Monday, January 17, 2011

Apollo Brown - The Left Gas Mask (2010)


Gas Mask is a dish record full of usual flavors + that special something Apollo Brown seems to bring to every project.  If you’ve listened to more of his stuff than I have, you might even have some idea of what the secret spice/ingredient is.  I don’t pretend to know...I might even prefer not to know.  The mystery is part of the appeal.  He’s doing something you know (the beats consistently remind you of what you were listening to when Hip Hop meant 
head nodding, not dancing) yet it still feels current.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Consequence – Tell Ya Boss 2 Holla At Me (2011)


Consequence is at it again with another one, this one is called “Tell Ya Boss 2 Holla At Me.” 
Produced by Lee Bannon off Movies On Demand 2, coming soon.

DJ Khaled – Welcome To My Hood (2011) feat. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & T-Pain

Talib Kweli's New Album - Gutter Rainbrows (2011)


1. After The Rain (produced by 88-Keys)
2. Gutter Rainbows (produced by M-Phazes)
3. So Low (produced by Shuko)
4. Palookas feat. Sean Price (produced by Marco Polo)
5. Mr. International feat. Nigel Hall (produced by S1)
6. I’m On One (produced by KHRYSIS!)
7. Wait For You feat. Kendra Ross (produced by S1)
8. Ain’t Waiting feat. Outasight (produced by 6th sense)
9. Cold Rain (produced by Ski Beatz)
10. Friends & Family (produced by E. Jones)
11. Tater Tot (produced by Nick Speed)
12. How You Love Me feat. Blaq Toven (produced by Blaq Toven)
13. Uh Oh feat. Jean Grae (produced by Oh No)
14. Self Savior feat. Chace Infinite (produced by Maurice Brown)

Talib Kweli is all ready to release his new studio album Gutter Rainbows 
on January 25th 2011. Check out the song titles along with the production credits 
after the cut. The album will be available in only Digital format 
in the US but in all formats in rest of the world.

Talib Kweli - I'm On One Produced by Khrysis.

Upcoming Hip-Hop Abums 2011

Updated calendar of upcoming albums for 2011:
Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO (LP) [pre order now]
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne [January 11]
Madlib – Madlib Medicine Show No. 11: Low Budget High Fi Music [January 18]
DJ Premier – Beats That Collected Dust Volume 2 [Vinyl Release] [January 18]
Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows [January 25th]
9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Solution [January 25]
Elzhi - Elmatic [February TBA]
Aspect 1 - Black History [February 1]
Strong Arm Steady - Arms & Hammers [February 1]
Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse: The EP [February 8]
Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun - Monumental [February 8]
Saigon - Greatest Story Never Told [February 15]
Slaine - A World With No Skies [February 15]
Blu - Her Favorite Colo(u)r [February 15]
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) [February 22]
Travis Barker - Give The Drummer Some [February 22]
J. Rocc – Some Cold Rock Stuf [Vinyl Release] [March 8]
Raekwon – Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang [March 8]
Common - The Dreamer, The Believer [March 29]
Jean Grae – Cake Or Death [March 2011]
J-Live - SPTA [April 5]
Royce Da 5'9" - Success Is Certain [April 26]


TBA 2011 RELEASES:
Blakroc - Blakroc 2
Jehst - Dragom Of An Ordinary Family
Asaviour - Play To Win 3
Black Milk & Melanie Rutherford - Searching For Sanity
Nas - The Lost Tapes: Vol 2
DJ Premier Vs Pete Rock
KRS-One & Showbiz - Godsville
DJ House Shoes - King James V2
Fashawn - The Ecology
Talib Kweli - Prisoners Of Conscious
Diamond District - March On Washington
Oddisee - People Hear What They See
Jay Electronica - Act II
GZA/RZA – Liquid Swords 2: The Return Of The Shadowboxer
Busta Rhymes – Extinction Level Event 2
Waajeed x Invincible - TBA
Nas - TBA
Raekwon - TBA
Melanin 9 - TBA
Cyrus Malachi - TBA
7thDan x Endemic - TBA
Task Force - TBA
Q-Tip - The Last Zulu TBA
Evidence - Cats & Dogs TBA
Apollo Brown x Guilty Simpson - TBA
Random Axe (Guilty Simpson, Sean Price & Black Milk) - TBA
Othello One x 14KT - Taking L's [Spring 2011]
Apollo Brown - Clouds (Instrumentals) [Spring 2011]
Redman/Method Man - Blackout 3 [Summer 2011]
M-Phazes - Phased Out [Winter 2011]

