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[Masa]

News: Talib Kweli Gives "Reflection Eternal II" Update

Talib Kweli recently updated fans on the status of his highly-anticipated collaboration album Refection Eternal II hoping to release the project within the next few months. The Brooklyn-bred emcee spoke in an interview about working on the album in addition to some side projects.

"The Reflection Eternal project is a go, I've been spending a lot of time in [Cincinnati] at Hi Tek's studio," Kweli told Kevin Nottingham. "We are trying to have that out before the summer on Blacksmith/Warner Brothers. Hi Tek got some heat, he still my favorite producer. The Idle Warship album is an organic process. We are putting the finishing touches on Party Robot and we will be releasing music with an independent spirit. Look out for Idle Warship, which is me, Res and Graph Nobel from Toronto, and Reflection Eternal at the Blacksmith Showcase, Thursday March 19th at the Scoot Inn, during South By Southwest in Austin."

http://www.sohh.com/2009/02/talib_kweli_gives_reflect.html

Hip Hop definitely needs another Reflection Eternal album

FUCK YEAH!! FINALLY! GZA be one of my fave Wu MC's

I saw GZA a few years ago and all I can say is that the show was dope as fuck. Dude even brought Masta Killa with him (+ some wack ass affiliates nobody cares about lol) and they performed most of the classics. GZA might be sleeping in the studio but he has crazy energy on stage

btw http://www.wutang-corp.com/ SUCKS

Wu-Corp ain't even the official site anymore, Cilva just uses it to promote his own shit. Anyways the new official Wu-site is: http://www.wumusicgroup.com/

[Masa]

Time to pimp hipster rap! We were supposed to have a hipster special on HHH last week but I passed out like 10 minutes before the show. Shit happens. Anyways we will try again this week! I'm a P.I.M.P. so I uploaded a bunch of hipster mixtapes for y'all

Hipster Boogie


Damn, it feels good to hear a hipster

They are modern society’s coiffed pariahs, the poseurs you love to hate. They are vultures of culture—the personification of style’s suffocation of substance, snark’s snuff of sincerity, jaded irony’s preemptive strike on perspective. They are the vacuous trend-chasing children of privilege, the young and the soulless. They are walking, talking empty T-shirt slogans. They are the scourge of 21st-century humanity, fakers of funk in form-fitting jeans and Nike Dunks. They are hipsters. And they now officially possess their own lane in the rap game. Ladies and gentleman, the hip-hop gods mercilessly present to you “hipster rap.”

This, to paraphrase the illustrious words of Ricky Walters, was the moment many of us longtime hip-hop watchers feared. The culture we love gone kitsch. Faux-hawked fools in dookie rope chains sipping nutcracker from plastic cups, tongue rings planted firmly in cheeks. Sure, we’d seen it coming for years. The blueprint had been drafted as far back as 1986, when the Beastie Boys, well-bred downtown hardcore kids slumming for new styles, channeled Schoolly D’s reverb-soaked gun chatter into a classic rapsploitation joyride called Licensed to Ill. But the Beasties were actually musically gifted (a ginormous detail no one bothered to tell ’90s proto-hipster outfits like the insufferable Northern State). And the more recent outcroppings of their descendants had, for the most part, resigned themselves to hip-hop’s margins. Couldn’t they have stayed there? Couldn’t they have been content in their contemporary roles as voyeuristic Dipset fanboys and -girls? Was it really necessary for them to try to rap?

But a funny thing happened on my way toward categorical condemnation of hip-hop’s latest subgenre: I learned that hipster rap wasn’t a threat to my cherished traditional hip-hop value system. It was, in fact, not what I had even initially perceived it to be. Hipster rap deserved some reconsideration.

Re: Definition

It’s telling that, when you Google the words “hipster rap,” the top two results are Yahoo Answers posts that pose questions: First, “What is hipster rap?” And then the decidedly more confused and desperate sounding, “Does anyone know what hipster rap is?” (Okay… Calm down and come in off the ledge, Yahoo Answers.)

