These are the kind of joints that make the universe just right. The 17th is an elite emcee. His wordplay is just extraordinary. But things get a little grimier on deck when homies Livin Proof and Cortez jump on the track. These barbarian bars are liable to leave a wake of destruction in their path.
Inside Jokes With Complete Strangers should be front in center on your radar when it drops later this summer.
Here’s something new that I am absolutely loving! A producer out of Poland, Tuelv, sent this over to me and I was very impressed. The beat is laid back and jazzy while this emcee out of Omaha, Verze can really handle his business on the microphone. The track is off of Verze’s new album, Invizible Art, which is out now. Very tempted to check that project out after hearing this track.
Fluent gets Joe Budden on board for his new single, Take You Down. The track has a trippy down tempo feel to it. It’s almost psychedelic, like the sound of a record being played backwards. At any rate it’s a pretty nice track and is the foreruner for his album, Supreme Victory due out on July 15th.
Artist: Skeezo x Rediculous
Album Stuck In Da 90s (Remixed)
Tracklisting:
1. Stuck in the 90s (Rediculus Remix)
2. Pick Up Lines (ft. Shabaam Sahdeeq and Vasnessa Renee) (Rediculus Remix)
3. Party Starters (ft. Nutso) (Rediculus Remix)
4. Hudson Valley Renegade (Rediculus Remix)
5. Watch Ya Step (ft. El Gant, Bekay and DJ Modesty) (Rediculus Remix)
6. The Mission (Rediculus Remix)
7. How You Spit (ft. Napoleon Da Legend) (Rediculus Remix)
8. Stuck in the 90s (Rediculus Head Bang Remix)
9. How You Spit (Rediculus Reflex Remix)
Note:
Again, not a full review, just an awareness post. I don’t know how it happened, but Skeezo linked up with one hell of a producer to remix his Stuck In Da 90s project from last year. Rediculous lives up to his moniker when it comes to the beats he utilized for this project. In all honesty, I am loving this entire thing from front to back. The original is dope, but the remixed version is next level. Skeezo’s vocals sound perfect over this reworking. It’s a free download, so make sure you head on over to the link above and download from DJ Booth. This will be essential for 2014.
Artist: Goldini Bagwell
Album: Secondhand Smoke (The Extended Cut)
Tracklisting:
1. Live Without (Intro)
2. Desire Is… (feat. Little Warrior)
3. Get Busy (feat. Tope, DJ Flip Flop & Jon Belz)
4. Words to Live By, Pt. 2 (feat. Bre Paletta)
5. Conclusions Drawn
6. Read About It (feat. Iame, OnlyOne & Illmaculate)
7. Feeling Good (Saul Love)
8. Say Anything
9. WWWH
10. Pandemonium
11. Search Party (feat. Onry Ozzborn, Dj Wels & Nyquil)
12. Everchanging Constant (feat. Little Warrior)
13. Wings of a Seagull (Instrumental)
Note:
This is not a review of any sort. This is just ‘us’ letting ‘you’ know that this available now. Bagwell is a favorite and a mainstay on HHD and it’s only fitting for me to encourage you to go pick this up. 90% of the music coming out these days, you have heard before. There’s a lot of the same old cafeteria cooking going on in the lab these days. But when something unique comes out, we’ve got to support. Bagwell is among a very minute population of artists who consistently gives us quality of a different ilk and always makes it fresh for the fans. So make sure you cop from the Bandcamp page now and check back here later, when I will have more time to do an official review!
I featured Benjamin Miles a couple of years when he and his compadres dropped an album called Bottles & Bones under the group name Of Mice and Musicians. I love that album and to this day I play it occasionally (even though I always have a ton of music to listen to). Now he’s back with a new album entitled, The Wishing Tree. Miles’ is really a peoples’ emcee. He focuses on real world issues and problems and doesn’t get caught in the phony bravado that prevails in hip hop these days. I chose to feature Wolves & Sheep because that’s a track the relates to us all. We all have to keep a close eye on those around us and sometimes we have to guess if they are are there to help or harm. It doesn’t hurt that the production is top notch.
Blueprint is an extremely well-informed and talented emcee. This is a great track that gives you insight into other things that are going on in the world that may make you own circumstances pale in comparison. He’s not trying to diminish feelings, but merely give you you, well,…perspective. The track is soulful, meaningful, and enlightening.
Check out his album, Respect The Architect.
Shabaam Sahdeeq holds down the hip hop culture with the title track from his latest album, Keepers of the Lost Art. Do the knowledge and understand the math behind what it means to be a hip hop artist….Sahdeeq emplores you to study up before you hit a stage or do a mixtape. The new album is everything that is right about hip hop, so make sure you cop it at the earliest convenience.
Daytona and Peter Leo’s track is the video single, Indiana Jones, released the same day as it’s parent project, Oppotunity Knocks Vol. 2 (Out Now Fools!) I think the song is hot. Leo and and Dayton are a good combination. There flows and energy play off of each other well, especially over this DJ Insite production.
Artist: El Gant
Album: Beast Academy
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Truth Hurts (feat. Torae)
3. Three Amigos (feat. Chris Webby & Ill Bill)
4. Bases Loaded (feat. Infinity Gauntlet)
5. JOAT Interlude
6. Energy (feat. J. Blanc)
7. Goldie Hawn (feat. El Da Sensei)
8. Five One Eight (feat. GGDT)
9. Mr. Miyagi
10. Three Amigos (Remix)
Note:
I first heard about El Gant when I saw him in the super group, Infinity Gauntlet. I hears his verse on the track Anti-Angelz and wrote his name down on a piece of paper so as not to forget. I then caught him in the group KAMALA and those songs were incredible. He released a mixtape, and now we have arrived at the time he drops his album, Beast Academy.
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