Cayoz – Mirror Image: The Prelude (2014)

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Artist: Cayoz

Album: Mirror Image

Tracklisting:

1. Shame, Shame (ft. Don Streat)
2. My Life Is What I Make It (ft. Dialect)
3. Everybody’s Talking (ft. Jamon)
4. What Once Was (ft. Lil $am & D.G.)
5. Retrospect (ft. Ensilence)
6. Beyond The Moniker (Album Sampler)

Note:

I just found this on Bandcamp the other day and confronted Cayoz on Twitter as to why he didn’t let me know it was dropping.  His response: ‘Not really promoting this as it’s just to tide people over until Beyond The Moniker drops’.  Well, he may not be up on promoting but we are here to make you aware of such things.   That’s our duty!  A few tracks from Cayoz is always worth noting.  I am not going to review it track by track.  we have featured at least one of these songs previously as a single.  But make sure that you DL this for your listening pleasure.   What you will find especially dope is the Album Sampler at the end.   You are going to hear some snippets of what is sure to be one of the better albums of 2014.

 

Born Allah – Fuck Your Favorite Rapper Pt. II (Video)

This is a video from February that I evident ally missed because I KNOW if I would have seen it then, it would have gotten love immediately.   There are hoards of people that feel the way Born Allah does, but he put the words to paper and named some names.  There’s no reason to be shy about it.   It’s about time people got confrontational about the music and culture they love.

I wish I could get a Born Allah and E-Rule full length…(off topic, but on my mind)

 

Single You Out: Rediculous – Kalashnikov and Kush (ft. Shabaam Sahdeeq, El Gant, Famoso, Bekay)

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I love the music Rediculous puts out.   He always puts out fantastic beats and tags with the elite emcees in the game.  In this case, on Kalashnikov and Kush he gets bars from Shabaam Sahdeeeq (has anyone done more work than him in 2014), El Gant, Famoso, and Bekay.  That’s one hell of a line up!

Rediculous’ new album, In Response: Dee-Fi, is due out hopefully soon!

 

Single You Out: Gripz – Walk In My Shoes (ft. Marka) (prod. by Anno Domini)

How can you truly judge a man if you’ve never been where he’s been?  Good question.  You can’t. With  the bars contained in this track you can here the intensity and frustration with which this man spits.  I have been a fan of Gripz for more than just a few years.  He has an unrelenting passion for rocking mics, but if you listen closely to his verses he’s also afflicted with OCD, which at times makes creating music near impossible.  He doesn’t shy away from this fact.  And while we may never know what that’s like for Gripz, he lets his bars go on this Anno Domini producer banger.   Fuel for the fire….

Be on the lookout for Poetic Literature Vol. 3 to be put out on Anno Domini’s label, hopefully in the near future.