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from the album CASTLE "Gasface"

What Passion Of The Weiss Says:
"Enter CASTLE. North Carolina-raised. Mello Music Group signed. Mission statement: I don’t give a fuck music for people who don’t give a fuck. Lest you think this is all ski-mask seriousness, his biography touts this resume of achievement: once killed the entire Marvel universe, made Chuck Norris say uncle, cut through hot knives with butter, lost his virginity before his father. I’m not sure if he’s the most interesting man in the world, but he raps like he could decapitate that genial old man and serve cerveza out of his skull. Not bad."

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CASTLE - Krillz


Rhymesayers Blueprint dives into a remix from Mello Music Group's latest discovery, North Carolina producer and emcee CASTLE. Opium is from CASTLE's debut MMG album "GasFace" (7/23).

Lyrics:
she called me up, said she needed to talk.
desperately need a friend. say she need me again.
i know this story. should prolly end it before it starts.
me and logic call a meeting, but my lower brain attends.
fuck it, just listen to her.
tells me she's trying to keep it together.
but all her new nigga does is just rip into her.
initial thought: "screw her. forget saving this chick.
if you play superhero, she'll be your villainess."
logic has a loud voice, but the heart is undecided.
aching to open up, and aches even more to invite her.
then i'm reminded how good it feels to be snug inside her.
before i know it she's in my bed and we fuck till maÒana.
playing casual with questions like, "how's your mama?"
i know she couldn't a give a fuck, but i still give an answer.
because we both know we're just stalling the drama.
so grab your armor and brace yourself for ensuing trauma.

and i know that i should tell her kick rocks ó break a toe
but i won't. 'cause reason ain't stronger than lust.
and i know that i should dead it, give it the final blow.
but i don't. 'cause reason ain't stronger than us.
go after the heart when the brain's not looking.
go after the heart when the brain's not looking.
go after the heart when the brain's not looking.
won't be long before you start to wonder how she took it.

so we're right back to the arguments.
wasn't long before it stopped being marvelous.
kisses on her neck seem to be enough to pause the shit.
if only for an hour.
then i'm left to wonder how i fell for this poisonous flower.
perhaps i was attracted to the scars around her heart.
they told me a tale of the last time she was torn apart.
in my arrogance i tried to be that beacon in the dark.
then i fell, but there was no one below me with a tarp.
call herself 'bored', so she's packing up and leaving.
never cheated, always given you respect, and that's a weakness?
what the fuck? what you mean you and that other nigga speaking?
i guess all that you needed was for you to be mistreated, huh?
feel like i'm bleeding, bruh. she cries, and i eat it up.
fiery goodbye kiss, i'm tryin' to heat it up.
say that i needed her, she say that he need her more.
then she leaves me there, frozen, staring at the door.

another promise to myself to keep my guard up.
another beat is a canvas to draw some bars up.
just remind myself: when something seem too good to be true,
it probably is, and i shouldn't get beside myself.
besides, shorty's doing well, and that is all that counts
she and dude living together, she became his spouse.
she don't need me now, so why am i in shorty's house?
with the proverbial shovel ready to dig shorty out?


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CASTLE - "Opium (Blueprint Remix)"

Prod. DJ Kryptonite

When we heard Hus Kingpin (co-starring Roc Marciano) "The Cognac Tape," we knew it needed an official Mello Music release.  Hus & MMG worked out the details and the official release was set for 9/17.  The tape is hosted by and features fellow Hempstead legend Roc Marciano along with Hus' Digicrates compadres Rozewood, Marvelous Mag, and Smoovth.  "Boss Material" was reworked by DJ Kryptonite on production.    The album also features production from The Snowgoons among others.  Hear the complete project snippets and pre-order at iTunes now.  The Cognac Tape is also available for pre-order on CD and Vinyl.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cognac-tape-feat.-roc-marciano/id680535178

CD: http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/pre-order/products/hus-kingpin-co-starring-roc-marciano-the-cognac-tape-cd

Vinyl: http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/pre-order/products/hus-kingpin-the-cognac-tape-co-starring-roc-marciano-vinyl-lp

Hus Kingpin - Boss Material (feat. Roc Marciano)

Michigan producer 14KT is preparing to release his newest project "Nickel & Dimed" (9/3), a 15 track instrumental album featuring a bonus vocal versions Ep featuring Blu, Black Milk, MED, Kokane, JMSN, Jamall Bufford (Buff1), Ozay Moore (Othello).  The first single, "Crown" featuring Black Milk & MED debuted today on MTVhive.  The digital album is available for pre-order now at iTunes.  The CD comes on a special Spot 3D w/ Silver Ink package available for pre-orders.

itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nickel-dimed/id668873948

CD: http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/pre-order/products/14kt-nickel-dimed-cd-spot-3d-w-silver-ink-pre-order

vinyl: http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/pre-order/products/14kt-nickel-dimed-2xlp-bonus-45-pre-order

14KT - Crown (feat. Black Milk & MED)

New Album Coming "The City Under The City" 10/15 

The enigmatic producer L’Orange and lyrical mastermind Stik Figa prepare to take listeners into the middle of two worlds.  While they delve into the concepts of urban legend and mental divergence, The City Under The City is a product of the strange melding of textural bliss and verbal dexterity.  Featuring Rapsody, Open Mike Eagle and yU, among others, L’Orange & Stik Figa help you find color a monochromatic world.

