video for the title track to his solo album. Crown Of Thorns dropped July 201, but is still available at iTunes and Amazon. Video is a little late since the album dropped over a year ago, but better late than never I guess.
Freeway gathered the State Property crew together for his track off his new mixtape, The Intermission dropping sometime today. All members (minus Peedi and Neef Buck) provide solid verses over Jake One‘s knocking track. Sounds like 2001-2002 all over again.
It’s that time of the week again, new music has arrived in stores and online! The projects that I’m going to check out this week are Statik Selektah‘s Population Control and Reef The Lost Cauze‘s collabo album with the Snowgoons. See the full list of releases and let us know if you’re spending your hard [...]
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