It’s good to hear P.SO back rocking the mic and better yet to hear him over some 2 Hungry Bros. production. This is the first single of the collaborative project. Feast of Legend. This track has so much good going on, it’s hard to narrow it down to a few words. But this track is vibrant with a lot of different sounds, and P.SO just sounds so natural. A clear case where production and mic skills meld together so perfectly.
Now this is a good comination: The Audible Doctor and Silent Knight have proved unbelievable chemistry. You can reference their number one track about four years back, Stayin’ Busy. The Audible Doctor fires up the boom bap, the organ, and the proper intermingling of a soulful, almost sorrowful, vocal sample. There’s also just something about the way Silent Knight relates is life and ideas that just resonates with me. He’s trying to make money along with making art. This song is going to stick with me for a while.
His new project, Weaknd, is due out soon.
AG Da Coroner and Statik Selektah come out and ring a few bells with this The Game Changer single. They’re tired of the nonsense and repetitiveness that has become of hip hop. They are here to make a statement. Point made.
Verbal Kent is back with the backing of Apollo Brown and Freddie Gibbs for his new single, Suitcase Switch. The production from Apollo Brown is absolutely beautiful. It’s got so much soul packed into the span of four minutes. Kent and Gibbs do an admirable job spitting some nice bars with their own divergent styles. Kent keeps a rapid delivery while Gibbs relies on a more methodical approach to rocking the mic. It all comes together nicely.
Verbal Kent’s new album, Anesthesia, drops on September 11th.
This has been sitting in my inbox for a minute. It just took me a while to give it a listen, but I am glad I gave Savage Souls some time. It’s a dope cut. The production from Remo Williams reveals a very raw but intricate style. The chopped up GZA verse for the chorus is a really nice touch. The emcees are pretty relentless as well. They have a nice delivery combined with a good assortment of bars for the listener. I am anxious to hear this EP they have dropping. If it’s anything like this cut, we could have a sleeper hit here.
Here’s a fancy new joint from Case Arnold that serves as his DJ Booth premiere. I really am fond of this simplistic, yet super dope production from Chiefus. There’s something really dope in the bare bones elements of the track. Arnold on the other hand demonstrates some pretty superlative skills on the mic, particularly on the second verse where he’s “kissing hands and shaking babies”. Definitely can get down to this joint.
This news should excite anyone who has been following our blog over the last couple of years: The Fraternity will have a collaborative project dropping at some point this year. This track is a posse cut that features, Sleep, Scriptz, Jus Ra, Loose Logic, Frank Knight, Xavier Medina, and produced by The Gonz.
The Fraternity features so many unique styles that just blends so well together over this banger. I don’t think we will find any different when the entire project drops. So nod your ahead in a appreciation for this track at the moment and I will let you know when we can expect to see the entire project.
I have never featured Slide Dillinger before, but his first moment on our pages is a memorable one. Dillinger obliterates this banger with some rapid fire lyricism proving that skill and ability is not exclusive to the same ol’, same ol’. This is really a breath of fresh air for me. You can hear a tenacity that simply isn’t present in a lot of emcees these days. He’ll have a new project dropping this year entitled The Wake. I can only hope this one track is representative of what this album is going to be like.
Shout out to DJ Booth for scoping new talent!
Now that Shaz Illyork is out the bing, he’s back doing what he does best: Making dope music. Qred is the producer responsible for the production which features a twanging guitar. Illyork delivers the roughness with both lyricism and delivery. I know that we will be getting a new project soon, so stay tuned.
One Dae is out to follow up his phenomenal album from 2013, Daes & Times. If you didn’t check that album, you need to go and recap with that now, and then check this song. When you get done with that, now you can hear how hard this song bangs! Sean Price joins One Dae for an assortment of bars over a banger that comes from Freestyla.
I am not sure this track is a part of the project, but The Philosopher’s Stoned is his new full length with no said date.
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