By Jay | July 28, 2012 at 7:08 am | No comments
Album: Professor @ Large
Artist: Large Professor
Released: June 26th, 2012
In this generational time frame what is categorized as “hip hop” has become very questionable, but it is undeniable at first listen that Large Pro’s latest project is an exact connotation...
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By Jay | July 2, 2012 at 9:39 am | No comments
Album: Knt.remember
Artist: Knxwledge
Released: June 29th
There are a lot of good things coming from having all these new forms of media. One thing is finding out (through Twitter) a beat tape done by producer Knxwledge was released the other day. There is no stopping...
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By Jay | June 27, 2012 at 11:28 am | No comments
Album: Pineapple Now-Laters
Artist: BJ the Chicago Kid
Released: Available now digitally
This is spottieottiedopalicious. It's future sex sounds for sure. The evolution of neo-soul continues. It's blue like Muddy Waters, but in soprano. BJ the Chicago Kid croons syrup...
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By Jay | June 24, 2012 at 7:04 am | No comments
Album: The Yellow Album
Artist: Dom Kennedy
Released: June 19, 2012
You can catch a contact high through your speakers bumping this shit right here. This is west coast pimping at its finest. You can dip down the 'shaw to it, you can cruise Sunset boulevard with it, you...
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By Jay | May 15, 2012 at 10:11 am | No comments
Album: Control System
Artist: Ab-Soul
Released May 11, 2012
"There's a war going on outside no man is safe from." -Mobb Deep
Queensbridge's most infamous burned that phrase into history with "Survival of the Fittest" back in 1995. Years later, that war still rages...
Posted in: Editors Choice, New Releases
By Jay | April 19, 2012 at 3:08 am | No comments
Album: 2Dirt4TV vol. 1
Artist: Quelle Chris
Released: April 4,2012
Quelle Chris released another dope project “2Dirt4TV”. The Detroit native spit that realism on “Live Alone, Die Alone” which is the first single of his new project. Quelle is no stranger to this...
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By Jay | April 19, 2012 at 1:33 am | No comments
Album: Open Minded
Artist: Richard Wright
Released: March 27, 2012
Richard Wright brings that South Central cold street rapping with a pinch of lyrical consciousness. Releasing “Open Minded” late last month on ILLregular Instrumentals Wright and J. Bizness came out...
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By Jay | February 27, 2012 at 6:48 am | No comments
Mixtape: Thorned Roses
Artist: JohnNy U
Released: Feb 24, 2012
“Thorned Roses” is the brand new debut mixtape from JohnNy U and by listening to it I think it’s safe to say there a new M.C. everyone needs to have on their radar. The mixtape is all new original...
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