Ise Lyfe – Prince Cometh

When a spoken word artist makes a hip-hop album you know shit’s gonna be good. This album’s no difference.

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Street.Date..: 2008-00-00 ░
Rip.Date…..: 2008-09-16
Year………: 2008 ░
Tracks…….: 21
Playtime…..: 1h 09min Total
Size………: 86.40 MB
URL……….: http://www.iselyfenation.com

Blu & Mainframe Are – Johnson & Jonson

Finally the retail version!

Label…………….: Tres Recordings
Genre…………….: Hip-Hop
StoreDate…………: Sep-23-2008
Source……………: CDDA
Size……………..: 44,5 MB
Total Playing Time…: 45:22

Fly.Union – Close Doors, Open Windows (2008)[Mixtape] + Music Video

Hosted by the indieground God mixtape DJ, Mick Boogie, Close Doors, Open Windows is personally my first glimpse into the up & coming Ohio group, Fly.Union. I’ve previously listened to some of the tracks from the mixtape on Myspace and peeped the video for Big Trucks, and I must admit this entire mixtape has the possiblity of making it until my ipod. Composed of group members, Jerreau (MC), L.E. (MC), JSwifa (Producer), and Eyeon (Producer), the collective has managed to create an interesting sound in which old school & new school mesh to make something which appeals to the old heads, but is viably radio-friendly. While remaining conscious even on tracks with titles like “Big Trucks” the group always has enough swagger to make you feel like you’re listening to a top 40 radio station. Lil’ Wayne like flows, Cool Kids like production, Kidz in the Hall like lyrics… what a Fly.Union. Peep the video for the “Big Trucks” and d/l the mixtape after the jump.

Johnson&Jonson – J&J (2008) [Music Video]

I’ve had the leak of this album since December ’07, but I can’t wait for the legit release. Will def be copping that shit. Check the video (and look up the other Johnson&Jonson music video on here or on youtube).  Blu murked that shit.

Charles Hamilton – And Then They Played Dilla (2008)[Mixtape]

Dilla + Charles Hamilton. Remixed beats, new lyrics. I’ve been up all night waiting on this joint to drop, so just peep it already. If you’re unfamiliar with Charles Hamilton, all you need to know is down to earth ass producer/MC from Harlem who (at such a young age) is set to change the game for 2009. This is one in a series of mixtape he’s dropping in a very limited amount of time. Right now I’d usually tell you who dude sounds like but, yo, it’s 2:30 in the fucking morning. Just download the motherfucking mixtapes and give shouts to CH here and if you want to hear more of his mixtapes in the ongoing series check out this page for a listing.

Happy Bar Exam 2!!!!!!

It’s finally here. Presented exclusively by Hip-Hop DX. Peep it here. Also there’s an RS link after the jump. Happy Bar Exam 2 bitches!!!

Rashaan Ahmad – The Push (2008)

Guaranteed this link will be down shortly, so preview it while you can.

It’s been four long years since the release of Crown City Rocker’s debut LP  Earthtones, and while we’ve been patiently waiting for a follow-up to the Oakland crew’s brilliant grade of hip-hop, there’s still no word of a CCR sophomore release. So what are we to do besides replay Earthtones & The Mission EP over and over again until we’ve learned every key and chord? Well Rashaan Ahmad, the frontman & MC of the crew, has the answer. Listen to his long awaited new album, The Push. The album does not have the same ring as what you’d expect from a Crown City Rocker’s album (which is to be expected since there’s no live band backing him this time), but the album is appealing to the golden era & boom-bap sensibilities of your pickiest of heads. Lyrics get an A, production gets an A-. I’m not willing to put money on it quite yet, but with this release of this joint, Rashaan Ahmad may soon be up for a God MC award in the near future. Check the album and if you enjoy it as much as I have, do yourself a favor and buy it here

Q-Tip – Gettin’ Up (2008)[Single + Music Video]

It was recently announced there’s no future plans for a re-union Tribe album, but at least we have Tip’s solo debut to look forward to (dropping later in the Fall). Check Tip’s first single in a long ass 9 years and def. cop the LP when it drops.

Download: Gettin’ Up.mp3

Himalayan Project – Broken World [2007][VBR] + Middle Passage [2002][192kbps]

Download Middle Passage after the jump.

Sneak Peek Track
Download Album

Himalayan Project – 01 – Firewithin (Intro)
Himalayan Project – 02 – Broken World
Himalayan Project – 03 – Rip The Skin
Himalayan Project – 04 – Guerilla Wordsmiths
Himalayan Project – 05 – Satisfied
Himalayan Project – 06 – Been Around The World
Himalayan Project – 07 – Manchild
Himalayan Project – 08 – Chloe’s Theme
Himalayan Project – 09 – About A Girl
Himalayan Project – 10 – Go-Back
Himalayan Project – 11 – Firewithin (Outro) (Plus Bonus Track)

Kid Cudi – A Kid Named Cudi (2008)[Mixtape]

Kid Cudi (aka The Man On The Moon) has been getting a lot of buzz lately for his unique blend of hip-hop and bit of electronica as well as his co-sign from big named cats like Kanye West & Pharell. If you like acts like The Cool Kids, Wale, & Jay Electronica you’ll probably love dude and if you’re into acts like Santogold & MIA you’ll be able to appreciate what this cat does as well. Peep the mixtape (if you’re late enough to not have downloaded it until now), and when his debut LP drops, cop it.

