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Can't Lose

From Black Milk's latest full-length album, If There's A Hell Below. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow
CD / Vinyl: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-hell-below

If There's A Hell Below
01. Everyday Was ft. Mel
02. What It’s Worth
03. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu and Ab
04. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock
05. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
06. Detroit’s New Dance Show
07. Story and Her
08. All Mighty
09. Scum ft. Random Axe
10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B
11. Grey for Summer
12. Up & Out 

Gold Piece ft. Bun B

from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10.
prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett

If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce.
 
For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.
 
Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell.
 
If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards.
 
But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.



Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte)

I Guess

Flatbush ZOMBiES  - Suspiria

Black Milk returns alongside his band Nat Turner (Aaron "Ab" Abernathy on keys, Malik Hunter on bass, and Zebulun "Z" Horton on drums) with a live instrumental LP, The Rebellion Sessions, a jazz-funk opus recorded over the span of one week. 

On "The Rebel," Black adds a verse to an instrumental off The Rebellion Sessions entitled “4 Blacks.” The Rebellion Sessions out now!

iTunes: https://itun.es/us/KVo_ab
Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/the-rebellion-sessions

The Rebel

PREMIERED ON MASS APPEAL: http://massappeal.com/premiere-mark-steele-aint-real-ft-big-rapper-pooh/
preorder "Almost Time" by Mark Steele and receive "Ain't Real" (Feat. Rapper Big Pooh) as an instant gratification track! 
Album available everywhere 10.28.16

Almost Time

Ain't Real Feat. Rapper Big Pooh (prod. by Ben Ford)

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Rapsody  2 AM ft. Ab-Soul produced by Khrysis and 9th Wonder

Produced by Karriem Riggins http://stonesthrow.com/med

MED - Classic feat. Talib Kweli

Sean Boog - A Love Never Dies" Feat. Rapsody and Khrysis Produced by 9th Wonder. From the  album "Sean Boogie Nights," available now via Jamla Records.

iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sean-boogie-nights/id541701935

DJ Booth - http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/sean-boog-sean-boogie-nights/

Sean Boog - A Love Never Dies ft. Rapsody & Khrysis

Flatbush ZOMBiES  - MRAZ

The debut single from Detroit Revolutions

Get No Better

Flatbush ZOMBiES - The Hangover

(feat. Hit-Boy, Kent M$NEY, Audio Push, B Mac The Queen, SchoolBoy Q, Casey Veggies, Xzibit, Rick Ross, Method Man, Red Man & Reakwon)

Cypher - Hits Since 87, Inc Feat. Various Artist

Overdoz x Worlds Fair x Flatbush Zombies - Mood Swings
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?eiuvb4v6cy3u6s4

PRODUCED BY SPVCE

Overdoz x Worlds Fair x Flatbush Zombies - Mood Swings

From Black Milk's No Poison No Paradise album

CD, Vinyl, LE Vinyl: blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/no-poison-no-paradise
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/no-pois…luxe/id690380563

Artwork by Joonbug

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