Lyrics:
Where the drum roll, numskull
Aint you seen the white horse, aint you seen the gun smoke
Funds low these bums broke, chatting with Colombo
Peeling back the moon roof, and now my skin is sun soaked
Aint no rocket science, but I need space
Aint been to compliant, mama saying that I need faith
Being self-reliant we just ash when they cremate
Go ahead and pick a star, which one would you replace
Balls full of gas, they don’t even need names
Earth's about the cash, working on a pre-paid
Flame to the glass, inhale and then relieve pain
Life a lot of things, she aint never been no cheap date
Slave in a free state, discovering the cub bards dry
Listen to the engine putter brother give another try
Pop mutters, baby sucking on her mother’s for another night
Gunfire is another lullaby
[Verse 2]
And from the end is where this poem starts
No regards, watering the rose and still we grow apart
Hopeless hearts, anxious dip your toes with sharks
I’m floating in the ocean on top of shards of Noah's Ark
Ride the wave cautious, and then I set sail
Arrived on dry land, walking, on an egg shell
With lead bells, blowing the whistle man I just left hell
Nothing to regret well except maybe that death smell
Behind the red veil enjoying the best seats
The rest grieve, nothing to show for it but prestige
Wonder what success brings, I go against the jet stream
Knowing one man's night mare is another’s wet dream

L'Orange & Stik Figa - "Blind Tiger"

from the album Quelle Chris "Shotgun & Sleek Rifle"

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Quelle Chris - "Shotgun (feat Danny Brown, Roc Marciano)"

Hus Kingpin's "The Cognac Tape" available now.

Haunting tones follow verses from Hus Kingpin and Rozewood like shadows. Khrysis (Jamla) embraces the dark mood and remixes "Pyramid Points" for Hus Kingpin.

Hus Kingpin brings that fly vandal, spark it up, cognac drinking music. Pimpstead player Roc Marciano hosts and stars throughout The Cognac Tape, setting up the atmosphere before setting the bars on fire. Kick back, twist it up, and build with the Gods.
lyrics

"Never catch me slipping, my vision is too ill."

Vinyl

Hus Kingpin feat. Rozewood - Pyramid Points [Khrysis Remix]

14KT drops his double vinyl edition of "Nickel & Dimed" today with a Bonus 45 featuring this bonus track with Roc Marciano - Live From Pimpstead.

Roc Marci laces 14KT's hypnotic marching drums with his signature laid back flow. Heads nod to the rhythm as Roc moves with an army behind him down the streets of Pimpstead.

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14KT -  Live From Pimpstead (feat. Roc Marciano)

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
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6DtPpTsZGBL39FMWks4s4m

Artwork by Joonbug

Dismal

Castle Stars In His Very Own One-Shot Comic Book - Orientation Day

www.mellomusicgroup.com/pages/orientation-day

Join us for a thrilling ride through the first day of work. Mild-mannered Castle, played by Castle, navigates through the world of demonic desk jobs. Feeling disoriented yet? We've got you covered. As Castle battles his skeleton-faced overlord, Mr. Money-Sacks Greenskull, he also fights an oppressive system. Castle fights for all of us, day in and day out. At some point, someone has to stand up and revolt against the day job afterlife.

You Aren't Just Entering Data; You're Entering Hell.

Illustrated by Sabin
Script by Castle
Starring Castle
Produced by Castle
Inspired by Castle
Music Written by Castle
Featuring Castle
lyrics
Lyrics:

hi. welcome to the family.
you're here for minimum wage in exchange for your sanity,
and take orders from tyrants who are stripped of all humanity.
just do your job and keep fueling your boss's vanity.
are there any questions?

uh, yeah.
will you guys screw me on availability?
i have class in the evening and i'd like to have the energy
to stay awake in class, and even have time to study.
but it's fine either way, 'cause i desperately need the money.

good question. our policy is: "fuck you in the mouth."
if you need to change your schedule just give your boss a shout.
he'll blatantly dismiss it, show his ass for you to kiss it,
and say, "fuck you and your class, and hope to god you miss it."