Kero One – Windmills Of The Soul (2006)

Fans of Nujabes & Lightheaded rejoice… Kero One is here. Left coast MC & Producer puts it down for you in the tradition of other jazz-hoppers. Excellent production (especially on the tracks which is also a plea to keep vinyl alive, Keep It Alive! and Check The Blueprints). I originally copped this one right after the release in 06, but I haven’t heard anything about Kero since (expect for the track he did with Rashaan Ahmad a while back). If anybody knows anything about a future release, drop a line and if you like what you hear, cop it here.

Because We Haven’t Done It In A While…

It’s time for another posse cut…

Mac Lethal – 11 11

Nevermind the scary cover as this has to be my new favorite album of 2007. Mac Lethal’s first album on Rhymesayers.

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The Let Go – Tomorrow Handles That

Great album!

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DJ Muggs vs Planet Asia, Sick Jacken and GZA

3 albums, 3 veteran MCs, 1 producer. DJ Muggs of the Cypress Hill fame IMO is one of the most slept on producers (along with Ant) ever. In 2005 he released Grandmasters with GZA. The album was an instant classic and I personally think it basicly revived GZA’s career(at least solo). In 2007 came Muggs’s collaborative effort with Psycho Realm member Sick Jacken Legend Of The Mask & The Assassin. Definitely one of the best ’07 releases. Now on September 16 comes Dj Muggs’s album with underground legend Planet Asia(of Cali Agents) Pain Language. Make sure you buy that album when it gets released. DL links after the jump.

Sound Providers – An Evening With The Sound Providers (2004)

Here’s the debut ABB release of the SoCal Jazz Rap group Sound Providers. Like other Californian groups of the same genre, the Sound Providers cleverly mash boom-bap styled hip-hop with smooth jazz blends. The album features guest appearances from Little Brother, The Procussions, Asheru and others. Fans of People Under the Stairs, INI, Crown City Rocks, and Kero One will love this one, but fans of old school cats like Tribe, De La Soul, and Pete Rock & CL Smooth should be able to feel this release as well. Download it and if you like it, cop it here.

Hustle Simmons – Hustle Simmons

Hustle Simmon consists of MC Dave Ghetto and the up and coming producer Tha S Ence. If you like what you hear, go and buy the album.

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Edgar Allen Floe – The Road To Streetwise (2008)[Mixtape]

Hosted by 9th Wonder

Here we have Edgar Allen Floe of the Justus League’s (aka the nigga with the coolest name besides Lupe Fiasco) latest release. In preparation for Floe’s first solo LP (Streetwise) he created this mixtape (which I hear is pretty nice) to get people familiar with him since 2006’s Floe Almighty was dropped a while ago. Fans of The Away Team, Khrysis, L.E.G.A.C.Y., and Little Brother must check.

Termanology ft. Bun B & DJ Premier – How We Rock [Music Video]

Just got this one in the mail. Can’t wait for Politics as Usual to drop.

Jaylib – Champion Sound [Reissue](2007) RE-UPPED

So the story goes. Once upon a time in the land of hip hop legendary producer of the Beat Junkies, DJ J Rocc, passed a CD of beats to Madvillain maestro, Madlib. Were these beats J Roccs we may have ended up with a Roclib album, but as the story goes, these beats were (for some reason or another)  produced by none other than Jay Dee (aka J. Dilla). Madlib recorded over these beats and called the recordings Jaylib, but the recordings sat on a shelf getting dusty for a few years until Stones Throw put one of the tracks on a mixtape. Dilla, being signed to Stones Throw himself, heard the track, hooked up with Madlib and soon after began trading beats and rhymes (each did his own recording in his own respective hood) which lead to the 2003 release of Champion Sound. The album was hailed an instant classic and prototype for many hip-hop mashups to come after it (Madvillainy, Gnarls Barkley, Patch Adams, Dangerdoom etc.), but when Dilla passed away in early 2006 the album was re-vamped with a second CD of new remixes and instrumentals from the original album featured as well as a tribute to Dilla (“One For Dilla”). So here you are, the finished product of two of hip-hop’s greatest minds. Download the album and if you like it, cop it legit here.

Gym Class Heroes, Common Market, Bizzy Bone

I’ve been inactive lately cuz I’ve been having problems with my connection (and still have). Anyway lets get straight to the music. First here’s Gym Class Heroes’s new album The Quilt. Been waiting for it since I heard Peace Sign/Index Down. Second here’s one of this year’s biggest underground releases Common Market’s second album Tobacco Road. And finally for all my fellow Bone heads here’s a non-scene rip of Bizzy Bone’s long lost For Your Righteousness project now with new beats and a new name.