Friday, January 14, 2011

Madlib - Medicine Show Returns (2011)

Dam-Funk - Hood Pass Intact. (2010)


 

Dam-Funk — pronounced Dame-Funk and born Damon Riddick — got his musical start behind the scenes. After laboring through the ’90s as a session keyboardist for a succession of West Coast hip-hop darlings — Westside Connection, Master P and MC Eiht and Compton’s Most Wanted — Dam-Funk turned his attention to the spiraling, groove-saturated funk of the late ’70s and early ’80s. He began throwing an acclaimed series of ‘Funkmosphere’ DJ parties in Los Angeles, vinyl-only affairs concentrated on gems from Parliament-Funkadelic, early Prince, Slave and Zapp.
Dam-Funk, 38, made his solo debut with 2009’s five-LP, two-CD ‘toeachhizown,’ which collected praise and blog buzz for its full-bodied, mid-tempo grooves, insistent drum machine beats and flowing synthesizers. He ingratiated himself to the indie crowd with a widely circulated remix of Animal Collective’s ‘Summertime Clothes.’
He makes a digression on this year’s ‘Adolescent Funk,’ turning back the clock with a collection of funk jams he crafted while still in high school. Recorded between 1988 and 1992, it shows that even at the tender age of 16, making music with an inexpensive Casio keyboard and a Radio Shack microphone, Dam-Funk was well on his way to honing the modern funk style that’s become his trademark

Hood Pass Intact

Thursday, January 13, 2011

J Dilla’s Donuts Performed by Stray Phrases (2010)


 It’s a jazz trio called Stray Phrases doing a live rendition of Dilla’s Donuts LP in full
  in a bar in New York. It’s worth checking out even with the yammering from
the audience who won’t Shut The Fuck Up.

Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (2010)


Apollo Kids is Ghostface Killah’s ninth solo LP, and that does not include the several albums he’s collaborated on, such as a handful of Wu-Tang LP’s or anything with his numerous affiliates. After Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry In Emerald City, longtime fans were a little disappointed at the album’s R&B focus, especially dropping right after Raekwon’s Only Built For Cuban Links 2. No matter, the excellent Wu-Massacre LP followed, and Ghost turned out a new back-to-basics LP with Apollo Kids.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Kev Brown - Open Mic Knight

Kev Brown drops more exclusives on his Bandcamp with this
2000 effort entitled Open Mic Knight. It’s always great to hear
an artist’s early work to gain perspective on how far they’ve come.

Coultrain-The Adventures Of Seymour Liberty (2007)

 


Seymour Liberty is not the typical R&B/Soul offering as it gives the listener multiple looks and feels that meld into one of the most refreshing male debuts since D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar. Libertydoes not fall victim to the trite neo-soul formula despite what some might consider familiar aesthetics. Coultrain is able to offer the listener spacey and experimental vocal and musical arrangements that sit alongside more acoustic and organic ones.

