Lyrics Born - This Is What We Fought For?

Rapper Big Pooh of Little Brother links up with West Coast emcee Roc C for "The Crew", off their upcoming collaborative LP "Trouble In The Neighborhood," in stores 4/29.

Rapper Big Pooh & Roc C - The Crew

A.C. The Program Director featuring Dr.oop and Rogue Venom - Green Butter - AC The PD remix

from Red Pill's upcoming Day Drunk EP (11/27)
Digital Greatness: http://geni.us/DetroitRedPill

Double Rainbow Vinyl: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/red-pill-day-drunk-ep/MMG00081LP/

vocals by Red Pill
produced by Alex Goose
art by Ruff Mercy

About Day Drunk EP
It’s the return of the non-fiction writer stranded in the made-up world. We last heard from Michigan’s Red Pill on his Mello Music Group debut, this spring’s Look At What This World Did To Us—a savage and sardonic diatribe against the modern condition.
 
In the interim, the former factory machinist turned his psychic bloodletting into a sustainable career. Things finally look up for the self-proclaimed “Leonard Letdown.” He toured the EU with Fashawn and Exile, spent the early fall on a 40 city North American tour with Murs, and forged a profound connection with a fanbase exhausted from the lies told to us by politicians, rappers, and ourselves.
 
Its immediate follow-up—the Day Drunk EP—offers a requisite counterbalance to the poison-tipped bleakness of its predecessor. If LAWTWDTU was the rap equivalent of Charles Bukowski’s Ham on Rye, the Day Drunk EP is closer to Notes From a Dirty Old Man. It’s slightly lighter and more playful, stocked with slick talk, wry one-liners, and enough liquor to drown even the most debauched barfly.
 
With production from Oddisee, Exile, Paul White, and Red Pill himself, the beats offer an almost psychedelic slant that blend seamlessly with Pill’s artful complaints. Whereas the last record seemed to sink into a permanent midnight of the soul, this one attempts to reconcile the inequities of life with our own ineluctable realities.
 
The first song, “What You Wish For,” finds Pill half-jokingly offering the advice to give up on work in favor of the 24-hour party. It’s not necessarily a call to hedonism, but rather a way to remind people to wake up from fugue states filled with false religion and Internet pseudo-wisdom.
 
There’s the greasy guitars and hard drums of “90s Money,” a sly love letter towards a vanished world. Pill calls himself a “loser like a Beck record,” a “fat Jesse Einsenberg"  a loose cannon drinking whiskey with two hands, listening to Bitches Brew, eating chicken vindaloo. That’s just in the first minute.
 
Despite the brighter beats and attempt to find levity in our woes, there’s still the searing fear and loathing that makes Pill so compelling. He compares himself to an unloaded gun, maligns the world that’s got him by the throat. He confesses his myriad anxieties, depression, and desire to write a happy song. Only Earl Sweatshirt can match Red Pill at their mutual ability to celebrate the isolated joy of never wanting to leave the house.
 
Maybe it’s the EP’s finale and title track that captures the contradictions at the heart of the music. It’s a eulogy to the summertime, a drinking song undercut by premonitions of doom, a reminder for us not to waste the days until our funeral—a toast to day drinking to forget our own collective pain.




Red Pill - 90s Money(prod. Alex Goose)

Khrysis f/ Oh No - OKMD

Blu - The Return (Instrumental)

from Stik Figa's upcoming album "Central Standard Time" out 1/27 http://tinyurl.com/jqgfd4a

"This "Ends & Outs" cut is a bit of nostalgia for me, I've always wanted to get on a track like that and do the lyrical exercise thing. When I heard  Black Milk's beat, I was immediately drawn to the percussive elements first, and how it's not something you hear much anymore. I was inspired by Outkast "Wailin" just a cut with dope beats and rhymes that's fun to listen to, and rewind to make sure you caught everything." - Stik Figa

Stik Figa - The Ends & Outs (prod. Black Milk)

Stream/Purchase: http://smarturl.it/KossBornToLive

New single from Belgian producer Koss featuring J-Live.  "Straight Up Pretenders" will appear on the forthcoming full-length "Born To Live" (to be released via Below System Records on 9/8/17 on CD/Digital).  The album will also feature hip-hop heavyweights including Torae, Masta Ace, Craig G, Blaq Poet, Ruste Juxx, Large Professor, Keith Murray and more.

Follow Koss:
- twitter.com/DeejayKoss
- www.facebook.com/DJKossOfficial

© 2017 Below System Records
www.belowsystem.com

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Koss - Straight Up Pretenders (feat. J-Live)

District formed with the intent of creating music that both drew from mid-'90s East Coast hip-hop à la De La Soul, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, and Gang Starr music that showcased the often overlooked Washington, DC rap scene. Comprised of two MCs, X.O. and yU, and producer/MC Oddisee (who has also released a handful of solo albums and produced tracks for Jazzy Jeff, among others, and is part of the Low Budget Crew with Kev Brown, Kenn Starr, and Cy Young), the group first introduced themselves to the hip-hop community by releasing a series of singles in the late '00s. In April, 2009 Diamond District put out the clean version of their debut full-length, In the Ruff, for free music blogs, and garnered enough press and attention from it that they were able to approach hip-hop label Mello Music Group with evidence of their fan base and why they should be signed. It worked, and the label released the unedited version of In the Ruff in October, 2009 with plans for a follow-up, titled March on Washington, to appear the next year.

Diamond District - In The Ruff - 15 Hologram

"Look Out" produced by Paul White, from Chimera EP
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Homeboy Sandman - Look Out

From the album "Soul On Ice 2"
prod. Nino Beige / cuts EF Cuttin & inDJnous

Special thanks to @MBindLLC and Juice B-Boy Crew

2019 Mello Music Group

A.C. The Program Director featuring Dr.oop and Rogue Venom - Green Butter - AC The PD remix

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