The Demo, albumul semnat Terrace Martin, ridica inca o data cortina pentru un preview al materialul-ui care va fi valabil curand, piesa intitulatascurt si la obiect Hip-Hop .

Via: OnSmash .

Two of my favorite West Side rappers are getting their grown man on!!!!……Get Paid!!!

Download: Daz & Kurupt – Get Paid

Props to DGB

Du Pur Gangsterisme

DPG ft Krayzie Bone – Money fold’n

Props à 2DB

BLOODBATH and TRADITION have joined forces to bring you an exclusive tee this Holiday Season.

Titled “Mighty Is The Pen“, the back graphic features a sword with TRADITION’s shield on the hilt dipping into an inkwell labeled with Bloodbath’s Gatekeeper logo.

Two quills hover in front of the sword with a ribbon spiraling around the design.  The words written on the ribbon read: Mighty Is the Pen.

The pen is stronger than the sword, but the bloodshed and sacrifices made by war and violence create the ink that is used to govern the world. 

It is a balance between ideals and action, a thought out plan and swift execution, and the poetry of swordsmanship.

Available in Black, Red, White and Silver colorways – only to be sold at TRADITION locations.

Young De is the artist that is modelling for the shoot.  He is an emcee and runs with B-REAL, Nate Dogg, Kurupt, Soul Assassins, etc.

For more info log onto: www.bloodbathproject.com   and   www.shoptradition.com

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Murs & 9th Wonder are recording a 4th LP
together entitled Fornever, and “Fornever The Movie”
chronicles the recording process. Murs featured some of
the sessions on ustream and this one is shaping up
to be their best. Keep your eyes and
ears open for this one.

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Aftershocks from the earthquake that was the break-up of the almighty Roc-a-Fella Records are still reverberating throughout hip-hop. Just ask Beanie Sigel, who a week and a half ago took out his frustration towards Jay-Z in public, unleashing a vicious diss track called “What You Talking Bout.” But not all former Roc artists feel the same way. In fact, Freeway, who still refers to Jay as the “big homie,” says there’s no love lost. Still, everything isn’t exactly smooth sailing for Philly Freezer.

Freeway recently found himself caught up in beef of his own involving the forthcoming release of The Streetz Is Mine, an album of new material RBC Records is set to put out. Although RBC representatives say the rapper approved the project, allegedly going so far as picking songs for the disc, Free refutes that claim saying he never sanctioned the LP’s release. Instead, all of his focus is on his Jake One-produced The Stimulus Package, which will be distributed by indie powerhouse Rhymesayers. XXLMag.com caught up with Freeway to chop it up about the ongoing sour grapes between former Roc-a-Fella artists, his forthcoming projects and rumors of a possible deal with Cash Money Records.

XXLMag.com: Being from Philly, one would imagine you and Beans are pretty close. How did his Jay-Z diss track affect your relationship with him and Jay?

Freeway: Oh, no, that’s the big homie and it’s still all love with Jay-Z. We still communicate. When I need him, I definitely can reach out and I know he will be there for me. Right now, I’m just trying to do my thing, show that I can do my thing on my own without him. But when I need him, I think the big homie will definitely be there.

XXLMag.com: How are you applying what you have learned from Roc’s successful run to your current pursuits?

Freeway: You’ve got to work hard to get out of the game what you put into it. That’s why I’m steady grindin’. I’m always in the studio, dropping stuff on the Internet, making my Internet presence felt. I’m just grindin’, man.

XXLMag.com: Now, there have been rumors about you signing to Cash Money already. Is there any truth to that?

Freeway: It’s not official yet, but we’re working it out, probably at the top of the year after we drop The Stimulus Package. The whole album is produced by Jake One and it’s coming out on Rhymesayers Records. I got people from State Property on there, I got Beanie Sigel, I got Young Chris, Omilio Sparks, I got Baby from Cash Money on my second single, got Raekwon the Chef on that joint, and I got Bun B from UGK.

XXLMag.com: That’s quite a few unexpected combinations. How did you connect with Baby collaboration come about?

Freeway: I was in Miami at the Louis [Vuitton] store and ran into Baby there. We exchanged information and when I came back down, we knocked a song out. Now we’re working out a deal with Cash Money.

XXLMag.com: So how does the whole Rhymesayers situation fall into play?

Freeway: I thought the Rhymesayers would be a great project because they reach a fan base I haven’t attacked before. We had a bunch of shows, and we had the Soundset Festival in Minnesota, which attracted 20,000 fans. I killed that shit. They have good artists and me and Jake One work well together. I just thought it would be a good experience for me to try that. In the midst of me doing that, the Cash Money thing came about.

