Termanology and Mac Miller go in on this track blessed by one of my newer favorite producers and DJs in Statik Selektah. Pretty dope. But what are your thoughts?
Episode 29 is here and just in time for you to bump it for the weekend. Q and I go on a rampage against skinny jeans and have somewhat of a disagreement in the studio as furniture was moved around. Haha!!! But as always, we bring you that dopeness your ears love. Let us be your "radio" as we bring you joints from e.d.g.e., Mike Beatz, Shad, SPEAK Easy, Melissa Czarnik, Homeboy Sandman, Savant, David Dallas, and a whole lot more. You know what to do!
Intro
01. Melissa Czarnik - Bedtime Stories
02. Pusha T. - Open Your Eyes
03. Big K.R.I.T. - Amtrak
04. Recess - Emperor Strikes Back
05. Koncept & Tranzformer feat. Jefferson Price - Change
06. David Dallas feat. Freddie Gibbs - Caught In A Daze
07. Shad & Skratch Bastid - Give You All I Can
08. YC The Cynic - Ol' Glory
09. Das Racist - You Oughta Know
10. e.d.g.e. - Say It Midshow Break
11. Pharoahe Monch feat. Jean Grae, Royce Da 5'9 - Assassins
12. Mike Beatz & Adonis feat. Wrekonize - My World
13. Scheme feat. Emilio Rojas & Astonish - Helluva Year
14. Homeboy Sandman - Not Pop
15. Lupe Fiasco feat. Eric Turner and Sway - Break The Chain
16. SonReal - Judgmental
17. Savant feat. Dominique Larue & Dee Jackson - Rely On Me
18. Soul Khan feat. Akie Bermiss - Fe La Soul
19. SPEAK Easy - So To Speak/Renegade Outro
So I'm cleaning up the email and I get this interesting mixtape in there. Looking at the name, he sounds familiar but with my spotty ass memory, forget trying to figure out from where or when. Haha. Anyways, I hit play and went through track after track. Definitely different. I felt a chill vibe to it as I listened to tracks where Kanye's Runaway and Power, Cutting Crew's (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight were influentially sampled as well as putting his spin on Alicia Keys and Jay-Z's infamous track with "Empire State of Mind 3". So much other joints on "Love & Stadiums" are pretty soulfully sung by Mateo. I guess it should be somewhat expected when Kerry Krucial Keys has a hand in it. With features like Ab Liva, Goapele, Pusha T, Fashawn, Kardinal Offishall and others, it's a really dope sounding mixtape. But enough with my thoughts on it, download it, listen, talk about it, etc.
1. Moment for Life (intro)
2. Don't Shoot Me Down (feat Goapele & Ab Liva)
3. Runaway (feat. Gilbere Forte)
4. Doubt
5. Power (feat. Pusha T & Ab Liva)
6. Pace of My Heart (feat. Andra)
7. Get to Know Me
8. Right Through Me (interlude)
9. In Your Arms Tonight
10. Ohh In Love
11. Paris
12. Empire State of Mind Part 3
13. Say You Will (feat. Fashawn)
14. 3 Peat
15. A Milli
16. We Go Hard (feat. Kardinal Offishall)
17. Bad Romance
My homegirl Jade put me on to this video yesterday. I posted it over on my tumblr page and definitely felt the need to share it here too. You gotta love creative folks and that's exactly what you get with this fan made video for Kanye West's "All Of the Lights." Don't knock it until you watch it. Don't worry, no seizure (or seizure salads, lol) will occur from watching this video. Allegedly, of course. Ha! Enjoy.
“For those who know me, they know I am a fan of Kanye West. This started as a little fun after a show in LI, NY and turned it to a full on idea. This was made with $0. Just a camera, final cut, and some good friends. Hope you enjoy!” -@imjustdave
Video directed by David J. Hamilton and Potential. Filmed and edited by Potential.
Over the last few days a gang of fresh videos from the likes of OnCue, MeLo-X, The Jealous Guys, Luke Christopher and David Dallas have hit my inbox and the Internets! Five fresh videos for some pretty damn dope tracks. Enjoy them all after the jump. Chea!
Now I know we've all been like, "where the eff is Lauryn Hill?" We miss her music! I know she has been in concert a few places, but that woman has disappeared from the music game for over a decade. I don't know about you guys but I'm personally starting to get offended by her absence. I'm just saying. Anyhow, this song popped into my head earlier today and I thought I'd share. If you've heard her one and only studio album, then you know this is a classic and that it sounds just as good now as it did 12 years ago. So enjoy the rest of your Thursday afternoon and mellow out to the sounds of "Ex Factor" from her 1998 debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Shouts to the homie Khal over at rockthedub.com, celebrating five years of slowing down the Internet. Ha! Khal is a good dude and runs a pretty dope site. Congrats on five years (which is like 200 years on the Internet).
It's definitely been five years since I started up rockthedub.com, and like we always do at this time, here's the annual free compilation, featuring 21 tracks (plus a bonus pack of 13 additional tracks) featuring the Brown Bag AllStars, Pugs Atomz and DJ Vadim, Elucid, Zilla Rocca, Curly Castro, Scripts N Screwz, Whygee, Mario Dones, Rickie Jacobs, J NiCS, The Two. Fifteens, AWKWORD and others, with two special refixes from DJ Nappy.