The correct answer to the latter is, of course, not really. Hip-hop subgenres have historically been subject to oversimplified labeling from both within and without (see: “gangsta rap,” “conscious rap,” “jazz rap,” “backpacker rap,” “emo rap,” etc.). But hipster rap, or, as it shall now and forever be more accurately known, so-called hipster rap (SCHR) may actually be the most contentious misnomer of them all. No rapper wants to be known as a hipster. (Really, nobody wants to be known as a hipster.) Besides the distasteful connotations of the term popularized by the 1957 Norman Mailer essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” (for all you literary types), the reasons have been well enough demonstrated by a late-May poll on boom-bap-centric hip-hop blog unkut.com, infamously titled “Who Is the Biggest Douchebag in Hipster Rap?”

There’s a set of usual suspects typically mentioned in discussions of SCHR. For anyone who may have misplaced their scorecard, the unofficial roll call is as follows. The Cool Kids: Midwestern-suburbs-raised bicycle enthusiasts and ’80s revivalists Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish. Kid Sister: club-friendly Chi-Town femcee who enjoyed SCHR’s biggest hit to date, last year, with her catchy duet with Kanye West, “Pro Nails.” Kidz in the Hall: Ivy League–edumacated post-backpacker duo that earned steady burn on MTV’s TRL earlier this year with the used-car-salesman-spoofing video for “Drivin’ Down the Block (Low End Theory).” The Knux: proudly abstract New Orleanian rhyming/producing siblings and Interscope Records signees known for their playful retro single “Cappuccino.” Mickey Factz: prodigious, prolific Bronx-bred renegade of funk who’s released three separate mixtapes within the last year, culminating in the acclaimed, artsy Heaven’s Fallout. Wale: Washington, D.C., rhyme sensation and recent Roots collaborator signed to big-shot producer Mark Ronson’s Allido imprint. Pacific Division: L.A.’s modern-day “F.A.T. Boys” (that’s “fashionable artistic trendsetters”) recently signed to Universal Records. And, of course, SCHR’s perpetually budding “Superstar,” Mr. “Kick Push” himself, Lupe Fiasco.

Several of these folks are on record as saying there’s no legitimate basis for their genre’s unflattering, unsolicited handle. (Not the ebullient Kid Sister, who, thanks to her association with both Kanyeezy and her brother Josh’s celebrated Flosstradamus DJ crew, simultaneously enjoys the most mainstream hip-hop and hipster-crowd credentials of anyone in the SCHR bunch. “I’m not complaining,” she says about the hipster tag. “You can call me whatever you want to call me. Just don’t call me bitch!”) The consensus, though, is that the term is a convenient media/blogosphere invention that puts a pretty diverse collection of artists in a box simply because they eschew today’s rap’s swagger-by-numbers conventions—either musically, in appearance, or both.

“The hipster rap term came from the bloggers,” Kidz in the Hall’s Naledge told video-grapher Mikey Fresh last April. “And it’s odd enough that the bloggers actually were the hipsters that was looking for that music. So now that it’s picking up steam, they had to have a phrase [for] it.”

Former signees to the revived Rawkus Records (backpacker central of the late ’90s) and currently on the roster at Duck Down Records, where they are label mates of ’90s keep-it-real refugees Sean Price, Buckshot and Smif-N-Wessun, Naledge and partner Double O view SCHR artists as just the new “backpackers,” with a bigger clothing budget.

Naledge: “Everybody who was considered backpacker, now they getting a little more fitted in they jeans, they belts is name brand, they backpacks is name brand. It’s a little bit different… But it’s the music is what’s important.”

Agreed. Thus, when shovel comes to shit, SCHR is a genre whose meaning cuts no deeper than the silk-screened print on your designer hoodie—a subtle changing of the guard’s wardrobe. This new music is not the domain of regular hipsters—contrived, self-styled outsiders—but of actual musical outsiders, in some respects even purists, riding the periphery of hip-hop’s still-narrow definitions of acceptability. “OutKasts,” two dope boys in a Cadillac once termed it, I believe. Hip-hop misfits? Maybe. Straight-up hipsters? Eh, not really buying it.

Tight jeans > Tight rhymes?