XXLMag.com: How did your relationship with Jake One start and turn into a full-length album?

Freeway: Actually, he was on my last album, Free At Last. I was really diggin’ his sound and after the album was done, he kept sending me music and we was working together. The stuff that was coming together was crazy, so we came up with the concept of doing The Stimulus Package album and made it happen.

XXLMag.com: A little while ago you put out some 30 songs within a month’s span. How did you come up with that idea?

Freeway: It was called the Month of Madness. Shout out to Young Chris, because he did 31 verses in 31 days. Since me and State Property members always had a friendly competition, once he did that, I said, I might as well do 31 songs in 31 days. I’m in the studio all the time and I felt at that point in my career, I thought it was beneficial to let the people know what I’m working on and the quality of music that’s coming out.

XXLMag.com: Can you clear up the situation with The Streetz Is Mine album that RBC is putting out?

Freeway: The Streetz Is Mine is not my album. I put a public service announcement out about that. That’s not an official album, I don’t got nothing to do with that joint. We put a cease and desist out on that joint, it won’t get released. There’s a whole bunch of bullshit going on behind that joint.

XXLMag.com: The PSA was also to promote your new mixtape, The Calm Before the Storm, right?

Freeway: The reason why I dropped that was because we actually pushed it back so we can go promote it at the same time as The Stimulus Package. Calm Before the Storm is just some joints I had laying around. I got nice features on there, Young Chris and Kurupt. It’s a bunch of joints that nobody heard before. Producers from Philly, the Dictators, contributed beats.

XXLMag.com: How strong are your working and personal relationships with members of State Property now?

Freeway: We all family. Beans is on the album, Young Chris, Omilio Sparks. It’s still all love. In the future, we’ll definitely do another State Property album. We just got to find a nice situation for it and we’ll make it happen. —Slav Kandyba

Lorsque l’on parle de rap américain, les premiers noms qui viennent à l’esprit sont Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game, Lil’ Wayne ou encore Snoop Dogg. Le point commun entre tous ces artistes tient en trois lettres : Dre. En effet, André Romelle Young, alias Dr. Dre, est considéré comme le meilleur producteur de rap de tous les temps. Originaire de Compton, au sud de Los Angeles, dans un quartier rongé par la misère et les gangs, le jeune André est bercé très tôt par la musique qui envahit à longueur de journée les rues du ghetto. Cette influence sera décisive. Après s’être procuré des platines, le jeune Dre produit ses propres sons. Il rencontre alors le rappeur Eazy-E avec qui il forme le groupe NWA. Avec son album mythique Straight Outta Compton (sorti en 1987), le groupe popularisera le maintenant très médiatisé gangsta rap. Dre y fait ses armes en qualité de producteur et forge ce qui deviendra le G-funk (son typique de la Californie qui se distingue par le sampling de classiques du funk, mélangé à des beats rap), qui explosera dans les années 90, popularisé par des artistes tels que 2Pac ou encore Snoop Dogg.

Affilié au très controversé label Death Row, le doc n’a sorti officiellement que deux disques (The Chronic en 1992, et The Chronic 2001, en 2001). Il promet la sortie du troisième opus, The Detox, depuis deux ans, mais étant occupé à produire ses poulains, il ne trouve le temps nécessaire à achever ce qui s’annonce déjà comme un grand album et un succès énorme. En conclusion, que l’on aime ou que l’on n’aime pas le rap, on se doit de reconnaître le caractère visionnaire de Dr. Dre, ainsi que sa capacité perpétuelle à se réinventer, et ce depuis vingt ans. Certes sa musique véhicule une forme de violence, cependant, elle reflète une réalité que l’on ne peut ignorer, celle de la vie du ghetto. Réussir à se démarquer dans de telles conditions de vie jusqu’à obtenir un succès interplanétaire, fait de Dre un artiste incontournable qui a toute mon admiration… raison pour laquelle j’ai choisi de vous le présenter.

Xavier

…Vous trouverez les disques de Dr. Dre dans notre catalogue en tapant :

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Kida – Holla _Remix_ _Feat. Busta Rhymes_ Little Brother_ Kurupt_ Crooked I_ Talib Kweli_ Jay Rock _ Willie B_

Rihanna feat. Young Jeezy “Hard” (Dirty/CDQ) (Produced by The Dream)

( Yes, there’s a light shot from Jeezy towards Gucci Mane in here too: “See my Louis chucks, Louis flag, Louis frames, Louis belt/ What that make me, Louis Mane?”)

