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Kreayshawn: A Part of Any Balanced Breakfast

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Good morning earf! It’s time to go in on stacks on stacks of pancakes with the queen of the White Girl Mob, Kreayshawn! Everyone’s favorite Bay Area pixie provocateur is back with a new video for her track “Breakfast (Syrup)”, another collaboration with 2012 feature staple 2 Chainz after “Murder“, which got its own horror themed visuals last week.

This is a decidedly more lighthearted affair, more full of sugary syrups and baked doughs than blood and bodies. In the Kreayshawn directed clip, you can see what is presumably Kreay’s daily morning routine, including the truly priceless moment where 2 Chainz shows up at the door grinning and bearing 2 full bottles of that sweet stick stuff. And it ain’t purple this time. “Breakfast (Syrup)” is the first single off of Kreayshawn’s forthcoming album, Somethin’ Bout Kreay, due out August 14th.

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Dirty & Nasty Throw Their Fists Up

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

When I interviewed Dirty Dog D of the Houston Rap duo Dirty & Nasty he told me their song “All Black Everything” was a response to Soulja Boy’s “All Black Everything.” They wanted to make an Afrocentric “All Black Everything” as opposed to Soulja’s materialistic one. While we could call this “conscious rap,” it doesn’t exactly fit into that category.

Lyrically Dirty & Nasty are very conscious. But, the beat, their verses, the video, and even they’re somewhat ’80s rap outfits keep things upbeat and engaging. The “All Black Everything’ song and video really remind me of how Chuck D can drop knowledge over turnt up beats. Or, to make a much more recent reference, how Killer Mike does.

It’s not easy to focus on lyrics on a beat like this, but Dirty And Nasty nail it on here and on their other songs, too. If you haven’t heard their Fools Gold EP check it out! “All Black Everything” and a bunch of other really great tunes are on there. And, my sources tell me they have some new stuff coming out soon…

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Hang Ten With MarleeB And Surf’s Up

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Marlee B producer extraordinaire, and your favorite producer’s favorite producer who is also a rapper rapper sent this one over aminute ago and I been slippin. You’ll know Marlee as a frequent collaborator with Main Attrakionz.

His Surfs’ Up crew is definitely a group to pay attention to if you’re into the sound of radio hip hop, but you’re into real people makin it. Blue collar real world hustle music. Holler at CollegeTour.

Download Surf’s Up Crew’s College Tour Mixtape (Click Here)

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Zelooperz Steady Campaignin On That Tunk

Friday, May 18th, 2012

From the jump i been sayin watch out for this dude, and with all the videos he’s bout to drop it’ll be tough to deny that sentiment. Zelooperz is a dude with an inclination for rapping that goes beyond what rapping begets. This dude is bout the raps, I mean look at the shot of him in the gas mask with the flamethrower, and dude is blazin through the beat. And then, all of the sudden the songs breaks, and we get a pretty personal confessional that lends some explanation to the pumped up vitriole that preceded it. Take what you want, this is a dude who overflows daily life, and has a pretty amazing way of turning that into something productive.

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Impressive Young SKYWLKR, Most Impressive

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Detroit’s SKYWLKR is one of our favorite new producers. He’s one of yours too, even if you’re unfamiliar with his name. Dude’s been lacing up Danny Brown for quite some time and we know, you know and love Danny. SKYWLKR also was the man behind Children of the Night’s “ILYAS.”

He just got together with Sparkhop to drop his latest mixtape of instrumentals called Impressions. This is a must for your weekend playlists

SKYWLKR is back with nineteen previously unreleased instrumentals exclusively at Sparkhop.com. The Detroit producer & touring DJ for Danny Brown takes us on a journey through his Impressions a beat tape featuring multiple instrumentals from the critically acclaimed XXX released last year on top of beats crafted for artists such as Boldy James, Esham, Chips$, & more! The entire project is currently available for free

Impressions is also going to be released as a limited edition cassette tape which you can pre-order real soon.