Jake One – The Truth (feat. Brother Ali & Freeway)[Single]

Man, oh man. After hearing this track I can’t say how excited I am about Jake’s new Rhymesayers release (White Van Music due out October 7th). For those who don’t know Jake One has been the man behind the boards for everybody from MF Doom and De La Soul to 50 Cent & Nas. I mean damn… who didn’t love Rock Co. Cane Flow? His album is slated to feature underground & mainstream legends alike and with his ability to get cats who would have otherwise never worked together on the same track, this is going to be ill. Check this track out for a taste of what I’m talking about. Ill ass collabo. Fucking crazy…

Download: The Truth.mp3

The Dynospectrum – The Dynospectrum (1999) [Slug, Self One, Beyond & Swift]

Got a request for this one a little while ago. Any fan of Atmosphere or the Rhymesayers fam should have heard of this one (although I had some trouble finding it). If you’re familiar with any of the Headshots series (or even just the widely popular Headshots: Se7en) you’ll know most of the cats on this project… Of course there’s Slug of Atmosphere and Beyond (who later became Musab) as well as old school Rhymesayers junkies, Self One (aka I Self Divine) & Swift (who I have no idea what happened to). Apparently this was the first and last actual LP that was done by the group so, Iif you like the Headshots series & Deep Puddle Dynamics you’ll love this one… if you just like Atmosphere you’ll at least enjoy it.Like it? Buy it here.

2 Sene Albums + 1 EP

So I posted one joint by this cat a minute a good minute ago (Pavement Special) and expressed my amazement about how such a young cat could release such a dope album, but now it gets crazier as dude has release 3 more works… all just as crazy as the first. I know it’s a lot to listen to, so if you don’t know where to start peep his first work (link given above) or if picking out of the 3 new joints check on The Beautifully Ugly EP (2008), after which either of the other two albums Anywhere But Here (2007) and Elevator Music: A Collection of Rejected Excellence (2008) is a dope follow up. For fans of Raks One, Blu (of Blu & Exile), Buff 1 & Now On… fuck just do yourself and whoever you are, give dude a listen.

(Question: I know Elevetaor Music: A Collection of Rejected Excellence is being given away for free on Sene’s myspace page, and Pavement Special was a Japan only release, but does anybody know where the others can be copped legit as physical copies)?

Blackalicious – The Craft (2005)

This is the junior album from the legendary underground Cali duo, Blackalicious. I was first introduced to Blackalicious in the 10th grade (about three years ago… give or take) by a friend named Kevin. Kevin was heavy into Aesop Rock, Sole, and Deep Puddle Dynamics at the time so I was certain Black would be something to abstract and left field for me to really enjoy, but after weeks (maybe months) of his nagging and bitching I finally listened to their 2nd LP, Blazing Arrows. To my dismay I greatly enjoyed the album and Kevin won. Anywho, as much as I enjoyed Black’s aforementioned sophomore album, I feel as if The Craft is an all around better album. Better production, better rhymes… shit just flows more nicely than Blackalicious’ other two joints. If you’re a fan of Lyrics Born (who’s a member of another of MC Gift of Gab’s crews), People Under the Stairs or Jurassic 5, make sure to check on this one.

Pete Philly & Perquisite – Time Flies [Music Video]

I’m starting to feel like Ches about these cats. How did I go so long without having their shit in my collection? You must check the CD version of this joint. 

Common Market – Gol’ Dust [Single][2008]

New shit from common market. Just like the track we dropped a while back (Tobacco Road), this has me fiending for new material from the dudes. Fans of Gabriel Teodros, Blue Scholars, Move.Meant, and Braille should def check on this one.

Download: Gol’ Dust.mp3

Hezekiah – I Predict A Riot (2007)

Straight of Illadelphia Rawkus artist Hezekiah (aka Mister Conscious Porn) puts it down as a mic controller as well as a producer. From listening to his last LP (Hurry Up and Wait) I imagine Hezekiah is best described as an MC who the conscious and mainstream crowds alike can relate with. That’s not to say he like a sort of Kanye West/Common , because his overall neo-soul influenced sound is what one expects out of a Philly native. Still he makes songs the everyman can relate to without being too dumb or too high and mighty. Big shouts to LeBlunt Flames for hitting us this one (as well as a shit load more which we’ll feature in the future). Listen to it and if you like it, buy it here.

Rhymefest – Stolen [Video] (2008)

Dope video, dope beats, dope rhymes. If you don’t check out any of the other videos we drop at least peep this one. Excited for Fest’s new album El Che? Yes.

Cool Calm Pete – Gitty Up Baby [Single] (2008)

Finally a new Cool Calm Pete track. I’ve been fiending for some new Pete shit ever since I heard his 2005 release (Lost the Album) and although I bought and enjoyed his CD of loosies, I was looking for more. This track hits the spot for now, but only makes me want to hear his new LP Leonard Z (which is supposed to drop later this year). Check the track and buy the album when it drops.