Welcome back to another edition of Salute The DJ. When Arasia brought this idea up, I made a list of the DJ’s I wanted to chop it up with. That list contained some of the DJ’s I felt were extremely important figures in Hip Hop and this month I had the honor of having [...]
Dave East comes through with a new video for his cut “Monster” off of his DJ Radio hosted Don’t Sleep mixtape. This is one of my favorite cuts off the project. Dave East has got some serious bars on this joint.
Got some new joints from DOPEHEAD who has now dropped the deluxe edition of his acclaimed Plaid Palm Trees album. The re-release includes three never heard before bonus tracks, including the Skillz produced “Jooky,” “Get High”, featuring Chavis Chandler with production by Frank Dukes and the Drumma B produced “Keys.” These are some tough joints to be added to [...]
Atlanta duo Mach Five teams up with Detroit’s Danny Brown on the latest track “Molly (On My Tongue)” from their forthcoming EP Ratchet Shit Vol. 1 Presented by 2DopeBoyz and OG Ron C. This cut has me rollin’. You will be able to cop Ratchet Shit Vol. 1 on February 28th. Molly (On My Tongue) ft. Danny Brown by Mach Five
This is a good way to start the day. Off of Lee Bannon‘s upcoming Fatastic Plastic LP comes the Del The Funkee Homosapien, S.O.L., and yU assisted “PG&E.” However, this is a special joint because it is an alternate version that will not be on the February 28th release because due to timing yU’s verse [...]
Peep “Yen” featuring Roc Marcinano the new fresh single from Gensu Dean‘s Lo-Fi Fingahz album that dropped today, a week early iTunes release. You need this single and you definitely need Lo-Fi Fingahz in your life. Gensu Dean produced everything on the SP1200 and despite the extremely limited sample time (10 seconds), Dean was able to create [...]
DJ Wayne Ski came through with his produced Bumpy Knuckles single “PhucKu” the other day and it has been played at high volumes ever since. Bumpy voices his opinion on a variety of subjects here while DJ Wayne Ski finishes off each one of his thoughts with his two words. You will be able to [...]
KN is proud to present Swerve and SYG‘s Cold Winters & Warm Whiskey along with 2DopeBoyz. After the couple singles we featured here this project became something to really look forward to. With production from the likes of Ops, Jeff Johnson, DGS, BBZ Darley, The Jazzment and Rav.P and the only feature coming from Co$$ [...]
Some ill shit from the homies maticulous and The Audible Doctor. Check out the new video for the first official release by Audimatic (The Audible Doctor & maticulous). “Broken Cup” is the second single off maticulous’ The maticulous EP. Raps by The Audible Doctor, production by maticulous. Video directed by Bludainian Banks. You can, and definitely [...]
I’m really feeling this track from The Promise right now. “SoundCatcher” by The Promise, emcee Squair Blaq and producer Mulatto Patriot, is the debut video/song off of their upcoming project, New Deal. Pugs Atomz and Neak are featured on the extremely dope produced by Mulatto Patriot joint. This cut does exactly what a debut is supposed [...]
I do actually dig into the submissions and it always gives me a good feeling when something like “Nevermind” from Legit comes across my desk. Actually there were three joints that came in the inbox and I was feeling each one but “Nevermind” is the one that hooked me. I am looking forward to hearing [...]
Off of The BenchWarmers Clique latest project, The Adventures in 8-Bit: Cartridge 1, comes “Droppin’ Bombs” featuring REKS. To keep it 100 with you, this is one of those submissions I peeped just because of the name The BenchWarmers Clique, I dug the video for “Droppin’ Bombs” so much that I am now bangin’ the [...]
Check out the second visual single by Rashid Hadee, “POV” taken from his latest project Aural Sex: The Search For Pinky Tuscadero. In the video, you see Rashid Hadee contemplating how he wants to approach his woman of interest. For a man, it’s always a gamble or a shot in the dark in terms of closing the deal [...]
Detroit up and comer Red Pill links up with one of my favorite producers doing it right now, Hir-O, to remix the emcee’s ode to the blue collar worker, “Please Tip Your Driver.” You can say this is a taste of the upcoming Red Pill and Hir-O mixtape, The Feel of Falling, which is set [...]
For the final teaser from Knightstalker’s upcoming album Knighttime, dropping this Friday we get the song “Lost Children” featuring Reef The Lost Cauze. “Lost Children” deals with the worldwide social and economical problems and challenges that our generation faces day by day. The production, courtesy of Romeo (Berlin/Germany) is melancholic but yet powerful and hard-hittin’ to [...]
J. Lately hit KN with his latest video for the Lindsey Thomas assisted “No Less” off his project One Way Ticket, which is entirely produced by Nima Fadavi. The song and video for it definitely peaked my interest into looking more into J. Lately’s work. Download link below for he an Nima Fadavi’s One Way [...]
Australian beatsmith M-Phazes and legendary turntablist DJ Rhettmatic (of the World Famous Beat Junkies) have come together with DJBooth.net to offer their new album, Phazed Out, for free stream and digital purchase. The project is comprised of 12 fresh remixes of selected singles from the Coalmine Records catalog. Included are “M-troduction,” “The Raw” and “Another Classic.” From the very beginning to the very end Phazed Out does [...]
For Valentines Day producer Nameless hits us with a smooth cut. “Tendered” comes off of Nameless‘ upcoming project BE[ats]ORIGINAL Vol. 3 which is all set to drop on February 26th. Be on the lookout for that right here on KN. Now go play “Tendered” for your special lady friend and see what happens.
One of my Breakthrough Artists of 2011 comes with something for the lovers for Valentines Day today. Laelo hit us with a video for “She’s Mine” off of his Life in High Definition project. Laelo is definitely living the good life by the looks of it… Lena Chase. Produced by HD Society‘s own Str8 Beatz, “She’s Mine” [...]
Off of J. Nolan‘s 2011 project, Chaos Theory, comes the video for “Sharpen The Sword.” You can still cop or stream the Atlanta emcee’s Chaos Theory via Bandcamp.