This song from Pearl Gates & Syll is dope, which also can be said for their entire EP, Play This. I really enjoy this project. There is Camp Lo type quality to these guys. It’s simply bringing the ‘cool’ back to music.
You need to check this out.
Single You Out: Asylum Lifetime & Tone Benjaminz – Sink Or Swim
Asylum Lifetime and Tone Benjaminz unleash a heat rock in the form of Sink Or Swim. A pulsing beat with raw rhymes will tread some new ground in the mental. It’s that heavy hitting sound that endears itself to HHD readership. Everything I have heard from Asylum Lifetime has been fire and this is no exception.
Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger – Night Vision (Video)
Man, talk about heat rocks! The NSD camp drops a video single for the new group, Pull The Fuckin’ Trigger. The team is comprised of DJ Bless, Donnie Darko, and Appollo Valdez and they are coming for heads with this new joint. I love it when Bless and Darko do their thing, and Valdez adds a new type of delivery to round out the squad.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to hear more.
Bankai Fam – Seen A Few Things (Video)
The talented team known as the Bankai Fam go over a few things that they have seen in the streets with their latest video single, Seen A Few Things. The fam never puts out anything close to weak, and these are some bars you are going to feel.
Check out the album, Civil War, which is out now!
Single You Out: John Reilly – The Art of Getting Shot Down (Produced by Rediculus)
John Reilly narrates three stories of rejection in the romance game over a production from Rediculous. Reilly addresses every man’s worst nightmare from Elementary School to High School, but then hits you with word of perseverance on the third verse. This is a refreshing track to be sure.
Easily Crippled – Take Away My Sins (Video)
Easily Crippled give us a video single from his album, Demented Logic. It’s a little bit twisted and demented but all the way dope. I love the derivation in the beat especially when it hits the chorus. And Easily Crippled spits an assortment of solid bars but hits another level when he starts going Old Testament. Peep game.
Lucky Dice – Memoirs (Video)
Lucky Dice gets introspective in regards to his life and his music with his latest video single, Memoirs. This song is uptempo and upbeat, certainly adding to the inspiration of the day.
Dice’s album, M.O.S.A. is dropping in about 15 minutes…cop that.
Ren Thomas – Oil & Water (Video)
Is it the music or is it the woman? Ren Thomas doesn’t have a choice in his new single Oil & Water. Hip Hop is just ingrained in Thomas just as is oxygen to air. The track has a bluesy feel to it as the emcee put his feelings to in the bars. It hurts to lose somebody that you love, when you can’t change something intrinsic in yourself.
If you don’t have his album, I Been Nice, you definitely need to check it. Incredibly dope!
Rob Viktum – Shoot The Messenger (ft. Lil’ Fame, Skrewtape & Guilty Simpson) (Video)
Rob Viktum’s album, Shoot The Messenger, actually drops at midnight tonight on all the digital outlets and this is the title track from the album. You’ve got the grimiest of the grimy on this joint. It’s a tough lineup of emcees with Lil Fame, Skrewtape, and Guilty Simpson on the mic. The production almost has a TV Score feel. Really dope.
I can’t wait to peep the project.
L.I.F.E. LONG & Bunty Beats – Foulness (Crazy Eights) (Video)
L.I.F.E. LONG and Bunty Beats are back at it again and they have a new album dropping on February 27th entitled, Bat Out The Cave. The track features eight emcees from across the globe with unique styles but all dope. Beats lays down some production that any emcee would be happy to flip on. Always worth checking when these guy are involved in the music. Don’t sleep on the forthcoming album!
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