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Last week Minneapolis band Poliça released the Doc McKinney (The Weeknd producer) remix of “Tiff” featuring Justin Vernon. The track premiered on Pitchfork.com and has since amassed over 76,000 Soundcloud plays.
http://pitchfork.com/news/51539-listen-polica-remixed-by-weeknd-producer-doc-mckinney-announce-tour/

This week Doc McKInney adds a freestyle verse from Minneapolis’ rising MC Greg Grease.

Greg Grease is currently featured in MTVother.com, MTVHive.com, alongside P.O.S., Marijuana Deathsquads, LIzzo, & Har Mar Superstar.
http://mtvother.com/
http://mtvother.com/videos/this-is-the-place-minneapolis-a-place-so-cold-the-music-has-to-be-h


Poliça X Doc McKinney - TIFF Remix(Greg Grease Freestyle)

Qualifiers by Open Mike Eagle was the first single off of DORNER VS TOOKIE out now!!
hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

OPEN MIKE EAGLE "Qualifiers Live from the Laundromat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2totiszy0ws

Open Mike Eagle: http://mikeeagle.net/

Open Mike Eagle - Qualifiers produced by Taco Neck

Field Notes, the brand new seven song project from Sims, finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant razor sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Doomtree’s own Cecil Otter and Paper Tiger, as well as newcomers ICETEP and Plain Ole Arson.

Lyrics:
The place I’m standing in, planted with mannequins
painted in their calendars, it’s dinner with the Blandersons
talk about their business and the stale ideas they champion
Christian Coalition save the sinners on the campuses
they pulled their weapons out, they had a banner year
I know no prison I just yell it in their ear
I know no average men, I’m stone cold analyst
behind those pearly eyes evil I recognize what’s happening

uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

Now I ain’t no atheist aching or making blanketed statements
I’ll just say it, they way they play it is dangerous
which last day is it? who do I save again? who am I pagan then?
I’m lost, I’m gone
the rest gonna pay the cost for you to bear that cross
ending of the clear-cut path, follow but you end up lost
won’t come back, y’all know that, I suggest you throttle back
but instead you’re on the gas, the match, the scratch
you make the world go boom
gonna end it too soon, so I left the room
the things they say, they things they do
I’m anti red and anti blue
I could’ve shut my mouth after Bad Time Zoo
but then there’s you

uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

now you knew it
it’s fruitless like a rhyme with oranges
the results are manufactured like a war on christmas
a distraction from the war between the muslims and christians
and you get like, “eww, shit, well that’s none of my business”
and I ain’t no judge or jury but you’re spending my taxes
and the tactics in practice are indefensibly backwards
the problem with dominance is the outcome is ominous
honest to god
none of them are honest to god
they insist that it’s this, or that’s it
take a buck but they wont give an inch
who’s convinced?
the things they say, they things they do
I’m anti red and anti blue
I could’ve shut my mouth after Bad Time Zoo
but then there’s you 


uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

Okay, there’s Pat, and Jack, and Roxanne
with a new spin and a new plan on an old planet
with no room for me to stand
so I’ll drink this Kool Aid and I’ll catch this comet
a common climate
there’s no air up there, down here
but I got long hair, don’t care, caveman
furthermore my ancestors never rode on dinosaurs
I’ve been having this argument for 6,000 years
and it only brought me here
but I only state facts, they disregard math
they say he’s on the way back 
and they legislate that
so I talk shit and hold my dick like, “you don’t know nothing”
sell me another last day and see if I give you something
uh huh

Sims "Uh Huh"

http://youtu.be/8_mWtBCyKUI

Sims announces the release of Field Notes, a collection of 7 new tracks set for release on September 2nd through Doomtree Records. Following 2011’s critically acclaimed Bad Time Zoo LP, Field Notes finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant, razor-sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Doomtree’s own Cecil Otter and Paper Tiger, as well as newcomers ICETEP and Plain Ole Arson (Ryan Olson x Plain Ole Bill). 

Field Notes is available for pre-order today on the Doomtree webstore and digitally via iTunes and Bandcamp. All pre-orders include the first single “Uh Huh” as an instant grat track.

Pre-order Sims' Field Notes today!
CD/Deluxe: http://store.doomtree.net
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/fieldnotes
Bandcamp: http://sims.bandcamp.com

Sims plays a hometown show at First Avenue on August 23rd with Astronautalis (who pops up for a guest appearance on the Field Notes track “This Is The Place”). Tickets to #AstroSims2 can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/AstroSims2

Sims hits the road for a month-long run with Australian hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods. The North American tour starts in San Francisco on August 28th and wraps up September 28th in Cambridge, MA. Full tour dates are listed below and tickets are on sale now. 
Sims 2014 Tour Dates / http://doomtree.net/events
8.16.14 – Omaha, NE – MAHA Music Festival^
8.30.14 – St. Paul, MN – Minnesota State Fair Grandstand^
8.23.14 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
8.28.14 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
8.29.14 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
9.03.14 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
9.04.14 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
9.05.14 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
9.06.14 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
9.07.14 - Park City, UT - Park City Live
9.09.14 - West Hollywood, CA - The Roxy Theatre
9.11.14 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
9.12.14 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
9.13.14 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia Festival
9.15.14 - Whistler, BC - Garfinkel's
9.17.14 - Banff, AB - Wild Bill's Legendary Saloon
9.18.14 - Edmonton, AB - Dinwoodie
9.19.14 - Calgary, AB - The Gateway - SAIT Campus
9.20.14 - Saskatoon, SK - O'Brians Event Centre
9.24.14 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Underworld
9.25.14 - Toronto, ON - The Hoxton
9.27.14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
9.28.14 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs

