People Under The Stairs – The Om Years: Favorites, Rarities & B-Sides (2008)

Posted some P.U.T.S. a while back and had to post this as soon as I saw it. For the ultimate P.U.T.S. fan or just for those who are trying to get into them (which it isn’t hard to do). Any fan of that Ol’ Boom Bap in the tradition of West Coast groups like Hieroglyphics, Souls of Mischief, Living Legends and The Pharcyde will dig this one. As always if you like it, buy it here.

People Under The Stairs – The Next Step (1998)

California boom bap at it’s best. For fans of The Nonce, Living Legends, Jurassic 5, and Hieroglyphics.

Move.meant – The Scope Of Things (2007) (Album+Video)

Changing up the 2 emcees, 1 producer dynamic a little bit (1 emcee, 1 producer, and 1 DJ)  here’s our next indie trio, Move.meant hailing from Los Angeles, California. Great production coming from Just Beats (dude sounds like a premature version of Sabzi from Blue Scholars & Common Market), decent cuts from Spider, Champ’s lyrics are for the most part on point, and the album also has some nice features from Blu, Trek Life, Anecdote & more. I wouldn’t put it in my 10 best albums of 2007 (still a solid listen), but with time I’m sure these cats will move on up the food chain.  Def check ’em out regardless or at least peep the video.

Busy P & Murs – To Protect & Entertain (Single)

So, apparently Murs has jumped on the entire bastard pop bandwagon… um, it’s nice to try new things but this is probably the type of thing that’s best done once. Parisian G-Funk? My God…

To Protect & Entertain: Download