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The introspective track asks "Who's keeping me from the top? It's Me.  What keeps me punching the clock? It's Me... In the end I have to face Me."

Ugly Heroes continue to connect with listeners through their self-titled debut album.  As they begin booking their fall and winter tour schedule, Apollo Brown and company wanted to drop one of their non-album bonus cuts on everyone.  Red Pill & Verbal Kent both deliver heart felt vocal performances, while Apollo Brown mixes things up for a minute giving us some double-time hi-hats to go with his snares.

Ugly Heroes - Me (Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent, Red Pill)

Lamp Posts & Neon Lights (feat. Blu). 
From the EP "Brews & Good News" released September 16th, 2013.Get it through these retailers:

DIGITAL:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/brews-good-news-ep/id672715684
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7EQ0ZnItgQzmZWERnCc2QD
WIMP: http://www.wimpmusic.se/wweb/album/21385189
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Brews-Good-News-EP/dp/B00DVPOVG0

VINYL:
http://proandak.tictail.com
http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/professor-p-and-dj-akilles-brews-and-good-news-ep-332640
http://ughh.com/professor-p-dj-akilles-brews-good-news-ep/IARPPDJABGNEP/
http://illadrenalinerecords.bigcartel.com/product/brews-good-news-ep-crystal-clear-vinyl-limited-edition-of-300-copies
http://www.jetsetrecords.net/468932

Distribution by Ill Adrenaline Records

Professor P & DJ Akilles - Lamp Posts & Neon Lights (feat. Blu)

Madlib - The Beats: Our vinyl weighs a ton original soundtrack 10" vinyl, two sleeves http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2014/08/madlib-the-beats

10" vinyl

Madlib - Cue 6

Madlib - Cue 4

http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-apollo-brown-ras-kass
produced by Apollo Brown vocals by Ras Kass
featuring Pharaohe Monch & Rakaa Iriscience
cuts by inDJnous
mastered by Eric Morgeson @ Studio A
mixed by Magnetic @ The Disc

from Apollo Brown & Ras Kass "Blasphemy" Oct. 28th https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blasphemy/id909822088
Limited Edition Splatter 2xLP
http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/pre-order/products/apollo-brown-ras-kass-blasphemy-ltd-splatter
Mello Music Group, 2014.

Apollo Brown & Ras Kass - H20 (feat. Pharoahe Monch & Rakaa Iriscience)

In an age of slammin’ superhero crossovers, get ready for a Hip-Hop team-up to beat them all: Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark! With the Delicious Vinyl release of their album-length eponymous collaboration, the legendary Pharcyde MC and Jurassic 5 DJ/producer have created a soulful Hip-Hop soundtrack for the ages.

Ever since his time as a founding member of The Pharcyde, Slimkid3 has stood out for his relationship raps, both warm-hearted and cooly observant. As an innovative member Jurassic 5, DJ Nu-Mark has long propelled golden era sounds into the future. 


BUY LP/CD/mp3

Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark "Work Hard" (feat. K - Natural)

Available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/to-you/id937370517

Available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Von_Pea_The_Other_Guys_To_You?id=Bfebccmpeum4fcek27hwavadwue

To: You

Connect 4 aka Lessondary 

Buy Now!

Von Pea & The Other Guys - Connect 4 (feat. Jermiside, Aeon, Spec Boogie, Elucid, Ilyas, et. all)

from the new Open Mike Eagle "A Special Episode of - EP"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-special-episode-ep/id961827159

produced by GOLD PANDA
vocals by OPEN MIKE EAGLE

"Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth"
Mello Music Group, 2015

Open Mike Eagle feat. Gold Panda - "Ziggy Starfish (Anti-Anxiety Raps)

Substantial & Algorythm - Black Of All Trades

Murderous - ft. Kardinal Offishall

JR&PH7 let loose the second leak and first official single "We Do Our Thing" off their upcoming project 'Noir', slated for release August 28th. Willie The Kid, MaLLy, P. Blackk and Fabrashay definitely do their thing over this bass-heavy JR&PH7 production, once again raising anticipation levels for 'Noir'.

JR&PH7 Feat. Willie The Kid, MaLLy, P. Blackk And Fabrashay "We Do Our Thing"

Detroit producer Apollo Brown releases the second single from his upcoming album "Grandeur."  Your Old Droog jumps over the production giving his best Nancy Reagan to dusty heads out there.  
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/grandeur/id1013508061

Apollo Brown - Not That Guy (feat. Your Old Droog)

produced by Jack Splash | vocals by Ras Kass
featuring Brothers Voodoo

from the upcoming album "Breakfast At Banksy's"  http://geni.us/1QU2

photo by Jeremy Deputat


Semi Hendrix (Ras Kass & Jack Splash) - Think About It (feat. Brothers Voodoo)

Not My Lover - Colours of the Culture ft. Talib Kweli, K'Valentine, NIKO IS & Hollywood Anderson

The B-Boy has returned. Legendary Boston MC Mr. Lif has signed a multi-album deal with Mello Music Group for 2016 & 2017.  His first new project will be out by early next year, but to hold fans over, MMG will reissue his classic album I Phantom on November 27th.