kind of figured. i was thinking i should leave this gig alone.
but the job market is crappy and i still have student loans.
so forget it. right before work i'll just get really stoned
to deal with the thought that i'll probably always be a drone.

welcome, all. and say goodbye to your goals!
you're here to answer phones while we harvest all your souls!
there's a Lovecraft-ian demon trained to rape and eat it whole!
hope you love getting screwed and taking very little home!

uh, pardon.
is there a chance i'll pick up slack for my manager's mistakes
with no credit, no bonus, just a dick slap to the face?

ah, good question, and yes. oh ó if you want respect.
you'll have to be a male or have a distracting chest.
if you want to pass time we have knives in the breakroom
to stab your co-workers in the back at your convenience.
when your manager's around be sure to act like he's a genius.
if that doesn't work then play tonsil hockey with his penis.
yes, it'll be bleak. you'll pray to die in your sleep.
and casual Fridays will be the highlights of your week.
and yes, you'll feel like a caged monkey at the zoo.
but somebody's got to do it, it might as well be...you.

Gasface LP

CASTLE  "Orientation"

Bonus Flow Feat. Diamond District

Bonus material from the DICE GAME album sessions.

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson - Duckin' Strays (BONUS MATERIAL)

Legendary Weapons - get ready for this!
check this track "The Black Diamonds" and go pre-order on iTunes:
http://goo.gl/7HkqB
#WuWednesday
"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."  Colin Powell


The Black Diamonds, feat. Ghostface Killah, Roc Marciano & Killa Sin

These are 50 of my favorite songs for 2011, in no particular order what-so-ever.  If you like the selection or a specific song let me know!!  I might remix/blend a song for anyone who has a good suggestion.

MF Doom and RZA - Books of War

Bonus track on 2012 Marcberg CD Reissue. Previously unreleased!

Grab the reissue here: http://www.fatbeats.com/collections/frontpage/products/rocmarciano-marcberg

Roc Marciano - Bozak

Tweaked gza mix

So(ul) Amazing (Steel Blazin')

Simply Amazin'


"everything on top, just gravy!!"

harry fox and his mechanicals bag
telegraphs the statutory rate
p.a. you contract tag.
who knew that harry who? had it for you?!!

&quot;we've never heard a word but
we must catch you on the television."

"we need to pick an artist to break.
we want to break you!!
w-we want to break you!!
w-w-we want to break you!!"
i) moneys shall be paid to the artist in the amount of a
specified percentage of profits, not including:

(1) facial reconstructions for the pope.
(2) midnight hot tub cigar dipped soirees at the c.e.o.'s h.o.u.s.e.
(3) top of the line orthodental braces for the fox family children.
(4) tinsel ninja masks for all seasonal employees.
(5) compensation for a designated third party bicycle physicist
hired for any per-diem or long term per-poem balloon explanations.
(6) any company inc. mountain tip top bathhouse-outing.
(7) haley's comet research.
(8) shorthand slavic embroidered pillowcase inscriptions.
(9) the saving of the children.
(10) all company carnies, not excluding kurt the neut cat or any water jug
jesters on retainer prior to the established concrete street date.

...and the hooker hits the streets.

I hadn't heard this song in over 10 years, and today its contents gave me FullBodyChills...
I remember fondly the fury&fantastic of the BEST BoyBand i have ever been in...
this song exists only on its 10"...

cLOUDDEAD "the sound of a handshake"

R.I.P. John Peel & Thank You for your life...

"you can't look cool running across the street", 
and bottle broke, and the soap was left sink side, 
or the bartenders never pay attention. 
show and tell with a gag blindfold wrapped around the entire congregation. 
constraints. "put another dime in the jukebox baby." 
pocket full of lightning wads and cat calls gush, gush,
like, i've never died from thirst 
while preaching up the wrong tree 
or slinking through the fence through the posts because you can fit. 
forty-two, seventy-one, non-zero. 
ladies and gentlemen, it's been a pleasure. 

my light bulb's gone grey. something, something. 
most change since stuffing. 

my light bulb's gone grey. something, something. 
most improved since stuffing. 

a leaf in the twilight looks like a million bucks, 
like hot pink paint you couldn't buy before synthetics.
to sit under the first autumn tree in the park 
and watch a tee-ball practice just before dark. 
sunset is an all day process. 

one, two, three, now here's the meat: 
i can't count forty fat women in spandex power walking circles around me,
as i stare at a deserted baseball field, 
writing a rap in red pen on the back of a printed e-mail folded twice. 
hot, dog.

this song was recorded LIVE in the Oakland Hills, 
under the supervision of a Drooling cat named Tyson...
for the One&Only JohnPeel.
It exists only on its 10" format...

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