Lyrics:
Well I stepped up my cleats on 
and that chin music is my theme song
that brush off, that write off, I just use that as a deduction
that mean mugging don’t mean nothing
hold the line, I play the whole 9 
I steal second, I scrape for mine
you can take the signs or you can pay no mind
I’m on the verge, hold the sermon
like I told the purists, if I played it safe I would’ve sold insurance
so I kill it ’til it’s dead, till it ’til it grows
get it on the road then tour it ’til it’s old
like any good crow I never tip toe around a motherfucking straw man
make me like amen, or god damn, or something 
like money for nothing 
in common
I came up on ramen
nine of us and we’re lining up 
and you must be high on that diamond dust
now I’m grinding out until my time is up

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end 
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

I am the chem trail in your easy mac
Sims Jong Il to all you Tumbl’ing amnesiacs
faking funk and celiacs 
got me out here feeling old on my Holden Caulfield calling phony
I’m from the land of Uncle Ole’s yelling fuck the police
Axel Foley your magic kingdom, leave a mess on your linoleum
In the kitchen with a downgraded Pluto enriching Plutonium
these molly poppers went too based, looking Rob Ford
that ain’t flavor that’s Kool Aid, you’re skating on a long board 
I’m taking shots singing C-Murder until I wind up on the floor
then I’m Hasselhoffing this cheeseburger, call you up around four
I’m Nick Caging this Vegas, I’m lighting up these stages
they say baseless shit to get famous, they're Jim Rome, they’re Skip Bayless
sunglasses and bail money, my cunning and my homies
we’re running, we’re hungry, you stay praying on some pony
stay blue Lonely Boy, southsider, outlier, the gasoline to your house fire
and I ride this shit ’til there are no tires

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

iTunes

Sims "SIMS JONG IL"

"CLAPP'D" CREDITS
Raps by Mike Mictlan
Produced by RedVelvet Beats for NAIMA
Co-Produced by Cecil Otter and Lazerbeak

Doomtree’s Mike Mictlan announces the release of HELLA FRREAL. Set for release on October 27th, the 10-track album features Mike’s rapid-fire lyrics over larger-than-life production from Cecil Otter, RedVelvet Beats, 2% Muck, 1990, Mike Frey, JuanL, and Lazerbeak, with guests Greg Grease, Ceschi, and Aby Wolf all along for the ride.
  
Mictlan has long been known as a spitter; he writes technical patterns and can deliver them at speed. He's also a natural performer--never plainer than when he takes center stage at First Avenue and ignites the entire room with a dance, a look, a gesture--he knows just how long a pause will springload an audience so it's primed to erupt at the next punchline. On HELLA FRREAL we hear the Mike we know, harder and sharper. We hear a new Mike too--we're let behind the curtain for a few earnest moments that were harder to find on his previous releases.  

HELLA FRREAL is currently available for pre-order from iTunes and the Doomtree webstore. Each pre-order will receive lead single “CLAPP’D” as an instant grat track.  Those who order from the Doomtree webstore will also receive a signed digi-pak CD, access to a private LiveStream chat with Mike, and a HELLA FRREAL sticker. The Doomtree webstore will also offer a deluxe pre-order that includes everything in the standard version, plus a screen-printed patch and a one-of-a-kind individualized t-shirt exclusive to this pre-order.  

Lyrics:
It’s all good
No it ain’t
Cuz I’m thinking exactly the polar opposite
That’s just something that we gotta say when we wanna cover up
Or turn a bad thing, positive
They shootin –
but nobody made em look
They gotta ghetto life fetish
Middle class circus
at a Lower class zoo
Quarter life conflict we all
Drug War Veterans
Not everybody from the hood is a killer or a dealer or a villain
Everybody in the hood wanna do something better
For they life and they children
Anybody ever tell you different
They prolly lying tryna sell you something
Ain’t nobody tryna hear that woofin
Not a motherfucker in this world’ll tell me nothing
& somebody gonna play that game
THEY SAY IT”S ONLY FOR THE BIGBOYZ + GIRLZ 
But every game is really played the same
You gotta play it if you wanna get a turn
Hundred grand in the hand
what chu look at the pistol end for?
Spin it, close your eyes
All you hear is a click
Click – Click Click
HEAR NO CLAP
FEEL NO HEAT
CLICK then….
Whatchu gonna do now?
Click lock shoot bang ya dead (man) GOT CLAPP”D!!
Give the MANN- a HANND he might get CLAPP’D!!

It was a cruel summer
now get ready for a cold winter
Hot burners from slow dinners
Fast Streets
Private Soldiers for dough lenders
Whiter the crack, the wider the white of the eyes in em
And the meth venom
The dope sent em down the river and thru the hoods to red door clinic
Its no different from inherited wealth but
We only inherit the struggle that goes with it
Post no bills Ghosts in a shell system
Scapegoats they worship the lone shepherd
Willingly manipulated -- low effort
But who gives a fuck when you're broke, frozen in gold
Somebody tell me why Abdulle got shot
Was it the feds? Was it a plot?
All I know is I’ma hold his spot
Don’t even trip young bruvv
Hatchmarks in the clot
Last seconds on the clock
Tell em to Shoot for the moon
but not to aim at the block
nuthin bout a glock ever show me
how to Work a plan
CLAIM MY SPACE
Call it State Of Mind-Kurdistan

Whatchu gonna do now?
Click lock shoot bang ya dead (man) GOT CLAPP”D!!
Give the MANN- a HANND he just got CLAPP’D!!

Mike Mictlan "CLAPP'D"

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