SCHR hating enjoyed its most visible moment this past April, when Jersey City rapper Mazzi, of the underground group S.O.U.L. Purpose, dropped “Lesson A,” an admittedly entertaining diss rhyme and accompanying music video that chastised SCHR artists (specifically The Cool Kids and heralded vagabond producer/MC Jay Electronica) for cultural interloping and watering down hip-hop by dressing like trendoid bastards. (Sample lyric: “The Cool Kids are wack/The Pack want their style back… Get the hell back on your bike and cycle on/With those tight-ass jeans/And probably even tighter thongs.”) In response, the Kids played it cool, appropriately enough, refusing to engage in any real back-and-forth. Blog commentators (sa’prize!) did not. Some concluded that the Cool Kids were phonies, inevitably gay, and the Antichrist, or maybe worse (phony, gay Antichrists?). Others baited Mazzi for being permanently stuck in 1994 and, in an amusing bit of table-turnism, wondered if perhaps he himself was paying a little too much attention to what other dudes were wearing.

The dust eventually, kind of, sort of settled. In the subsequent “Lesson B” video, Mazzi declared that “The Cool Kids are hip-hop.” (Aww, group hug.) But debate points lingered. Isn’t there something wrong, if not somehow culturally dangerous, when the Internet and the industry lavish copious amounts of hype on material like The Cool Kids’ single “’88”—a tune with a chorus that borrows the Nas lyric, “Do the Wop, do the Smurf, Baseball Bat/Rooftop like I’m bringing ’88 back.” Mikey Rocks was but a gleam in his mom’s eye in 1988; Chuck Inglish was all of three years old. Were they even aware that the Rooftop was a legendary NYC hip-hop club? Had they ever even done the Wop?!? And if the tune was recorded with a hipster faux-stalgia nod and wink, didn’t that make it even worse?

Maybe stuff like that would’ve mattered if the music sucked. But it’s hard to be mad at “’88,” or the rest of the Kids’ recent The Bake Sale EP—an enjoyable, spot-on update of Rick Rubin’s early Def Jam drum-machine minimalism (with the occasional now-fashionable chopped-and-screwed-style chorus) that shows that they actually have done (and continue to do) their hip-hop homework. (Chuck has said that his pops made him memorize the lyrics to “Paid in Full” at age three. Talk about homeschooling.) And I may be showing my ancient-ass-ness here, but, seriously, can it really be damaging to hip-hop culture to have two young kids rhyming about being broke but still pulling chicks and looking fly on their bikes? If hip-hop culture (or what’s left of it) is really that weak in the knees, then it deserves to be damaged.

As for the tight pants, well, that’s as much a recurring part of hip-hop tradition as shitty recording contracts and lyrics that glorify violence and selling drugs. Some of our greatest MCs have rocked snug trousers. See Melle Mel circa ’82, LL circa ’86, Chuck D circa ’89 and, of course, Kanye West.

I’d like to think that it’s the fact that SCHR artists are actually paying some attention to their craft and deviating from the antiart “rap is my hustle” routine so prevalent in recent years that’s made their peers (at least ones not named Mazzi) look past their fashion choices and recognize their creative credibility. UGK’s Bun B and the Clipse’s Pusha T have shown their support via features, alongside The Cool Kids, on remixes of Kidz in the Hall’s “Drivin’ Down the Block (Low End Theory),” as well as on Wale’s “The Feature Heavy Song,” while unofficial SCHR figurehead Kanye facilitated Kid Sister’s breakthrough in an attempt to stay up on current trends, after famously losing out to hipster-approved dance artist Justice vs. Simian at the MTV Europe Music Awards two years ago.

As for how far SCHR’s finest can take their fare beyond the initial spark of inspiration (some would argue novelty) and the hipster label they’ve been saddled with? That probably depends most on whether they can definitively and consistently show something of themselves deeper than their street-wear affiliation—say, something along the lines of Wale’s “Cuz I’m African,” which improves upon his usual impressive wordplay by detailing his experiences as a second-generation Nigerian-American (“The pain of an immigrant/I know ’cause I been in there… And the bitches used to laugh/The darkest in the classroom/Pops drove a cab/That’s African”). Or the strangely affecting emo-meets-smooth-jazz swag of Mickey Factz’s dedication to his beloved craft, “Something About Us.” Or maybe Pac Divison’s appetizing “Taste,” which reaches past conventional introductory braggadocio and finds an unexpected fistful of revolutionary rage (“This shit hit harder than the time you found out that your girl was cheatin’/Or maybe even that fateful evening/You turned on the TV screen and seen Rodney King take that beating”).

