Denzel Aquarius’killa Curry is no stranger to the Bloglin or to his underground/raiderklan fans, yet it’s his style and throwback mentality that him and his fellow Miami brothers have that is still very refreshing to me and keeps me coming back for more.

This one is definitely another RaiderKlan lo-fi banger for us to enjoy and will 100% be played many times in the lab while we take break from recording . This mixtape has a different tone and feel to it as compared to his past two mixtapes and it shows he is exploring different styles with these songs and is also progressing mentally as a young man at the same time.

You can really tell he’s been putting in time on listening to 90′s hiphop heros such as 2Pac, Big L, and Outkast and yet there is still always that Three 6/Bone Thugs influence there in his ryhmes as well that he can’t hide from and we all enjoy. Not to take away from his originality at all because he is a perfect example of the vision that the whole raiderklan is trying to show everybody.

That is that even though Miami is pretty and funtimes on the outside, some poeple are living a very different lifestyle in a way different world from that highclass world, which we now know as the Blackland. Here is a look at the first video for this tape made by Miami’s own Kevin Pouya which gives it a proper lo-fi feel .

Download Denzel Curry’s Strictly 4 My Raiderz (Click here)

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)

$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.

Welcome back to Мишка Mixtape Flashbacks! Here, come take a stroll with me into the vault. Here’s where we keep the demon spawn – they’re particularly rowdy in front of new guests! – oh, and just over there is the dark energy stone that powers the Tupac Hologram – it’s very #rare – here are some pinball machines (KISS!), and – ahh, here we are – just what I was looking for: The Death Set‘s Artificially Sweetened! The prized possession.

One of our most beloved mixes, Artificially Sweetened was lost to the world for a bit after MegaUploadGate, much to the anger of the internet, but we’ve tracked down a physical copy and now all 43 tracks of that non-stop mile-a-minute mix are available for free stream and download on our Bandcamp. Be warned: it may cause your parties to be up to 3000% better. Tis intense.

From the awesome cover graphic (which made its way onto a popular shirt) to the party thrown for its release, to every crazy mashup and freakout on the mix, we loved everything about Artificially Sweetened. The Death Set, Brooklyn badasses via Australia, are immensely talented, immensely nice, and immensely fun. I mean, just listen to this mix (which features original material, mega hits, deep cuts, and pretty much everything else) and tell me you wouldn’t want to hang out with the people responsible. You just couldn’t.

The Greedhead/Мишка Records/Veehead world takeover continues, this time with another salvo from the bodaciously bearded baron of brainy braggadocio and one half of Das Racist, Victor Vazquez AKA Kool A.D. The Kool one is back with a new mixtape called 51, and it’s here for your eager consumption fresh on the heels of January’s The Palm Wine Drinkard.

For a change of pace, Victor recorded all of these tracks in Oakland – way on the other side of the country from DR’s NYC home base. Landing on the left coast after visiting family in Cuba, Kool A.D. was inspired to make a set of tracks featuring production from almost exclusively California artists, and numerous guest spots from some of the Bay’s best up and comers.

The main producer is Amaze 88, who met Victor through his hardcore punk band in high school, and also happened to take his sister to prom. They’ve obviously buried the hatchet on that one though, as Amaze is behind eight tracks on 51, and is joined by other producers like Young L, Trackademicks and Kechphrase.

There’s also frequent guest spots from some of our favorites, like MondreM.A.N. and Squadda B from Main Attrakionz. They link up on four of 51‘s tracks, two of which you can check out videos for.  And if that wasn’t enough, Himasnhu, Meyhem Lauren, Trackademicks and even Boots Riley of the legendary Coup all lend guest verses. But, as expected, the star of the whole thing is Kool A.D., whose gloriously laid back flows consistently impress with their humor and wit, languishing in greenery depicted on the cover. Download 51 now, and check the track list after the jump!

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My homie Blam Lord just put me on this chick and oh my am I glad he did. SŎMADAMANTINA is based out of Madrid and her music sounds al lot like the new hiphop wave thats coming out in America right now but with a little twist.

I wish I knew more about her but all I really know is her music has a great southern bass sound with interesting instrumentals and she sounds super sexy and dope doing it. She would fit in perfect with a lot of the artists that has seemed to become the new underground with similar tastes and asthetics . I’m glad I got put on her early too, I mean, she only has 70 fans on facebook right now!

Even though I can’t understand her I still feel the music and really am loving her and her whole vibe right now, and don’t really care I cant understand her either because the music is like subtitles to me anyways.  She has so much style and her beat selection is sick, so enjoy and vibe to it! Check out her Tumblr as well because it sums up her whole style pretty good and is put together nicely.

SŎMADAMANTINA just dropped an EP called διαμάντι on the latin bass label Caballito who has a lot of dope music on there site and on her soundcloud as well. Be on the lookout for her soon because she definitely has killer work ethic and is destined to blow.

I’m so stoked on this one – mainly because I’ve been listening to it non-stop for the past few months, so I know how incredible it is. But soon all of y’all will get to hear the magic of Kool A.D.‘s (of Das Racist) newest album, 51. This thing’s got 22 killer tracks, featuring production from Amaze 88, Trackademicks and The Pack’s Young L. It’s also got guest spots from Heems, Meyhem Lauren, The Coup’s Boots Riley, Main Attrakionz and a grip of them Green Ova boys.

