Singles, Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, and Videos that get the HHD thumbs up.
This is more visual illness from Red Eye’s latest body of work, Fatrick Ewing. The project is deep with ill tracks for your listening enjoyment and comes highly recommended. He’s turning this game into prison rules so you best protect that neck.
Bars…bars…and more bars…
Well after waiting approximately three years, today was the day that U.G. (Cella Dwellas) and IDE released the magnum opus, Portals. I honestly thought this project was never going to drop. So today I am proud to spread the word on something amazing! Portals is an incredible endeavor in the crafting of boom-bap.
This video is just the tip of the iceberg for what you have in store when you cop this album. The lyrical diversity of U.G. and IDE’s sterling production make this a must have.
Slim One invites ‘Fizzyology’ to rock over a banger. I mean there is some serious english put on this cut. Everything is done emphatically on this track…the production and the bars put down by Lil Fame and Termanology. It’s all top notch. It was dope enough to make me pre-order the album, Ready For Whatever on iTunes.
This is an instant hit! The beat by DJ b-Able is one of the finest productions this year. The way he works in the soulful hook and the samples makes the song feel like a mesh of soul, blues, and boom-bap. The verses by Don Streat, Gatsby The Great, and Revalation are the proverbial dynamite. Rev in particular has some serious zingers in his verse make this track a monumental eulogy.
New video single for Blaq Poet and Comet, Granite. , featuring J Hood. The cut is off of their project, Mad Screwz, and is produced by Astronote. If you know anything about Poet and Comet, you can already assume, before hearing the track, that the joint goes hard. These guys don’t craft anything that doesn’t bang. No weak shit allowed.
Check the album.
Gotham Green has been featured here numerous times, but it has been a minute. As a matter of fact, it has been two years since he has dropped some new music. But he truly hasn’t lost a step which is noted on this new Don Korto produced track, No Hard Feelings. The track’s tone is casual, yet definitive. Green is back but he’s not here to join the parade, he’s here to continue to carve his own path.
Don’t sleep!
I was not up on Bobby Craves and Feral Serge but I am thinking I am going to start looking out. I like the simplicity of the production from Jay Sax as the bass line drives the music. All the while Craves and Serge deliver some intricate some bars that the listener really can dig into. It’s the exceptional turn of phrase that will draw you in.
It is my duty and obligation to share dope music with you and thusly I present you with the single, Last Man On Earth, from Ghost Of the Machine, and featuring Red Pill. The track is personal and introspective, with a touch of despair. The track suggests that no matter the belongings, situation, and company that the artist will still feel lonely. I’ve been there and can definitely respect.
The track is from the album, It’s Lonely Out Here: The Story of J.F.M. If you are feeling this track then this is an instant cop. The album is solid and chocked full of true content.
This new single from Cayoz will inevitably have you nodding your head and snapping those fingers. Out The Box is a complete hip hop party for you ears. Cool FD puts together some of his best work for this track with the jazzy flavor, horns, and pianos. It’s layer after layer of musical dopeness. Then you’ve got Grazzhoppa chopping up an old school Slick Rick sample amongst others making it even more memorable. Cayoz, Vandalyzm, and Add-2 each drop a dope 16 to make this song stick with you.
UG’s forthcoming album, Portals, is my White Whale. I have been waiting for it forever and for the longest time, I thought it was never going to drop. I thought it was just going to be shelved. But now we have proof of life with the IDE produced single, The Mystic. On this track you get to hear UG flip a one of a kind style over a production that actually caters to the word…”mystic”.
Even greater news is that we have a release date for the new album. It’s dropping on October 21st. Make sure you notate that on your calendar.
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