All promising. None transcendent. SCHR still lacks its unofficial anthem: a song that uniquely conveys the joys of the fly life with a simple statement of purpose or identity—its “Me Myself & I,” its “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang,” its “All About the Benjamins.”

Or maybe it was “Pro Nails” all along. But even Kid Sister, whose repertoire thus far has leaned heavily on the fun and frivolous, acknowledges her own desire to bridge her percolating Chi-Town club rhythms with something just a little more meaningful than paeans to mean manicures and beeper booty calls.

“It’s not easy giving up personal information and doing it in a way that’s not trite,” she says. “But at some point, ass shaking is just not enough… There was a certain point that I came to where I was like, I gotta step it up a little bit and show people I’m not just some party girl. I’m a normal girl.”

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=23801

88 Keys - Adam's Case Files

01. A Happy Ending?
02. Fibs ft. Grafh
03. Wasting My Minutes ft. Kid Cudi
04. 21 & Over ft. Big Sean
05. Deal Breakers ft. Mr. Bentley
06. Typical Maury ft. Izza Kizza
07. Quit Playing ft. Serius Jones
08. True Feelings
09. Cuddle Bums ft. Tanya Morgan
10. Just LIKE A Man ft. Guilty Simpson
11. Young, Dumb & Full of...
12. Outro

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Asher Roth - The Green House Effect Vol. 1

01. Start The Show (prod. by Kanye West)
02. Roth BOYS (prod. by Diddy, Sean C, and L.V)
03. humansirkme (prod. by Studio 44)
04. DJ DRAMA - SeeMe [
05. CANNON!!! (prod. by Don Cannon)
06. Black Mags Remix (prod. by Chuck English)
07. Mr. Me 2 (prod. by Pharrell Williams)
08. Battle Me (prod. by Sha Money XL and Dr. Dre)
09. Rub on Your T tties (prod. by Oren Yoel)
10. DJ DRAMA - SawYou
11. The Sun God Free (prod. by Hi Tek)
12. The Lounge (prod. by Novel)
13. JUST LISTEN (just Asher)
14. Morning Do (prod. by Timbaland)
15. Demonic (prod. by Nate Danja Handz
16. Gimme your Box feat. the roomates (prod. by Nate Danja Handz)
17. Keep Bouncing feat. the roomates (prod. by Will.I.AM)
18. DJ DRAMA - thedailyKUSHdotcom
19. DEY KNOW ASHER (prod. by Balis Beats)
20. Morris Roth (prod. by Andre 3000)
21. Cartoon Chick (prod. by Disco D...RIP)
22. StopWaitingOnTheWorldToChange feat. John Mayer (prod. by John Mayer)

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Charles Hamilton - Sonic The Hamilton

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Charles Hamilton - The Pink Lavalamp

01. Music
02. Loser
03. She’s So High
04. Voices
05. Boy Who Cried Wolf
06. Let Me Live (w/ Bagdad)
07. Brighter Days
08. The Cookout
09. Sat(t)elite
10. Live Life To the Fullest (w/ Yung Nate)
11. Come Back To You
12. Latte
13. Shinin’
14. I’ll Be Around (Outro)
15. Writing In The Sky (Bonus)

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Kid Cudi - A Kid Named Cudi

01. Intro
02. Down & Out
03. Is There Any Love feat. Wale
04. CuDi Get
05. Man On The Moon (The Anthem)
06. The Prayer
07. Day N Nite
08. Embrace The Martian (Feat. KiD CuDi)
09. Maui Wowie
10. 50 Ways To Make A Record
11. Whenever
12. Pillow Talk
13. Save My Soul (The CuDi Confession)
14. T.G.I.F. (Feat. Chip The Ripper)
15. CuDi Spazzin'
16. Cleveland Is The Reason
17. Heaven At Nite

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Izza Kizza - Kizzaland

01. Intro
02. Flippin’ In The Rizzide
03. I’m The Izza Kizza
04. Millionaire (Preview)
05. Walk The Dog ft. Missy Elliot
06. Wham!
07. Timbo Freestyle
08. Tell ‘Em What My Name Iz
09. Red Wine
10. Here I Izz
11. Ooh La La (Preview)
12. Living My Dreams (Preview)
13. Don’t Stop Go!
14. They’re Everywhere
15. Hello
16. Me & Keesha (Boy Meets Girl)
17. Testimonial
18. PUSH
19. Outro
20. Georgie Porgie (Bonus)