For those new to this classic, I Phantom showcases production by El-P, Edan, Insight, DJ Fakts One, and NASA. Add to that guest features from Aesop Rock, Jean Grae, and Akrobatik. 

“I’ve been very active musically for years but I haven’t been putting records out,” Lif says. “I’ve been touring the world with Thievery Corporation and otherwise living in the studio, constantly making songs.”  Lif’s new slate of music is as progressive and searing as ever. 
 
If you’re even vaguely familiar with post-millennium underground hip-hop, you know all about the MC born Jeffrey Haynes. Over the course of four solo EPs and albums, Lif established himself as one of hip-hop’s most brilliant thinkers and triumphantly defiant voices. He spoke truth to power  like few others: indicting racism, the inequities of late Capitalism, and political corruption. 
 
His new songs figure to define this new age, by highlighting what has changed and how much regrettably has stayed the same. 
 
The partnership with Mello came out about organically. The link between the former Def Jux linchpin and Mello was obvious: they’re both known for uncompromised raw music with integrity, dedicated to both tradition and progression.
 
Set for release on November 27th, Lif’s classic debut album titled, I Phantom is the start to a long partnership. Lif promises his new work will be the most soul baring of his career — records that chronicle his ups and downs and the ebbs and flows of life.  

"It was a very intentional decision to remain unsigned by any record label until I was absolutely ready. That personal journey spanned from 2007 to 2015. I needed to step back and gain perspective on a great many things", Lif says. "I waited the right amount of time. I grew. I recorded an abundance of new material over the years, found the right record label, and now it's time to come back and start round two of my career."



Mr. Lif - Return Of The B-Boy (prod. El-P)

From the upcoming "Day Drunk - EP"  11/27/2015
produced by Red Pill

Detroit’s Red Pill released his solo Mello Music debut album “Look What This World Did To Us” earlier this year. The record was striking because of it’s straight-forward, intellectually broken, Bukowski-like realism. The photos were serious, brooding, and the lyrics were heavy and genuine. Enter the Day Drunk EP.
 
Red Pill starts on top of a clock-ticking, mind-mesmerizing, introductory track from UK producer Paul White.  After a philosopher-king monologue, the Zen Buddhist meditative chant begins – “Don’t work, just party - you’ll be alright. Don’t try so hard. Just live your life.” But Pill never leaves you insightfully dumb, with lines like “I think we need a new religion / wound up, bound up in submission / getting lost in the mission / false definitions/ be causing derision / all these people talkin’ competition / all these people talkin’ is division…” And then the record gets green lit.
 
You may recognize the next Alex Goose-produced track from Silicon Valley. Red Pill lays hardworking slacker ambition bare in one dumb, drunk, punch over the energetic beat. The song is as ludicrously lavish as Scorsese’s “Wolf Of Wall Street.” The album moves into happy-hour heartstrings unfurling with a song for those who’d rather stay inside, those who, “outside of their mind, don’t know what’s real.” This is for those who can never fall asleep without a helper, “a little gin and seltzer,” as Red Pill puts it. Blu joins the 3 o’clock session, laying bars over an Oddisee-produced, rainy kitchen window thought piece. But, like any good rap savior, Red Pill pulls us back up from the depths with Exile’s upbeat “Porn & Milk.” The Day Drunk EP is a record to wash away the feeling when your cash is gone.
 
Today, Red Pill is on some “love life” shit. 
Bottoms up. Day Drunk begins now.

Red Pill - Day Drunk

produced by Jack Splash / vocals by Ras Kass & Kurupt
from the album Semi Hendrix "Breakfast At Banksy's" http://geni.us/1QU2

Artwork by Peter Diamond
Mello Music Group, 2015.



Semi Hendrix (Ras Kass & Jack Splash) - M.A.S.H. (feat. Kurupt)

#MartinLucidDream • http://bit.ly/DenmarkMLD

Martin Lucid Dream, an EP by Denmark Vessey.

Produced by Azarias
Featuring Tanya Morgan

Creative Direction & Design: Frank William Miller Junior
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Mixed & Mastered by Doug Saltzman at The Coach House, Chicago, Illinois.
Additional Mixing by D. Randle at Damien’s Castle, Sunnyside, Houston, Texas.
Executive Producered by Denmark Vessey, Frank William Miller Junior, & Damien Randle.

09/10/2015

Download

Denmark Vessey "Dr. Martin Lucid Dream" featuring Tanya Morgan (Produced by Azarias)

open mike eagle and serengeti are cavanaugh

preorder limited edition cassette:

http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/cavanaugh-open-mike-eagle-serengeti-time-and-materials

digital:

https://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/time-materials

cavanaugh - screen play prod. open mike eagle

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/indie-500/id1045652954

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Cedric Blaylock