Focus The Truth – Ride For Me (Video)

Focus The Truth drops an extremely mellow and scaled down track, that really allows the listener to focus on the exceptionally well constructed lyricism.  If you love that dope wordplay, you are going to really dig this.

I was aware of the project Q85 that dropped earlier this year with the track Basquiat which I really felt, but did not know he dropped an album, Love Will Get You Killed, which is from hence where this track came.  I am going to have to check that out.

Single You Out: Cayoz – Fire & Ice (ft. Phoenix Pagliacci) (Prod. By O*Zee)

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Cayoz is back to releasing personal fire in 2018.  Fire & Ice features production from long time collaborator O*Zee and vocals of Phoenix Pagliacci.  The music is the perfect mixture for Cayoz’ subject matter of relationships, and the good and bad that comes when you encounter people of different mindsets.  Each verse relates a different aspect of how opposing mental forces mingle together.  It’s clever and relatable, and memorable.

Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger – Until It’s My Time To Die (2018)

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Artist:  Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger (Sutter Kain x Donnie Darko x Apollo Valdez)

Album: Until It’s My Time To Die

Tracklisting:

  1. Moments OF Death
  2. Cocaine Rap (ft. Sutter Kain x Danny)
  3. Nigh Vision
  4. Power
  5. Raw Rap (ft. Sediztikk)
  6. Jedi (ft. Lavar Ave)
  7. New Jersey Drive Pt. 3
  8. Trigger Music (ft. Taino)
  9. Knights Of Doom (ft. Taino)
  10. Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger (ft. Taino)
  11. Until It’s My Time To Die (ft. Sutter Kain)
  12. Slums (ft. Sabowtaj)
  13. Street Poems (ft. Sabowtaj)
  14. Bloody Snow (ft. Rhythm Writers)
  15. Everyday Stuggle Pt 2 (ft. Mike Sanders)
  16. Cocaine Rap Hanover Remix (ft. Charles Clear x Kaot Kraftsoff x ATRX)
  17. 2004 (ft. Conway x Black & Dirty White)
  18. Street Tales (ft. Jakk Frost x Black & Dirty White)
Notes:

 

I have always been a fan of Never So Deep Records.  So much so, that they even have their own category on this website.  But 2017 was a very quiet year for the team musically.  Actually it could be said the last couple of years it seemed that there was little music making coming from the camp.  As they resume crafting the music that have endeared themselves to so many fans across the globe, it was important for the team to make a big splash in 2018.  Hence we have the collaborative effort from Sutter Kain, Donnie Darko, and Appollo Valdez, known as Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger.

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Single You Out: Forbidden Dialect – Old School

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It’s really hard to believe that the last time I featured Forbidden Dialect was back in 2011.  That would make them one of my initial submissions back when we were back in our infancy.  I recently received an email from one of the members asking me to check out their new project, Wi-Fi on the South Side.    I did  a couple of days ago, and this album they put together is fantastic.   Some great rhyme, super production, well incorporated samples and GREAT all around song making.    I am going to hit you off with the track Old School and then hit you with an album review soon.  Check it!  The album is free!!!!!

Single You Out: Team Thoro – Abundant Thoughts

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This is a release that snuck up on me which reminds me I really need to get up on my game since I am a huge Team Thoro supporter and have been for years.  Lord Of Kingz is an eight track odyssey that features the heavy hitting lyricism of AbSoulJah, Halfabrick, and Spicco.

Abundant Thoughts is a nice intro to the project and hopefully I will be able to hit you all off with a full review in the coming weeks. If you like this track, I all but guarantee you are going to feel the album.  Production is coming from Barz4thehood.

Grime Lords – Violent Violins (ft. Born Unique) (Prod. by Pete Twist)

First off, Born Unique and producer Pete Twist ARE Grime Lords.  Secondly, I have heard several of their collaborations in the past and they ALWAYS create dope bangers that hit eardrums heavy and Violent Violins is no different.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Unique and Twist are uniting for a Grime Lords album, that is said to be due out soon and is bound to be one of the toughest releases of the year with a slew of dope guest spots.   Stay tuned for that.

Single You Out: Escapism – ZoomOut pt1 (feat. JadeGritty)

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ZoomOutPt1 is just one of the many powerful sounds coming from Escapism’s (Taboo x Tab) new self-titled album that I believe is a must have.  The lyricism and the energy in the track makes the song feel like it is taking a casual ride in your brain while triggering those synapses.  It’s soulful intelligence forcing the listener into introspection.  Listen and be enlightened.  Then check this amazing album!