From the category archives:
O.C. & A.G. are releasing their new album together The Oasis next week but here’s your chance to listen to the entire LP a week before it’s in stores. The Diggin’ In The Crates crew members have streamed their album on MySpace. Listen after the jump and make sure you support the legends next week!
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You’ve seen the ads and you’ve read our interview with Bekay himself. Now hear Hungar Pains, the album, exclusively right here at KevinNottingham.com. Since it’s release last Tuesday, Bekay’s latest album has been in heavy rotation on my ipod. Hungar Pains features production from heavyweights such as The Alchemist, Illmind, and Marco Polo to some of my favorites like The Returners, Shuko, and DJ Babu. Guest emcees include Masta Ace, Saigon, Inspectah Deck, and Dilated Peoples.
But enough talk, let the album speak for itself after the cut…
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Honest. Aggressive. Meaningful. These are all words that have been used to describe the music that JC Poppe makes. Honesty is the number 1 policy for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native. For the past several years, hip hop music has been moving further and further away from what is real and legitimate and closer to a complete fantasy world. With his new album Sleep Therapy, Poppe calls out the lies and the liars very brazenly out of love and respect for the culture that he grew up in and around.
Sleep Therapy has a few guest features from Naledge (of Kidz In the Hall) and Guilty Simpson. Straight up, this album is just dope. Preview it after the cut and if you dig it, cop it… support real hip hop!
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Big Tone: The Art of Ink
For the longest time, I wanted to let people know about this album from Detroit veteran, Big Tone. No slouch on the Detroit hip hop scene, Tone has appeared on Dilla’s Welcome 2 Detroit (“It’s Like That”) and holds a steady rep amongst the city. He released an album in 2005 entitled The Drought that got heavily overlooked, thus, releasing this project on Tres Records. He raps, but he also produces, and he’s very good at both. Gathering names like Guilty Simpson, Blu, and Ta’raach for this album, The Art of Ink succeeds in various degrees leading from ideas of growth, passion, prosperity, and inspiration. It’s a feel good record loaded with soul and meaning behind it’s tattoo based theme.
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Every now and then there is an artist/group or album that REALLY catches my attention and I like to put the spotlight on them for a sec on the site. I gotta thank my man Jonathan for turning me on to this 4 member group out of NYC… DXA. I’ve been playing their album, Progression, non-stop since I got a hold of it a few weeks ago. The album actually dropped a year ago in August 2008, so allow me to take a late pass, but if you have yet to hear it grab your pass here and take a listen after the cut. If you’re into that 90s NY Boom Bap, as well as dope lyricism, I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
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Another new series I want to present to the KevinNottingham.com readers. In the simplest of ways to explain it: I get a hell of a lot of music. On a weekly basis, I get about 2 cds a day; physical hard copies. Hey, I love having them, but not all of what I get is tight. With that said, I do try to listen to just about every single piece of music I get, even the digital copies. While everyone here and there asks for a review and whatever, I can’t always give that. Finding the time to review something is hard (it would be different if we were a site that listens to the music for a day and writes about it the next, but no, I stress long listening times and thorough investigations of the music to give a comprehensive review). But, I want to still give shine to those who deserve it. Frankly, The Inbox was really for anyone and everyone who sent something in, with this right here, I’m not picking more than three albums/artists per segment to spotlight. With that said, here’s the first installment featuring D-Sisive’s Let The Children Die, Robert Glasper, and Miles Jones.
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