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Mickey Factz - Heaven's Fallout

01. Vietnam
02. Never Fallout ft. Nakim
03. Talk yo shit
04. Access Granted
05. There's nothing left
06. Stop me
07. Somethning about us
08. Sick N tired
09. Smack my bitch up
10. You remind me ft. Jesse Botkins
11. freaky Girl ft. Freaky Will
12. Loud Whispers
13. Let You go
14. Living Dead
15. Breathe another day
16. Jacob's Ladder
17. I like your Supra's

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Nola Darling - Pretty Gritty Mini Mixtape

01. Who is Nola Darling?
02. In Hindsight f. P. Casso
03. Now You Know
04. Coco Rico ft. Fresh Daily
05. Chat Ms. DJ (Acapella)
06. Chat Ms. Dee Jay
07. Real D’s
08. Dem Rude Gals
09. The Answer f. Melo-X

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Pacific Division - Blend Tape

01. Intro
02. Pacific Division
03. Definition
04. Nasty
05. Put Me On
06. U Know My Style
07. Ack Like U Chillin'
08. Passing Us By
09. Flexin'
10. Brand New
11. Grown Kid Syndrome
12. How We Chill
13. Do My Thang
14. Unbelievable
15. Okay (Like This)
16. Syc & Mibbs
17. Bang It
18. Run
19. Relax

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Ray Protege - Hipster Hop: The Mixtape

01. Double O (Kidz In The Hall Speaks On Hipster Rapper Label
02. Kidz In The Hall f Donnis and Chip The Ripper Mr. All of That Sh^T
03. Pac Div Paper
04. Mic Terror Hiooo (Produced By M$M)
05. The Cool Kids Oscar
06. The Knux Capuchino Remix
07. Mickey Factz f N.E.R.D Don’t B Light
08. Wale Artistic Integrity
09. Kid Cudi Mastered (Produced By A-Trak)
10. The Cool Kids Dinner Time
11. Kid Cudi f Wale IS There Any Love
12. Mickey Factz Addresses Hipster Label
13. Mickey Factz f The Cool Kids Rockin And Rolling
14. Izza Kizza f Missy Elliot Walking The Dog
15. Phone Call W/ Hollywood Holt
16. Hollywood Holt Hollywood
17. Mic Terror F Donnis Owee
18. Mic Terror Talks about Hipster Label
19. Pac Div Love it
20. Donnis L.o.v.e. Boyfriend

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[daigong]

^ PROPS!! Stay sober long enuff to play the show this time.  I know a bunch of these cats from mix tapes too, like Charles Hamilton and 88 KEYS. Highly recommended.

I saw GZA a few years ago and all I can say is that the show was dope as fuck. Dude even brought Masta Killa with him (+ some wack ass affiliates nobody cares about lol) and they performed most of the classics. GZA might be sleeping in the studio but he has crazy energy on stage

btw http://www.wutang-corp.com/ SUCKS

Wu-Corp ain't even the official site anymore, Cilva just uses it to promote his own shit. Anyways the new official Wu-site is: http://www.wumusicgroup.com/

FUCK! I knew it. I shoulda asked ya about the Wu. Wu Corp was some fansite anyways that had mad reps.

WERD if GZA does Liquid Swords. AND dis Soulja Boy. It'll be worth the 28 bucks. CHEAP!

[StreakInTheSky]

nice hipster-hop post masa, that's my kind of shit. Was never really a fan of The Cool Kids though. I just don't like how they rap.

The people are called "hypebeasts." Fool don't even know the right street lingo. I've never even heard of hipster rap until now. But I hate those kind of labels anyways, cause most people don't even know what they really mean and just throw it out there. It's like the whole fucking "emo scene" shit from a couple years ago.

Good shit is good shit, it don't matter how they look or what outsiders want to label them.

[MochaNutz]

Released a day early
http://www.zshare.net/download/55430156e5833685/

A scene-by-scene rundown of...
"Well Isn't This Awkward..."

