I love it. Absolutely love it. OnlyOne drops nothing but heat and now he’s once again teamed up with producer Furtado Yuen for the second installment of their collaborative EPs. The first one is still on repeat in the rotation. Professional is my personal favorite cut off of that project but I digress (pick that up if you have not already)
This is a complete song from the bars to the production to the chorus. All hip hop heads will be liable to play this joint…
This video is for a track off on Illmaculate and Lawz Spoken’s most recent project, CHRON: Legacy (ft. OnlyOne). The production from Lawz Spoken is equivalent to stalking music which is perfect to set the tone for this video. The video itself is on some “assassin vs. assassin” type ish. Really dope song. Check out the EP!
Here are my Top 5 Mixtapes from 2012. Click the pics to be taken to the appropriate download links.
If war came in your headphones, this is what it would sound like. Spit Gemz is the quintessential street poet of our generation. This man combines the highest level of intelligence and wordplay making this the best street album/mixtape this year.
Red Eye definitely has an argument for the best mixtape of 2012. This mixtape is tough. Really tough. The beats are big and the rhymes are raw. There are also tons of dope guest shots on this project as well. Lots of replay value on this joint.
Juan Deuce’s first project, No Sweat, is a winner. Juan Deuce is an artist all unto himself and can not be duplicated. This project is absolutely unique. And ‘unique’ in this instance means…fresh.
DMP offers the most traditional of mixtapes in this year’s awards. Lots of short but dope cuts on this project from a group of Virginia emcees back by Nottz behind the boards. Good music to saturate your eardrums in.
Do you want a mixtape to bang and knock in the whip? Our Sandpeople brethren brought you some ill music in 2012 and perhaps none more sick than OnlyOne’s Cult Classic.
Alright my people, CHRON: Legacy is dropping on Monday, can you get down with that? After you hear this track you will be. Lawz Spoken brings you cascading darkness disguised in a beat while OnlyOne and Illmaculate trade “under world” verses from the river Styx. Oh was that a bit much? Too dramatic? Fuck you…this shit is ill.
Artist: OnlyOne
Album: Cult Classic
Source: Sandpeople
Tracklisting:
1. Motion Picture
2. What I’ve got To Say (ft. Theory Hazit)
3. About Where I’m From
4. Scheming (ft. Illmaculate and Epp)
5. Sit Down
6. American Psycho
7. The Nightmare (ft. Onry Ozzborn)
8. Skrillionaire (ft. Illmaculate and Cool Nutz)
9. Follow A Dollar (ft. IAME and Goldini Bagwell)
10. Too Late
11.Open Book
12. Murder
13. Mario Bros.
14. White Republican
15. Zales
16. I Love Chronic
17. G-Shit (ft. JFK)
18. Blood Money
Note:
By now, everyone should know that I feel the music from the Sandpeople. And while my favorite album from the collective is Goldini Bagwell’s, Chainsmoke, my favorite member is OnlyOne. I am impressed by the way he puts together his rhymes and controls the pace of each track. He never seems rushed, no matter the tempo of the song. He always sounds comfortable rocking the mic. It’s never complex, but rather unique.
Artist: Goldini Bagwell (of Sandpeople)
Album: Chainsmoke
Source: Itunes
Tracklisting:
01. Intro (Unfiltered)
02. Bagwell
03. Lets Grow
04. Tenure (Feat. Iame)
05. Wmn Vs. Wrk
06. More Than High (feat. OnlyOne & Illmaculate)
07. Chainsmoke
08. Speed of Life
09. Words to Live By
10. For Nothing (feat. Reva Devito)
11. No Sucka Revisited (feat. Epp, Destro Destructo & Illmaculate)
12. Prelude to AU (Aye You)
13. Outro (Exhale)
14. Bagwell (DaiN Remix)
Note:
In preparation for the end of the year accolades posts, this will probably be my last album review…probably. And because I am reviewing Mr. Bagwell’s, Chainsmoke, you know it has to be good or else I wouldn’t waste my breath on it. Not only, is it good, it’s outstanding.
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