Dj Premier Presents - Year Round Records (Get Used To Us) (2010)

CNN THUG PLANET FT:IMAM THUG & MUSALINY

Redman - Reggie (2010)


01. Reggie (Intro)
02. That's Where I B (feat. DJ Kool)
03. Def Jammable
04. Full Nelson (feat. Ready Roc, Runt Dawg & Saukrates)
05. Lift It Up
06. All I Do (feat. Faith Evans)
07. Lemme Get 2 (feat. Saukrates)
08. Mic, Lights, Camera, Action
09. Cheerz (feat. Ready Roc & Melanie Rutherford)
10. Rockin' Wit Da Best (feat. Kool Moe Dee)
11. Lite 1 Witcha Boi (feat. Method Man & Bun B)
12. When The Lites Go Off (feat. Pooh Bear)
13. Tiger Style Crane
14. Coc Back (Feat. Ready Roc)(Bonus Track)
15. Oh My (Bonus Track)
16. Mind On My Money (Bonus Track)
17. Lookin' Fly (Bonus Track)

  

J.R. & PH7 Ft. Guilty Simpson & Black Milk - Top Rank

The Alchemist + Oh No - Not High Enough (2010)

MED feat. Aloe Blacc - Where I'm From

 

New video from MED off his 2011 album on Stones Throw. "Where I'm From" featuring Aloe Blacc, produced by Oh No.

Dr. Who Dat? [Jneiro Jarel] Ghetto Dreaming

 

Dr. Who Dat? is the project by hip-hop artist, beatmaker, multi-instrumentalist Jneiro Jarel. He is also a core member of Shape Of Broad Minds. His music spreads from vintage Jazz, astro hip-hop to cosmic broken beats through time and space. 

Young De & B-Real - Streets Don't Love You Back

 

Demrick Shelton, better known by his stage name Young De, is a rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He is known for his collaborations with high profile artists such as Xzibit, Kurupt, Snoop Dogg, Too $hort and B-Real of Cypress Hill. He is also recognized as a protege of Kurupt and B-Real. 
“Streets Don’t Love You Back” was shot and directed in Los Angeles by Matt Alonzo of Skee.TV. 
“Streets Don’t Love You Back” appears on Demrick’s recently released mixtape with Onsmash.com, De is for Demrick, and features B-REAL of the legendary Cypress Hill as well as production by Apathy (GBC and Demigodz). Both artists are wearing pieces from Bloodbath’s Winter season, to illustrate a creative lifestyle sharpened by the streets of Los Angeles.

Buff1 & DJ Rhettmatic - Crown Royale (2010)

Roc C Feat. Aloe Blacc - My Life

Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx - The Exxecution (2010)

Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx have combined forces to bring fans a serious dose of 
hardcore Hip Hop. The eXXecution is entirely produced by Marco Polo with Ruste Juxx
providing gut-wrenching vocals over heavy hitting drums.

Gangrene (Oh No & The Alchemist) - Gutter Water (2010)


1. Intro
2. Boss Shit (Cuts by DJ Romes)
3. Not High Enough
4. Gutter Water feat. Raekwon
5. Get Into Some Gangster Shit feat. Planet Asia
6. Take Drugs
7. Chain Swinging (Cuts by DJ Romes)
8. Wassup Wassup feat. Fashawn & Evidence
9. All Bad (Cuts by DJ Romes)
10. Breathing Down Yo Neck feat. MED
11. From Another Orbit feat. Roc C
12. Ransom
13. Standing In The Shadows
14. Brass Knuckle Rap feat. Guilty Simpson
15. Not Leaving feat. Big Twins

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Godfather Don - Donnie Brasco (2010) New Album.

Cris Prolific feat Illa J - Voyage

Tribute to the Guru R.I.P. - Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal

"Time is now" AG feat Sadat X Prod by Diamond D

Freddie Joachim - Quick

 

Freddie Joachim is starting the year off proper with some nice soulful goodness. Granted, this was released on his Soundcloud on Christmas Eve, but I’m just now coming across it is late pass worthy. But even still, this makes me excited to hear what he’s got coming in the following months. Bring it on!

Black Sheep New Album: From The Black Pool Of Genius - 2010