Gunplay (of Triple C’s) – That G Shit (50 Cent Diss)

Kida – Holla! (rmx) f. Busta Rhymes, Little Brother, Kurupt, Crooked I, Talib Kweli, Jay Rock & Willie B

Mike Epps Feat. Flo Rida – Baby Makin Nigga

Mike Epps Feat. Slim Thug & Too Short – I Da Pimp

Omarion Feat. Bow Wow – Jack It Up

Rick Ross – Baby By Me (Remix)

Lil Wayne Feat. Nicki Minaj – Sweet Dreams

I don’t know who this Kida dude is, but he brought out some heat for the remix…And in case you were wondering no blends or mash ups…These are all original versus from all the artist…(and we finally got that LB reunion)

“Holla”

Download: Kida – Holla (Remix)

Kida ft Busta Rhymes, Little Brother, Kurupt, Crooked I, Talib Kweli, Jay Rock & Willie B. – Holla rmx

Gracieuseté Nahright

Fratilor , am dat de una tare , e Kida cu mai multi pe langa el (nu-i trec ca dureaza sa le pun link-uri) , piesa intitulata Holla (sample-uri Missy Elliot) .

Via: Nah Right .

New joint from Daz! Plus a Dogg Pound lagniappe…

“I Love Blood Bitchez” – Daz Dillinger

“Westside Rydin” – The Dogg Pound

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Dogg Pound – Westside Rydin’

HHHTop of your game,

As a blogger and critic it’s far too easy for me to sit here and criticize or attempt to pick apart a piece of work I’m not into.  Being part of the online community, I’ve been unfairly granted the license to completely dump on another mans art just because I don’t fall in line with his plight (all bloggers, reviewers and columnists should have to take a test and earn a license to write).

In my day to day rants, I do my best to stay within a positive realm and shit on only those I’ve completely deemed worthy.  However, that being said, even though I’m just a small time dude reaching a few hundred people a day, if I might effect the way even 1 person perceives another mans means of breadwinning and allow that artist to suffer the loss of that 1 sale (which, to underground artists means quite a lot!) , then you can only imagine the damage those blowhard, self aggrandizing anal warts at Pitchfork do on a daily basis.

With that said, the artists featured in today’s blog have all worked through the bad reviews and bad publicity, have all put out bad music, and yet, have found a way to milk their accolades for everything their worth, stay relevant and maintain their Superstar Status.

MICHAEL JACKSON

Who else would I start with other than the man who went through arguably the worst publicity shit storm of any artist in history and still manage to have every one of his albums go Multi-Platinum.   Even before his passing, when the storm was at it’s peak, he managed to set a record for selling out his final 50 date-tour faster than anyone in history.

This cut is the title track off his first post-humous album entitled ‘This is It’. I’ll let you guys be the critics on this one.

R.I.P. M.J.

MICHAEL JACKSON – THIS IS IT

S-N-DOUBLE O-P

C’mon folks, let’s be F’REAL f’real.  Snoop can’t lose.

He’s put out at least a half-dozen phone-in albums.  Put on a countless number of no talent, two-bit tards (obviously excluding beasts like Kurupt, Suga Free, Battlecat, etc.). Whored himself out to any product that would be willing to endorse him, and yet, the majority of us still champion him like he’s never done us wrong.  I couldn’t even begin to explain it to you, and nor will I even attempt it, just know that when people talk about that ‘IT’ in celebrities, he might as well be a Stephen King creation.

Here’s that new ish from the Doggfather.

SNOOP DOGG ft. THE DREAM – GANGSTA LUV

And if your favorite Snoop is still from ‘93.  Here’s an unreleased track from the Death Row vaults.

SNOOP DOGG ft. NATE DOGG – O.G. (Original)

RAKIM ALLAH

Okay, so the Teflon Don hasn’t stayed the test of time like our previous 2 contestants.  However, when you talk about legacies in Hip-Hop, there are few if any that compare to his.

Arguably the godfather of modern day rap and cadences, you will rarely, if ever, here Rakim miss someone’s top 5.  And truthfully, that might not even be because they like him that much, but simply because they feel obligated to say his name in fear that someone listening will punch out your canine’s for forgetting him.  And if your legacy can do that, you’re a superstar.

Now, back after a decade long hiatus, here goes the first tune off Ra’s 3rd official solo studio album, Seventh Seal.  Is it good?  You tell me.

RAKIM ft. MAINO – WALK THESE STREETS

**BONUS**

THEOPHILUS LONDON

This doesn’t really have anything to do with today’s thread but I really like this song.  I haven’t heard too many tunes from Theophilus, but the ones I have I’ve enjoyed quite a bit.  And now as a part of what I’m assuming is a push for an upcoming record, he’s released a video to arguably my favorite tune of his.

THEOPHILUS LONDON – ENJOY THE SUN

Enjoy the day folk.

Happy Turkey Face Canada.

Triple.
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