Tracklist:
01-Heist ft. Zilla Rocca - I Need Killers (and Thieves Like You Wouldn't Believe)
02-Che Grand ft. Elucid vs. Artificial Intelligence - Deaf Ray Dub (Disc Jockey Nappy Refix)
03-P.L.O. ft. Ralph Rip Shit - Hold That
04-AWKWORD ft. Y-Love - Mr. President (The Wisconsin Song) (prod. by The White Shadow)
05-Cyclops - You Don't Understand (prod. by Razorsharpe)
06-Brown Bag AllStars - In His Shoes (DJBrace Remix)
07-J NiCS - Slumber (Numonics rockthedub Remix)
08-Pugs Atomz & DJ Vadim ft. Stahhr Tha F.E.M.C.E.E. & Jabee - Shoot'em Down
09-Rickie Jacobs ft. Artic - Malcolm X (prod. by Clay Hilman)
10-Jefferson Price - Hip Flask (prod. by Tranzformer)
11-Elucid - My Blank Verse (prod. by Small Pro)
12-The Two. Fifteens - Cloudy. Got Em'
13-Scripts & Screwz - Highway
14-Whygee - What Love Is (prod. by Nofrendo)
15-K. Vincent - Ain't A Thang Change (prod. by Nabs, add. prod. by Alex Cruz & Black Lion Beats)
16-Mario Dones - Mars Attacks (prod. by Buscrates 16 bit Ensemble)
17-Assorted Anonymous - Roll By My Lonely (prod. by NVious)
18-Elucid - Heavy Metal (prod. by Screwz)
19-Do Ear - Soul Dealers
20-Shawty Lo ft. Rick Ross & Jim Jones vs. The Two. Fifteens - Foolish (Disc Jockey Nappy THUGSTEP Refix)
21-Curly Castro - Down With Batista (prod. by Happ G)
The Bonus Beats package features additional tracks from Elucid and The Two. Fifteens, as well as tracks from JSWISS, R.O.E., Stealth, E Dot Dizzy, Kenny Kenny, SUICIDER, Triple J, Prhym8 (w/ Emcee Slick), R.O.E. and more!
Here are a few joints I've received via email or bumped into on the Internets. This Thursday's offering comes from Shane Eli, Blitz The Ambassador, G-Eazy and B.I.C. . Enjoy. Chea!
The homie Shane Eli really delivers on his newest track, "The Night is Young", off his I Can Do Better project dropping soon. Jason Caesar provides the vocals on this smooth track that is being called "a bedroom burner." Ha! Definitely a dope track. Salute to the brother Shane Eli.
I really hope folks aren't still sleeping on Blitz The Ambassador. He's an incredible emcee, with bars and so much raw talent. Yesterday he released this fresh track, "Dear Africa", featuring Les Nubians. A dope and fresh track from the Ghana-born-New-York-based Blitz. He's currently working on Native Sun, due out in May. In the meantime, enjoy "Dear Africa."
I really fucks with this G-Eazy "Outta Pocket" joint featuring Chippy Nonstop. I have to thank Chad over at DonutsandMilk.com for putting me on to this joint. This track is from G-Eazy's The Outsider project.
This is more of a laid back track from my high energy brothers B.I.C. There's so much potential from these young guys who rocked at our last Independent's Day Showcase. This track is off producer Chuk's new tape Concord (Hadji: The Beat Konstructa). Enjoy.
With an election day looming and much of the frustration of Wisconsin voters being tuned out, native Wisconsinites JC Poppe, Pezzettino, Allen Cote, and Benjamin Schaefer teamed up to vent their anger with Governor Scott Walker and the current attitude Wisconsin Republicans are taking against unions...and issue that affects teachers, schools, health care, etc.
The song called "Princess Palace" sums up how so many people in Wisconsin feel while dealing with the strong-arming of their beliefs. The video was done by Pezzettino and is a great artistic telling of the feelings of so many Wisconsin workers that aren't being listened to.
The creative lo-fi track is a sincere attempt at continuing the passionate string of protest tracks coming from Wisconsin artists because the protesting and disapproval of the strong-arming of constituents can't slow down and can't stop!
We're back with another Throwback Video of the Day and this is the kind of joint you want to wind down your Wednesday with (that was a tongue twister) Ha! If you can't bob your head to this, you just don't know music. I'm definitely loving the vibe of this one tonight. It's the perfect nightcap to end a busy day. At the request of @JosephAParker, raise your glass in the air and enjoy "What They Do" off 1996 album Illadelph Halflife.
With the new blog schedule I set for myself, I rarely post things on Wednesday. But I came across this joint from Kenton Dunson, which is a remix to the cover of Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" and so I felt the need to post today. Let me just put something out there right quick, folks shouldn't get into the habit of doing covers of any of Adele's music and think that shit is gonna fly over here because it's not. I think Adele has a powerful voice and her tracks are better left untouched in terms of covers. I hope we're clear on that. Ha! However, this Adele cover is the joint that John Legend laid down some smooth vocals to on the acappella version of "Rolling In The Deep", so it's cool with me.
Adele, since her first album, has kind of become a Hip-Hop songstress by default with much of vocals being sampled *cough Hometown Glory*. What Kenton Dunson did here was take the John Legend version of "Rolling In The Deep" and add to it. Kenton writes, "when I heard John released this acappella of an awesome song by a great artist, I took that acappella and went to my piano, kick drum and bottle of whiskey...this happened."
I think Kenton did a great job adding layers and two pretty cool verses to this joint. Hit up the comment section with your thoughts. In the meantime, enjoy. Chea!
