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Skeezo x Rediculous – Stuck In Da 90s (Remixed Album) (2014)

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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.

 

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Goldini Bagwell – Secondhand Smoke (The Extended Cut) (2014)

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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!

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Single You Out: Benjamin Miles – Wolves & Sheep (ft. Britney Stoney)

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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.

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Blueprint – Perspective (Video)

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.

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El Gant – Beast Academy (2014)

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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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Single You Out: Don Streat – Pistol Grip (ft. Sullee J & Lord Baltimore DDS)

Oh…so Brooklyn represented earlier but not to be outdone are these B-More boys!  Don Streat, Sullee J, and Lord Baltimore DDS slaughter this production from D.R.U.G.S. Beats.  I was really captivated by the bars from Sullee J.  He was spitting with a rapid fire and intense delivery.  It got me amped just sitting here.   I am not sure if this song is off of any project in particular but it certainly belongs in your collection!

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Raf Almighty – Slumz (ft. Snook Da Crook and Wyld Bunch) (Video)

What do you know about the slumz?  Not a thing.  Not a thing.   But Raf Almighty and his compatriots, Snook and Wyld Bunch, are familiar with those surroundings and they break out the pain brushes and give you the picture with this cut.  And having Brans on the boards is like a the seal of approval for freshness.

If you haven’t checked out Raf’s new album, G.T.F.O.M.Y., you should get on checking it.  A lot of people giving it top consideration for one of the best albums this years.  Heads recognize…