Boog Brown is gearing up for The Brown Study Remixes due out December 20th on cd and digitally via Mello Music Group. The project will include remixes from producers Georgia Anne Muldrow, 14KT, as well as some new music from Apollo Brown. With the first single, she teams up with Maryland beat maker Dunc of DTMD. This is definitely a solid joint. Hit play and enjoy! Chea.
I'm hyped for this Action Bronson and Statik Selektah project due out November 22nd. In the meantime, enjoy the visuals for their latest single Not Enough Words. Chea!
It's the Monday before Thanksgiving, so it's a celebration bitches. Ha! From TMB to you, enjoy the holiday. As per usual a little Hip-Hop for you on this Monday morning. Enjoy. Chea!
01. Black & Brown - Loosie
02. OnCue feat. manicanparty - Cigarettes and Perfume
03. Kenton Dunson - Beautiful Fight
04. Rapper Big Pooh feat. Rick Thousand - The Clock
05. MaG - True Story
06. Chuuwee - Global Warming
07. Nitty Scott MC - Tell Somebody
08. Chiddy Bang - Ray Charles
Shoutout to homie Khal at RockTheDub.com for getting this mix out. Just like he said, there's plenty of folks putting together mixes for the late, great, and legendary Heavy D., and this is just a different version from across the seas. So hit play and reminisce on the greatness that was the Overweight Lover Heavy D. He will forever be missed. R.I.P. Heavy D.
As we all know, the Hip-Hop community and the world at large lost one of the true greats within the game, Heavy D. In going through his catalog, I realized that we needed a proper tribute to the man. Yes, I know Mister Cee, DJ Premier, Marley Marl and DJ Wonder (among others) cooked up mixes for their respective radio shows, and they are all ill, but I had the thought early (maybe the night he passed) for my boy DJ Cable, who is a talented, award-winning DJ from the UK as well as a lover of that '90s Hip-Hop and R&B, to cook up a tribute mix for rockthedub. He hit me back with 52 minutes of funk, with a number of classics and hits right alongside features and remixes he was a part of, spanning pretty much all parts of Heavy's career. It's a dope mix in the end, and something I'm glad to help present. Let's celebrate the life of Heavy D with this one.
"I made this song in memory of my mother who unfortunately paid the
ultimate price as a victim to domestic violence. I joined forces with
the C.onnecticut C.oalition A.gainst D.omestic V.iolence to raise
awareness against this growing epidemic." -STAT
A few days ago I posted up the trailer to this video from BigStat off of his upcoming project Heart of a Lion. As mentioned, the new vid is in memory of his mother, who was a victim of domestic violence, and was unfortunately murdered as a result. BigStat is holding a fundraiser tonight with the Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Hartford, Connecticut, where they'll be premiering the video. The vid is deep and very heartfelt. Respect to Stat for sharing and shedding a light on a serious issue in today's society. Salute.
While out of sight, Lega-c has been constantly working behind the scenes. With a new project DASH on the way, Lega-c drops off Tuberculosis, a track he calls "the epitome of what DASH is." Cool track. Hit play. Enjoy.
It's Friday. It's Hip-Hop. A deadly combo. Ha! Another solid offering of quality music compiled of tracks featured over at RefinedHype and DJBooth throughout the week. Hit play and enjoy. And as always, I hope this EP helps kick off your weekend. Chea!
01. OnCue feat. Mike Posner - Kinda Late
02. Scheme - One Helluva Night
03. RapSody - Live It Up
04. Ludacris - History Lesson / Bada Boom
05. Action Bronson - Not Enough Words
06. Mikkey Halsted - Another Day in The Ghetto
07. Kooley High feat. Skyzoo - For The Record
08. Chuuwee feat. ENG - Absolute Monarchy
Miss Special aka Miss Interview caught up with Freddie Gibbs out in Cali. Dope interview as usual
Last night I was able to interview Freddie Gibbs after his performance at 330 Ritch in San Francisco. We spoke about performing live with Grillade, his track "Chill" with Trackademicks, Phonte and 1-O.A.K, Young Jeezy being one of his inspirations and him appearing on "Thug Motivation 103" set to release December 20th. We also spoke about his newest release "Cold Day In Hell", including the features on it, his EP "Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away" with Statik Selektah, remixing Random Axe's "Chewbaca" and what's next for him.
That dude Koncept is one funny ass dude. But that should be no surprise, because the Brown Bag AllStars collective are some insanely funny and extremely talented fellas. Koncept, with Beverly close at hand, drops off the promo video for his upcoming project awaken, due out on iTunes December 13 and the official release January 10. But instead of me rambling, I'll let Koncept take it from here.
Watch The Sky Fall" feat Royce da 5'9 (produced by Marco Polo) is the lead single for Koncept's debut album, awaken, available now on iTunes through Soulspazm Records.
So you're just gonna start the first track, the Intro track, on your mixtape with "The Roots - Act Too (Love of My Life) in the background while you have some of the all time dopest lyricists in my era of loving the genre speak about when they first fell in love with Hip-Hop right off the bat?!?! I see you, MacGuyver. I see you and I'm listening. With the volume UP!
MacGuyver goes through a series of some classic production he uses to flow over skillfully and at times effortlessly. As much as we as fans can get tired of hearing folks rap over beats we've heard over and over, this time feels to be different. I might have to chalk it to the actual instrumentals he used. They're a collection of instrumentals from some of my favorite tracks in Hip-Hop in my life.
He goes in track after track about a numerous of topics related to his life and this Hip-Hop music he's putting his foot right into. He definitely handles his own throughout the mixtape with only three tracks having a feature. I can honestly say I enjoyed this mixtape thoroughly and it brought back some of that good feeling I used to get when I listened to the original tracks back then. Guess that's why this project is perfectly titled "The Nostalgia Tape".
Check out "Respiration" off the mixtape and be sure to download the entire album after. It's free!!!
I know about Mr. Ivory Snow. Seen him perform a few times. I dig the guy's character, work ethic, and style of music. I've been trying to keep an eye out and ear open for his music whenever he drops something over the internet. For the most part, I've been able to hear some good music from him, especially of lately. This new joint is no different. Here at TMB, we do this out of love so if we don't like it, we don't like it. And we may not necessarily like everything from the same artist, so in turn, we won't post everything from the same artist. But we'll post what we do like.
This joint here, I like. Not a big fan of the chorus and would've rather heard someone different singing it but I'm not completely against it. But according to him, he says the album version will have someone singing that hook and that he wanted to release it that way for now. I can understand being anxious to let the world here your music. No doubt. The actual track is a dope one. I like the wittiness in his lyricism and the production is smooth as hell. Songs like this one makes it easier for me to continue checking for Mr. Ivory Snow. He's a talented individual that sounds like he's getting better and better. Take a listen.
"Why won't you let me rock for Pete sake. / reminiscing over you and all the mistakes. / Ass is kicked out. You feeling like Eastbay. / I told her pack her shit like she from Green Bay."