01. Cinematic Hallucinations (Intro)
Cinematic Hallucinations is the name of the show of which "Well Isn't This Awkward" is premiered. "Well Isn't This Awkward" is a rare film that Charles Hamilton starred in, and Connor Harrington had express permission from Charles Hamilton to release the movie.

02. Scorpion
Charles Hamilton is a scorpio. Using his astrological sign and all the senses he's been blessed with, he musters up the "swag" to appeal to her... if that's what she's into... guys with swag. He's really just a meek musician...

03. Neverland
Charles puts the "swag" away and ventures with the young lady into the world of which he lives in. Where nothing could ever bother you when you're in love...

04. RomanticVents
Not knowing whether or not he'd get a chance to talk to the girl of his dreams face to face, and also concerned with sounding like a "n1gga with baggage", he airs out all his grievances about love... at the beckoning will of the instrumental (had to tap myself on the back for the beat... instrumental version coming soon I swear)

05. Re-Anna
After trying and failing at finding a definition for the kind of bond they have, Charles creates a scenario in which he is a mad scientist that made the girl of his dreams, and is stuck with her once she breaks the mold...

06. Match.com (Commercial Break)

07. You Too
Charles reluctantly but willfully opens up about his much-speculated drug history... 'nuff said... done to show the young lady how serious he is about how he feels about her...

08. Tengo Una Pregunta
All the questions that come with being a struggling musician in the toughest city in the world, asked... awaiting an answer...

09. Psycho Bitch
If Charles and the young lady have a bond that defies any rational definition, there has to be a semi-psychotic side to both of them. This is a sharing of mutual insanity, in hopes of lightening the already heavy-romantic mood... kinda...

10. The Penthouse Elevator
The moment in which Charles Hamilton finally gets to verbally tell the woman of his dreams (if I said "girl" earlier, I was simply going along with the cliche; she's ALL woman) EXACTLY how he feels. At the penthouse elevator...

11. In Case It Doesn’t Work Out
Pretty self-explanitory, but is followed by Charles Hamilton's piano solo, which is the premise for this ENTIRE movie. Remember, he was invited to play his music. Each song was merely a screenshot into the mind of Hamilton. The reality was the piano.

12. In Case I Actually Get Her
The piano working in my favor... lol...
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You guys asked for it (a rundown), here it is... tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Oh bizzoy... who knows, man... who knows... 2 more entries to go!!!

~~Charles Hamilton~~
***beep***

incase you didn't see it above
http://www.zshare.net/download/55430156e5833685/

I guess he's going for Rihanna =)  I think he has a chance now, haha
Does he make his own beats? I always get a little depressed when i listen to his tracks. 


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Drake - So Far So Gone Mixtape




http://www.zshare.net/download/5557056704f4d392/

I keep seeing him as the Degrassi wheelchair guy, but he's pretty dope.  Heard this mixtape has a lot of singing tho... getting it now.

[thatonezombie]

So many mixtapes, I went on a mixtape downloading craze some time ago, and I havent finished those. I do like me some Asher Roth, Charles Hamiltion is good, time for me to get even more behind on my music

[daigong]

AND CAN'T KNOCK DA HUSTLE! SWAGGA!!






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[Masa]

[electric mole]

Nice thread!

Here's what i'm currently listening to:

Kero One - Windmills of the Soul

1. Windmills Intro
2. Give Thanks feat. Niamaj
3. Musical Journey
4. My Story
5. In a Dream
6. Ain't That Somethin?
7. Tempted
8. In All the Wrong Places
9. Keep it Alive!
10. The Cycle Repeats
11. Fly Fly Away
12. It's a New Day
13. Check The Blueprints

http://www.twitter.com/?d=UFK58972

Highly recommend if you're into hip-hop w/ some jazz into it.