We’re putting this out next Tuesday, April 24th, via our bandcamp and if you know what’s good for you you’ll download it with the quickness. I can’t reiterate how good this tape is. It’s on some late 90s Stones Throw meets Fondle ‘Em type shit with Kool A.D. at center stage. And OMG does this ever hit the spot for Spring.

Head over to Pitchfork now to preview “Ticky Tacky” featuring Main Attrakionz and the Green Ova camp.

Uncle TNUC (pronounced ‘tee-nuk’) has his feet firmly planted in ‘80s ethos and culture. So much so that I don’t even think you can call it nostalgia. The dude may very well have been beamed thirty years into the future and ended up here. Shit, Bill & Ted did it.

As he, himself, describes his origin, he “had all the normal teenage fantasies…cars, girls, money. Then his parents left for a week and all his fantasies came true. This is the place where those fantasies will all slowly unfold. TNUC is a sweaty trip to the edge and past it.” That should give you some idea of with whom you’re dealing.

I don’t remember exactly when or how I found this guy but all of his mixes are masterpieces in their own right. However, there’s nothing like boozing with friends or sliding off the cotton panties of some hardbody to the headbangin’ tuneage on this most recent mix. Brought to you by Uncle TNUC in association with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed bodybuilder/musician Mike Ballermann, the Two Crude Dudes mix totally rips.

Named for a ‘beat em’ up’ style game released on the Sega Mega Drive console, the forty-minute long cruise down the Sunset Strip flexes prime cuts from big names like RATT and Poison amongst lesser-knowns like Steelheart and Danger Danger. Burn the midnight oil (and whatever else you can find) with the hairspray heroes of yesterday.  Two Crude Dudes is “twelve tracks of twisted steel and sex appeal.” Need I say more?

Remember the video for Tupac’s “I Ain’t Mad At Cha” where he dies and goes to heaven to jam with Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and Sammie Davis Jr? A couple years later, there was the 1998 Robin Williams movie What Dreams May Come where dude dies and goes to a wild colorful heaven that looks like a melting impressionist painting come to life. Combining these two ideas, I wonder what happens in the weird part of heaven where dudes like DJ Screw and Syd Barret from Pink Floyd hang out. Do they just sit on a cloud and talk about their preferred hallucinogens while the world around them shifts and adapts to their trippy descriptions? Maybe they go on a walk and Screw takes Syd to the secret part of heaven that has a waterfall made of syrup. That’d be a real chill afterlife.

If that’s happening somewhere in the ether, it probably sounds a lot like the new H3vth Cvr1ng mixtape THX WVLL which chops and screws bits of Pink Floyd’s The Wall while mixing in a bunch of more contemporary music. These are the same dudes that dropped that Drive Screwtape a couple of months ago and it sounds like they’re going to keep screwing shit that wasn’t intended to be screwed. Shoutout to all the ex girlfriends of the world.

Now that I think about it, the Drive tape sounded a lot like DJ Screw hanging out with Giorgio Moroder in heaven, maybe by the time dudes are done we’ll have volumes of tapes that chronicle DJ Screw’s afterlife adventures—could call it What Screws May Come.

I’ve long said that Tuesday is the grimiest day of the week, and now it’s an irrefutable truth! We’re crazy excited to be dropping the brand new Keep Watch Mix (the 33rd installment!) right now, this massive dispatch coming from rising grime superstar Royal-T. We’ve been singing the praises of Royal-T, and the rest of the Butterz roster, for a minute now, and we knew that recruiting someone from Butterz would net us a killer mix. The proof is in the pudding as they say, except this time the pudding is 50 minutes of guaranteed party. The 21 year old from Southhampton, England, truly crushed it.

Royal-T, despite his young age, has already done releases on Butterz, No Hats No Hoods, Boogaloo City, and Rinse Recordings. He’s also done official remixes for the likes of Katy B and Wiley, as well as produced extensively for Grime MC P Money. Royal-T (who you can see in the above cover photo shot by Rob Vanderman) stuffed his Keep Watch Mix to the brim with a utterly choice selection of Grime tunes (including many from his Butterz cohorts). Keep Watch Vol. XXXIII features tracks from Swindle, Skepta, Champion, Shiftee and Мишка’s own Badman Shark, Terror Danjah, and of course Royal-T himself.

In more Butterz related goodness, label head Elijah is going to be in New York unofficially celebrating their two year anniversary once again, this time with help from the homies over at Trouble & Bass. That party is gonna be this Friday, April 13th (spooky!), and it marks the return of their Trouble & Bass NYC monthly party. Look for a full post about that soon, but for now get excited about this exclusive Butterz related tee we’ve cooked up to sell at the event.

In case you haven’t heard, Butterz is in fact the label, and their Grime strength is so heavy it’s gonna punch you right in the face. There’s a super limited amount in our online store right now, so if you want one for sure then get yourself to the show this Friday. Grab the mix below, check the tracklist after the jump, and make your day that much grimier!

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