Download SKYWLKR’s Impressions (Click Here)

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Black Noi$e RemiXXXes Danny Brown

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Fresh off the release of “White Noi$e,” his collab with BK Beats, Black Noi$e has given us even more cool music! XXX Remixed is Black Noi$e’s reworking of four tracks (“Blunt After Blunt,” “I Will,” “Die Like A Rockstar” and “Lie4″) from the classic XXX album and it’s some really awesome stuff. Remixing anything off XXX is no easy task since the original beats are uniquely crazy stuff. But, I can’t think of any better producer for the job than Black Noi$e.

These remixes are definitely a different sound than the original beats. “Lie4″ especially, which turns the original trapish beat into something that sounds almost like an oldschool Wu Tang type beat. And Black Noi$e changes the original “Die Like A Rockstar” beat into something psychedelic and MUCH more laid back than the original.  What’s really cool is that even though Black Noi$e’s new beats are different than the original, Danny’s raps sound right at home. Also, here’s a fun video of Zachg dancing to the “Blunt After Blunt” Remix

Download Black Noi$e’s XXX Remixes (Click Here)

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Friday Morning Videos: I’ve Got The Comeback Druggie Blues

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The Jealous GuysLove and Other Drugs

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Drop The Lime - Bandit Blues

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DJ Swerve feat. OGz – Comeback Riddim

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$ludgehammer’s Jukin On Em’

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

$ludgehammer aka DJ Yung Naked Goku aka Turbo Slime has been on my radar for the past year or so with his unique sound and the kid stays pushing boundary’s with his sounds.

He’s got crazy juke tracks that are everywhere yet he also has some killer hip hop beats with heavy bass with rappers such as Ethelwulf, Yung Simmie, Himself the Majestic, Blam Lord, and even Joeybagadonutz and myself.

The two Raiderklan songs he recently posted on his soundcloud are some of my favorites so far. On “Florida Ni$$@ Mentality” Simmie goes all the way in on Naked Goku’s most trap beat I’ve heard from him so far and it sure does work.

Then you have the Ethelwulf track “Unknown ” which is an insane banger laced with some ill samples that range from laughs, some guy yelling “YOU FUCKING BITCH!!”, and “They’re here” from the movie Poltergeist.

Ethelwulf straight murders it too with some schitzo rhymes and the end winds down with him repeating “I had to do what I had to do” over and over again, FLAWLESS. ”Slime Journey” is more along the lines of the bulk of his songs on soundcloud.

It’s more of a juke track with tons of sound effects and samples perfect for zoning out or twerking to.

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Main Attrakionz Are Lo-Fi But Not So Finkish

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

“Lookin at my mishka and can’t tell the time,” is a good philosophy for life. We can thank MondreM..A.N. for that observation. On this remix for Lo-Fi-Fink’s Kissing Taste, the best duo ever basically renders the abstractly-colored negative image of the original shimmering electro-pop ditty.

It basically gets run through the standard torture of chambers legion of doom green ova pink routine and comes out the other side sounding like just that. A new Squadda B beat is always a great thing, but a new Squadda B beat on Squadda’s birthday?! Amazing. Wish the dude plenty congratulations on another successful trip around the sun.

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3 Million People Watched El-P Perform Last Night

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

About 16 years after he first arrived on the scene with Company Flow, El-P completes some sort of weird circle by appearing live on national television last night, performing track “Stay Down” on Letterman. I’m sure there’s some sort of lesson to be learned here about how the underground, when good enough, will always rise or something but mainly I’m just stoked to see El-P get the chance to let America know how dope he is.

The guy is having a basically flawless week, with the very well received release of his collaborative album R.A.P. Music with Killer Mike a couple days ago, and the the impending release of his seriously excellent Cancer For Cure next Tuesday. Is it possible that he’s actually just getting started now? That would be crazy, and awesome. Career arcs can be so very unpredictable. Once you get that enthused Paul Schaeffer cosign though… who knows what the future holds.

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