[electric mole]

Blue Scholars

1. Baha'i Healing Prayer
2. Second Chapter
3. Opening Salvo
4. North By Northwest
5. Ordinary Guys
6. Still Got Love
7. Bayani
8. Loyalty
9. Fire for the People
10. Xenophobia
11. The Distance
12. Back Home
13. 50K Deep
14. Morning of America
15. Joe Metro

http://www.twitter.com/?d=UBN1QKB6

Q-Tip - The Renaissance

1. Johnny Is Dead
2. Won't Trade
3. Gettin Up
4. Official
5. You
6. WeFight / WeLove
7. ManWomanBoogie
8. Move
9. Dance On Glass
10. Life Is Better
11. Believe
12. Shaka

http://www.twitter.com/?d=FJHTXXKQ

DJ Nu-Mark - Hands On

1. Intro
2. Eddy Senay - Down Home
3. Tony Luisi - Rubber Bumpers
4. Paz - Laying Eggs
5. Rex Brown Company & Wersi Electric String Orchestra - Hot Track
6. Organized Konfusion - Fudge Funk
7. Jeru The Damaja - Intro (Life)
8. Jeru The Damaja - Perverted Monks In Tha House (Skit)
9. Group Home - Intro
10. Beatnuts Skit
11. Blendcrafters - Melody
12. DJ Nu-Mark feat. Chali 2na - Chali 2na Comin' Thru
13. Vitamin D - No Good
14. Prophetix - True Urban Grit (T.U.G)
15. Viktor Vaughn - Saliva
16. Shurikon - Samurai
17. Schlechta Umgang - Crew Song
18. DJ Nu-mark - Hands On feat Key Kool of the Visionaries
19. Brad Strut f/ Bias B & Lazy Grey - A Good Thing
20. All Time High - 68 And I Owe You One

http://www.twitter.com/?d=O4XX906L

[thatonezombie]

Blue Scholars are dope as fuck, Seattle represent!

[MochaNutz]

Blue Scholars is dope.  You rarely see filipinos in the western hiphop music

[electric mole]

Surreal & The Sound Providers - True Indeed

1. Intro
2. Just Gettin Started
3. The Lesson
4. Push On
5. Truth Be Told
6. Place to Be
7. Night to Remember
8. Walk in the Park
9. Gifted
10. They Call Me...
11. Life & Rhymes
12. True Indeed
13. The Rundown

http://www.twitter.com/?d=KEJ6Q0Y6

The Sound Providers - Looking Backwards 2001-1998

1. Intro
2. Dope Transmission
3. The Field
4. J Rocc Radio Promo
5. Get Down
6. No Time
7. Choc Promo
8. Breath Testing
9. The Difference
10. Yes Yall
11. That's It
12. Who Am I
13. 7l Promo
14. Fresh Rhymes
15. DL Promo
16. Who Am I

http://www.twitter.com/?d=M4F2PHQV

The Sound Providers - An Evening with The Sound Providers

1. Intro
2. Live At the Spot #1
3. For Old Time's Sake feat. Asheru of Unspoken Heard
4. Night Steps
5. 5 Minutes feat. The Procussions
6. Only Moments Ago
7. Autumns Evening Breeze
8. Live At the Spot #2
9. It's Gonna Bee (Alright) feat. Wee Bee Foolish
10. Jazz At the Cove
11. The Throwback feat. Maspyke
12. Live At the Spot #3
13. The Prodigal Return
14. Live At the Spot #4
15. Pacific Vibrations
16. Live At the Spot #5
17. Braggin & Boastin feat. Little Brother
18. Never Judge feat. Soulo
19. Live At the Spot #6
20. Outro

http://www.twitter.com/?d=MZY2NPLV

All 3 albums are pretty solid. Get @ it!

[MochaNutz]

MF DOOM - That's That
http://www.mediafire.com/?qmdazj0m3kg

[arun.yothin]

I loved this when I was a little kid.

[Masa]

DOOM - BORN LIKE THIS (5 Track Sampler) (2009)

Tracklist
1. Ballskin (1:34)
2. Lightworks (1:59)
3. Angelz feat. Ghostface Killah (3:12)
4. Cellz (4:25)
5. That’s That (2:07)

DOWNLOAD

Cellz is dope as fuck but the new version of Angelz ain't fucking with the OG version

[Masa]

DOWNLOAD

[Masa]

I can't wait for the full song!

[MochaNutz]

anyone catch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?  He got the Roots has his house band.  There's this segment they did, "Slowjam the News", where he gets the Roots to play a slow jam while he says the news.  Dang, i never knew Black Thought had vocals like that =P 

[Masa]

Ghostface Killah - A Message From Ghostface
http://sharebee.com/3b0d686f

Method Man & Redman - A Yo
http://sharebee.com/62475501