The homeys Shake and Meka over at 2DopeBoyz.comput together this fresh new mixtape featuring some of the rising talent we have out here on the west coast. It’s hosted by Thurzday and Y-O from U-N-I and features new joints from Blu, Pacific Division, Crooked I, Fashawn, Grynch, TiRon, yours truly and way more. I’m featured on two songs – my solo joint “Still Risin,” produced by Kno from Cunninlynguists, and “Quitter” with TiRon and Ayomari, which you may have heard before. You can download the tape by clicking either of the covers above. I’ll probably make a separate post for “Still Risin” in a couple of days once the tape gets out there a bit more. CHEAAAH!!!
That fool TiRon stays dropping new shit. Here he revisits his Madlib produced joint from last summer’s Handshakes & Pounds mixtape, adding a new verse. It’s fire. Look for another new joint from TiRon on Monday as well, featuring Ayomari and produced by the homey Cook Classics. Yessir.
The Foreign Exchange’s second LP Leave It All Behind is probably my most anticipated album right now. It’s dropping on October 7th digitally and should be in physical stores the following week. Nicolay and Phonte just released the tracklisting, which you can find below, along with the third edition of their viral video series. The album cover is above as well. Can’t wait for this.
Leave It All Behind tracklist:
01. Daykeeper
02. Take Off The Blues
03. All Or Nothing/Coming Home To You
04. I Wanna Know
05. House Of Cards
06. Sweeter Than You
07. Valediction
08. If She Breaks Your Heart
09. If This Is Love
10. Something To Behold
11. Leave It All Behind
Here’s Ash Roth and Devin the Dude in the stew working with Sean C & LV (the dudes who produced most of American Gangster). One can only imagine how much herb was consumed between these two in that session. Asher’s performing tonight at a frat at USC. If that’s not appropriate, I don’t know what is. I’ll be catching him live for the first time on Sunday as well. Dude is one of the most polarizing MCs in recent memory…people either love him or hate him. What do you think?
And speaking of Devin, check out some of the ill artwork for his new album Landing Gear.
New free EP from the homey El Prez, presented by the good folks at Eighties Baby. Prez describes the project as “loosely flippin a concept about the effect mass media and ‘the idiot box’ has on our daily lives; from politics, to attitude and mentality.” Tracklist is below, and you can click the cover above to download. Look for Young Tunj on a Prez joint soon, by the way.
01. Say It With Me ft. KU and Danja (prod by 3AM)
02. Here We Go (prod. by Dae One)
03. It is What it is ft. DNEZ (prod by Dale Danja)
04. Ali Rap (kill ‘em Prez) (prod. by J Trax)
05. Hood Wars Commercial
06. Supan!gga ft. Dale Danja (prod. by Dale danja)
07. The Daily Show ft. Indef (prod. by JRK)
08. Close 2 Me (prod. by 3AM)
09. The Greatest
10. Pink Panther ft. Yung Cyph and j7
11. RADIO ft. The Cheapskate$
12. It is What it is earhustla remix
Hyphen’s been killin me on this blog shit lately…I’m clearly five days late posting this. Anyways, he recently interviewed one of my favorite new artists, Janelle Monae, up in Seattle. They talked about her background and inspirations growing up, her introduction to the industry, the storyline behind her ridiculous album Metropolis, and a lot more. Check out the video below and the full interview link under that.
The big homeys SAS drop the first video from their forthcoming album Arms & Hammers. This is just some feel good west coast hip hop, and Blaqtoven killed the hook. Look for the video on BET and MTV Jams soon. Blacksmith is the movement, by the way.
Here’s a new clip from my LA/Detroit homeys NowOn. You may remember this song from The Exactly’s Your New Favorite Mixtape from a few weeks back. I LOVE this joint!!!! You can peep the title track from NowOn’s forthcoming project Tomorrow Already below, as well.
Footage from the LB show last weekend, which they MURDERED. There was some last-minute fuckery which cut our set length, but I’ll say quite humbly that we killed it too. I’m trying to get some footage together so you guys can see for yourselves. In the meantime, peep Tay and Pooh.
